Clip joint returns with a plea for clips of your favourite eerie playthings featured on film
Welcome back to Clip joint, the finest YouTube-powered collaborative movie clip feature on the known internet.
As Clip joint returns after a six week hiatus, we put a call out on Twitter and Facebook asking for suggestions for a new topic. Several of the ideas we received had already been covered in previous outings, but we liked the following from David Hughes:
Surely there must be scores of films that have featured scary toys over the years?
And while Victorian, chipped and clockwork is all well and good, is there anything scarier than a clown? See this brief clip from Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper's much-loved 1982 horror, in which the Freeling family are terrorised by all manner of things going bump in the night. Here, a creeped-out Danny Freeling has just noticed that his toy clown isn't in its usual spot...
A number of horror films have traded on the sinister nature of dolls. There's something undeniably eerie about small, ostensibly-cute, quasi-human effigies – especially talking ones, like Child's Play's red-headed, dungaree-sporting Good Guy doll.
Scary toys are not the exclusive preserve of horror films. The first Toy Story featured this unexpectedly nerve-jangling moment, when Woody finds himself trapped in the bedroom of Sid, the mean-spirited, toy-torturing next-door neighbour.
Over to you. Can you think of any scarier toys featured on film? Let us know below, ideally with a link to a YouTube clip of the toy in question. We'll pick out our favourite of your suggestions early next week.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/feb/22/clip-joint-scary-toys
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