The Black Museum Presents... Playtime is Over! Killer Dolls, Marionettes & Automatons in Horror Cinema with Andrea Butler

In horror film, animated dolls, dummies and puppets have become trademark staples of the genres iconography. Veteran Black Museum lecturer Andrea Butler returns to the podium with a look at how automatons and our fear of them has evolved on screen, in the hopes of silencing adult fears of animism in the inanimate.

PLUS! Beer! Prizes! Marionette mayhem!



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The Black Museum Presents... Playtime is Over! Killer Dolls, Marionettes & Automatons in Horror Cinema with Andrea Butler

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