In the ensuing fight between Trantor and Ernest, Trantor turns Ernest's dog Rimshot into a wooden doll before being repelled by soft-serve ice cream on Ernest's hands. Trantor appears there and takes the mayor's oldest son as his fifth and final wooden doll. Despite parents being upset at their missing children, Mayor Murdock and Sheriff Binder still proceed with a Halloween party at the school, believing the missing children will be there. While Kenny and his friend Gregg are walking, Trantor uses Elizabeth's voice to lure Kenny away, then takes Gregg as a fourth victim. Later that night, Trantor claims Elizabeth as his third victim as he sneaks into her house while she is resting on her bed. Ernest, Kenny and Elizabeth return to Hackmore, where they learn that only "the heart of a child, and a mother's care" can defeat the troll. Tom and Bobby Tulip, hoping to exploit Ernest, sell him various fake troll traps, but one backfires on the mayor's sons and Ernest loses his job. Meanwhile, Trantor captures a boy on a skateboard as his second victim. After none of the townsfolk will assist Ernest because of the upcoming Halloween party, he mounts a one-man (and one-dog) defense operation in preparation for Trantor's appearance. Ernest finds Kenny's dad, Sheriff Cliff Binder, and explains the situation but Binder does not believe him. Trantor grabs Joey's wrist and turns him into a wooden doll. Joey slowly walks and slips down in a muddy hole. Joey is walking home from the treehouse when he hears something rustling through the trees. Inadvertently, Ernest releases the troll. Following her, Ernest learns the story of Trantor and idiotically reports it to the kids. When Old Lady Hackmore discovers this, she angrily leaves. One hundred years later, Ernest, a sanitation worker, helps a few of his middle school friends, Kenny Binder, Elizabeth and Joey, construct a treehouse in the same tree that unknowingly contains the dormant creature, after the mayor's sons demolished their own cardboard haunted house. As part of the curse, every generation of Worrells will get "dumber and dumber and dumber", until the dumbest member of the family is foolish enough to release him from his earthly prison. Trantor vengefully places a curse on the Worrell family, stating that he can only be released on October 30 ( Mischief Night), the night before Halloween, by a Worrell. The townsfolk capture him and seal him under an oak tree, with Phineas Worrell, one of the village elders and an ancestor of Ernest P. In the late 19th century, the demonic troll Trantor transforms children into wooden dolls to feast upon their energy in Briarville, Missouri. Its opening credits feature a montage of clips from various horror and science fiction films, including Nosferatu (1922), White Zombie (1932), Phantom from Space (1953), The Brain from Planet Arous (1957), The Screaming Skull (1958), Missile to the Moon (1958), The Hideous Sun Demon (1958), The Giant Gila Monster (1959), The Killer Shrews (1959), Battle Beyond the Sun (1959), and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). Subsequent Ernest films were made for the straight-to-video market. The next film in the series, Ernest Rides Again, was independently distributed, was a box office bomb and was the final Ernest film to be released theatrically. box office, Disney opted not to continue the franchise, making this the fourth and final Ernest film to be released under the Disney label, Touchstone Pictures. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, and Ernest Goes to Jail.ĭue to its modest gross of $14,143,280 at the U.S. It was shot in Nashville, Tennessee like its predecessors Dr. In the film, Ernest unwittingly unleashes an evil troll upon a small town on Halloween night and helps the local children fight back. Worrell, and the fourth film in the Ernest series. It is the fifth film to feature the character Ernest P. Ernest Scared Stupid is a 1991 American comedy horror film directed by John Cherry and starring Jim Varney.
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