For each production at TMT, we like to ask our cast and crew members a few questions, so we and you can get to know them better! Some questions are standard. Some are specific to the show these folks are working on. Some are biographical, some are philosophical, and some are completely off the wall! But all of these questions provide a little insight into the wonderful artists that make up our Magnetic community.
See what these colorful creatives have to say, then grab your tickets and come see them in The Splatter Play, now extended through October 28!
Today we asked the ensemble: What book/TV show/movie scared you as a kid?
Skyler Goff, Dr. Diabolus/Romero Abbums
Carrie by Stephen King and the Brian DePalma film.
Jered Shults, Box Office Manager/D4-DDY/Agent
The Great Mouse Detective.
The baby doll was terrifying.
Jason Phillips, Uncle Ivill
When a Stranger Calls.
I never wanted to babysit again.
Daniel Moore, Hames Blonde
Oooooff! I’m always hunting for a good scaring or scarring…some of the more unsettling films I’ve seen in my time are: Megan is Missing, The Machinist, HC2: Full sequence (iykyk & I’m sorry you had to go through that), Antichrist, Funny Games (Austrian version), Cannibal Holocaust, Faces of Death, Terrifier 1 & 2, and possibly the most unsettling of all on this list…Martyrs. Full warning: these movies are not right for everyone and some of them are not right for ANYone, read about the trigger warnings and watch at your own risk.
Erin McCarson, Mr. Levinksy
Unsolved Mysteries! Specifically, the episode with the big eyeball on the TV.
Hell no, y’all!
Evan Eckstrom, Stage Manager
There was a series within R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books about a wooden ventriloquist's dummy that was murdering people... That was big time nightmare fuel. The hazmat suit squad in ET got me good too because the first time I watched that I had a high fever and they FREAKED me out!
Ashleigh Goff, Mother Ironwood/Lethalia Abbums
Oh God! So much!! I was addicted to horror and the macabre as a kid. But the very beginning, the planting of the seed, was Are You Afraid of the Dark. To this day, as a grown ass adult, I still have a visceral reaction to porcelain dolls, a painful twinge when staring into fires, and a healthy respect for abandoned bodies of water.
Zach Knox, Composer
Tremors.
Dwight Chiles, Harlowe Dexter-Ward/Mom
Nightmare on Elm Street. I was fine with everyone else except for Freddy, he killed you IN YOUR NIGHTMARES. One time my family was going to Blockbuster (RIP) and there was a cardboard cutout of Freddy at the entrance and I refused to enter the building.
Morgan Miller, Tina
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. but I still couldn’t put them down! So good!
Quinn Terry, Production Assistant
The Goosebumps book about that freaky puppet!!!!! Ugh!!!!
And here’s what some other members of our amazing crew said (they defied all attempts at photos!)
Christine Caldemeyer (Costume Design): Oh, the haunted pool episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? I was on a swim team for most of my summers until middle school, and the idea of being grabbed while doing laps and jerked down to the bottom of that Olympic pool filled me with dread.
Brandon McIver (Set/Special Effects): The Exorcist.
Amanda Brown (Scenic Design/Pooky Egg Maker): I was not a scared kid. I read all of the Goosebumps books and watched The Shining at age 10. The only thing I found creepy was the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Sarah Hajkowski (Dramaturgy/Assistant Stage Manager): We don't talk enough about "Scaredy Cat," the 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon where Porky Pig owns Sylvester as a pet and relocates them to a Gothic mansion. Herein, the most messed up, sadistic mice you've seen since Itchy and Scratchy are silhouetted in shadow with axes...coming to kill Sylvester? What even??
Man….I don’t care what anyone says. That Goosebumps puppet was the worst.
Get your tickets to Splatter and enjoy a rip roaring NOT SCARY good time. There ARE puppets, but they aren’t evil….or are they….