Automatonophobia is a fear of human-like figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots. It’s a specific phobia, or a fear of something that causes significant and ...

While they’re not quite lifelike, these security bots are absolutely terrifying as they track down horror legends (Kelli Maroney and Barbara Crampton both star) silly enough to stay after hours in a ...

"Automatonophobia" is what we call a fear of ventriloquist dummies, a phobia unlikely to be induced by "Dead Silence," an ostensible exercise in horror from the writing-directing team behind "Saw." ...

Most people have fond childhood memories of Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. But even the thought of The Muppet Show terrifies mother-of-two Lindsay Broom. She has suffered from a phobia ...