They may look goofy from the comfort of your position safely behind a screen. Related: I Was A Reality TV Judge: 5 Secrets I Shouldn't Tell You

Those guardians fucked up at least a few kids' lives. I was in her English class, and it was a Halloween paper about the scariest thing you ever saw, and for her, it was having a temple guardian pop up. and she told us that she had honest-to-god nightmares about them. My grandpa told me what a heart attack felt like, and I think I had one when he popped out.' A girl from my school later went on and actually won. 'I took a break from the games and asked one of the group winners what the temple run was like, and he said, 'The guardians. Then you come back into the happy fun game room and your mood changed suddenly, with waiting kids asking how it went.'Īnd then there were the Temple Guards, t h e crew members who dressed up in native costumes and jumped out to snatch kids, instantly ending their run if they didn't have a spare 'life' to give. Cheap effects or not, it was a sense of foreboding. It was darker, smoke was there, and you saw kid after kid come in looking exhausted or crying or something else terrible, and then you went in. 'The stage was like coming into a nightmare. Note that when we say the stage was cheap, that doesn't mean it wasn't somewhat traumatizing. Related: Regis Philbin Was The Most Watched Man On Television 2 Yet It Was Still Fairly Terrifying For A Kid

It was all hard foam to look like rocks, and signs out of camera view saying to avoid the dry ice.'

It felt like heavy compressed foam and had silver bits that flaked off. The silver monkey ( which no one ever got right ) was even cheaper than you think. on set it was this moving rubber thing that, if you were close enough, you could hear the parts inside moving.

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