The possessed or haunted object (often anthropomorphic) is a mainstay of the horror genre, and for good reason. A doll or animatronic character has many of the features of a person but lacks the spark ...

Recently opened at The Menil Collection, Objects of Devotion examines the power of objects and our relationship to them. Not just objects in general, of course. We’re talking rare, priceless objects ...

Lee, a telepath, uses a special machine to search for possessed objects in a haunted house, hoping to uncover its history for a client in horror game The Tailor. Twenty years previous, a couple ...

Because you weren't already terrified enough of dolls, next week “The Conjuring” spinoff “Annabelle” hits theaters, in which two supposedly sane individuals decide that a deranged-looking vintage doll ...

Although the plot synopsis for The Drone reads like a cheap Child’s Play knockoff, this is actually one of the best possessed object horror films to be released in recent years. If you decide to give ...

For those of us who are smarter than Homer Simpson, horror movies have taught us a very important lesson: If anyone warns you against interacting with something because it’s cursed or haunted, just ...

Said to be demonically possessed and responsible for everything from car accidents to house fires, Annabelle – made famous by real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who inspired ...

“A child possessed an object she could not name. It was intricate, brownish, hard as a tooth. It had a kind of hinge, like memory. Most of the ways she touched it were forms of pleading. She breathed ...