thank you!! it's reassuring to hear i'm not the only one witht his weird space in my head
Right?
I also just realized, you're about six years younger than I am. Yeah, at thirteen, I think that movie still scared the bejesus out of me. XD
Even into my twenties, that movie was gorgeously unsettling.
It's funny, at 30, it'd probably be scary for an entirely different set of reasons; the thought of a child being in that situation only grows more unsettling when you have budding paternal instincts.
Given the story is fundamentally about a (literal, zoological) predator preying on a lonely child by luring her in with promises of a better life and using that to try and get her to agree to doing something awful with her body (gouging her eyes out and sewing over them)...
Yikes.