Creepy dolls never seem to go out of style. From Slappy, to Chucky, to Brahms, there’s plenty of murderous hunks of plastic to be found. This year alone, with the reimagined Child’s Play and the latest Annabelle, there are at least two high profile horror films featuring them. In the world of video games, there are a fair few examples of this horror staple too.
With Child’s Play being out, we decided to take a look at some of the creepiest dolls in horror games. Evil, bloodthirsty, and scary dolls that might make you avoid toy shops for the rest of your life.
The Dolls From Emily Wants to Play
As if one murder doll wasn’t enough, Emily Wants to Play throws three of the buggers at you. You, the poor pizza delivery guy that got called to this house from hell.
Each doll can appear at random, and each plays a different game with you that, if you should fail, will result in your death. Porcelain style doll Kiki requires a staring contest, Chester tries to hunt you down, and Mister Tatters treats you to a murderous game of Red Light, Green Light.
The game isn’t exactly a masterpiece, but its creepy dolls sure are effective.
Azami in Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the best horror games of all time, and it, of course, features one of the best creepy dolls in any horror game. It also has a tragedy to its origin.
You see, Azami was a young girl, sacrificed by her village, and her twin sister Akane is naturally devastated. Their father, a dollmaker, constructs a life-size doll of Azami to try and help Akane manage her grief. Of course, this is a Fatal Frame game, where you fend off ghosts with the camera obscura, so you probably know that this didn’t turn out to be a good idea.
Yes, the doll is cursed with an evil spirit, and now wanders alongside Akane’s ghost after it tricked the girl into murdering her father. The twins from The Shining have nothing on these two in the creepy factor.
The kicker here is that while the Camera Obscura can deal with Akane, it has no effect on the Azami doll, which given how defenseless you are otherwise, makes for a particularly terrifying encounter.
The Baby Dolls in Layers of Fear
Layers of Fear has plenty of unsettling moments thanks to its constant trickery and shifting environment and during the chapter ‘Brush’ it pulls some of its creepiest tricks.
You, playing a mentally tortured artist, are collecting the necessary equipment to finish your magnum opus, and to do so requires you to face your fears in some trippy horror chapters.
During the ‘Brush’ chapter, the focus is on the painter’s daughter’s story, and it features a whole lot of baby dolls that move whenever you’re not looking. As you reach the end of the chapter, there’s a scene featuring these vinyl villains that truly ups the ante, but that’s best left for you to discover.
The Doll Woman and Her Dolls in Condemned 2
It’s bad enough that the Doll Woman, one of Condemned 2’s psychotic boss characters, dresses up like a ragdoll and wields a lollipop-style sawblade, but she also has a legion of extremely creepy baby dolls that explode upon impact.
You have to navigate a factory of these things on your way to hunt down the killer Doll Woman, and it never gets any less disturbing to see these stumbling plastic babies toddle towards you with intent to kill.
Not exactly the fun kind of blow-up doll.
Robbie the Rabbit from Silent Hill 3, 4, and Homecoming
Ahh, Robbie. While Pyramid Head takes all the plaudits for being the fucked up big nasty of the Silent Hill series, the enduring unease created by Robbie the Rabbit’s appearances through several Silent Hill games is not to be underestimated.
Though he appears in human-sized mascot form during Silent Hill 3, he is in doll form too in that game as well as Silent Hill 4 and Homecoming. It’s Silent Hill 4: The Room, in particular, that this pink rabbit on overalls plays a noticeable part as a doll in the room of Eileen Galvin. It doesn’t do much at first, apart from making you feel like it’s watching you. After certain events occur however, it changes position and even points at the player.
Robbie stands out in the world of Silent Hill because it’s something colorful in a world of decay, but still has an air of menace.
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Just look at those things!
