Mancini: This was shortly after A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was really important in the development of the slasher genre.
I don’t remember why he didn’t buy it, but he did end up doing movies called Dolls and Puppet Master.
Kirschner: At that point, I was a relatively new father and wasn’t sure anybody would buy a doll with blood in it.
It didn’t make sense to me, but there were a lot of cool things in there, some cool deaths.
Like a babysitter who tells him to go to bed, or a teacher who gives him a bad grade.
In my script, the doll wasn’t really seen until the third act, where he's spouting one-liners and killing the kid’s dentist.
John Lafia (Co-Writer): I believe David and I were at the same agency at the time and got introduced that way. »
