Finley (2019) cleverly twists the "killer doll" trope into horror-comedy by following a possessed ventriloquist dummy who's hilariously bad at murder-bungling attempts like trying to electrocute someone with an unplugged toaster; inspired by director J. Zachary Thurman's childhood fear of dolls like Slappy from Goosebumps, the short used practical effects with multiple hand-built Finley puppets for different scenes, earning praise for its inventive mix of absurd humor and unsettling imagery
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