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Well that thing's cursed.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is the perfect doll to leave in a guest bedroom. It makes your guests feel at home when they come and visit you.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

Sat in it's own tiny armchair, fixed to the floor, against the wall facing the bed but so low to the ground you can't see it when actually lying in the bed.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago
[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 74 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

No matter where I leave the doll it always ends up back in my room at night. I even accidentally dropped them into a fire, and not even a single hair was singed! Amazing build quality, friend for life! 5 stars.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

The real horror is mesothelioma

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

I feel a new SCP entry

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

Looks like the voodoo doll in Trilogy Of Terror

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cursed artifacts that compel a person to buy/acquire them are among my favorite horror tropes.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

call that findoom

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I'm currently reading Ruin Road by Lamar Giles which uses this trope.

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is there a good short story or anything with this theme? I love that idea but don’t know if I’d want to read a whole book about it lmao

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhazCS14Tas

A short horror video about it. The Chair by that's a bad idea, if you want to find it in other apps.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Needful Things kinda hits this. It’s a novel, but it’s Stephen King so it goes quick.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 points 23 hours ago

Well, I know this is a somewhat hot take, but the 2013 Evil Dead reimagining is really good. Suuuuper violent, but all done with practical effects. Really cool. And they did this whole “evil item” thing really well. I think it’s done better than any other movie I’ve seen with the trope. The whole time, one of the characters is being just beaten to shit but they’re clinging to life with everything they have because they’re so scared of what awaits them in hell.

That movie stuck with me for a few reasons, but the effect they managed to get with the whole sense of doom for these characters was so well done. Accomplished with a few choice lines and scenes that are just brutal and, well, evil.

If you can handle the gore, I recommend it

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

It's absolutely terrifying.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 52 points 1 day ago

$10 says the doll already ate their soul.

[–] Jobe@feddit.org 43 points 1 day ago

That is literally how horror movies start

10 € say there's a dead baby inside.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

I'm guessing that was their last post.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This looks like something i'd get my mother for christmas

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

She reared you right

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My partner would have been haggling that vendor down to a £1.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 25 points 1 day ago

Plus the vendor knows that at the end of the horror movie the doll will be back in the store ready to be sold to the next haggling victim.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 day ago

Why the hell is that scary af?!

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago
[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 1 day ago

That's actually cool af and I would buy that.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago