Can you believe Labyrinth just turned 31? That’s right, it’s now been more than three decades since Jim Henson’s fantasy opus about a tight trouser wearing, glam rock king who steals a baby first appeared in cinemas to almost no fanfare.
Despite being a box office flop though Labyrinth has long since secured its rightful place as a true genre classic, acting as the standard bearer for all fantasy films that followed and proving that David Bowie plus Jim Henson equals lightening in a bottle.
It is a film both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. Whether it’s the strong female lead, the underlying theme of friendship and innocence lost or simply because it was your first taste of Bowie’s genius, we all take something different from Labyrinth.
To celebrate this landmark moment, Horror Geek Life takes a look at some of our favourite moments from the film.
10. “I wish the goblins would come and take you away! Right now!”
Those words were the bane of my existence as a child. Having watched the film over and over with my elder sister, I lived in constant fear that if I irritated her enough and pushed her too far she would utter the phrase that would see me snatched in the night and turned into a Goblin.
I’m totally going to instill the same fear in my own children.