Father of twin daughters has come up with a hilarious way to freak out hotel guests

Come play with us.

While being the parent of twins means double the work, it also has some unique perks -- especially if you're a fan of horror films.

A father tweeted this picture of his twin daughters dressed up as the creepy sisters from the classic Stanley Kubrick horror, The Shining, and it went viral.

This dad of the year enjoys dressing his girls as the ghastly characters during while staying in hotels to scare the sh*t out of other guests.

The prank is brilliant and the resemblance between his daughters and the iconic ghost twins, while not exact, is uncanny -- the matching dresses, the clipped hair, the hauntingly vacant expression in their dark eyes (OK, maybe not the latter).

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Twitter found the gag to be both hilarious and utterly horrifying.

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If we saw these girls at the end of dimly lit hotel hallway, we would run in the opposite direction and check out immediately. We've seen the film and know how it ends. No, thank you.

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