Oh, and a creepy figure with a wide grin called Jerome hovered menacingly on the periphery..
In a programme based on mind control, though, things are different – Phil cuts a pretty creepy figure, gliding among his demented captives like a Thunderbirds villain trying to inspire indignities with a cash incentive.
Later on, Jesse's knocked out again and wakes up shackled to a bed, observed by a creepy figure in a gas mask who turns out to be Tulip.
Freddy shows up in the dreams of a group of high school students who live in the leafy town of Springwood, and who don't understand why the same creepy figure menaces them all in their dreams, leaving them afraid to fall asleep.
"If you think about it, Santa is more of a creepy figure than a friendly myth," mused Chibbles.
I wonder whether the Metropolitan Museum of Art had our contemporary cat mania in mind when it scheduled its smart, strange exhibition of the Polish-French painter Balthus – a figurative master in an age of abstraction, and one of the creepiest figures of modern art.
And Ms. Hilferty has supplied costumes that transform the ensemble members into something like the creepy, mutating figures in Bosch paintings.
They are creepy, the figures tough and tattooed, standing in front of brick tenements with the rolling hills of Tuscany in the background.
(Grode) ★ 'Play Dead' (closes on Sunday) The magician Teller directed and helped create this gleefully gruesome frightfest for grown-ups, in which Todd Robbins, noted light-bulb eater and expert in sideshow freakishness, discusses death, afterlife and some particularly creepy historical figures while working some very effective tricks.
