Things to do in a small town cinema when you're bored...Having heard that Aracnaphobia was scheduled to play in our local cinema, it was with a sense of scarcely contained glee that my brother and I set about collecting the biggest, hairiest spiders that we could find. The trick is to find a row of teenage girls and sit behind them, releasing the spiders as the plot begins to thicken. It only takes one girl to find an arachnid crawling up the back of her neck to set off a chain-reaction of hysterical fits in her friends. Lovely...
Even better was Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - we had acquired a very authentic Freddie Kreuger mask (one of the rubber ones that go over your entire head), a fedora hat, stripey jumper and fingerless gloves with butter knives sellotaped on. During a particularly suspenseful scene, my brother jumped out, dressed as Freddy, and said 'Hi girls' in his best Freddy voice. Most of them immediately started screaming but there was also lots of crying and whimpering. They got such a BAD fright that I almost felt sorry for them... Nah! Not really, come to think of it - I was too busy trying to prevent my chest cavity from cracking due to uncontrolable laughing fits.
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Even better was Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - we had acquired a very authentic Freddie Kreuger mask (one of the rubber ones that go over your entire head), a fedora hat, stripey jumper and fingerless gloves with butter knives sellotaped on. During a particularly suspenseful scene, my brother jumped out, dressed as Freddy, and said 'Hi girls' in his best Freddy voice. Most of them immediately started screaming but there was also lots of crying and whimpering. They got such a BAD fright that I almost felt sorry for them... Nah! Not really, come to think of it - I was too busy trying to prevent my chest cavity from cracking due to uncontrolable laughing fits.