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"Child's Play" was a horror film that came in the 80s at a time when most of the films produced in Hollywood was not just horror films, but "slasher films" free horror movies online watch were most of which are nothing but low-budget " Grindhouse fare ". And like many of his contemporaries, though not "slasher film" Child's play was in retrospect an average movie in best.
The film is about a doll named "Chucky" that comes to life after being obsessed with the mind of a criminal harden is named Charles Lee Ray the notorious "Lakeshore Strangler", as he is named in the film. The doll is later to be, I should say, all the "little terror".
Despite its erroneous story, the producers of Chucky tries to capitalize on the brilliant use of "dolls" in other horror films that make the story work. The latest example was the weird looking puppet used to inspire fear in the "Saw" franchise. Luckily, that's where the similarities between the two films end.
"Saw" The doll in the movie, as you remember doing anything of Jigsaw's behest as far as torture or kill, and though unless major role in many of his lifeless "Home Movies ", which allows for the Jigsaw" viewing pleasure "that sacrifice is the doll still very disturbing. Its something to see, that doll is sitting on a chair, his mouth moving seemingly on its own, the voice of a very scary sounding Tobin Bell, who plays the murderous madman Jigsaw, together with the film, the music plays in the background, from the combination the different elements you can to the bone.
I'm not sure if there are too many other examples in the history of cinema, where a message is delivered to the screen with so much disturbing and horrific consequences, as it is the first time the writers of Saw initiated the clever use of a doll in this film was. LINEBREAK LINEBREAK LINE BREAK "The Trilogy of Terror" Line Break Line Break Line Break Line Break Another example of effective use of a doll on the screen was in a movie I saw when I was all of 9 or 10 years old. The film was called The Trilogy of Terror. Although the premise of the first two stories escape me, the last installment, I will not easily forget.
Karen Black plays a woman who met while shopping this little "warrior" doll, which she apparently decided, is going quite well in their home . Though as ugly as this little guy (and boy was it ugly, you should have seen his teeth) I'm not sure how they could possibly want or think, it could be a compliment, as to home decor.
Nevertheless some time in the history of the doll was apparently brought to life and begins to terrorize the woman moves about her home with the precision of a highly skilled hunters stalking its prey.
Imagine the absolute terror she was in after hearing the pitter-patter of little feet piercing the silence with their house only to discover later the sound of the doll that suddenly do not know where they originally placed it.
In retrospect, was not only The sight of this little ugly black doll with HUGE razor-sharp teeth scurry about very disturbing for me as a child, but the clever way in which the director animated and distorted his already ugly face look really angry and more terrifying than what it was like before, before his sudden animated state.
"Peek a boo - I see you," Line Break Line Break Line Break Line Break Another really great use of a doll on the big screen was in the movie Poltergeist. The classic horror film by Steven Spielberg remains a personal favorite of mine since the day I saw it in theaters a few years ago.
The film was about a family of five, a married couple and their three children, their home probably experienced the poltergeist terrorizing ever capture on film. Of all the rooms in which the paranormal activities included in the family home with one of the most in the two youngest children. As if they do not have enough to fear, you know, with the "monsters" lurking in her closet and the "Boogie Man" in the shadows?
The room was typical of most children's room there was a large number of toys and of course a set of dolls. But there was a doll, especially that her son Tommy did not much care for, a clown who appeared in over a chair by his bed as if she had sat staring. Because the doll was a clown, it was "looking stupid" this smile on his face and while not disturbing, it was unforgettable nonetheless.
So much, so could every night, as the boys go to sleep before he laid his head, he tries would be the clown with something to make it seem to cover observed by preventing it. One night, after the child is frightened cautiously approaching the doll to this end he returns to his bed where he would struggle to fall asleep to ensure a regular basis over the shoulder in the direction of the dolls in order, it was still on the chair . Moments later, the child repeated the process, but this time he takes away the doll, the boy raised anxiety, now even more clearly than the shear look of terror extends the entire face.
Choosing not to leave anything to the safe limits his bed, he does the only other thing that he is doing at this point might think ... Line Break Line Break Line Break Line Break Look under the bed.
Just the act of looking under the bed for a child is like peering into "the abyss of hell," as symbolic of the place will be where her worst fears come true and so the only other thing to not this place, on what worst, as if you would look under his bed are the two eyes of the doll is peering back at him from the darkness.
But that's what happened did it? Line Break Line Break Line Break Line Break After Tommy discovers the doll is not under his bed, he lifts his head up and suddenly realize, over the shoulder of the doll behind him. And now with his fear of the doll to a crescendo in the terror-stricken little boy snapped around the neck and takes him to the ground and not entirely coincidentally, it tugs at his bed.
Again another demonstration of the effective use of a doll in a horror film and although it is not scary in the sense that some of the other dolls that I've seen "run amok" on the screen, have the scene, but worked very well in the context of the whole story.
Always a symbol of innocence
Of course there are many other good examples of how dolls have a dramatic impact in the history of cinema has been used, but the reason why it works so well in horror films is due to the fact that symbolize dolls. For most dolls synonymous with the innocence of a child, but when on the screen in many ways, they have been threatening, mainly used in horror films, tends to the symbolism of being lost in a world where absolutely anything is possible and the perception is reality cinema-goers, at least for 90 minutes does.
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