Wood, who’s now demanding the girls be his slaves, the sisters finally join forces to kill the evil puppet. That night, when Lindy wakes up to find Kris wrestling with Mr. Pea-soup green, in fact, a lovely homage to the Exorcist. Wood showers the first few rows in a tidal wave of foul green puke. Wood unleashes a barrage of insults on one of the teachers, leaving Kris horrified and unable to convince the crowd that she’s not responsible. Wood mount the stage to kick-off the spring concert at school, Mr. I’ll pause here to say that my biggest qualm is that I wish this would’ve happened earlier, because this is where things really get fun. And, because heroes always do something dumb, Kris reads the note aloud, summoning Mr. Wood’s breast pocket-a string of strange words. Wood is alive the whole time, so this is a clever reveal, a strategic ploy to catch us off guard when shit really hits the fan.Īnd it does. Wood to scare Kris, hoping her sister would lose interest in the dummy and stop being such a copycat. Eventually, Lindy confesses to manipulating Mr. Meanwhile, Lindy is on her way to a promising career as a ventriloquist. Wood is alive, but she’s in big shit with her parents. Not only is she horrified, frightened that Mr. She even finds him with his hands wrapped around Slappy’s neck. Then, in the middle of the night, she finds him in the kitchen wearing her jewelry and sitting in a puddle of spilled milk, with a giant chicken roast in his lap. Within a few days, Kris wakes up to find Mr. Alas, Kris is in love, and desperate to outperform her annoying sister. Unlike Slappy, who sports a grey suit, Kris’ doll is decked out in a flannel shirt and blue jeans. So good that Lindy gets recruited to perform at a birthday party. The two are always competing, and Lindy’s act with the dummy - Slappy, she names him (as I’m sure you already know) - is getting pretty good.
When Kris Powell’s identical sister, Lindy, finds a battered ventriloquist’s dummy at a construction lot, Kris quickly turns jealous. Stine probably had plenty of inspiration guiding his hand in writing “Night of the Living Dummy,” but with a character as iconic as Slappy - Goosebumps’ most notorious mascot - he probably influenced many of the doll-driven thrillers that followed (see: Dead Silence, Annabelle, Chucky’s disappointing return). Jump ahead thirty years or so and, like it or not, they’re still slashing their way through the genre. Movies like Child’s Play, Puppet Master, and the suitably titled Dolls had given the tiny terrors enough screen time to solidify their status as notable villains. Stine’s seventh Goosebumps book, “Night of the Living Dummy,” was first published, dolls were no strangers to the horror genre. “Even with her eyes closed and the covers pulled up to her head, she could picture the shadowy, distorted grin, the unblinking eyes.
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