fright puppet
n.— «To drive almost anywhere here this week is to run a gantlet of advertising for movies about killing.…A fright puppet from Universal’s “Dead Silence” peers menacingly from a construction-site wall by a children’s center in Santa Monica.» —“Government to Take a Hard Look at Horror” by Michael Cieply in Los Angeles New York Times Mar. 24, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)