Ernest Scared Stupid was released in 1991 and is the fourth full-length feature film starring Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell. It was directed by long-time Ernest collaborator John R. Cherry III. Due to its modest gross of $14,143,280 at the U.S. box office, Ernest Scared Stupid was the final Ernest film to be released under the Disney label Touchstone Pictures. All future Ernest films would be independently produced, and following the financial failure of the theatrical release Ernest Rides Again, all Ernest films would shift to a straight-to-video market.

Plot

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Trantor- a troll who turns children into wooden dolls to feast upon their energy- is captured by the 19th century townsfolk of Briarville and sealed under a giant oak tree. One of the village elders, an ancestor of Ernest, establishes the seal under the condition that Trantor can only be released on the night of Halloween and by the hands of a Worrell. Fast-forwarding to the 20th Century, Ernest and a few of his middle school friends build a treehouse on the exact branches that grow above the dormant creature. And it is the night of Halloween.

External links

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• http://imdb.com/title/tt0101821/