Scared of Santa???

[Lazybird000]

He wears a funny hat, high black boots, an incognito beard, thwarts your home security system by coming down they chimney in the middle of the night with a large sack, and then makes his getaway in a flying sleigh pulled by caribou. Yeah, I'd be scared too if someone suddely thrust me into the arms of this guy. No wonder these kids are so

Scared of Santa

 

[primestar31]

He wears a funny hat, high black boots, an incognito beard, thwarts your home security system by coming down they chimney in the middle of the night with a large sack, and then makes his getaway in a flying sleigh pulled by caribou. Yeah, I'd be scared too if someone suddely thrust me into the arms of this guy. No wonder these kids are so

Scared of Santa

CLOWNS are far scarier than Santa! They really creep me out!

 

[jayn_j]

CLOWNS are far scarier than Santa! They really creep me out!

There is a whole generation that saw Stephen King's It as kids that now are terrified of clowns. My oldest is included. She was about 5 when it hit TV and we watched about 45 minutes of it with her in the room. She has never been the same. Face it, clowns are not nice.

 

[navychop]

Yeah, kinda strange that some percent (& not a particularly small one) of the population doesn't like clowns. Even before "It." I'm sure someone has written a thesis on it.

 

[primestar31]

Yeah, kinda strange that some percent (& not a particularly small one) of the population doesn't like clowns. Even before "It." I'm sure someone has written a thesis on it.

These didn't help "clown love" much either:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r42na3sNB30]YouTube - Poltergeist Scene - The Clown Attack[/ame]


or:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6RU8xXynY"]YouTube - Killer Clowns From Outer Space[/ame]


or:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olal23PecUc&feature=related"]YouTube - Clowns Are Scary As Hell[/ame]

 

[firebirds]

Those two girls on thatSanta's lap looks so...

 

[yaz96]

There is a whole generation that saw Stephen King's It as kids that now are terrified of clowns. My oldest is included. She was about 5 when it hit TV and we watched about 45 minutes of it with her in the room. She has never been the same. Face it, clowns are not nice.

Why would you let a 5 year old watch "IT"???

 

[primestar31]

Why would you let a 5 year old watch "IT"???

I kind of wondered that myself. Tim Curry is TERRIFYING as Pennywise the clown! Just for that reason alone, Tv movie or not, it's not one to show someone under the age of at least 10, and maybe not even then!

"Once you're down here, YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!!!!"


That still scares me, and I just turned 50!

Of course, I also read the book, but I get the psychological nuances Tim Curry used to put over that sentence. That's more terrifying than anything else.

I also think the original "The haunting" of 1963 [ame="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/"]The Haunting (1963/I)@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4NDk5ODA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTg3MDAwMQ@@._V1._SX95_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTM4NDk5ODA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTg3MDAwMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX95@@AMEPARAM@@SY140[/ame] is just about the scariest movie ever made, and you NEVER see a ghost at all! But they build and build, and used character reactions, and WOW. You don't always need to "show the monster" to be scary.

 

[jayn_j]

Why would you let a 5 year old watch "IT"???

It was a first showing and a network program. Hadn't read the book, and the promos were not that terrifying. How would we know BEFORE it had ever been broadcast? This was back in the '80s and this show really raised the bar on suspense and terror on network TV.

Criticism here is kind of a hindsight thing. Like I said, we turned it off when it became obvious that this was too intense, but the damage had been done. Also, I looked it up on IMDB, and it came out in 1990, which meant that Vicky would have been 8, not 5. Still too much for her.

As for Tim Curry, up to that point he had mostly been a supporting actor, with some admittedly darker characters. Rocky Horror was his biggest role to that point, and the two biggest things leading up to this role were The Little Mermaid and The Hunt for Red October. He still spends most of his time doing animated voiceovers.

Tim Curry (I)

 

[Sammy033]

Cant forget this clown. One of my favs.

"Bloody vengeance!!!!"

 

[navychop]

Yeah, get the movie on DVD. But which is scarier- him or his wife! :yikes

Watch out for rifts, you wouldn't want to trip over one.

 

[tomcrown1]

Yea how about those clowns on Batman II

They kidnapped childern--Thou the Cat Woman can beat me up anytime