Magic
VIEW CONTEXT: Theater in Miami with Mom
VIEW DATE: November 1978
AWARDS: Most Enticing Possible Future. There is nothing I wanted more than to have a lifelike dummy that came to life through me. At the time I thought that insanity was romantic, and this kind—where part of me seeps out and animates an other who becomes my dear friend—was divine. For a lonely only child, such a thing would be a dream. Cf. Big Frankie, who was marketed as a friend for lonely children.
I saw the trailer. Never had I been so excited about a movie before. Every child is petrified of Living Doll, for it is an innate archetype, and scares to death all children instinctively. Nothing is as innately and instinctively scary as Living Doll (except maybe Animated Skeleton).
I saw the trailer. Have you seen the trailer to this movie? It is, hands down, the best movie trailer ever made by man, beast, or crop.
Fats was talking to me—gifting to me the knowledge that he would rape me and kill me with fear, and that I would love every minute of it, because then Dodger and I could co-relish in precise detail every note and aspect of that fear. Nothing is more fulfilling as a child than experiencing supernatural horror with your best friend, who tells you that he, too, has the exact same nightmare, and it scared him just as profoundly and just as religiously.
Fats was talking to me like this —
You thought I didn’t know that you always think about me. I came to you from Disney as the Evil Redneck mask. Then as Then as the “Living Doll” episode of The Twilight Zone. Then as the clown in Poltergeist. Then in
Quotes
The sanity test
The sanity test
Corky: This is very cruel of you, you know that?
Gangrene: I don't mean it to be.
Corky: I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive you.
Gangrene: Well, that would be sad.
Corky: Time?
Gangrene: It's uh ... two and a half minutes to go.
Corky: I can't make it.
Gangrene: Well, I didn't think you could.
Corky: Hello everybody! This is Mrs. Norman Main. My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you.