Sandman, The (1992)
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- Short film - Directed and animated by Paul Berry.
All copyright to Colin Batty, Paul Berry and Ian Mackinnon
Batty Berry Mackinnon - 1992
Music by Colin Towns
A chilling interpretation of an old European folktale. This Oscar-nominated short film was conceived, designed and produced by Colin Batty, Paul Berry and Ian Mackinnon. It has won awards at Festivals in Hiroshima, Annecy, Stuttgart, Ottawa and Espinho. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
My English teacher showed me this and now I can only sleep with a pistol under my pillow.
Tirell Primus And with the song,"Enter Sandman" play in your head.
jay cutler ha.
I'm keeping a bazooka under mine.
We need to form a sandman protection program.
Same
Let’s be real, this wasn’t in your recommended - you searched it up to relive your nightmares
Or to read the comment section and then off the audio so you don't have to relive the nightmares.
Yaaaasss!!!
Fair enough
Hell yeah I just traumatized my sister who claims she loves horror...looool
No
I first saw this when I was five. I didn't know what it was called or anything like that. The dude has haunted me for years while I developed into an amateur writer. One day I'm writing a short story that I got inspired to write when reading folklore on the sandman. My research led me to this animation, only to find that I am back where I started. Spooky.
He's always watching.
И как называется произведение? Можно ссылку на него или короткий рассказ, если ты не особо над ним работал
what a good dad, taking care of his kids :)
Shout out to single parents everywhere
Single dads don’t get enough credit
The baby birds sound more screeching cats, than they do birds!
Yes that there is the takeaway.
looks like a cross between a tim burton flick and the puffs tissue animation.
Dialed-in Gaming puff tissue???
Dialed-in Gaming Holy crap you’re right!
Paul Berry the director/animator of this film was an animator on the nightmare before Christmas. When you start to think about it it makes sense.
SOOTHING SHEA BUTTER, ALOE, AND VITAMINS E MY ASS. PUFFS ARE GONNA GET MY EYES SNATCHED BY SOME DUDE LIVIN ON THE MOON 🌚 XD you right though
Dialed-in Gaming get out of my head
scarier than anything hollywood has to offer
Yeah, Hollywood is too afraid to take chances. I can't really see any major film studio signing off on this unless they were willing to censor this man's brilliant vision.
Cayden Michael I'm sorry, but why wouldn't Hollywood do anything with this?
I think a stop motion horror would sell pretty well.
Fivlo Coraline is different than the type of horror I'm going for
Buxtonnes we were shown in on English class at about 9
And it doesn't require any dialogue!
The guy who animated this went on to work on “The Nightmare before Christmas.”
Paul Groendes that figures
don't forget Coraline
@@billiennn no he died long before Coraline
"everything is so creepy but this isn't so bad"
9:19 mins later:
*left feeling extremely uncomfortable, horrified, and disgusted, with extreme regret*
enobywei oh no I just started watching 🤣🤣 should a click away of it??
my online teacher is telling me to watch this and write down sentences, great.
Search for it to watch it on repeat over and over again on purpose it's one of the best ways to help me fall asleep on restless nights it's a good way to tuck myself in as an adult
I went to college with Paul Berry. He was making brilliant films like this even then. I was really shocked to learn he died so young. RIP Paul.
No one cares knowing someone doesn't make you special or interesting
@@bills7595 and being unnecessarily rude doesn’t make you cool or interesting.
@@bills7595 It's called sharing an experience and paying respect to a person who passed away, that happened to be creative and inspiring. So stfu you ignorant zombie and go back to twitter you can bitch about your lack of humanity and life there all you want, that is where you belong, bunch of lost newage mutants...
RIP
Oh my Gosh ! I've actually chatted with him on here!! How old was he when he died.. ?
The short is based on the story of German 19th century writer Ernst Theodor Hoffmann, who is famous for being the author of the "Nutcracker" fairy tale. This cartoon is based only on the frame legend in the original story about the evil night spirit Sandman, who steals children's eyes. The major bulk of the story deals with a young man, who has an obsessive idea, that his university teacher Coppelius is the living incarnation of Sandman. At the same time he becomes smitten with the beautiful daughter of inventor Spalanzani, without thinking that he slowly comes into the evil powers' trap.
In my drama class we actually did a play based on that story and some scenes were directly ripped off from this short (like the ending scene with all the eyeless children, which in our play was one of the first scenes).
is sandman a metaphor for masturbation?
Thank you Maksim! I love the Hoffmann shortstory and I discovered this by chance, here on youtube. I find it pretty scary, even for grown ups!
@@cristianosanseverino4899 I can't take that seriously 😂
Is this a play or book I could read?
This tape is an adaptation of the even scarier german novel called "Der Sandmann" written by E.T.A Hoffmann. It deals with the border and conflict between rational thinking and pure insanity. This piece is not from the time of expressionism but from the lyrical phase called dark romance or horror romance. The novel is mezmerizing through its mental terror.
This short is one of my really first memories of my life. In 1997 or 1998 i was playing with Legos in the living room, at the time my sister was 14 or 15 years old and i was 3 or 4, and she was watching MTV.
I was watching almost the entire short, i remember that my sister started screaming when the sandman throws the eyes to the little ones, and she was running to me to cover my eyes. I'm 26 now and i spent my entire life with the fear of the dark until 2 years ago. Cheers from Italy! (Sorry guys, my english is horrible)
Yes Jesus me too, it had me traumatized... it kept replaying over and over again in my head
Italian too!
I discovered this short when I was 9 in a DVD (my dad used to download movies and cadtoons and then put them on dvds) it was pretty traumatizing bc I was at home alone :')
@@Shinyrobin0245 lol question did he do it on accident thinking it was a nice kids fairytale animation or he knew and put it on their anyways ?
@@thelimon4338 i think it was an accident
The disk was called 100 years of animation movies or something like that.
There were a lot of ww2 propaganda shorts in there (I remember one w gnomes and Hitler)
How did you get over your fear of the dark, if you don't mind me asking?
Well, to call this disturbing would be somewhat of an understatement.
Matthew Cuellar I would say is creepy
I would say fun
I didn't watch this in english class...
Katelyn Ashton Your mental health has been spared until the day you watched this
Katelyn Ashton Same here!
Ikr why would they put it on in a SCHOOL.
Wtf I did
My teacher literally put it on in Year 7 (grade 6)
Karina Kolpaczek same here
He's a single father of 3 leave him alone
true
Even Freddy Krueger would be afraid of this guy
I would agree, although that's kind of debateable as Freddy has more ways to frighten somebody, and if you have seen Freddy vs Jason (spoiler warning for anyone who wants to watch the movie)...
Freddy would blind the elm street children (and Jason) by sticking his finger blades into the eyes. The Sandman is still creepy as all hell though.
WHY DID MY TEACHER SHOW ME THIS?
AFTER MY EYE OPERATION TOO!
Jazzamaestro I think they did it on purpose
Me too
Wow! I watched that in english class, yeah. Everyone usually laughs at some films we watch and meake them funny. But not this time. All my friends, the whole class and everyone was just surprised. They did not make fun of it. And this happened today. Then now, 10 mins ago, i found the movie, and i watched it. And i was scared. A bit though. Its actually a nice film.... 😨😨😨 when its not scary
***** Oh my gosh! x3
Liberty Price oh my I’m so sorry for that!
Sadly Paul Berry, who created this amazing, albeit dark and disturbing film, passed away in 2001 from a brain tumour. He worked on films like Nightmare before Christmas, the classic tv show the wind in the willows.
Poor guy, he obviously had an immense amount of talent.
It says more in 9 minutes, and is scarier in 9 minutes, than most Hollywood horror movies even attemp to be. Great little film. Had not heard of it until a few weeks back.
The source material was great
Oh you can definitely see the influence on Nightmare Before Christmas in this short!
🤔😲😮Oh that Wind in the Willows! 😱
Hey kids, wanna have PTSD?!
heck yeah! i want to spend the rest of my life waiting for the sandman to snatch my eyeballs from my lonely self!
Yes plz, I’m 13 and this is actually generally very scary for me
Hehe I'm currently 13 watching this so yeah lmao
Just rember children nothing to fear but fear it'self I'm bout to be 21 this year and still watching to sleep at night works better than a lulaby but y'all 13 watching y'all sum savages
Nostalgia Critic: (sees Sandman gouge out kid’s eyeballs, then fed to his horrible chicks) “You know, for kids! 😀”
I said give me a dream, not a nightmare.
underrated comment
I saw this on MTV when I was little and it literally gave me nightmares for years.
Jimmy Wade yoooo! Me too! MTV late at night, i was probably 7 or 8 when i saw it. Unexpectedly scary clip on MTV. I think i was watching Celebrity Deathmatch
I was 18 or 20 when I watched it on MTV too and it gave me nightmares... lol
Same, I was probably like 6 or 8. Thanks MTV. Very cool.
Almost forgot MTV used to have good shit
same here!!!
I love the german expressionism style. It's so dark and brooding and colorful.
It's simply gothic and European folklore. Germans were not even around when that was a thing.
Colin Batty, Paul Berry and Ian McKinnon. Strong German names
@@garethjones909 Take 2 seconds to look up German expressionism and see that the set and cinematogrophy in this is clearyl taking huge inspiration from the silent movies of 1920s German filmmaking.
@@jhamPlays visually but also musically!!
No doubt both the guys who made this were fans of such just like Tim Burton
I still remember the first time I saw as part of an animation collection in the theaters. It is still one of the most horrifying animations ever. I often wondered about the original Germanic folktale on which it was based. How do you tell a story like this to children to get them to sleep?! The poor things probably stayed up all night, wetting the beds.
Actually when you think about it, a lot of fairy tales and even lullabies are really macabre! Even "Rockabye Baby". How is crooning to a baby that the cradle is going to fall from a tree (?) with them in it supposed to be comforting :v
There are even theories that such nursery rhymes contain hidden political allegories etc. I think there's actually like an info graph on Wikipedia that breaks down historical/political events claimed to be associated with particular nursery rhymes.
They were probably used to groom kids rather than send them to sleep
It’s based off of the ETA Hoffman story Der Sandman
@@dallasgrey4247 I know. I have anthologies of his works in my personal library.
I cant' believe I found this!! This thing scared me out when I was 9 or 10, yet I could not stop watching it everytime it was broadcasted! Thanks for the upload!!
This was back in the days where MTV was still playing music and showing Visual Art. This is a masterpiece.
this had appeared for the firts time in LOCOMOTION !!
My english teacher showed me this, and how are so many other people with the same? (are we all in the same class? dun dun DUUNNNN)
+AshTheMinecraft Mine did :D
+AshTheMinecraft my teacher showed the class this too it was gross and apparantly it would be pg
I introduced this to my teacher
My teacher showed me this today the ending is fucked up 0-0
+Ethan2143 ikr
Привет кто с видео о коралине
Мдааааа, это очень странный мульт... пытаюсь понять смысл, не могу и почему то он напомнил о старом фильме снежная королева...
Я с видео о Каролине😂. Он сказал что этот мульт чем-то похож на Каролину в стране кошмаров.....
Я просто обожаю кукольные анимации + фильмы/мультфильмы с глубоким философским смыслом.
Я
Я
Awww man!! I messed up, by showing this to my kids, now we all gonna have nightmares! 😱
Wow, Count Olaf... the depths you've sank...
Erm, No...? I think you're mistaken.... This does NOT look like Count Olaf at all. I'm sorry :3
Terestrasz Hello Hello Hello
This made my day.
And to Rhys up there,if you look at the illustrations in the books,it so does.
I regret to Inform you, however, I've read The Serious of Unfortunate Events back to back...
Rhys Tobin I thought so.(Me too.)I meant the illustrations.Brett Helquist's,I think.Maybe your copies have a different artist.
My teacher played this at school and a kid started crying 😂😂
LOL
Swag Yolo don't blame them
He better be careful, the sandman is attracted to really moist eyeballs.
Crazy German how is that funny
@@mintysingsongpeacock9713 That's not grounds for being fired...
This is a horror masterpiece
6:42
6:42
когда идёшь к холодильнику ночью, стараясь не разбудить родителей
when you go to the refrigerator at night, trying not to wake the parents
sorry, Google translator
А я думала я одна тут русская😅
Русские!))
Hahahahaha I love that translation its perfect
The kid looks like one of those kids in the tissue commercials.
Your oddly very right
I fucking saw this on telvision in the late 90's or early 2000's as a small child in bed one waking morning, I caught just the end of it and freaked the hell out. I didn't even think I was watching a regular channel, it felt like i'd been tuned into Satan's den.
Same
You sure you didn’t see it in English class?
Same. And I live in germany. This is so crazy
Same thing. I remember I was just I child and I'm sure I saw it on MTV. I live in Mexico, so that discards the English class...
@@Anarkikus it would make sense. My brothers would go to sleep watching music videos. I woke up or something and saw the end of it too. Haunted me since. Glad i finally found it. Thats Wikipedia
"Mum I wanna watch the sandman on netflix"
"Nah mate we have sandman at home"
Sandman at home:
I'm so glad I've found this again. I saw it once years ago and it just occurred to me to try to find it here. It is superb! Stop motion animation has always, to me, seemed quite creepy. Even Camberwick Green gave me the creeps now and again e.g. when the character froze to go back inside the music box. Then there were those Public Information Films of the 70s in the UK about road safety (with Tufty Fluffytail the squirrel) and the ones warning about 'stranger danger' with Charlie the cat. So to see the medium used to deliberately make a frightening story is wonderful. There's even a genuine similarity here to the experience of a nightmare. A mini-masterpiece.
Literally dont even know why this was shown in English classes for 😂😂
rduggz
Fairy tales are part of literature and this is an animated fairy tale from 1992 so our English teachers must have wanted to show us what old fairytales where like
Probably for basic plot structure. It has a clear beginning, middle and end, rising action, climax, falling action, etc
Cuz gothic
@@mcwyman7928 exactly
to teach the crucial lesson "don't annoy the entire neighborhood with that stupidly loud drum toy you're playing at the most inappropriate times", I guess
but my neighbor's children are always loud af, especially after 22:00, so I may be biased here... 😇
From what I'm aware, the children's story featured a kind and well dressed sandman; who gave children their dreams and used sand only to keep their eyes closed whilst he did so. It was a man called Ernst Hoffman who wrote the inverse story that inspired this short animation.
Я одна русская? Кто из 2k19?)
Не одна.
Не однп
Не одна
Я
Я
Am I the only one whom the English teacher didn't show this? I found this on my own
Same
Almost 20 years old and it still holds up. ^^ Brilliant set construction, character designs, lighting...utterly beautiful and creepy in all the best ways. This, with Vincent, is one of my favourite stop-motion pieces of all time.
DEAR LORD!! It's been YEARS since i last saw this, and it still has that sinister magic about it! For me, the most frightening bit is the end when the little child stumbles out and finds all the other blind children! Thank you so much for putting this on CZcams!!
Nostalgia. Hace tiempo, mi profesor de Literatura nos enseñó esto. Años buscándola y por fin la hallé 🤧
28 years later and this film is still creepy.
thanks for the post
I remember these stop start surrealist animations. late night Channel 4 stuff! Some really twisted shit... so much so you can't find half of what they broadcast back then!
My English teacher showed us this and we had to write as many simple sentences about it, why miss? Why?
I would have wrote two sentences. "Fuck that shit." and "I'm never sleeping again."
@@jeremyc9593 why if u open ur eyes that's how he gets u he can only take your eyes if ur a naughty boy or girl who's up past bedtime hehehehehe so be good an go to bed on time after mommy takes u in
Песочный человек и правда криповый я аж от него чуть не навалила кирпичей
Хххххаакеекке
А я чуть не... Ну вы поняли) 😂
The scariest part is the implication that someone slept with the sandman, cause he can't make babies on his own-
Lol
Hear me out-
I remember channel flipping as a kid and stumbling across this.... absolutely terrified me for years
How it's funny in till the end
Do you wanna build a sandman?
what does that have to do with any of this
@@spaceace9103 it's part of frozen
Go away bronwen
HAHA no
Hell naw dude
English class scarred me for life with this one
the animation style looks like if Tim Burton did the puffs tissue commercials with help from Neil Gaiman
I can't believe I finally found this. It traumatized me when I saw it on MTV when I was really young lol. But now I love macabre shit and I've been looking for this forever
I have been looking for it forever!! It fucked me up when I saw it on Vh1 insomniac when I was in elementary school and I have been lookin for it ever since lol!
Absolutely love this. Saw the original puppet at the Mackinnon & Saunders studio. Possibly one of the greatest stop motion shorts, if not THE greatest.
You need therapy, don't you?
A Lamont Look up one called Tom Thumb as well. Not too sure if it's the same people who made it but it's just as dark and fucked up.
Robert John Bell I think I know which film you are talking about, "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb"? It does look pretty weird lol.
A Lamont That's the one. It was like a Tool video.
i miss these kinds of animations/films growing up as a kid in the 90s. seems like kids now wouldn't be allowed or would have to be protected from such macabre atmosphere and moods!
Amazing job!!!!
Vintage stopmotion movies and shorts always have that creepyness that I enjoy.
Dear god, I am 20 years old and I am still terrified of watching this. This Sandman haunted my dreams and nightmares for so long and the imagery is so nightmarish that I still have chills with the ending.
Saying that, this is a fantastic stop-motion short filled with tones of suspense and atmosphere that leaves you scared still with a music score that is particularly haunting to boot. Quite underrated and needs to be seen more in my option
I've seen this on MTV when i was 5 or 6 years old 😱😱😱
I seen this around the same age on Halloween, I had just watched Texas chainsaw massacre and didn't flinch, but this short film right here ruined my night
i remember this being different
I saw this on MTV too, on "Cartoon Sushi" Halloween special. I was in high school then.
TomCroce same here!
Me too. OMG! You are the first person I've known to had watched this during the same time as I had and on the same channel and program. Let me guess it was Saturday or Sunday night?
The animation is gorgeous! Chilling and whimsical. I gotta say I love this short
I remember randomly seeing just the eyeball scene one day while the TV was on MTV or something and this gave me nightmares for YEARS! Thanks for posting it so I can get some closure.
man is that for kids?
i am 33 i dont dare to see it
Why
Oh man, I wish there were animations on Neil Gaiman's Sandman
I thought this was an animation on neil gaiman's sandman and now im fucking terrified
Well that I guess you could say that was a sight for sore eyes.
I love this kind of horror. Stop motion with a Burtonesque style. The soundtrack. There are no jumps cares. ITS just perfect!
It looks like something Tim Burton would make
Same style. It's a movement called German Expressionism, which existed in film and theatre of early 1920's/1930's Germany, and was also a great influence on Bertholt Brecht. If you want a great example of G.E. in action, then watch The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a psychological horror film from 1928.
It also resembles some of his sketches, especially that child. It’s like someone abducted a Tim Burton extra and placed them in a special circle of Expressionistic hell.
Paul Berry was one of the animators in Nightmare Before Christmas. Actually, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari came out in 1919. I think Paul Berry's style is akin ti Henry Selick's other than Burton's, although there are similarities with "Vincent" (1982) the earlier "Hansel and Gretel" and the more recent "Frankenweenie remake". Burton, Selick, and possibly Berry, had the same teacher at the animation academy.
Nice pfp, Vexen from Kingdom Hearts. Now imagine a game like KH with this style.
@@xXLunatikxXlul Holy shit
I was curious to see if there was anything after the credits... That bit is probably the worst...
Ikr
Yeah... *Somebody’s* been a busy little bastard.
NO I looked after the credits cuz ya know curiosity and that like actually caught me off guard wtf is this next level of disturbance
fuck you dude why did you tell me about it now i cant even sleep i was still good after i saw ending but credits scene killed me :D
why
Oh my God I saw this on MTV when I was little and it creeped me out so much, I just found it again after years of searching and I am literally scared of watching it now!
7:57 Narutos outta the window.
That made me wheeze way too much.
I remember watching this in English class when I was 13. I was not a fan.
Zanderfist same
smae.. had to watch it on Friday i was bloody scared NHHS
Some.guy in my class said - 'thats not a forehead thats a fivehead" 😂😂😂😂
Zanderfist I was 10 when I watched this in class lol
scarred for life
Same
Isn't it highly doubtful that Disney Parks would ever want to make a meet-able out of this guy?
I remember having to watch this in an art lesson at school, I was traumatised for years after 😫😱
Я одна ничего в комментариях не понимаю, потому что тут все на АНГЛИЙСКОМ 🤪
Нет
Ага
Точнее не одна
Нас много
Ага
We had to watch this in my English class... Creepy shit
Same! Teachers are evil! We have to write about it. One of my friends ran out of the room crying
Liberty Price Unlucky it's scary as fuck. We had to write notes about it. I had nightmares about it xD
Xi Python Me too! My cat creaked the steps and as soon as I came out of the door he bombed passed me! SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH...
Liberty Price Haha I have a cat too. What's your cat's name?
Xi Python Midnight Ebony Price lol
Whats yours called?
:)
Imagine this Sandman in "Rise of the Guardians"
Come to think of it...he kind of looks like the villain from that doesn't he? But much more creative design-wise.
*****
And so Rise of the Guardians ended with the kids losing their eyes to Sandmans creepy children.
The End
Holy shit! Yes, he does like Pitch from the Guardians series!
Idk why but I love the song that plays when the Sandman is walking lol
Saw when I was 6 by mistake on TV. I let you imagine the terror i felt and the Nightmares i had
They showed this during BBC Four's animation season in 2005. I remember watching the Animation Nation programme where there was a section about it and they showed the actual thing after it.
we had to watch this at school, and i was bloody shitting myself😂😂
Greenrose 007 same
Greenrose 007 I saw it too
same the totteridge academy
Greenrose 007 same we had to watch it in English 😂😂
+Glenn Peal yeah we watched it in English because we're doing gothic fiction in year 8
No dormí por tres días después de ver esto cuando tenía 10 años. Hoy lo veo con 36 años y siento lo mismo que a los 10. 🥺🥺🥺
I thought this was just a nightmare I had as a kid. I always knew it'd find me again (in CZcams recommend no less)
This traumatized me when I was a kid. It still gives me shivers!!!! It's horrible, but amazing, I love this animation!
I watched this film with my dad when i was like 9 and it scared the shit out of me. I've been thinking about it since then trying to get the name of the film and i just did thanks to youtube.
I wish I was in that English class, sounds dope AF
watched this in English class and it gave me nightmares 😅
Yeesh. These filmmakers read their ETA Hoffmann, all right... and somehow decided that bringing that nightmare to life would be a good idea. Terrible thought process aside, it is certainly a vivid and accurate depiction. *shudders*
Though the same.
@@nd8444 not exactly the *same* as the story; however, this adaptation is marvelously grim, surreal, and the expressionism is, absolute.
I'm 26 and this terrified me...
Nicola I'm 23 can we date?
If I had a kid I wouldn't let them watch it, terrifying
Alex Casanova, she's likely 30 right now since her reply was made four years ago.
yeah and he's 27
@@alexcasanova5668 Ironic name
This is so cool, I come back to watch it every now and then
The first time I saw this was a cold October night as a kid. I remember it well. After the ending credits...I noticed how eeriely empty and the big waiting room was. Wtf was I doing alone at a hospital at that moment?🤔 this shit haunted me for awhile. Great to find tysm
3:54 - "I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright!"
omg !!!!!! my english teacher showed me this today and im scared to go to sleep now
My english teacher did tooo
its horrid
English teacher showed me this as well also good animation :)
how do you think i felt
As bad as us Kacper Puchalski
Anyone have any theories as to what this thing is/represents?
Is it an alien? A demon? A metaphor for a serial killer or toxic presence in the child’s life?
Just wanna know what people make of this masterpiece tbh 👍
its me nan
Single dad looking after his kids
@@RoHuMemes the good ending 😊
RIP PAUL BERRY
A master of animation gone too soon
I guess you could say that was...
(puts on sunglasses)
... terrif-EYE-ing! YEEEAAAH!
Bruh
your youtube account is older than me
Ridiculously awesome animation. Paul Berry was incredible.
Man, I'm really loving that Sandman design. Creepy and intimidating in appearance, yet graceful and majestic in his movements.
I remember seeing this on tv as a kid! I've been looking everywhere for this, but I didn't know what the name was! For a while I thought it was just a fever-dream, but those tissue commercials kept sparking a memory of this!
The original creepypasta
No.
Yes.
Sandman? I think they should have just called him the Birdman
hes called the sandman because he put sand into the boys eyes and then took his eyes :)
Honestly? Him throwing birds that peck your eyes out would be scarier than throwing sand
This was on British tv back in the very early 90s at about 19.30 I watched it when I was like eight years old and had nighmares for years 😭😭😭
This is why I sleep in an armchair with a 12 gauge