13 Toy Horror Movies to Play Around With
It definitely is how you play the game
Toys and games are not only for kids.
Plenty of adults still have toys and games around their house even if they no longer play with them. They’re a reminder of the good old days, when your imagination could run wild and no one told you to stop being childish.
But, when horror gets hold of your childhood and squeezes hard, watch out for what comes out.
Here are thirteen toys and games horror movies to play around (or should that be play a round) with.
Put down the doll and back away slowly.
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1. May (2002)
“Be careful … she just might take your heart.”
May is a psychological horror movie featuring a doll named Suzie.
May is a young woman whose only friend as a child was a doll named Suzie who is kept in a glass case. May develops a crush on a local mechanic and fixates on his hands. Her bizarre behavior one night pushes him away and she has a brief affair with a work colleague. May believes Suzie is talking to her and her actions become increasingly more disturbed and deadly for those around her.
Ratings
IMDB: 6.6 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 75% audience score | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
2. Pin (1988)
“Is Pin alive? Leon knows… but nobody believes him!”
Pin is a thriller horror movie featuring an anatomy dummy named Pin.
Isolated by his strange parents, Leon finds solace in an imaginary friend, which happens to be an anatomy doll from his father’s doctor office. The doll begins to take over both Leon’s life and his sister’s.
Ratings
IMDB: 6.5 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 58% audience score | Amazon: 4.0 out of 5
3. Trilogy of Terror (1975)
“An electrifying experience – you won’t believe your eyes!”
Trilogy of Terror is an anthology horror movie. The third story ‘Amelia’ features a wooden fetish doll.
Amelia lives alone and one day she brings home a wooden fetish doll in the shape of a misshapen warrior with pointed teeth and a spear. A scroll claims that the gold chain around the doll traps the spirit of a Zuni hunter named “He Who Kills” in the doll. When the chain falls off, Amelia is chased throughout her apartment and viciously attacked by the doll.
Ratings
IMDB: 6.5 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 56% audience score | Amazon: 4.6 out of 5
4. Maria, Leonora, Teresa (2014)
Maria, Leonora, Teresa is a Filipino thriller horror movie featuring life-like dolls.
Three young girls die in a bus crash on a school field trip. A psychiatrist gives the parents life-size dolls that look and sound almost exactly like their daughters to help them cope with the loss. The parents begin to recover from their grief until the dolls turn sinister and deadly.
Ratings
IMDB: 6.3 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 43% audience score | Amazon: 4.0 out of 5
5. Dolls (1986)
“They Walk. They Talk. They Kill.”
Dolls is a thriller horror movie featuring puppets and dolls.
During a storm, some people seek shelter in a mansion in the English countryside. The kind elderly couple who owns the mansion are toy makers and the house is filled with beautifully detailed toys and puppets. That night, the toys turn deadly.
Ratings
IMDB: 6.3 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 51% audience score | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
6. The Boy (2016)
“Every child needs to feel loved.”
The Boy is a thriller horror movie featuring a life-size porcelain doll named Brahms.
Greta, a young American woman, takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village and discovers that the family’s eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll. The parents treat the doll like a real boy to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years ago. When Greta violates a list of strict rules, her worst nightmare is brought to life by a series of disturbing, inexplicable events and she comes to believe that the doll is alive.
Ratings
IMDB: 6.0 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 38% audience score | Amazon: 4.3 out of 5
7. Child's Play (2019)
“More than a toy… he’s your best friend.”
Child’s Play is a thriller horror movie featuring a high-tech doll named Chucky. This 2019 movie is a remake of the 1988 Child’s Play movie.
A mother gives her twelve-year-old son Andy a new high-tech doll as an early birthday present. However, the doll she gives him is one that a disgruntled employee has tampered with by disabling all of its safety protocols. The doll names himself ‘Chucky’ and starts to show violent tendencies as he becomes very attached to Andy.
Ratings
IMDB: 5.7 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 57% audience score | Amazon: out of 5
8. The Hole (2009)
“It knows your deepest fears.”
The Hole is a dark fantasy horror movie featuring a jester puppet.
Dane and Lucas discover a locked trapdoor in the basement of their new home. When they open it, they find a seemingly bottomless hole. Strange events happen over the next few days, including the appearance of a jester puppet that seems to be following Lucas around and tries to drown him. They track down the previous owner of the house and he tells them they’ve released an evil which is coming for them.
Ratings
IMDB: 5.7 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 46% audience score | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
9. Benny Loves You (2019)
“Don’t throw him out.”
Benny Loves You is a comedy horror movie featuring dog plushy named Benny.
Jack is thirty-five, a failed toy designer, and struggling to deal with the costs and mortgage of living on his own following the death of his parents. He decides to sells his house and packs up his toy, throwing away his favorite childhood toy, a stuffed puppy named Benny. Benny doesn’t appreciate this and destroys the rest of Jack’s plushies. Benny becomes increasingly murderous as Jack tries to improve his life.
Ratings
IMDB: 5.6 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 48% audience score | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
10. Annabelle (2014)
“Before The Conjuring there was Annabelle.”
Annabelle is a supernatural horror movie featuring a vintage porcelain doll named Annabelle. This movie is a prequel to The Conjuring (2013).
Two satanic cult members murder John and Mia’s neighbors and attack them too. The female cult member kills herself in the nursery while holding the rare vintage porcelain doll that John gave Mia as a gift. Following the attack, a series of paranormal events start to plague John, Mia, and their newborn daughter Leah.
Ratings
IMDB: 5.4 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 35% audience score | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
11. Beyond the Gates (2016)
“Press Play… And Pray.”
Beyond the Gates is a fantasy horror movie featuring a VHS board game.
Following their father’s disappearance, Gordon and John reluctantly reunite at their father’s video store to clean up and sell stuff.
They find a VCR board game called ‘Beyond the Gates’ with the game tape already in the VCR in the office. When they play the tape, a woman asks them if they’re willing to risk their souls to play the game.
Later that night, they decide to play the game and learn they have to find four keys to save their father.
Ratings
IMDB: 5.1 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 29% audience score | Amazon: 4.1 out of 5
12. Demonic Toys (1992)
“They want to play with you…”
Demonic Toys is a comedy horror movie featuring toys that are cute and cuddly during the day, but demonic at night.
A policewoman, two gun dealers, and a delivery driver are trapped in a toy warehouse with murderous toys.
Ratings
IMDB: 5.0 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 29% audience score | Amazon: 4.4 out of 5
13. Quicksilver Highway (1997)
Quicksilver Highway is a horror movie with two stories. The first is a Stephen King story featuring a set of wind-up chattery teeth.
Aaron Quicksilver is a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells a story about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth. He later runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells a story about a man whose hands rebel against him.
Ratings
IMDB: 4.8 out of 10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 22% audience score | Amazon: 4.4 out of 5
Published: 12 December 2022
