At the glorious age of nine, I had already served in Call of Duty, Freedom Fighters, Black, and Killzone, survived the haunted mansion of TimeSplitters, and suffered in silence through the game’s Siberia opening cutscene. But none of this prepared me for Doctor Who’s newest episode: ‘Blink’ (2007). This iconic episode featured the Weeping Angels as angelic statues that hunted you down every time you took your eyes off them. It was a glimpse into adult horror that I had never seen before and made blinking terrifying. For years later, I watched the gargoyle statue at the bottom of my road like a hawk, making sure it never moved.
At this tender age, I was also terrified by Goosebumps. The trash monster in Escape from Horrorland had my brother fall off his chair, and my sister and I strategically threw The Haunted Mask VHS behind the radiator, never to be seen again. But while these things may have scared me as a child, they are tame compared to Mob Entertainment’s Poppy Playtime.
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