FRIGHTFUL FUN: TELETUBBY HORROR STORY

I'd argue that there are few tv opening credits sequences as legitimately creepy as the frankly FUCKED UP opening to Fox's American Horror Story: Freak Show.

Don't believe me? Well look below...

BRRRRRR!

I thought very little could match that when it came to nightmare fuel.

I was wrong.

Enter CBBC's Teletubbies — brightly coloured and nonsensical bastions of children's entertainment. Except, when they cease being brightly coloured and are instead shown in black and white, they cease to be so family friendly and instead become genuinely horrifying.

Add in dark musical genius Charlie Clouser's (he of Nine Inch Nails fame) and you get the sort of experience that feels like it's sucking your soul out of you as you watch it.

So credit to Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for putting this blood-curdling video together. 

God knows what they could manage with In The Night Garden and the theme to Cannibal Holocaust...

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FRIGHTFUL FUN: DR SEUSS’ THE BABADOOK

So, I was a pretty damn impressed by The Babadook. Don't believe me? The review is right here.

I also loved the infamous Scary Poppins fake trailer by Mike Rule from a few years ago in which the classic Disney family movie was reimagined as a chilling horror flick.
See that right here if you haven’t already!

There's something wonderfully dark about subverting those classics from our childhood and combining them with the genre we love, as evidenced in my previous features on The Thing crossing paths with Pingu and Frozen.
No imagine my joy when the horror source material so wilfully likens itself to that most childish of things — the works of Dr Seuss.
You know where I’m going with this.

Check out this kick ass mash-up by the very talented Horror Report right here.

I’ll say this again.

KICK.
ASS!!!!!

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Until next time, I hope you enjoyed your stay.