MOST people would have run a mile when faced with such a gruesome creature, but teenager Sarah Mortimer took it all in her stride.

The furry rodent and his friends from outer space had a passion for gobbling up human beings in a monster movie called Critters.

And when the film reached the Not The Moulin Rouge cinema at Headington, Oxford, in 1987, they were on hand to publicise the film.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah, from Garsington, was happy to pose with the monster.