My first contact with horror was the anthology ”The fourth book of Pan horror stories” that my dad had in the bookcase. I could not read but just needed to stare at pocketomslaget to be filled with horror. There crawled a large spider over a äppelkindad porslinsdocka in the white lace dress. Strangely enough, I was afraid of the doll that for the åttabenta the insect. Dockors rigid innocence gets to me sometimes to shudder, much like clowners strained laughter. They look to have been left behind when a child died of tuberculosis.

The one who likes dockskräck can get their fill in June when the scariest toys are returning to the cinemas. ”Annabelle comes home” is the third movie about Annabelle, psykopaten of porcelain that are included in the filmuniversum that has grown up around the modern classic ”The conjuring”. ”Child’s play” is all about Chucky, plastkrabaten who murdered by seven movies, become a skräckikon at the same level as Freddy Kruger, and now shows up in a remake of the original from 1988.

who will win this dockduell. Who is otäckast? Annabelle or Chucky? To the look is the pale and smirking Annabelle kusligast. Chucky looks the most adorable out of the bib, freckles and carroty thatch. A points to her.

as for the ”kill count”, the number of corpses, Chucky had 44 murders during his career (and I am not all he killed The Lakeshore Strangler, before he was shot by the police and by the voodoo moved his soul to a doll). Annabelle takes it quieter. She sits most of the time quietly in a rocking chair while the demons that live inside her to take possession of and get them to become killers or självmördare. Total die only six people in the two ”Annabelle”films. Chucky, however, has had a longer time so it will be a draw.

Both the murder of the sweating sickness James Bulger in England in 1993, and the Port Arthur massacre in Australia in 1996 was, according to the sensationalist tabloids that the perpetrators liked the evil doll.

another important factor in horror is if a story can be tied to reality. All the movies in ”The conjuring”series is based on the case, as the real couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, freelance ghost hunter, investigated. But annabelle’s model, which is kept in a cabinet in the couple’s paranormal museum, is an ordinary rag doll which is not at all similar to the film’s zombiefierade Mardie. And she has not been linked to worse incidents than that, people become afraid of her.

the accused in order to inspire the terrible deeds. Both the murder of the sweating sickness James Bulger in England in 1993, and the Port Arthur massacre in Australia in 1996 (then a young man shot and killed 35 people) was according to the sensationalist tabloids that the perpetrators liked the evil doll. As late as 2015, were arrested on the Russian serial killer Elena Lobatjeva which showed off her Chucky-tattoo and said that ”Bride of Chucky” was her favorite movie. 2014 broke out although the fights on the French Swedish movie theaters that showed the first Annabelle-film, but Chucky has caused more chaos and wins this category.

finally, Let us assess the dockornas cineastiska qualities. The first ”Annabelle” was nothing but ”The conjuring” (where she pops up in the intro) and ”Annabelle 2: The Creation of the” beats all ”Chucky”movies except the first. 2-1 to Annabelle, but the point scores can change when the ”Annabelle comes home” and ”Child’s play” will première. The latter film upgrade Chucky from the dock to the robot. In his head is no longer a strypmördares soul, but of our time the black magic: algorithms. ”He is more than a toy. He is your best friend,” says the advertising. And when we accepted his friend request know Chucky everything he needs to know in order to kill us.

More texts by Fredrik Strage, for example, about how his flygpaus driven by a politically incorrect fear of a large immigration