
Irish nu gen star Bambie Thug made headlines around the world when their delightfully devilish performance at this year's Eurovision Song Contest sparked outrage and fear amongst the more conservative talking heads from within their homeland and beyond. The genre-splicing singer-songwriter is one of the alternative scene's most unique creatives, their dark and subversive aesthetic and thrillingly weird videos adding to a mystique that keeps on building.
It should be of surprise to no one, then, that Bambie Thug is a huge horror fan, with the genre leaving an indelible impact on them growing up and becoming hugely influential to their work. At last month's Download festival, we snuck a quick chat with Bambie and asked them to name the five horror films that have stuck with them the most. Here's what they had to say.