10 Best Killer Doll Movies

1) Child's Play (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imYvOgyU9oo That malevolent little red haired s**thead! How he terrorised me in my childhood years! Chucky just about terrified the crap out of me worse than any horror film baddie when I was young (and my childhood was filled with poo your pants scary films). I used to have visions of him jumping out of the wardrobe with a knife in his hand to kill me. In reality all it would have taken was one good kicking to stop him in his tracks, but old Chuckster had a way of scaring me like no other. The storyline of Child's Play is fairly basic. Struggling single mother Karen buys a cut price 'Good Guys' doll off a street peddler for her son Andy's 6th birthday. Little does she know the doll is possessed by the soul of a killer. That night Karen's best friend Maggie is babysitting Andy and Chucky springs to life, attacks her with a hammer and causes her to fall out the window. Suspicion falls on Andy. After more doll-induced murders, poor wee Andy is put in a psychiatric hospital. Karen cops on to the fact that Chucky is for real an evil little toad when she sees he is operating without batteries. A whole lot of stuff about Karen trying to convince people Chucky is alive, voodoo shenanigans and trying to get the little toerag doll to die and stay dead ensues. The premise of Child's Play - a possessed doll - is pretty silly but the film manages to be both scary and classy. Although why the film's protagonists just don't kick seven shades of crap out of the doll is beyond me - they've got the height advantage. Brad Dourif does an excellent job of voice acting Chucky - he makes it almost believable. The effects of Chucky himself when he is animated are fairly impressive for 1988. But I think Chucky is at his scariest when he is inanimate, especially during the first half of the movie and the viewer is on tenterhooks: "When's he gonna talk? When's he gonna talk?" Chucky is THE scary doll movie icon and he thoroughly deserves his place there. Are there any we missed? Let us know in the comments below.