Category: Twenty Past Midnight

‘creeping down dark hallways,
While they, who lay in bed sleeping
Never, almost hear her creeping’

Samira Wyld – (Porcelain Doll)

Dolls have been the subject of fascination and obsession throughout the centuries. Little girls obsess over playing dress up, or taking care of them as they might when they grow up and become a mother. Is this culture of dolls a part of the priming process of how or what young girls are expected to do when they grow up?

It’s an interesting subject which I might go into in another post, but for now, I will focus on the fascination and/or obsession with dolls, particularly in Hollywood.

Think Chucky…

Dolls are everything from spectacularly beautiful, stick thin obsessive and unrealistic portrayals of young women such as the Barbie, or the subject of something spooky and scary. The horror stories that feature child ghosts in hallways holding a bedraggled teddy bear or a doll.

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