Still, the thought failed to keep my nerves in check as I read about the evil dummy’s mischievous deeds and the poor kids being blamed for his actions. Still, I was drawn to Slappy’s story, feeling that when contained to the page, I would be protected from it somehow in a way that wasn’t the case were I watching it play out on TV. Having been traumatized by clips of Child’s Play (1988) at an early age, I was already predisposed to petrification by the hands of dolls big or small, so the thought of an otherworldly animated ventriloquist dummy had me in shivers well before I ever opened the book. He’s a wise-cracking, prank-prone and rather well dressed dummy who is far more intelligent than his empty wooden head might suggest, and with two books under his belt and a third on the way, it was only natural that Slappy the ventriloquist doll would finally make his way to the screen in 1996. The series adaptation later aired on Friday, Janu(runtime: 22 minutes).ĭespite its iconic cavalcade of creepers, crawlers and creatures which almost always go bump in the night, there is one formidable foe who consistently stands atop the swollen hoard of Goosebumps scoundrels. Night of the Living Dummy II was originally p ublished in May 1995 (Spine #31).
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