Evil, Dummies.
by Sugarhigharmadillo | created - 05 Apr 2019 | updated - 16 Sep 2020 | PublicA chronological timeline of ventriloquist horror
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1. The Great Gabbo (1929)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
Directors: James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane
Votes: 1,002
2. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,220
3.
Lights Out (1946–1952)
Episode:
The Whisper
(1949)
Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A ventriloquist slowly begins to take on the personality of his dummy.
Director: Kingman T. Moore | Stars: Jack La Rue, Paul Winchell
4.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
And So Died Riabouchinska
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, Charles Bronson, Claire Carleton
Votes: 1,060
5.
Johnny Midnight (1960)
Episode:
Voice of the Dummy
(1960)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Julius Sneezer, the dummy of long-dead ventriloquist Dave Rankin, is fished out of Long Island Sound, sparking a taut psychological whodunit.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Yuki Shimoda, Robert H. Harris, Katherine Squire
Votes: 9
6.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Dummy
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Too bad he didn't clear those plans with Willie first.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, John Harmon
Votes: 2,634
7.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Caesar and Me
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Irish ventriloquist Jonathan West cannot find any work, his dummy Caesar suggests that he turn to burglary.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Morgan Brittany, Sarah Selby, Don Gazzaniga
Votes: 1,827
8. Devil Doll (1964)
81 min | Horror
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne
Votes: 2,542
9.
The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode:
How to Succeed .... At Murder
(1966)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Eleven businessmen and counting have been mysteriously murdered, their affairs taken over by their able secretaries. The smell of perfume lingering over one of the dead bodies leads Mrs ... See full summary »
Director: Don Leaver | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Sarah Lawson, Angela Browne
Votes: 315
10.
The Ghost Busters (1975)
Episode:
The Dummy's Revenge
(1975)
22 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Phantom of Vaudeville, a masked ventriloquist with his dummy Elmo, seek revenge after suspecting Spencer, Tracy and Kong of being the song and dance act that upstaged them decades earlier.
Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Bob Burns, Tim Herbert
Votes: 20
11. Magic (1978)
R | 107 min | Drama, Horror
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter
Votes: 13,458 | Gross: $25.94M
12.
Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode:
Jungle Man/Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate
(1980)
TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Unemployed actor David Farley gets to reprise his signature role of Jungle Man. Acclaimed ventriloquist Mary Ann Carlin is afraid that her marionette Valerie has taken over some of her personality traits.
Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Dick Butkus, Dennis Cole
Votes: 73
13. Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984 Video)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Horror
A woman buys a doll at a magic shop. Unbeknownst to her, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, and it proceeds to take her over.
Director: Chester Novell Turner | Stars: Shirley L. Jones, Ricky Roach, Chester Tankersley, Marie Sainvilvs
Votes: 806
14. Making Contact (1985)
PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Believing to be able to communicate with his deceased father, a young boy develops psychic powers where he uses them to try to stop supernatural forces threatening his family and friends, especially a possessed ventriloquist dummy.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll, Tammy Shields, Jan Zierold
Votes: 1,779
15.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
No Strings
(1987)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mobster Eddie Minelli plans a private performance by a famous puppeteer, but with a ghoulish new puppet: the bloody remains of Don Paulie, the man Eddie has just murdered.
Director: David Odell | Stars: T.J. Castronovo, Barry Dennen, Cameron Milzer, Bradley Fisher
Votes: 221
16.
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode:
And So Died Riabouchinska
(1988)
TV-14 | 24 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.
Director: Denys Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alan Bates, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Patti Layne, Annabelle Mouloudji
Votes: 132
17.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
The Ventriloquist's Dummy
(1990)
Not Rated | 24 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Amateur ventriloquist Billy Goldman learns that being a ventriloquist might not be the best career for him.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Don Rickles, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Kassir, Shelley Taylor Morgan
Votes: 1,285
18. The Dummy (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
A newlywed couple visits a fortune teller just for laughs. The fun soon turns to terror after they insult the woman and leave without paying. The fortune teller then unleashes an evil ... See full summary »
Director: Dante Falconi | Stars: Lisa DeWild, Todd Jason Cook, Sabrina Cook, Bill DeWild
Votes: 50
19.
Family Matters (1989–1998)
Episode:
Stevil
(1996)
Not Rated | 22 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A ventriloquist's dummy, which looks exactly like Urkel, comes to life and terrorizes the Winslows and Steve must stop it.
Director: Richard Correll | Stars: Reginald VelJohnson, Jo Marie Payton, Rosetta LeNoire, Darius McCrary
Votes: 142
20.
Goosebumps (1995–1998)
Episode:
Night of the Living Dummy II
(1996)
Not Rated | 22 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Amy thinks her father has bought her the perfect gift: a new ventriloquist's dummy. However, it soon becomes apparent that there is more to this dummy than meets the eye.
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Maggie Castle, Caterina Scorsone, Gina Clayton, Richard Fitzpatrick
Votes: 962
21.
Goosebumps (1995–1998)
Episode:
Night of the Living Dummy III: Part 1
(1997)
Not Rated | 22 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
When their dad brings a ventriloquist's dummy home, Trina and her brother Dan and their cousin, Zane think it's just another dummy but they realize that Slappy is much more then that.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Erica Fairfield, Blair Slater, Hayden Christensen, Martin Doyle
Votes: 785
22.
Goosebumps (1995–1998)
Episode:
Night of the Living Dummy III: Part 2
(1997)
Not Rated | 22 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Trina and Daniel make up with their cousin and their parents leave the three kids in the house alone - with their father's evil ventriloquist's doll.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Erica Fairfield, Blair Slater, Hayden Christensen, Martin Doyle
Votes: 772
23.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode:
The Puppet Show
(1997)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy may be harvesting organs from classmates performing in a talent show.
Director: Ellen S. Pressman | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter
Votes: 4,242
24. The Dummy (2000 Video)
90 min | Horror
A ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own can't resist its homicidal impulses and cuts a bloody swath through a peaceful suburb.
Director: Keith Singleton | Stars: Keith Singleton, Irina Björklund, Jocelyne Lopez, Alexis Weimer
Votes: 151
25.
Freaky (2003– )
Episode:
Homework, Dummy & Ghost
(2003)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
An anthology series, with this week's stories: "Homework", "Dummy" and "Ghost".
Director: Thomas Robins | Stars: Daniel Costello, Kelly Corbishley, Darren Stubbersfield, Tausili Mose
26. Dead Silence (2007)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After his wife meets a grisly end, Jamie Ashen returns to his hometown of Ravens Fair to find answers. His investigation leads him to the ghost of a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw who seems to have ties to his entire family tree
Director: James Wan | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Fairman
Votes: 101,881 | Gross: $16.81M
27.
The Middleman (2008)
Episode:
The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation
(2008)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Middleman and Lacey have inadvertently brought vampire puppets Vlad and his bride, Lizzie, to life and with the Middleman under Vlad's control, it's now up to Wendy alone to prevent the vampires from unleashing "the eternal night of blood".
Director: Sandy Smolan | Stars: Matt Keeslar, Natalie Morales, Brit Morgan, Mary Pat Gleason
Votes: 53
28. Triloquist (2008)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
In 1993, in Hollywood, California, a decadent ventriloquist overdoses and dies, leaving her two children to be sent to a foster house with their dummy. Their lives become a nightmare of abuse and murder, to be avenged by a wrathful dummy.
Director: Mark Jones | Stars: Paydin LoPachin, Rocky Marquette, Katie Chonacas, Brian Krause
Votes: 957
29. Grave Danger (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A woman is terrorized by a psychotic caller who terrorizes her with terrifying tales of murderous ventriloquist dummies, possessed housewives, and watching strangers. But will she live to tell the tales?
Director: Jim Haggerty | Stars: Debbie Kopacz, Jonathan Holtzman, Jae Mosc, Andrew Phillips
Votes: 118
30. The Doll Master (2017)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror
When Norman's nightmares become reality, he must overcome his fears and confront the demonic forces that have possessed Hugo, his prize Doll.
Director: Steven M. Smith | Stars: Tony Fadil, Ella Stockton, Sarah Rose Denton, Tiffany-Ellen Robinson
Votes: 255
31. Devil's Junction: Handy Dandy's Revenge (2019)
84 min | Horror
A shuttered TV studio in Detroit is haunted by a magician/ventriloquist from a 1960's children's show, and he's looking for a new live (or DEAD) studio audience.
Director: Jeff Broadstreet | Stars: Bill Moseley, Bill Oberst Jr., Jake Red, Kyle Anderson
Votes: 160
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