Imagine this: you’re 6 years old, visiting your great-aunt’s home for the first time. Everything is going smoothly, milk and cookies, a friendly little dog. But the you see it: at the end of a dark hallway, there’s a creepy painting of a sad clown. It haunts me to this day.
After that traumatic experience, I discovered that she wasn’t the only person who had such a peculiar taste in art. And what about Stephen King's 'IT'? I think the book and the miniseries were responsible for giving an entire generation coulrophobia.
But there's more. TikTok user nostalgictnr sparked a viral conversation after asking what people saw at someone else's house that made them never want to go back. The post got more than 330k likes and 7k comments, so perhaps Hollywood will adapt some of these stories too.