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Horror movie/tv episode?
I saw this horror film/tv show once where this woman is at the kitchen table and serves a boy a bowl of soup or something like that. I think the boy was presumed dead, possibly in a drowning accident (which you see in flashback form...underwater photography and everything). Anyway, for some reason, the boy flips out, knocking the bowl off of the table and enough for the woman (his mum I think) to run and hide in the basement of the house. So she's hiding in the basement and she can here the boy calling to her. Then the boy says something like "Bobby didn't want you anymore, mommy...so he sent ME instead". Then this weird thing descends the stairs like a demented sharp toothed clown or fuzzy monster. That's all I saw cos it freaked me out! This was shown on TV between 1981 and 1985. I never knew what it was called. I've tried to track it but there are so many films with horrific climaxes in basements.
Anyone know this movie/program?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.That sounds like Stephen King's 'It'...with Pennywise the clown! Go onto www.imdb.com and type it in...see if it rings any bells?
Jollops ~ I keep thinking it may be a Tales from The Crypt/Twilight Zone/Outer Limits type thing? to be honest I only remember seeing that final scene, not the rest of the movie..maybe cos it was so horrific!
Every time I have mentioned this movie to people I have been met with blank looks, so it is good to know I didn't imagine it all.
I often wonder if it would have the same effect on me now I am older & slightly jaded? inn the meantime I shall carry on searching.
Oh my god...I FOUND IT! It's from the movie Dead Of Night (1977).
It's the segment entitled "Bobby" by Richard Matheson.
Co-incidentally, it was remade in 1996 for a segment of Trilogy of Terror 2.
But it was definately the former that I saw. Check out the video cover. I think that's the demon Bobby that comes down the stairs. Okay, it's not a clown but I was hiding behind my fingers and saw it very briefly. I'll have to check out the new version too.
I read a couple of reviews and apparently, this movie is still shat yer pants scary! It's available from moviesunlimited.com for about $20.00.
I've gotta see it. Like you, nobody I ever mentioned that scene to ever knew what I was on about. I even asked "experts" on proper horror sites.
I don't know, that demon Bobby face is still pretty scary...especially when you're not expecting to see something that shocking to come down the stairs. Creepy makeup...especially for a 70's film. The kid looks like some kind of Mr. Barlow wannabe! I think when I watch it I will be bracing myself for that moment...AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH!!
Oh yeah ~ definately gotta see it again! & yes, Bobby & Mr Barlow in the same room..blimey, that'll scare your pants off make no mistake. The video cover didn't scare me as much as I thought it was going to, but as I said before in the movie he comes out of darkness (slowly as I recall) & it's something you aren't expecting ~ rather like Salems Lot!
Don't think I am gonna sleep tonight.