I can only imagine what it looked like to my friends, who would come over and see an army of porcelain dolls looking down on them from the top of our television cabinet – watching and waiting.
It coincided with my period piece obsession, so the Victorian-era styled dolls with intricate dresses were like expensive Barbies to me. It seems weird now, but at the time I was enthralled with them. When I was in grade school, I used to get a porcelain doll every Christmas as a gift from my family. For one thing, I owned a ton of dolls as a child and none of them ever gave me any weird vibes. It’s both unsettling and still bizarre enough to make me laugh. Rationally, I know a doll isn’t going to wake up one day and kill me, but I still can’t rule out the possibility of bringing home a vintage toy one day and having it haunt my every waking hour for as long as it lives in my space, you know? The idea of them gaining sentience is ridiculous, a joke – and yet, somehow still plausible. I grew up playing with dolls, so it’s not that I find them scary. The best thing about haunted doll movies is that they usually combine the other three into one movie.
Haunted doll movies immediately pique my interest, just like horror movies about possession, the occult, and ghosts. And in recent years, we’ve seen the return of a very old and very creepy trope – the haunted doll. Found footage-style horror films are still a popular option. Over the last couple of summers, we’ve seen the reappearance of killer shark movies. There was a rush of zombie movies in the mid-2000s. The horror genre has a lot of tropes and trends.
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