10 Great Movie Monsters Trapped In Awful Horror Movies
2. Slappy The Dummy -- Goosebumps (2015)
The true MVP of the Goosebumps series, Slappy the Dummy has lived rent-free in every '90s kid's head since his introduction at the end of RL Stine's Night Of The Living Dummy (1993).
Shiny head, black tux, blood-red bowtie -- you know the puppet. A cursed ventriloquist doll with the ability to walk, talk and commit atrocities of every shape and size, Slappy may not have originated the Western world's fear of dummies, but he sure as hell capitalised on it. As the totemic figure and arguably also the series antagonist of Goosebumps, it makes sense that he would be the primary villain of the 2015 Goosebumps movie.
This horror-comedy, though, is far from the chills and thrills we used to experience between Stine's pages, and bears more resemblance to a sort of live-action Scooby Doo than the horror story necessary to do such a character justice. Playing opposite an absurdly cast Jack Black as RL Stine, Slappy is voiced by... Jack Black. He's not intimidating, he's not especially clever, and, when push comes to shove, the dummy does little more than release other monsters to go on a rampage of their own.
An opportunity sorely wasted.