Every Killer Toy Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

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When thinking of a killer toy movie to watch, most likely one of the Child’s Play or Annabelle movies will come to mind, yet there are plenty other and arguably better killer toys in cinema. In reality, a slew of films came well before either of these films and a good amount after. Some are more psychological, while some are just good gory slasher movie fun.

The killer toy phenomena can be traced back to The Devil-Doll in 1936, although many might remember the first killer doll on-screen as Talky Tina in The Twilight Zone’s season 5, episode 6 “Living Doll” in 1963. The late 1970s and 1980s were when the killer toy genre came full force, with several movies: Magic (1979), The Devil’s Gift (1984), and Joey (1985), to name a few. When Tom Holland’s Child’s Play was released in 1988, Chucky the killer doll popularized the killer toy genre, and that genre grew more over the years.

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A mix of innocence with horror is something beyond disturbing, but audiences can’t get enough of it. Although Chucky and Annabelle are the faces of killer toys, there are much more sinister ones. Aside from Chucky and Annabelle, here is a breakdown of some of the best killer toy movies, ranked from worst to best.

Kevin S. Tenney’s Pinocchio’s Revenge is a 1996 psychological thriller unique to the standard killer toy movie formula, as the doll is barely shown in action. Lawyer Jennifer Garrick (Rosalind Allen) is defending a convicted child killer Vincent Gotto (Lewis Van Bergen). After Gotto is executed, Garrick’s coworker has the only evidence left: a creepy-looking puppet who bears a striking resemblance to Pinocchio. Garrick brings the doll home to find any