My daughter has recently expressed an interest in horror movies, and being that she’s approaching 15 and thus unlikely to wind up sleeping in my bed for six months because of psychological trauma, I let her watch Poltergeist with me, for the first time.
(Two seconds into the movie…)
Caolinn: “Why does that TV look like that?”
Me: “It has a picture tube…TVs used to weigh like a hundred pounds.”
Caolinn: “Why is that phone on the wall? You can’t move.”
Me: “Welcome to the 80’s, Caol.”
Caolinn: “Why is the TV all fuzzy?”
Me: “Because at night, the stations used to stop programming around midnight. They’d play the national anthem, and then just stop broadcasting.”
Caolinn: “Seriously…the scariest thing about this movie is how you guys used to live. PLEASE tell me there is going to be something dead in this movie, aside from the technology.”
Fisticuffs and Shenanigans 