The third segment with the Zuni Fetish Warrior Doll sprung to life has got to be one of the funniest, campiest bits I've ever watched! The four or five times I've seen it, I am in tears from laughter.
My favorite lines: "What's going on?" and "I don't know where I'm located!"
Also, when the doll is chomping down on Karen Black's neck in front of the oven, the looped vocal sounds of Karen do not match the non-movement of her mouth. Hilarious!
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what i thought was one of the funniest things bout the doll was the noises it made
shareHow can you say that. This film was probably the most frightening in t.v. history. I was never the same after viewing it as a teenager. My whole world darkened and I was unable to sleep. After viewing it again as an adult It still had the same effect it did when I was younger. This was probably as frightening to view as was the excorcist. I'm sure many will agree with me. You're probably trying to put up a tough front. Its not believable to me that anyone who watches this film can walk away from it laughing.
shareI haven't seen this movie on TV in New Zealand for a long long time, but I do remember vital scenes. The image of the doll's spear (or something sharp) cutting through a suitcase(?) to get himself free. It was very cartoonish but at the same time still scared the hell out me. The thought of that small doll running around my room with a spear or knife stayed in my nightmares for weeks afterwards!
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I was scared to death when I first saw it as a child but watching it now, that segment really is more comedy than horror. The doll's voice alone is enough to send me into fits of laughter now but back then, I was afraid to put my hand under the lampshade for years!
Yeah, the "I don't know where I'm located" was pretty funny. The story puts her in that apartment for a month at the very minimum and she walks home from work/shopping... She HAS to know where she lives!
I missed this as a kid so got a lot more laughs than scares when I saw it. It's a great sequence and makes up in action for the more quirky than scarey 1st two sections of the movie.
Loved Karen's dialogue you mention - I was going "does she really have no idea where she even lives??"
And the Zuni - I think I know what ended the Zuni empire. Great at doll making - yet very poor in constructing chains!
For anyone wanting to check out if the doll will really hunt you down - try here:
http://timespacetoys.stores.yahoo.net/troftezufewa.html
some people think they are more man when they make jokes about frightening things from the past.
guys, no one ever will see you in real life, so what is the matter of this behaviour?
this movie was absolutely scarry. most of the horror movies from this era, because they wheren't made perfect they are much more frightening ;)
I think you're missing something here if you think I'm trying to be macho, manly or in any way butch by pretending to never be scared by horror movies!! I'm a man who chooses his horror carefully and tends to shy away from the grimmer stuff. And even Dracula films kinda scared me as a kid.
My point was that I didn't see this horror comedy as a kid so my first experience of this film was more of hilarity than fear. I have no problem admitting to films that scared the poop out of me as a kid but seeing this as an adult is NOT a scarey experience.
I saw this TV movie when it came out and even recall that TV Guide had a story about the making of it.
This third story was always my favorite, but me and one of my girlfriends did goof on it, especially when Karen Black is calling to the doll something like, "Little Man Where Are You".
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I do think the ending is very scary though when she is obviously possessed by the doll after it bites her on the neck, I believe. But she then calls her Mom and waits for her to come over while she takes on the characteristics of the Zuni Doll crouched over with spear in hand and baring very sharp teeth. Real Halloween Stuff!!!
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Yeah - Karen Black looks AWESOME at the end of the movie, swaying from side to side on her heels and with that MEAN thousand yard stare. You wouldn't wanna be her mum coming through that door!!
I remember this. It came on ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week and I learned how to imitate the doll. Scared the hell out of my brother (LOL).
"But what about me?"
Juan Miranda "Duck You Sucker" (1971)
I know own one of the warrior dolls. You should too. They're creepy as hell. This is the one I bought, but more are readily available. Just don't let the charm fall off the doll, or you know what you're in for.
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OMG, that ebay item is hilarious!
We (me, my husband and my 15 y.o. daughter) watched this Saturday night. I saw it when it first was on TV--I was about 13 or 14. It scared me then, but not too much--it was pretty funny then, too. Kind of like, "screech--jump--laugh." I think my younger brothers were more scared though.
When we watched it on Saturday, we all started laughing hysterically.
I'm just reading this thread 5 years later but if you were a kid back in the 70's you would understand the fear this doll gave people. Remember the 70's??
It was the decade when The Exorcist came out-still the scariest movie ever made-possibly more because it deals with the devil and demonic possession rather than a deranged stalker like Jason or Michael Myers. Many people were still a little jumpy, then TOT came out on t.v. and put the fear back in. There was no cable t.v. back then, no Internet, no teen slasher movies... the doll still freaks me out to this day but I'm thinking of getting one for my son (who is grown) as he loves TOT.
Back then, this was considered quite scary. My son was only about 3 and it terrified him. (I have *got* to ask him if he remembers this movie). For some bizzare reason the movie came up in a recent conversation. To my surprise my friend said she had in on VHS. I still have a VCR machine and just watched it. It might seem campy now but it was great then and, I think, still holds up. We are in a VCR mood tonight and I am now watching some really, awful, corny coming attractions from the 1990's and 1980's. Were the movies really that corny back then? Anyone remember Cyber Tracker? What a ripoff from The Terminator, THX, Robocop, and HAL from Space Odessey. We used to pay to go see these movies!!!! Well I guess 10 years from now, we will be laughing at the corny lines and awful hairdos of today.
shareLike the OP I also found it hilarious, I just couldn't stop laughing... until the very end when the doll is burned and the spirit comes into her
shareI didn't really find it hilarious, but I did find it adorable. I thought it's appearance and the noises it made were very cute. The noises it made reminded me of the Krites, who I also thought were adorable.
Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings.
When I was a kid we saw this on tv and I laughed so hard That I couldn't stop and got in trouble because I was still laughing when I was in bed. The noises he made..and the scene where he runs into the suitcase. Watching it again now I find the slashing and cutting disturbing but the scene where he dashes into the suitcase (which I had forgotten) still made me lol. Just not with the pure, strong laughter of youth.