The Creepy Clown Thread got me to thinking: what’s creepier, clowns or ventriloquist dummies?
Go to this site and just keep clicking “next” till your brain snaps.
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Gerry Gee is definitely a gay dummy. Too bad his mother dressed him so funny.
Dummies. But not by much.
Eve’s link includes a dummy that looks like a clown!
My two biggest phobias rolled into one.
Ventriloquist Dummies.
I’ve never been afraid of clowns that much, but just imagining one of those dolls sitting on a chair in the dark gives me the willies.
If you ever see a ventriloquist and his doll talking back and forth when no one is around, run.
Ventriloquist Clown Mime Dummies.
Equally creepy. I opened the clown thread and read a little of it, but didn’t click on any of the links.
I just know what I’d find would be fodder for nightmares for weeks. I’m not clicking on any of the links here, either.
Just thinking about clowns and dummies gives me the heeby-jeebies.
Dolls are creepy, too, just so you know.
My SO likes clowns but is deathly afraid of dolls of any shape or form. This includes ventriloquist dummies and marionettes.
There was a standup comic in the late 80’s who did this as part of his act. He and the dummy would “argue” causing the comic to storm off stage. After he was gone, the dummy would start trash talking the guy. It was pretty funny since the dummy didn’t look evil.
Otherwise, most dummies are creepy. Check out the one in Devil Doll, for example.
There are some clowns I’ll admit don’t appear sinister or evil, but I don’t think that’s true of ventriloquist dummies (especially sans ventriloquist).
Let me take this opportunity to mention the movie Magic, about an extremely unstable ventriloquist and his extremely creepy looking dummy. The dummy itself isn’t evil, but it looks evil, and that’s enough for me.
Ventriloquist dummies.
Some clowns are a little creepy but mostly they’re not. I was even a card-carrying clown myself for a short time. I learned to make little doggies out of balloons, the only problem was I didn’t have the lung power to blow up the balloons making my doggies rather sad and mostly just big tails.
Um … anyway, Dummies creep me out me because when I was a kid I saw an episode of Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock presents involving the ubiquitous evil ventriloquist dummy. (I still can’t believe my parents let a little kid like me watch those shows.) I also shared a room with my older brother for a while, he was only 3 years older and we were both young enough that they thought a brother and sister in the same room was okay. My brother had a Charlie McCarthy doll, which is of course a ventroloquist dummy, that he would leave sitting on a tiny chair staring blankly in the direction of our beds. I woke up many times during the night to that thing staring at me with that stupid grin on it’s face. Sometimes I could have sworn I saw it move. shudder
Yup, it’s dummies hands down.
Also, that unfortunate incident when you tried to make a balloon out of a little doggie, and they made you hand in your clown card.
Dummies, definitely. Gonna have screaming nightmares for a few days, thanks to Eve…
Anybody see the clowns in that last update Lileks did? It was from a 70’s Icecapades show and the picture was full of completely identical clown hobos and they were all staring at the camera with their soulless eyes…shiver…
Who told you … er … think plausible deniability I have no idea what your’re talking about. LOOK! points A CLOWN-FACED VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY! runs in the opposite direction
Use me. Use me.
To me it’s a tie. Some dummies are scarier than others. Same with clowns. Both are pathetic.
I have to vote for ventriloquist dummies. I’ve seen clowns that don’t creep me out, but not so with dummies. I also can’t stand dolls.
Hmmm, a ventriloquist mime, that I’d like to see.