Ernest Scared Stupid

Ernest Scared Stupid is a 1991 American horror comedy fantasy film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the fifth film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell. It has him accidentally unleashing an army of trolls upon a small town on Halloween and the plot involves him joining a few children in fighting back. It was shot in Nashville, Tennessee like its predecessors Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, and Ernest Goes to Jail.

Trantor a demonic troll who transforms children into wooden dolls to feast upon their energy out on Briarville, Missouri in the late 19th Century. He is captured by a townsfolk and sealed under a giant oak tree. One of the village elders named Phineas Worrell, an ancestor of Ernest, establishes the seal under the condition that Trantor can only be released on the night before Halloween and by the hands of a Worrell and that every generation of Worrells would get dumber and dumber and dumber, culminating in Ernest P. Worrell.Two hundred years later, Ernest, a sanitation worker, helps a few of his middle school friends, Kenny Binder, Elizabeth and Joey, construct a tree house in the same tree that unknowingly contains the dormant creature, after the mayors sons demolished their own cardboard haunted house. When Old Lady Hackmore Eartha Kitt discovers this she leaves in shock and upset. When Ernest follows her, he learns the story of Trantor and reports it to the kids. Inadvertently he releases the troll, who terrifies Ernest, then later confronts Joey who falls into a pit during a rain storm. Lulling him into a false sense of security using Ernests voice, he takes Joey and turns him into a wooden doll. Ernest finds Sheriff Binder, who is Kennys dad, and explains the situation to him, but they dont believe him. After none of the townsfolk will aid Ernest, not believing his story, he mounts a oneman and onedog defense operation in preparation for Trantors appearance. Meanwhile, Trantor captures a boy on a skateboard for his second victim. ........

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