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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Well that thing's cursed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 11 points 8 hours ago
[–] Hikermick 7 points 8 hours ago

Looks like the voodoo doll in Trilogy Of Terror

[–] [email protected] 64 points 16 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 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] atomicorange 1 points 1 hour ago

The real horror is mesothelioma

[–] Atropos 11 points 8 hours ago

I feel a new SCP entry

[–] pennomi 107 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] hypnicjerk 37 points 19 hours ago

call that findoom

[–] Okokimup 13 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] misterdoctor 6 points 16 hours 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 3 points 5 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 3 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 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 11 points 14 hours ago

It's absolutely terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 21 hours ago

$10 says the doll already ate their soul.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

10 € say there's a dead baby inside.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 21 hours ago

That is literally how horror movies start

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points 10 hours ago

She reared you right

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago

I'm guessing that was their last post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Why the hell is that scary af?!

[–] Hamartia 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago