10 Terrifying Doctor Who Monsters That Had Us Hiding Behind The Sofa

Night Terrors is a particularly forgettable episode in which not a lot happens, but it does have one saving grace in the form of its antagonists.

The story centres on George, an alien child whose imagination, or in this case, nightmares, become reality. When Amy and Rory try to help him, they are transported into a doll’s house (just roll with it, it’s Mark Gatiss) and must work out to way to escape. The inhabitants of this doll’s house are, as you might guess, dolls.

This is pretty common fear, with many people finding the lifeless porcelain faces of dolls unnerving, and this episode plays to that fear, giving the Peg Dolls childlike voices and personalities. If horror films have taught us anything, it’s that kids can be creepier than they have any right to be. The thing that really sticks with you about these particular antagonists, though, is the scene in which they convert the landlord into one of their kind, with a fairly grotesque transformation scene accompanied by a children’s nursery rhyme.

If the goal of this episode was to give kids nightmares, than we can all probably agree it hit the mark.