#devil doll

[charnel-grounds]

Devil Doll | 1964 | dir. Lindsay Shonteff

[bitter69uk]

“People turn their heads / She scares little kids / Eyes narrow; jaw is set / She'll fix you with a stare / She keeps her body hidden / Let's her eyes make her bid / I'd wrap her up in a bullet / And shoot her ‘round the world …”

/ John Doe’s lyrics to the X song “Devil Doll” from More Fun in the New World (1983) album, inspired by Exene Cervenka /

“Exene’s personality mixes the bored brattiness of a gum-snapping high school smart ass with a poet’s funereal profundity. Early on she did a definitive rock version of Morticia Addams, with black hair and lipstick and eye shadow, sometimes painted all around her eyes like a raccoon. She was queen of the Visigoths, something imagined by Anne Rice.”

/ From a profile of Los Angeles punk band X by John Homans in Details magazine, August 1993 /

Happy birthday to high priestess of punk, the fierce and uncompromising Exene Cervenka (née Christene Lee Cervenka, 1 February 1956)! The spooky poetess / twisted bride / voodoo dolly / intense frontwoman of definitive Los Angeles punk band X turns 70 today. Alongside Darby Crash of the Germs, Exene is THE iconic face (and snarling voice) of first-generation LA punk. And on X’s latest (and probably final) album Smoke & Fiction (2024), Exene still wails like her life depends on it. (To pre-empt the handwringing concern trolls: yes, watching Exene’s slide into conspiracy-addled lunacy in recent years has been painful and mortifying, but I’m celebrating about her artistry here). Pictured: portrait of Exene Cervenka by Jim Jocoy, 1979.

[restorativeluciferian]

Lucifer pulled me out to the nearest Big City that is not my own yesterday and turns out this is what he's been jonesing for me to get the last couple of weeks. Shopowner does not know who made it but I know the Devil loves it, and @luciferianoracle and I were admiring that it depicts him doing his own bloody sacrifice at the ritual. When I left it up on the shrine yesterday to go do something else, I heard Lucifer say, "It's all mine! 😃" and I know it's not the happiest I've ever made him, but it's gotta be top 3.

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies by year:

1964

[mst3kgifs]

Hi! This okay for a funeral?

[sunbleachedshea]

Sad clown at her mom's house with some hand made dolls.

[germ-t-ripper]

29DEC25 Stoked to add this collector's edition blu-ray double feature of DEVIL DOLL (1964) and CURSE OF THE VOODOO (1965) from Vinegar Syndrome to my collection.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Devil Doll | 1964 — continental version

Hugo the ventriloquist dummy was played by Sadie Corré, who later appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and The Dark Crystal (1982).

Her most terrifying role was that of an ewok in Return of the Jedi (1983).