Finding the Evil Carousel

February 24, 2006 6:06 AM

Help me identify a scary movie from my childhood.

I'm pretty sure it's from the early to mid 80s. There's a carousel/merry-go-round that spins backwards and all sorts of bad stuff starts happening. There may have been a ghost train (spectral, not the ride). The one scene that really sticks in my mind involves a kid looking up at the ceiling of the room he's in (he may be in bed looking up) and it's covered in bugs (cockroaches, centipedes, milipedies - all creepy crawly type bugs).

posted by d-no to media & arts (4 comments total)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), perhaps?
posted by Chrischris at 6:10 AM on February 24, 2006

"Help me identify a scary movie from my childhood." -- I immediately thought of 'Something Wicked This way comes' before even reading your full text. It was scary!
posted by maxpower at 7:59 AM on February 24, 2006

Someting Wicked. It's tarantulas, and they're all over his bedroom.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:14 AM on February 24, 2006

That's probably the ONLY scary movie from my childhood - most of them don't scare me much. That one just "clicked" somehow and I get the chills just remembering it.
posted by mmoncur at 11:56 PM on February 24, 2006