The Re-Deadening

The Re-Deadening is a very scary horror film which was shown at the Springfield Cineplex.

Homer was babysitting Rod and Todd Flanders, and he decided to take them and Bart and Lisa to the movies. However, when they arrived at the Cineplex, Homer was unable to decide what to see because every kid-friendly movie was sold out. They met up with Lenny Leonard at the ticket booth, and Lenny said he was going to see The Re-Deadening because he had a small speaking part in it. That clinched the decision for Homer, and he took the children to The Re-Deadening.

The movie was about a possessed killer doll called Baby Button Eyes, who was not only homicidal herself, but apparently also encouraged others to commit murder. In a scene early in the movie, a little girl was sitting in a rocking chair holding the doll and looking intently into her eyes. The girl then said, "What's that, Baby Button Eyes? You want me to kill Mummy?"

The remainder of the movie followed Baby Button Eyes going on a murderous rampage where she killed everyone she encountered. In Lenny's scene, he was working as a gardner when the doll jumped on him, killed him, ripped his eyes out, and replaced them with buttons sewn onto his face.

Homer took a very blasé view of the on-screen horror, setting his popcorn on Lisa's head (when she was hunched over to avoid looking at the screen) and nonchalantly making comments like "Well, what do you know? It's unkillable!" when it seemed that nothing could stop the doll. He also refused to leave the movie, in spite of the fact that all four kids (even Bart) were scared to the point where they were unwilling to even look at the screen, and Rod and Todd were hiding under their seats.

Bart and Lisa were so scared that they were still shaking uncontrollably when it was time for dinner. Homer, unknowingly adding insult to injury, had bought the movie's soundtrack album and then played it during dinner, traumatizing Bart and Lisa even further.

Behind the Scenes / Trivia

 * The Re-Deadening is most likely a parody of the Child's Play movie series, which is about the killer doll Chucky.
 * The music of The Re-Deadening is very reminiscent of the music from the horror film Rosemary's Baby.

Appearances
The Ziff Who Came to Dinner

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