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Unfortunately, nothing like that ever happened. The idea of some deranged doll controlling what you can say and do is pretty scary. That could have given it an extra creepy little twist. Wood was somehow able to start exerting control over Kris and Lindy, much like a human controls a dummy. Wood clearly wants to turn children into slaves, but it’s not clear how or to what end. What are the motivations of a puppet brought to life by a magic spell? Mr. Eventually, he is crushed underneath som construction equipment during an anti-climatic chase scene. Beyond speaking putrid green liquid, he doesn’t seem to have any magic powers. Powell, so it’s not clear if he intends to make them slaves as well. They seem to tackle him easily, which means he’s not particularly strong. Wood tells Kris and Lindy he’s going to make them their slaves… then doesn’t really do all that much except to try and run away from them. This was a fun scene, but things kind of petered out after that. Wood ups his game by spewing some kind of foul-smelling green liquid all over a bunch of parents at Kris’ recital. Wood gets Kris in trouble by insulting their next-door neighbors.
Wood’s jacket and reads aloud the incantation written on it, that things start to get interesting. It isn’t until Kris finds a small piece of paper in Mr. The pranks just felt like a waste of time. This takes up a full two-thirds of the book. Lindy is rightfully mad that Kris won’t let her have her own thing, and so she stages a series of elaborate pranks to make Kris believe that Mr. The twin’s parents only made things worse by buying Kris her own dummy, Mr. This level of sibling rivalry is understandable. When Lindy finds a ventriloquist dummy in a dumpster, Kris quickly becomes jealous of her sister and the dummy Slappy. Lo and behold, Kris and Lindy turned out to be assholes. Who names their dog Barky? Assholes name their dog Barky. Score: 1.5Īn early tell that the Powell family was going to be terrible was that their dog’s name was Barky. To cap it off, the twist ending felt cheap, and I usually love Stine’s twist endings. Wood came off as more cartoonishly evil than I would have hoped. There is an inherent creepiness to ventriloquist dummies, but the book did little to build on that premise. It might have been a spot-on characterization of preadolescent twin sibling rivalry, but it sure made them impossible to empathize with. The twin protagonists of the story are straight-up awful. Night of the Living Dummy is one of the best-remembered and most iconic books of the Goosebumps series.
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