Why Robots, Dolls and Mannequins are Creepy The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls, mannequins, video games and animations ...

The “uncanny valley” is a characteristic dip in emotional response that happens when we encounter an entity that is almost, but not quite, human. It was first hypothesised in 1970 by Japanese ...

One example of the uncanny cited by Jentsch was a lifelike mechanical doll called Olympia (pictured in a mid 20th-century stage dramatisation) in the story The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffman ...

As Smithsonian magazine points out, the "creepy doll" trope has been around since the 19th century, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have dolls at the center of so many horror movies.

The tales of German writer E.T.A Hoffman are widely seen as the beginning of the creepy automaton/doll genre; Jentsch and Freud used Hoffman’s “The Sandman,” as a case study in the uncanny.

Enter the Uncanny Valley with a #MonthOfDread dedicated to dolls, puppets, animatronics, and more! Related Article: Horror Gets Inside with a #MonthOfDread Now Dedicated to Home Invasions ...

"We are all haunted houses." —H.D. Source: Vilhelm Pedersen/Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) When E.T.A. Hoffman published his short novella, The Sandman (Der Sandmann) in 1816, he added a dark ...

The “Uncanny Valley,” a term first coined by robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970, refers to the discomfort experienced when encountering human replicas which appear almost, but not ...