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Hey, it's Waters from the Waters Wake.
I've called.
This morning we were talking scary movies, and what was your first?
Poltergeist.
Was that the first scary movie you saw?
That's the first thing that came to mind.
How old were you when you saw Poltergeist?
I don't know what year it had come out.
1980.
Two, three, something like that.
Oh, I would have been eight.
You would have been eight.
She's laying in bed and freaking out.
The priest is there.
Yeah.
Uh, are you sure that's poltergeist or is it exorcist?
Oh.
It sounds like you're thinking of Linda Blair who's possessed and then you've got the old priest and the young priest trying to do the exorcism on her and she's puking pea soup and her head is spinning around.
That's the one.
But
what the hell is poltergeist then?
Is it
the hills have eyes?
I
don't know the weird eyes and the circling I'm not I'm not quite sure was it called the circling Yes, yeah, really?
I'll bet it wasn't Cuz I reached up and I pulled that one right out of My cupboard that's it pulled that out of my cupboard so that can't be it
Scary eyes.
See, when I think scary eyes and a ring, I think of my ex-wife.
Which was a horror show, believe me.
Oh, I could make a movie, Iron Man.
I could make a
movie.
Yeah.
The
Wicked Witch of the West.
Yeah.
My wife was actually known as the Wicked Witch of the Midwest.
Yeah.
And I remember the one part where they call the babysitter back and they tell her, we think the call is coming
from inside the house.
Kujo, it was too real.
I never saw Kujo.
I don't know why.
I love Stephen King, but I just have never seen Kujo.
I know.
I'm about the same age as you.
I was about in seventh grade when that came out.
Yeah, I remember the trailer.
I remember all of that.
But yeah, I never saw it.
How was it?
How was it scary?
Did it freak you out?
It freaked me out because that dog was around every corner.
Yeah,
well, I hope you didn't walk home from the
theater.
Actually, I went to a friend's house.
We had a group of us that went to a friend's house, and we all watched it together.
In
7th grade, I'm in the corner trying not to pee my pants.
So, this was on, what, VHS?
Yes.
Ah, Caveman days, I remember them well.
I'll have to check that out, not on VHS though.
Anything by Stephen King.
Kudos to you for giving me the idea for the Kujo.
Hey Mike, it's fish.
You know, there's a lot of scary movies with fish in them.
Actually, the one that I'm thinking of is
one of them.
Barracuda?
Nope.
Uh, Jaws?
Yup, saw it in the theater when it first came out.
How old were
you?
I was five.
Wow, five?
years old in the theater watching Jaws.
When was the next time you went swimming?
I don't know.
You probably haven't been swimming since then.
How about bathtub?
When was the next time you were in a bathtub?
Oh, it was scary to go in the bathtub.
I'm sure your parents, if they took you to Jaws when you were five, I'm sure they were demented, so they probably had all kinds of toy sharks in the bathtub and they
said, come on little fish, come on.
Okay,
so you never took a bath, you never showered again either.
So how did you get clean?
That's
the
scary thing.
Must be why I don't have any friends.
Exactly.
Yes, the first scary movie I saw was called RWBY.
What was it called?
Okay, I
thought you said Rudy about the kid in the football.
I'm thinking, what?
That was a feel-good movie.
That was
inspiring.
It
wasn't Rudy.
Oh, it's one
of
those.
when mom and dad were in the front seat so was it somebody killing some people one of them put a person in like a soda drink machine
good lord was it one of these things where you go to the drive-in and the first one's a kid's movie and the second one is the adult movie yes okay because we did that once too the first movie was uh swiss family robinson and then the second movie was i don't know what but i remember we were in our station wagon and i wasn't supposed to watch kind of like
you and Ruby, but I looked at one point and there were a couple of people naked doing something and I said to my mom, and my mom is the one who kept telling this story, otherwise I probably wouldn't remember, but I asked her, mommy, what is that man doing to that lady?
And I was scared, I was scared, I grew up to love that kind of an experience, but at the time I was scared poopless.
Well, I can understand that when you're a little kid, you don't understand.
Yeah, what's going on mommy?
But what was Ruby about?
It was about somebody going around killing somebody.
Okay.
I'm going to say like at a drive-in or something.
I don't remember the kids movie but I remember Ruby and then after that one they had another one that was similar to your story where it was a Dracula trying to bring his bride back to life and he gave her somebody else's blood and there was a lot of nudity in that one as well.
Oh boy.
Well, I just found the movie Ruby.
Would it have been about 1977?
Yep.
I see it 16 years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates.
A series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movies.
Yeah, I told you it was a drive-in.
Yeah, I know.
Well, and you gotta remember, I was born in 69, so I wasn't very old.
Right.
Yeah, you'd be about eight.
And that's probably how old I was when I saw
Swiss family Robinson, and I think my mom told me the name of the movie that I accidentally saw called, it was Naughty Nurses.
Yeah, I'm gonna need to look for that now that I've reminded myself.
I'm gonna have to do a double feature of Ruby and Naughty Nurses.
There you
go.
Yeah, it scared me a lot too, and now it doesn't really scare me so much, but the suspense is done so well.
Yeah,
it really is.
I finally got my wife to watch it with me last Halloween and she loved it.
Oh, you're just all about it,
aren't you?
Wow, you're more all about it than I previously
thought.
You
know, you don't sound like that kind of person, but hey, I'm
not here to judge.
That's
a
great movie.
How old were you?
Dude, I was nine.
So go back to when you were a nine year old watching that movie.
What was that like?
That one got me pretty good.
Yeah.
After that one came out the original Halloween.
And that was in 1970.
So I was
11.
You were 11?
We went as a family, the whole crew went.
You went as a family to Halloween?
Sounds like a horrifying way to grow up.
What are you, one of the Adams family?
That's
how
you grew up if you wanted to go go.
Yeah.
You can't pick it afterwards and you have nightmares and you don't
go again.
Okay, simple enough.
I was 11.
Yeah, you're about my age.
I never saw a scary movie in the theater when I was 11.
I
was the youngest and my sisters and my mom made me check the backseat of the car before we got in and after the movie was over.
Well, I guess that's the kind of guy you are, you know?
Brave man of the family.
What
don't kill you makes you stronger.
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