Trilogy of Terror
This 1975 anthology directed by Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows) is based on a trio of stories by genre legend Richard Matheson, all starring Karen Black. All of Trilogy of Terror is unsettling but the third segment, “Amelia,” is a two-hander pitting Black’s character against the scariest doll to ever haunt the screen—apologies to Chucky and Annabelle and the Poltergeist clown, but nothing comes close to this movie’s “Zuni fetish doll.” Its existence is made even more alarming by the fact that this was a made-for-TV production, meaning people just innocently flipping the channels could just have stumbled upon its pointy-toothed visage and been scarred for life by the sight.
