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Magic

You may think if you’ve seen one scary ventriloquist dummy, you’ve seen them all. But you haven’t traversed the outer limits of talking-doll frights until you’ve seen this 1978 Richard Attenborough film; it stars Anthony Hopkins as a struggling magician whose decades-long obsession with his high-school crush (Ann-Margret) gets exponentially weirder when his feisty wooden sidekick, “Fats,” seemingly takes on a life of his own. Magic is streaming on Shudder, as well as through Amazon Freevee (free with ads).