A girl goes to visit her friend in the country, but learns she has mysteriously disappeared!A girl goes to visit her friend in the country, but learns she has mysteriously disappeared!A girl goes to visit her friend in the country, but learns she has mysteriously disappeared!
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- David Preston
- D.J. MacHale(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAmanda Walsh who portrayed Susan, later reappeared in the episode "The Tale of a Door Unlocked" as a unnamed girl called Girl aka The girl who gave Ashley a cupcake.
- GoofsAt around 21:00 minutes Aunt Sally calls her niece "Melinda" instead of her characters actual name "Melissa".
- Quotes
Uncle Pete: You didn't tell her what Marge Henderson said about the house, did you?
Aunt Sally: Shh. She might hear you! No, of course not. Anyway, Marge was beside herself with grief; she didn't know what she was saying.
Uncle Pete: Maybe not, but she said it pretty clearly: "It was the house that got her!"
- Crazy creditsNickelodeon Stripe logo (rare) after end credits
- ConnectionsFeatured in PEN15: Vendy Wiccany (2020)
- SoundtracksAre You Afraid of the Dark? Theme
Arranged and produced by Ray Fabi
Featured review
"It was the house that got her!" The doll episode. Sort of...
Dolls and attics - always a winning combination in terms of scares! This episode is one of my absolute favourites because it gets so weird and has a really cool and spooky plot device they you may have never heard of before... Okay, for a start I thought the mousy lead girl was okay, but she was a bit boring. I liked the woman playing the aunt better, who was a little melodramatic with her lines, but she was nice and was a little more decent than the average adult actor on the show. The man playing the uncle was a horrible actor though, he was so bad I found him funny to watch! A scene where he and the aunt discuss what they believed happened to the missing girl next door was unintentionally hilarious because they're both talking quite loudly about four feet away from Melissa who they think is sleeping! I just love those kinds of nonsense moments with this show. I still really like the makeup effects of Susan the girl trapped in the mysterious dollhouse of doom! While not as impressive as I remembered, the bizarreness of the powdery white face and porcelain limbs and stiff walk all convey well the idea that she's slowly turning into a doll and that she can't escape because she can only move like one and has fused fingers and stuff. She may not be malicious, but the idea is pretty nightmarish - a disturbing gradual transformation followed by an eerie state of living death, that's damn creepy!! I like how it's a tale with no actual villain. It's called "The Tale of the Dollmaker", but the only dollmaker we ever meet is the dollhouse itself. The spookiest part for me is when Melissa first peers into it and and a tiny door slams shut. And the scenes where she first figures out the way into the dollhouse and wanders around trying to figure out its secret have a cold atmosphere to them that nicely build up the suspense. And what an original idea! Such a neat little idea for a story, I loved how it was a miniature replica of the real house and how the exit to it was where the entrance was in the real house and required a leap of faith. A house-within-a-house-within-a-house! I thought it was a fairly awesome, mind-bending story concept, and is absolutely the reason I love this episode and consider it one of the show's greatest! X
- Foreverisacastironmess123
- Oct 25, 2013
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