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The Blinky Teaser Makes Me Feel Funny in My Belly Button

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (20)

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I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m convinced that my generation’s irrational fear of clowns stems back to Poltergeist, and the absolute terror of the clowns in that film, especially if you were young (when I revisited the movie a couple of years back, I realized how family-friendly it was, and then I jumped into a time machine, went back to 1984 and kicked my 9-year-old ass for being a whiny little pansy).

Anyway, I don’t know a lot about Blinky, from director Ruairi Robinson, except that it used to be called Bad Robot and that it stars Max Records of Where the Wild Things Are fame. I do know, however, that the robot in the teaser trailer gives me the same uneasy feeling I had seeing that clown in Poltergeist. It’s fucking creepy, people. It makes me feel funny in my belly button.

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Comments

Well they're going to kill the golden retriever, obviously, so I'll never see it.

Seriously? Golden retriever? Fuck you guys.

Posted by: twig at November 15, 2010 11:30 AM

Could have been a golden retriever in a wheelchair.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at November 15, 2010 11:41 AM

Yeah...twig is probably right. Also, this is terrifying.

Posted by: KatSings at November 15, 2010 11:42 AM

Wow, that was a seriously unnerving trailer. I really want to see this movie! Now let's just hope they can maintain the eerie feeling all the way through the film.

Posted by: Matthijs at November 15, 2010 12:00 PM

I'm sorry, but did you just refer to Poltergeist as "family friendly"?

Are we thinking about the same movie here - the one where some guy rips his face off in the mirror?


Posted by: Simon at November 15, 2010 12:02 PM

Oh no. I'm not afraid of clowns because of Poltergeist. That salt bath in the psychological wound was inflicted on me years after I had my traumatic clown experience. In fact, I had the joy of reliving it in May when I discovered that Disney World did not remove THE FACELESS CLOWN MASKS from their electric light parade. Dear Godtopus, they're harlequin clowns with indented--not painted--eye-covering masks on. They made me piss my pants when I was 4 and did it to me again at 24. That was not a happy way to end the day.

Posted by: Robert at November 15, 2010 12:12 PM

So ... a mobile version of GERTY?

Sold.

Posted by: , at November 15, 2010 12:40 PM

that was really creepy

Posted by: idleprimate at November 15, 2010 12:47 PM

WAAAAALLLLLLLLL-EEEE!

Aaah! Kill it with fire!

Unseemly robot in a darkened room and the rain for the win.

Posted by: DarthBrookes at November 15, 2010 2:10 PM

"I'm sorry, but did you just refer to Poltergeist as "family friendly"?

Are we thinking about the same movie here - the one where some guy rips his face off in the mirror?"

I was thinking the same thing. Parents smoke pot. People are in a pool with dead bodies. That movie still scares the shit out of me.

Posted by: Sharon at November 15, 2010 2:23 PM

OK, I scare easily, so as an exercise, I watched this without sound. I'm going to have to assume the eerie effect comes from the sound, because what I saw was adorable. And I choose to keep it that way. La la la la la...

Posted by: Patty O'Green at November 15, 2010 2:37 PM

I'm sure that JJA's legal team would've opened up a massive can of legal whoop ass if somebody had been stupid enough to try to release this as "Bad Robot". That said... looks kinda creepy, hope it lives up to the teaser.

Posted by: Torgotronic at November 15, 2010 3:14 PM

This robot looks like an Allie Brosh cartoon.

Posted by: Lindsay at November 15, 2010 3:51 PM

Patty O'Green: The audio consists of the kid repeating the following, over and over:

"All my friends have one. He's my new best friend."

Posted by: BWeaves at November 15, 2010 4:10 PM

I'll take an order of Fuck.
And as well, a side of Yes!

Posted by: PissBoy at November 15, 2010 4:36 PM

I just watched Poltergeist again around Halloween and the fucking clown is still scary. Family friendly my ass.

Posted by: Paultera at November 15, 2010 5:15 PM

a) Poltergeist will always be scary (only the first 2 though, that third one is dumb)

b) wasn't this movie already made and called Child's Play? Cause this surely looks a bit like a rip off of that to me.
Chucky? Also always scary. And so is this too-happy-faced robot.

Posted by: JenVegas at November 15, 2010 5:40 PM

1. Chucky was the doll in Child's Play and Child's Play 2.

2. There was a clown in Poltergeist?

3. I'm gonna watch the shit outta this!

Posted by: Rest In Peace at November 15, 2010 10:05 PM

So, it's AI if David got sick of humanity's bullshit and opened a can of binary torture on us fleshbags?

I AM ALL OVER THAT!!

Posted by: Shane at November 16, 2010 5:59 AM

I can definitely trace my fear of clowns back to Poltergeist. I too watched it recently and didn't find it quite as horrifying as I once did, but it was still freaky as hell.

Posted by: Melissa at November 16, 2010 10:17 AM