YOU stupidly thought you could cope with 18 films at 12 years old. Here are the ones you sneakily watched that traumatised you for life:
IT
The modern remake was pretty creepy, but the original Pennywise was truly horrifying. ‘What could be scary about a clown?’ you thought as the credits started. A lot, it turns out. Within 20 minutes you were terrified of both clowns and public sewerage systems and the combination of the two.
Child’s Play
Everyone at school was whispering feverishly about their fear of Chucky, but you weren’t about to be scared of a stupid doll. So you convinced your babysitter to let you stay up and watch it, then spent the next three months unable to sleep alone in a room and got a new babysitter.
The Exorcist
Having borrowed the VHS off a friend’s brother, you thought you could go toe-to-toe with ‘the scariest movie ever made’. However, between the snarling possessed demon girl projectile vomiting onto a priest and her head spinning around like an infinite owl, you realised that you were a namby-pamby chicken, switched it off, and hid the video in the airing cupboard.
Alien
If you rewatch Alien now, you’ll find the special effects laughable. However, at the time the sight of the alien baby bursting through John Hurt’s stomach nearly made you piss yourself. For the next few months your nighttime routine involved checking the wardrobe for large-jawed, drooling space monsters and checking your face for face huggers.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
You’d seen Robocop and reckoned you could handle metal machines killing each other, no worries. However, you hadn’t realised that Terminator 2 featured a terrifyingly realistic nuclear explosion scene, complete with charred limbs exploding into ash in the shockwave. Quite frankly that was keeping it rather too real for a fun summer blockbuster with a Guns N Roses theme song.
