![]() Many a soul who saw this as a brand new telefilm remembers literally peeing their pants it was so startling. And it moved fast as a rat, it's knife wildly slashing & stabbing. It made the most deliciously disgusting chittering growling sounds (uncredited character actor & cartoon voice artist Walker Edmiston does the Zuni doll's voice, & he really should be acknowledged as he gives the disgusting creature so much personality, simultaneously hideous & comical). ![]() It had the perfect design halfway between hideous monster & the sort of African fetish doll someone might actually buy to decorate their home. In the decades sense, evil doll movies have practically become a dime a dozen, but the fact is, even with horror pushed so much further since, that Zuni doll remains one of the scariest damned creatures ever filmed. But it is as a woman alone fighting that evil doll that made her one of the immortals of horror cinema. ![]() The first two parts are good enough tales of murderous insanity & Black does a great job of being psycho. She created four characters in three stories, so for her it was a true toiur de force of character acting.īut of the three stories it is only the final one that made the lasting impact. But he soon admitted he was wrong.Īnd though Karen Black starred in better films, this is the one everyone remembers. The three stories that made up the anthology were based on short stories by Richard Matheson, who personally thought the anthology format was a bad idea because it's hard enough to pull an audience into a feature-length story without expecting them to stay tuned to be drawn in, taken out, drawn in, taken out, three times in one film. Nowadays with audiences divided between cable, VCR, instant NetFlix downloads to the tv, cell phone videos, & especially the world wide web, we will never again know the feeling of most of America watching the same thing at the same hour & eager for group discussions at school or office watercooler soonafter. The whole week following, everyone was talking about Susan Black versus the Zuni fetish doll. In 1975 when the portmanteau telefilm Trilogy of Terror first aired, it captured a gigantic audience & became one of the television "events" of the year.
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