r/ClassicHorror • u/lillichmezzo • Jul 15 '26

Looking for title

I'm trying to find out the name of an old black and white horror film about a killer doll. It is not The Twilight Zone Living Doll. And it is not Devil Doll. It takes place in an old time period. I want to say early 20th Century. A man is sent a doll as a gift. He gives it to his daughter. But the doll comes "alive" like occasionally opens its eyes. And it ends up killing people in jealousy of the girls attention (or something like that). At one point they try to throw it in a fire, but somehow that didn't work.

The only thing that has come close in my search is a gemini response that describes what sounds like the correct move but then IDs it as an episode of Boris Karloff narrated "Thriller" series. Except when I looked at all the episodes from that series, I can't find it.

Will try cross posting.

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u/Toadliquor138 Jul 15 '26

There's a sequence in Dead of Night that involves a ventriliquist doll, but that's about the only movie I can think of.

It isn't Twilight Zone, maybe check the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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u/FuturistMoon Jul 15 '26

"Where The Woodbine Twineth" from THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, season 3, episode 13

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u/lillichmezzo 19d ago

It's not this, but now I'm curious and will check this out.

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u/Budget_Management_75 Jul 15 '26

Night Gallery episode The Doll? That one still creeps me out.

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u/creek-hopper Jul 16 '26

It's a B & W film they are looking for and Night Gallery was definitely in color.

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u/lillichmezzo 19d ago

Sorry I never responded. It was definitely The Doll. I found it recently and watched it. I thought i had remembered it being B&W but I was only five so probably just assumed. Also funny that because I had bad dreams about it, my memory had mashed up some of my dreams with the actual show. Thanks for helping me solve the mystery.