Top 11 Creepiest Dolls in Horror
Saw series – Billy the Puppet
It’s not bad enough that you have to wake up and find yourself with a reverse bear trap on your head or in a razor wire maze or whatever other devious device Jigsaw has dreamed up for you. No, to make things worse, you have to have an uber-creepy puppet peddle out on a tricycle like Gonzo the Great on “The Muppet Show” to let you know what a shit you’ve been your entire life. And to also inform you that the shitty life you’ve been leading is going to end in about two minutes if you don’t perform a task which is certainly not going to be to your liking. Billy the Puppet became the mascot for the Saw series and was a perfect blend of silly and chilling at once. The bottom line with Billy was once you saw him, things were certainly about to go from bad to “Oh, fuck.” Check out one of Billy’s greatest scenes below from the original Saw with an amazing co-starring performance by the lovely Shawnee Smith
Dead Silence (2007) – Billy the Puppet
This could easily be interchanged with the 1987 film Magic, which also contains a creepy ventriloquist’s dummy, but we decided since James Wan seemed to be on a roll with two other films on this list, why not give him a third? Also, Dead Silence had a number of creepy puppets. And this also gives us the chance to point out that both the Saw and Dead Silence puppets are named Billy. Perhaps the dummy was a nod to the Saw puppet, which had debuted three years earlier. Go figure. Kinda like having two teams nicknamed the Roughriders in the Canadian Football League. Come on, man! Anyway, as puppets go, Billy the Ventriloquist’s Dummy takes the level on the creepy meter and pushes it right up to the top. Wan showed his evolution, making the doll in this film even more disturbing than his previous one, and he still had Annabelle up his sleeve! Well done!
