An autistic woman’s horror movie night has been wrecked by the utterly terrifying film she chose to put on, for reasons she can’t quite remember now she’s close to pissing herself in terror, it has been revealed. 

Brenda Hernández, 27, reportedly thought it would be a great idea not only to watch 2001’s The Others, but to watch it on her own, with nobody in the house to protect her from the little girl possessed by the creepy old lady.

Hernández explained: “I’m an adult. I know it’s a movie that people wrote and directed and acted. I know that’s Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman. I know it, but I still – oh God what was that noise?”

According to sources, “that noise” was just the creaking of the heating coming on, and sounds exactly like all the other times the house has made “that noise” in the three years Hernández has lived there – but according to Hernández it was definitely the vengeful spirits of a ghost family who want her gone so they can have their house back. 

“My cat just miaowed,” Hernández continued. “I’m not fluent in Cat, but I’m pretty sure she was saying ‘this is OUR house’, which means she’s possessed. And now she’s pawing at her food bowl, as if to say ‘I’m the unholy reincarnation of a 1940s mother who murdered her children and is coming for you next.”

On returning home from a late work shift, Hernández’s girlfriend, Paige Thomas, 30, commented: “I found her huddled in a dark room, hiding from the cat. This is worse than the time she watched The Woman In Black and I had to wear bright colours for a month.”

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