Now - it’s safe to say that we’re all fairly seasoned horror fans over here at Top
5 Scary Videos - and I’m confident that the vast majority of you would be able to
recognise your mildly cursed beanie babies from your actually voodoo possessed Good Guy
dolls.
Right?
Right.
I’ve got faith in you all.
Either way - horror cinema is jam-packed with some terrifying inanimate objects that more
often than not, complicate things in some pretty nightmare inducing manners.
So - looks like our curiosity cabinet is faring pretty bare, and we better get shopping.
Hello horror fans - and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube - Top 5 Scary
Videos - as per usual, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch - as today, we curiously take
a look at the Top 5 Scariest Demonic Toys In Horror Movies.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from Child’s Play 2 - the sequel of the
legendary Chucky slasher, released back in 1990 - which, let’s face it - of course
Chucky’s made this list.
It’s a list about demonic toys.
What do you expect?
Kicking off at Number 5 - The Video Game, in Brainscan, 1994
Alright guys - it was the 90s - it was a time before anyone truthfully knew the scale of
the impact that technology would have on our lives - and it was a time when video games
were still looked at as a thing that inadvertently rotted children's brains.
Come on guys - you’ve got T.V for that.
Well - in the case of Brainscan - they didn’t just rot their brains, but this video game
turned them into a straight up psychopathic killer without them even realising it.
Written and directed by Brian Owens and John Flynn respectively - Brainscan tells the tale
of Michael Brower - played by Edward Furlong, AKA John Connor himself - a lonely kid who
lives an isolated existence in his absent father’s mansion.
Turns out that Michael is a huge fan of horror films and video games - and his buddy tells
him about a brand new, ultra-realistic, cutting edge game called Brainscan.
Of course - he sends off for the disk - and unwittingly summons a demonic game-show host
known as the Trickster, who coerces Michael into murdering his friends and family.
Yeah - pretty cutting edge technology.
Sorry.
That was a terrible, terrible pun.
Swinging in at Number 4 - The Masks, Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Yeah - kind of goes without saying really.
A demonic children’s novelty halloween mask - that when worn whilst watching a specific
T.V commercial on the night of Halloween, inadvertently sacrifices them in an Ancient
Celtic ritual - thus bringing about a resurrection of the ancient age of Witchcraft.
Yeah, the third installment of Halloween wasn’t exactly the golden age of horror cinema - but
it was interesting, nonetheless.
As the events of the film explain - the Halloween 3’s antagonistic business-villain, a man
known as Conal Cochran - runs The Silver Shamrock Novelties company - and produces a wildly
popular series of latex jack-o-lantern, witch, and skeleton toy masks for Halloween.
He’s also made a pretty penny whilst doing it.
Turns out, each of these masks contain a fragment of Stonehenge implanted in a microchip - and
when activated by the commercial’s flashing magic pumpkin - it causes the wearers brains
to melt - and then unleashes a swarm of snakes and insects out of the victims corpse that
try kill anyone nearby.
Sorry.
What.
Next up at Number 3 - The Annabelle Doll, Annabelle
You were just waiting for this little demon doll to turn up, weren’t you?
Because it can’t be a scariest demonic toys list without Annabelle.
Why anyone would ever be cruel enough to stick this abomination in front of an innocent child
- I have no idea - although, the original doll that Annabelle is based on is a much-more
timid Raggedy Ann doll.
Making her first appearance in James Wan’s 2013 showstopper, The Conjuring, Annabelle
was such a demonic hit that she’s gone on to spawn her own feature film, a much better
prequel - and an upcoming 2019 sequel.
As the events of the first film explain, Annabelle is a rare, vintage porcelain doll that has
a habit of demonically possessing anyone near its vicinity - and is implicitly tied to a
cult that is hell bent on summoning supernatural beings into our realm.
Along the way, Annabelle kind of becomes a bit of a russian doll of demonic host upon
demonic host - but it’s not until the events of Annabelle: Origin, where we learn that
the doll itself was created by a toy maker named Samuel Mullins, for his daughter Annabelle.
Tragically, she was later killed in a car accident - and her parents then accidentally
summoned an infernal demon in their grief, who chose the convenient porcelain doll as
its vessel.
Why is it never like, a plastic duck?
Or a Furby?
Actually scratch that - Furby’s are terrifying.
Coming up next at Number 2 - The Lament Configuration, Hellraiser
The definition of curiosity killing the cat.
And you’d be really, really unfortunate to ever mistake this thing for a Rubik's cube.
Cos that’d be really, really bad.
Well, turns out that the Lament Configuration, which is seemingly an ancient puzzle box - making
up an entire collection of the same boxes that appear throughout Clive Barker’s Hellraiser
series.
And, also - just so happen to summon a Gash’s worth of Cenobites to your door once you’ve
completed the puzzle.
In the fictional canon, the boxes were created by Philip LeMarchand - a French toy maker
who makes the Lament Configuration for a wealthy aristocrat who is obsessed with dark magic.
To make the box, LeMarchand and his servant, Jacques, kill a woman and remove her inner
organs - and use the woman’s skin to summon the demon princess Angelique.
Well, yeah - that kind of sets the precedent for the rest of Clive Barker’s Cenobite
Hellraiser series - and thus any time someone unwittingly starts playing with The Lament
Configuration - you know that Pinhead, the Chatterer and Butterball aren’t far behind.
This demonic puzzle box has seen some real history throughout the Hellraiser franchise
- at one point being solved by a robot at the Space Station Minos in the year 2127 - during
the events of Hellraiser IV: Bloodline.
Yeah, things get a little weird - but there IS one thing you can say about the Lament
Configuration.
It’s pretty damn durable.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - The Good Guys Doll, Child’s Play
And of course - because it really can’t be a demonic toys list without Chucky rearing
his cute little latex head.
And it’s on the Good Guys Company to accept responsibility for this retail disaster, really
- because even after the events of the first Child’s Play film, they found themselves
attempting to repair their public image - despite the fact that one of their dolls had been
possessed by Charles Lee Ray AKA The Lakeshore Strangler AKA Chucky - in a bizarre voodoo
ritual whilst avoiding prison, who then went on a 7 movie homicidal killing spree.
You’d think they’d just kind of give up the ghost, right?
Well - as we all know, in the events of the first Child’s Play, created by Don Mancini
and first released in 1988 - all little Andy Barclay wants is a Good Guy doll - until his
hard-working single mother manages to find one, dirt cheap - being sold by a homeless
guy down an alleyway.
Well yeah, turns out that this doll in particular is the demonic vessel for the serial killer
known as Chucky - and what plays out is one of the most captivatingly original cult-horror-slashers
in recent memory.
It’s also absolutely hilarious.
Well - there we have it horror fans!
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