In their ranking of “10 of the Most Iconic Horror Movie Scenes of All Time,” Collider ranks "Robbie's Clown Doll" scene the third scariest scene. On their scale of scary, the scene beats out some creepy competition, including "Drew Barrymore's Demise" in Scream (1996), Jack Nicholson's infamous "Here's Johnny!" scene in The Shining (1980), and the Chucky "No Batteries" scene in Child's Play (1980), among others.
Because young Robbie has already been completely terrorized in his family's haunted house where they just saved his little sister from television ghosts (and, you know, decided to stay just one more night), Robbie isn't sleeping so well, especially with that extraordinarily creepy clown doll staring maniacally at him. He tries to throw his jacket over the clown, but it falls. Brave kid that he is, though, he tries to roll over and get some sleep.
[Cue the smelling salts, all viewers are now officially cooked for much longer than a lifetime.]
The scene works for a number of reason—the first being that clown and his freaky face! But also the filmmakers build toward the pivotal scene the entire movie, pausing several times around Robbie's typical childhood fears. In fact, by tapping into so many very relatable childhood fears (the dark, clowns, monsters under the bed, things that go bump in the night), the scene really nails it. The filmmakers use their suspense skills and all of our childhood fears against us. Viewers are the victims for sure.
Culturally speaking, this scene sealed the deal for all clown-fearing folks. Ask any Gen X adult who lived through watching this movie in theaters, and they're probably not planning to revisit the scene anytime soon—unless it's to pass on the trauma by scaring the next generation (why are we like this?). The scene is so universally awful that it'll still scare the pants of new viewers (hopefully at a more appropriate age than all the young teens who watched in the '80s).
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