Positively terrifying clip from Aussie show Round the Twist begs question how we watched this as children-Mel Evans-Entertainment – Metro

One scene from Australian children’s series Round The Twist proves they really don’t make kid’s shows like they used to, eh.

And that’s perhaps not such a bad thing.

One particular moment from the show – based on the short stories of children’s author Paul Jennings, which focused on a family who lived in a haunted lighthouse (a brilliant idea for some family-friendly classics) – has emerged online this week and has got punters quaking once more.

It centres on the Twist children who stumble upon a chest of circus clothes that washes up on the shore.

And of course the clothes are haunted.

Discovering the clothes enables them to do all sorts of things, they decide to dress their scarecrow in the garbs, which leads to, naturally, a possessed scarecrow, with offensive mobility of its tongue.

Oh, a face that will not haunt your dreams at all (Picture: YouTube/Twisted Lunchbox – Australia’s Best Kids TV)

Poor Linda wasn’t the only one left traumatised (Picture: YouTube/Twisted Lunchbox – Australia’s Best Kids TV)

Round The Twist centred on the Twist children who stumble upon a chest of circus clothes that washes up on the shore (Picture: YouTube/Twisted Lunchbox – Australia’s Best Kids TV)

Cut to the scarecrow proceeding to stalk a teenage Linda, and finding the dexterity to pull itself off the spike on which it’s positioned in the garden, to chase Linda through the lighthouse.

It can break through windows, and doors – incredibly strong, seeing as it’s made of straw and tongue – and has the brainpower to fashion a piece of said door into a board on which to skate down the lighthouse’s steps like a demonic Tony Hawk to further terrorise a screaming Linda.

As an adult, this is the stuff of nightmares, so pray tell how the hell this ok’d to be shown to young children after school?

Seriously, how was this shown to kids?! (Picture: YouTube/Twisted Lunchbox – Australia’s Best Kids TV)

After emerging on the aptly-named Twitter account @horror4kids, the clip has been retweeted nearly 3,000 times and liked nearly 18,000 at the time of writing, with people reminiscing, retreating, wondering how on earth the Gen Y kids were able to sleep at night or all of the above.

‘One of my favorite shows as a kid. But can we appreciate that scarecrows flexible stunt work coming through that porthole, [sic]’ one Twitter-user commented under the clip, as another added: ‘I thought this was a new trailer for a new season of Channel Zero. Horrifying.’

Many said the show ‘scarred them for life’, while another chimed: ‘This show! Genuinely had nightmares as a kid watching around The Twist, but never missed it!’

Anyway, we imagine by now you’ve moved on from the horror of the tongue-flicking, cackling scarecrow and you just have the Round The Twist theme song in your head, so that’s our job done.

Have you ever, ever felt like this?

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