DEAD DOLL HORROR – creepy critters
Question: where do zombie children buy their dolls? In Rome, that would be at 29, Via di Ripetta.
Beware, o you who enter: this is not for the squeamish… If you find the sight of dead dolls disturbing, scroll no further.
Closer inspection reveals the horror in all its dusty detail….
And then the horror story turns into something completely different. Musician Davide Del Col has used a selection of these creepy images for a music CD to be released soon.
Rome’s “Doll Hospital” is actually the Squatriti workshop, specialized in the upkeep and restoration of all things antique. This grim window is an attraction to locals and tourists alike, who sometimes stand in line to take eerie photos. Hope you enjoyed.
Alessandro Ciapanna
46 Responses to “DEAD DOLL HORROR – creepy critters”
Aahh! What a place! And congrats for having your pictures in cd covers – they look great. (About the dolls: I just this morning posted a picture of our “living doll” in 500px: http://500px.com/photo/50752238 …)
Thanks, Olli, and: oh, wow! Your photo is even more creepy than these are…
I don’t think anyone over the age of thirty can stand the sight of dolls anymore. Too many movies made…eyes looking, wondering if they are seeing. ewww. Thanks for the scary photos! -amy
I know exactly what you mean: creepy dolls used to feature heavily in horror movies and such. Still, they punch above their weight…
Thanks, Amy!
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Nice toys … Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
Haha! Thanks, Covetotop!
Sono passato un sacco di volte li davanti e non ho mai fotografato la vetrina degli orrori anche se mi ha sempre affascinato.
Complimenti ,foto mooolto belle perfette anche per il cd 🙂
Grazie Krossmann. Fretta non ce ne dovrebbe essere: mi sa che quelle bambole sono li’ da decenni… 🙂
ahahha hai decisamente ragione!
Oh, oh, oh, what a horror. And magnificient photos! I like them!! Congratulations on the cd work, very deserved!
Thanks, Bente! These dolls have an adorable, almost attractive kind of horror – glad you like them too!
Oh………….these are EXQUISITE. Love!
Thanks, Merilee!
great pictures! ..and just in time for Halloween.. 🙂
Hmmm… i wonder if that may have been a coincidence… 😉
Thanks, Lisa!
Yes – not sleeping well tonight. Scary.
Haha!, Thanks, doublewhirler.
What an extraordinary find!
Thanks, Paula.
I had a doll many, many years ago–that I loved.
But then, one of the eyes started to get stuck open while the other one would shut.
Sleeping and staring at me at the same time…..rather unnerving.
I am glad that so many of them are being restored now!
Oh, those eyelashed, moving-eye dolls of the 70’s were the creepiest of all – especially when one of the eyes started to go funny…
Thanks for commenting, Mary!
love this series of photographs!! nice work!
Thanks, Marianne! So glad you enjoyed…
You definitely brought the Halloween mood along with this one! 🙂
Thanks, Ese’s Voice. Though it started only recently, Halloween is taking hold even here in Italy. The kids love it… 🙂
So cool that your work will be on the CD! I love these images. 🙂 Here’s a creepy one for you to enjoy too: http://bit.ly/1hAzyWy
Thanks, Ann! 🙂
Better link: http://bit.ly/1cw9tEk
Dang! That one is super-creepy…
😉
Wonderful series, Alessandro. Congratulations on getting your work featured on a CD cover. I hope it leads to more commissions.
Thanks, Calvinjax. Fingers crossed…
Great images. Except for (my macabre brain) imagining them started to move. At night. In the dark……*seriously creeped out now*
Ugh. Imagine the various parts recombining haphazardly into odd creatures and creeping around… The horror! The horror!
Thanks!
thank you for that…..bring on the coffee! no sleep for me! lol…..
These photos are great! And I’ll join with the others in congratulating you on the CD cover photo usage – these images are certainly deserving of being seen by more people!
Oh, what a wonderful comment! Thank you very much, Adamrobertyoung!
I know you never enter silly challenges like the weekly photo challenge, but this post would have been perfect for the “eerie”. If I was still a girl tante bambolle rotte me avrebbe fatto piangere
Thanks, Paula. Oh, I love a challenge, especially an eerie one. What i find hard to swallow is having to title my posts as specified by someone else…
That said, everybody cringes at the sight of those dolls. But i havent seen any tears being shed…
Capisco…..
Creepy cool, and an awesome CD layout. Congratulations! : )
Thanks, Karen! We’re both subject to the beauty, elegance even, of quiet decay.
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That’s amazing! It just reminded me of a Doll’s Hospital that I went in Lisbon – you can find the pictures in my blog. But your dolls are even more destroyed than mine. Lovely! 😀