there was a marionette was very generic one looks just like the one from dead silence and there is a kid and i think there was some type of magician that came back and possed the doll not childs play cant remeber too much more but had more of a pultigiest type feel to it.
MAGIC with Sir Anthony Hopkins, perhaps?
Sounds like Making Contact (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089378/) to me.
it was making contact great call thank you
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