December 14, 2025 • 13 mins
Ever had a spooky doll or watched one on tv that scarred you for life? steveasher.studio
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome everyone to the House of Asher. I am your host,
Stevie Asher, and as always as a pleasure to speak
to you people. This is so close, We're getting so
darn close to the holiday, and we are in the
holiday season. This is December fourteenth. It's a lovely Sunday
(00:35):
morning wind chill of about uh negative two. It's definitely
sweat a wedda. So here we are. Probably should get
this out of the way and say, if you want
to learn more about what I'm doing, books, appearances, things
of that nature, different projects I'm in and or getting
ready to begin, go to Steve asher dot Studio and
(01:01):
again that's Steve asher Dot Studio, and that will lead
you down the crooked, winding path of madness to my
web page and you can learn again about all the different.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Stuff I'm into.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I should probably mention again I've kind of foregone
my music that I usually have because I guess Spreaker
thought it was just too cool, so I had.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
To kind of forego with it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
With a little lightning blast kind of a nod to
the late great Art Bell AnyWho. What I wanted to
kind of get into today I wanted to touch base
a little bit about well, I knew we recently had
a loss. Gentleman was on tour with the infamous Annabo
(01:50):
doll that the Warrens had made famous. I don't know
how many of you you and the know probably know,
otherwise you wouldn't be in the know correct that the
original animal doll wasn't the creepy kind of mister Rogers,
I forgot her name, Miss Elaine, Ladia Elaine, something like
(02:11):
that should look look like like a super like drunk
kind of bar flight looking person. So anyway, but it
was a raggedy an doll, so which that tracks it's
around the same time. If it wasn't that, it probably
would have been like a Manchi chee or one of
those little trows with the little, you know, jewels in
her stomach. I'm doing some deep cuts for you new kids,
(02:32):
but you know, seventies, sixties, seventies eighties kids are hip.
So anyway, what I was going to do is talk
about like some of the top dolls, Yeah, horror films,
TV shows, things like that, and I'm going to just
kind of run through a few of them. Of course,
(02:54):
you know, anybody grew up in the eighties grew up
on Chucky. You know, the child's play movie. A deeper
cut for me was the nineteen eighty two movie Poultry Guys,
and I didn't even think about it. I don't know
if if that freaky clown is really considered a dull,
(03:15):
but it was pretty freaky and he definitely had evil
on its mind. Now there's one that I remember mid
two thousands, Dead Silence, and this is from the people
that did Saw and all that, and that had some
creepy stuff in it. Now again right back where I live,
(03:37):
nineteen eighty nine that area puppet Master, you know, with
a screwhead and all those crazy little guys in it.
They were definitely creeps. They were definitely creepy. As I
mentioned earlier, Annabelle, you know, there's been several several movies
of that of that character. Now, there was one movie,
(04:00):
well there's a couple of them, because again like puppet
Master had several.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
In the series.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So there was a movie nineteen ninety one and it
was called Dolly Dearest had a cat named rip Torn
in it. Anybody goes back in seventies and sixties remembers
old Rip Torn in a lot of stuff. There was
a movie called The boy, I think it had Lauren
(04:31):
Cohan from The Walking Dead was in it, and it
was actually pretty good, and I remember hearing her actual
voice and supernatural, and I was like, what, there's so
many like great English actors that come do American parts,
but it's kind of hard for a lot of Americans
to do the proper English accent. I could do it
if you want in the comments next I will do
(04:55):
some sort of little intro piece and try to do
my best, you know, rendition of what I would feel
comfortable doing in an English accent. But the thing is,
there's so many you got cock me. You kind of
got like, you know, high English. You kind of have
London England, kind of have Birmingham, kind of an Assie
Osborne kind of English. But anyway, let me see you
(05:16):
let me bounce around Megan. Yeah, Megan was Megan was trippy,
you know. And uh again, it all starts out as
sort of a AI driven doll and it's supposed to,
you know, be a companion, a friend, but you know,
it takes all the life of its own literally and
(05:36):
again there's consecutive series of that. Now there was one
let me see her talk about deep Red. I don't
remember this. Maybe I've seen it, but I don't remember it.
If any of you guys remember it, let me know,
because I just don't. I really don't.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Dead of Night that was a British British.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Anthology film and it had this segment titled The Ventriloquist
Dummy had Michael Redgrave and he was a ventriloquist. He
began to slip into madness and he was just convinced
that Hugo, his dummy or his puppet, was alive. And
(06:24):
of course things went on to get so much worse.
Little little deep cut for you guys. When I was
a young man, I had a.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Little money in the bank.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Did I want to go get a car when I
was sixteen or so? No, I wanted I wanted a dummy.
My old man said there's no way in ag double
hockey sticks, kid.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So he probably kept me from.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
A life of you know, bad performances and probably bouts
of alcoholism. Oh, small soldiers, I didn't even think about
small soldiers. Yeah. Yeah. I had these little high tech
military action figures and they were kind of kind of different,
so you know, they would be chasing after all these
(07:12):
different little things. It was it was weird now for me.
Probably probably the one that unlocked a new fear as
a kid was Trilogy of Terror, not Trilogy of Terror too.
(07:32):
I'm talking about the classic nineteen seventy five, not the
one in ninety six. It tried, but you're just not
gonna you know, all the different Dutch angles and all
that that they took time to make it extra haunting,
you know, And it had Karen Black.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
She had three.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Different films and are three different you know, little film
segments at one where she was like an evil witch,
one where she was a set of crazy twins I'm
sure we know some and a Zuni fetish doll which
(08:10):
she had bought for her boyfriend or fiance, and it
was gonna be this wonderful little gift, which is like,
don't take you know, don't take the chain off of it,
because then it, you know, makes it where it can
come to life and run around and you know, make
constance phone calls and all kinds of horrible stuff. So anyway,
(08:30):
it's the ending of this. I'm not gonna spoil it
for you. I mean, it's only from nineteen seventy five,
hopefully you've seen it. But of night definitely go see this, this, this, this
one that I absolutely recommend. Demonic Toys in nineteen ninety two.
That was another one. Same guy who brought us puppet Master,
Charles Band had a lot to do with this. He
(08:52):
more or less had his his hands all over it.
So again, check it out. You know, I'm about to
through here. There's so many Chucky Chucky related ones. Asylum.
Asylum was another good one. I'm not sure if that
was it was a British anthology film. I don't know
if it was from Hammer.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
One person called it Mannequin's of Horror. That makes sense. Well,
Peter Kershing, Britt Ecklin and Herbert Lohm was in this,
and they would make these miniature dolls with some sort
of supernatural powers that would manifest himself in different ways
upon his enemies. I'm gonna lie, that's pretty metal. When
you're a young guy, young.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Kid and you feel powerless, that's that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Groovy, evil but groovy.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
How can I forget Anthony Hopkins and Margaret Burgess Meredith
in the movie Magic nineteen seventy eight, y'all break in
my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I don't know if any of you guys remember that part.
So good?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh my god, it's crazy, okay, a little bit of
a funny one. Mannequin camp Control. It's still Getty from
The Golden Girls was in it and she kind of
comes to live guy fell in love with her.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Now you have a few other ones, like Tourist Trap.
Let me think Black Devil from Hell. Trying to think
some more, The Pit Doll Man dah Man versus Demonic Toys,
you know, the fight we didn't know we needed. Curse
of the Puppet Master. Oh god, there's so many. I
(10:38):
could probably do a second, second one on this. Oh
the Devil Doll. That's an old one, nineteen thirty six.
I mean this goes back that the trope of this
goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Devil Doll. That was trippy too.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's kind of in the vein of like the old
Spider Baby, which if he's not seen, Spider Baby would said, hey,
that's madness, but you should retro Puppet Master, Oddity Pinocchio's Revenge.
Oh my god, I almost forgot that one. So good,
it's horrible. The Monkey, well, what kind of counts you
(11:13):
know the story of like the Little clapper monkey comes
to life, starts doing you know, really clapper monkey type behavior.
But anyway, if there's something that I didn't think of,
it you can think of now. Of course, we know
in real life or what we can consider real life,
all the Warren stuff, you know, including like Robert the
(11:35):
Doll and this and that. I always wanted to see
a haunted fish, you know, like the little hit the
button he goes take me to the river. I think
I don't know, I think it would be funny, haunted
Jack in the boxes. Yeah, stuff like that. But if
(11:56):
you can think of some sort of haunted toy that
maybe people don't know about, or something that I haven't mentioned,
let me know in the comments, especially on YouTube, please like,
comment and subscribe. It would help get my name out there.
And do make sure to check out spreaker and all
the other different podcast links out there that will get
(12:18):
you to my show. But don't you be a dummy.
I want you to enjoy the rest of your day.
It's colder than heck here, but the sun is bright,
so get some of that vitamin D on you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You can get some sun shine on your face.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But as the sun sets behind the pines and the
shadows grow long. Look under your bed, in your closet,
look in your kid's playroom. Do you remember leaving that
doll in that position? You could have sworn it was
in the box. Once it doing out, better, get some
blessed salt and maybe get the oven up in because
(12:53):
you got to throw it in there and cook it.
But it's okay to be afraid, because there's learning in fear. So,
my dear friends and listeners, as always, thank you from
the bottom of my heart, and above all, remember to
stay scared.
Welcome everyone to the House of Asher. I am your host,
Stevie Asher, and as always as a pleasure to speak
to you people. This is so close, We're getting so
darn close to the holiday, and we are in the
holiday season. This is December fourteenth. It's a lovely Sunday
(00:35):
morning wind chill of about uh negative two. It's definitely
sweat a wedda. So here we are. Probably should get
this out of the way and say, if you want
to learn more about what I'm doing, books, appearances, things
of that nature, different projects I'm in and or getting
ready to begin, go to Steve asher dot Studio and
(01:01):
again that's Steve asher Dot Studio, and that will lead
you down the crooked, winding path of madness to my
web page and you can learn again about all the different.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Stuff I'm into.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I should probably mention again I've kind of foregone
my music that I usually have because I guess Spreaker
thought it was just too cool, so I had.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
To kind of forego with it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
With a little lightning blast kind of a nod to
the late great Art Bell AnyWho. What I wanted to
kind of get into today I wanted to touch base
a little bit about well, I knew we recently had
a loss. Gentleman was on tour with the infamous Annabo
(01:50):
doll that the Warrens had made famous. I don't know
how many of you you and the know probably know,
otherwise you wouldn't be in the know correct that the
original animal doll wasn't the creepy kind of mister Rogers,
I forgot her name, Miss Elaine, Ladia Elaine, something like
(02:11):
that should look look like like a super like drunk
kind of bar flight looking person. So anyway, but it
was a raggedy an doll, so which that tracks it's
around the same time. If it wasn't that, it probably
would have been like a Manchi chee or one of
those little trows with the little, you know, jewels in
her stomach. I'm doing some deep cuts for you new kids,
(02:32):
but you know, seventies, sixties, seventies eighties kids are hip.
So anyway, what I was going to do is talk
about like some of the top dolls, Yeah, horror films,
TV shows, things like that, and I'm going to just
kind of run through a few of them. Of course,
(02:54):
you know, anybody grew up in the eighties grew up
on Chucky. You know, the child's play movie. A deeper
cut for me was the nineteen eighty two movie Poultry Guys,
and I didn't even think about it. I don't know
if if that freaky clown is really considered a dull,
(03:15):
but it was pretty freaky and he definitely had evil
on its mind. Now there's one that I remember mid
two thousands, Dead Silence, and this is from the people
that did Saw and all that, and that had some
creepy stuff in it. Now again right back where I live,
(03:37):
nineteen eighty nine that area puppet Master, you know, with
a screwhead and all those crazy little guys in it.
They were definitely creeps. They were definitely creepy. As I
mentioned earlier, Annabelle, you know, there's been several several movies
of that of that character. Now, there was one movie,
(04:00):
well there's a couple of them, because again like puppet
Master had several.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
In the series.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So there was a movie nineteen ninety one and it
was called Dolly Dearest had a cat named rip Torn
in it. Anybody goes back in seventies and sixties remembers
old Rip Torn in a lot of stuff. There was
a movie called The boy, I think it had Lauren
(04:31):
Cohan from The Walking Dead was in it, and it
was actually pretty good, and I remember hearing her actual
voice and supernatural, and I was like, what, there's so
many like great English actors that come do American parts,
but it's kind of hard for a lot of Americans
to do the proper English accent. I could do it
if you want in the comments next I will do
(04:55):
some sort of little intro piece and try to do
my best, you know, rendition of what I would feel
comfortable doing in an English accent. But the thing is,
there's so many you got cock me. You kind of
got like, you know, high English. You kind of have
London England, kind of have Birmingham, kind of an Assie
Osborne kind of English. But anyway, let me see you
(05:16):
let me bounce around Megan. Yeah, Megan was Megan was trippy,
you know. And uh again, it all starts out as
sort of a AI driven doll and it's supposed to,
you know, be a companion, a friend, but you know,
it takes all the life of its own literally and
(05:36):
again there's consecutive series of that. Now there was one
let me see her talk about deep Red. I don't
remember this. Maybe I've seen it, but I don't remember it.
If any of you guys remember it, let me know,
because I just don't. I really don't.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Dead of Night that was a British British.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Anthology film and it had this segment titled The Ventriloquist
Dummy had Michael Redgrave and he was a ventriloquist. He
began to slip into madness and he was just convinced
that Hugo, his dummy or his puppet, was alive. And
(06:24):
of course things went on to get so much worse.
Little little deep cut for you guys. When I was
a young man, I had a.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Little money in the bank.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Did I want to go get a car when I
was sixteen or so? No, I wanted I wanted a dummy.
My old man said there's no way in ag double
hockey sticks, kid.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So he probably kept me from.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
A life of you know, bad performances and probably bouts
of alcoholism. Oh, small soldiers, I didn't even think about
small soldiers. Yeah. Yeah. I had these little high tech
military action figures and they were kind of kind of different,
so you know, they would be chasing after all these
(07:12):
different little things. It was it was weird now for me.
Probably probably the one that unlocked a new fear as
a kid was Trilogy of Terror, not Trilogy of Terror too.
(07:32):
I'm talking about the classic nineteen seventy five, not the
one in ninety six. It tried, but you're just not
gonna you know, all the different Dutch angles and all
that that they took time to make it extra haunting,
you know, And it had Karen Black.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
She had three.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Different films and are three different you know, little film
segments at one where she was like an evil witch,
one where she was a set of crazy twins I'm
sure we know some and a Zuni fetish doll which
(08:10):
she had bought for her boyfriend or fiance, and it
was gonna be this wonderful little gift, which is like,
don't take you know, don't take the chain off of it,
because then it, you know, makes it where it can
come to life and run around and you know, make
constance phone calls and all kinds of horrible stuff. So anyway,
(08:30):
it's the ending of this. I'm not gonna spoil it
for you. I mean, it's only from nineteen seventy five,
hopefully you've seen it. But of night definitely go see this, this, this, this
one that I absolutely recommend. Demonic Toys in nineteen ninety two.
That was another one. Same guy who brought us puppet Master,
Charles Band had a lot to do with this. He
(08:52):
more or less had his his hands all over it.
So again, check it out. You know, I'm about to
through here. There's so many Chucky Chucky related ones. Asylum.
Asylum was another good one. I'm not sure if that
was it was a British anthology film. I don't know
if it was from Hammer.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
One person called it Mannequin's of Horror. That makes sense. Well,
Peter Kershing, Britt Ecklin and Herbert Lohm was in this,
and they would make these miniature dolls with some sort
of supernatural powers that would manifest himself in different ways
upon his enemies. I'm gonna lie, that's pretty metal. When
you're a young guy, young.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Kid and you feel powerless, that's that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Groovy, evil but groovy.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
How can I forget Anthony Hopkins and Margaret Burgess Meredith
in the movie Magic nineteen seventy eight, y'all break in
my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I don't know if any of you guys remember that part.
So good?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh my god, it's crazy, okay, a little bit of
a funny one. Mannequin camp Control. It's still Getty from
The Golden Girls was in it and she kind of
comes to live guy fell in love with her.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Now you have a few other ones, like Tourist Trap.
Let me think Black Devil from Hell. Trying to think
some more, The Pit Doll Man dah Man versus Demonic Toys,
you know, the fight we didn't know we needed. Curse
of the Puppet Master. Oh god, there's so many. I
(10:38):
could probably do a second, second one on this. Oh
the Devil Doll. That's an old one, nineteen thirty six.
I mean this goes back that the trope of this
goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Devil Doll. That was trippy too.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's kind of in the vein of like the old
Spider Baby, which if he's not seen, Spider Baby would said, hey,
that's madness, but you should retro Puppet Master, Oddity Pinocchio's Revenge.
Oh my god, I almost forgot that one. So good,
it's horrible. The Monkey, well, what kind of counts you
(11:13):
know the story of like the Little clapper monkey comes
to life, starts doing you know, really clapper monkey type behavior.
But anyway, if there's something that I didn't think of,
it you can think of now. Of course, we know
in real life or what we can consider real life,
all the Warren stuff, you know, including like Robert the
(11:35):
Doll and this and that. I always wanted to see
a haunted fish, you know, like the little hit the
button he goes take me to the river. I think
I don't know, I think it would be funny, haunted
Jack in the boxes. Yeah, stuff like that. But if
(11:56):
you can think of some sort of haunted toy that
maybe people don't know about, or something that I haven't mentioned,
let me know in the comments, especially on YouTube, please like,
comment and subscribe. It would help get my name out there.
And do make sure to check out spreaker and all
the other different podcast links out there that will get
(12:18):
you to my show. But don't you be a dummy.
I want you to enjoy the rest of your day.
It's colder than heck here, but the sun is bright,
so get some of that vitamin D on you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You can get some sun shine on your face.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But as the sun sets behind the pines and the
shadows grow long. Look under your bed, in your closet,
look in your kid's playroom. Do you remember leaving that
doll in that position? You could have sworn it was
in the box. Once it doing out, better, get some
blessed salt and maybe get the oven up in because
(12:53):
you got to throw it in there and cook it.
But it's okay to be afraid, because there's learning in fear. So,
my dear friends and listeners, as always, thank you from
the bottom of my heart, and above all, remember to
stay scared.
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