19 retro pictures of Lancashire's scariest childhood characters from Freddy Krueger to Michael Myers and Pennywise
By Claire Lark
Published 25th Oct 2023, 14:40 BST
Updated 26th Oct 2023, 08:22 BST
We asked the people of Blackpool and Preston which movies and characters from their childhood were the scariest – the ones that gave them the nightmares.
In the realm of cinema and TV, some characters are etched in the childhood memory as terror-inducing figures. They are the stuff of nightmares, villains which haunted us as kids. You responded in your hundreds and alongside Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger, with his disfigured face and razor-sharp glove and Pennywise with his malevolent smile and ominous red balloons from IT, there were other forgotten characters which played on fragile minds too. Worzel Gummidge, the witch from Wizard of Oz and who can forget Watership Down? These might bring the bad dreams back…
For many youngsters Watership Down was traumatising. The haunting tale of red eyed rabbits fighting for survival drew peril at every turn. It was dark and carried a lot of emotional weight and that's probably why it was listed as one of the scariest movies from childhood Photo: submit