Irish star Bambie Thug made headlines around the world when their Song Contest sparked outrage and fear amongst the more conservative talking heads from within their homeland and beyond. The genre-splicing singer-songwriter is one of the alternative scene's most unique creatives, their dark and subversive aesthetic and thrillingly weird videos adding to a mystique that keeps on building. It should be of surprise to no one, then, that Bambie Thug is a huge fan, with the genre leaving an indelible impact on them growing up and becoming hugely influential to their work.
At , we snuck a quick chat with Bambie and asked them to name the five horror films that have stuck with them the most. Here's what they had to say. "It affected me so much as a kid.
My sister used to tell me that the [the Creeper] was gonna steal me because I had pretty eyes, so I would go up to my bathroom at night time and make the ugliest faces I could, and then sit looking out the window because there was a big field across from us where I thought he probably would be, and make really scary faces out the window to make him not want to take me. Haha! It affected me a lot." "I often say that Bambie Thug is kinda like if Lady Gaga and Samara from The Ring had a baby.
It would be me! I also was really scared of the phone ringing after that, and I also think that she's kind of a fashion icon, Samara. That long hair's giving Cousin It from The Addams Family!" "I just love that scene where they're in the cupboard, .