Iconic Horror Characters As Babies

How did you spend your Halloween this year? If the answer you’re looking for happens to be ‘cowering behind a sofa while waiting for Nightmare On Elm Street to finish, then this art series might well be the antidote to that terror.

 

Taking the bubbly-skinned Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Pinhead, Pennywise and other figures to have near ruined most childhoods and, let’s be honest, adulthoods too, designer Alex Solis has imagined these deviants as big babies, ‘infantising’ the very best of them.

 

It’s comforting to know that, once upon a time, even the most feared fictional monsters were harmless runts, running amok on carpets somewhere and stabbing at their food with a plastic spoon, years before they’d do any real damage.

 

Saying that, we wouldn't be up for babysitting Hannibal Lecter. He just looks as if he’s enjoying his ‘baby food’ a little too much...