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Actor Who Played Demon Bobby?


Anyone know who this was?

I got the feeling it was a (pardon my unPC lingo) midget actor.

Just looking at the stumpyness of the hands and shape of the head, I don't think it's Lee Mongomery.

Here's a link to a picture of Demon Bobby in all his ghastly glory.

Click it (or cut and paste) if you dare...Mwah hah hah!! (etc)

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i275/jollops/bobby1.jpg

He's coming to get you...

Just imagine THAT coming at you down the stairs...yikes!

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

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looks like a midget

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BOBBY was such an effectively terrifying horror short story that it appeared three times.

1) 1972 television series, "Ghost Story", later re-titled to, "Circle of Fear".

2) Dead of Night (1977)

3) Trilogy of Terror II (1996)


The BOBBY short story is effectively scary in all three because the directors all stayed true to the original storyline.
The story evinces some elements of, "The Monkey's Paw", in that, don't wish for something that you have no business wishing for...you will receive it and regret it in a terrifying way.

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Somehow, that pic didn't scare me as much as it did when I first saw that film in 1977. It doesn't look anything like Lee Montgomery. It looks like an adult dwarf with a lot of makeup or a mask.

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I personally think it's a lot better than the makeup they did in Trilogy of Terror II when they made a remake of this story. To me, the demon who took the form of Bobby's body in that movie looks just like an actor in a gargoyle Halloween mask. Here's the only picture I could find of it:

http://www.trilogyofterror.com/files/BobbyMonsterBlue.jpg

The picture is kind of small so you can't see it very well, but if you watched that movie I'm sure you would agree with me.

I've been waiting for you, Ben.

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It look like Peter Dinklage but he woulda only been 9 years old in 1977 lol

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