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Rozen Maiden, anime about supernatural doll come to life with Rosa Mysticas. Ventriloquist dummies and dolls are also portrayed as evil in the works of R.L. Stine: 1994: The Goosebumps books and TV series had the "Night of the Living Dummy" stories which featured a sentient ventriloquist dummy named Slappy.
Sakon, the Ventriloquist (Japanese: 人形 （ からくり ） 草紙あやつり左近, Hepburn: Karakurizōshi Ayatsuri Sakon, lit. "Doll Puppeteer Sakon") [ 3 ] is a Japanese manga series written by Masaru Miyazaki [ ja ] (under the alias Sharakumaro) and illustrated by Takeshi Obata .
Literary examples of frightening ventriloquist dummies include Gerald Kersh's The Horrible Dummy and the story "The Glass Eye" by John Keir Cross. In music, NRBQ's video for their song "Dummy" (2004) features four ventriloquist dummies modelled after the band members who 'lip-sync' the song while wandering around a dark, abandoned house.
Pioneering ventriloquist-comedian Willie Tyler and his dummy Lester have appeared in numerous shows since the 1960s. Adam Sandler's new Netflix comedy special makes it hard to tell what's real and ...
A comic whose distinctive shtick continues to resonate with big crowds is coming back to Columbia. Jeff Dunham — whose act centers on an array of not-so culturally sensitive ventriloquist dummy ...
Billy is a male ventriloquist's dummy, as its jaw is movable to give the suggestion that it is talking; however, it is not used in the same manner, as the entire doll is frequently seen moving on its own. Its face is white, with a protruding brow and cheeks that have red spirals painted on them.
I'm No Dummy is a 2009 documentary film about ventriloquism directed by Bryan W. Simon and produced by Marjorie Engesser through Montivagus Productions. It premiered at the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival [1] before being released to the United States by Salient Media and NBCUniversal in 2010.
The Ventriloquist's Dummy is a puppet shaped like a small human which is operated by a ventriloquist performer to focus the audience's attention away from the performer's activities and heighten the illusion that the dummy is speaking. They are called dummies because they do not speak on their own.