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Paul's Childhood Scares: Creature Double Feature, Alien, and Jaws
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This is one of the episode's warmest and funniest stretches. Paul describes growing up watching Creature Double Feature — a New England Saturday TV programme that paired Godzilla films with Hammer horror movies — and getting nightmares from Attack of the Killer Shrews. He then recounts getting Alien nightmares before ever seeing the film, just from overhearing his parents discuss it. But the centrepiece story is Jaws: his father pitched the film to a 10-year-old Paul as a movie that captures the feeling of catching a fish on a hook. What Paul actually witnessed was Quint being bitten in half, which, he says without exaggeration, gave him a full 10 years of shark nightmares. He still covers his eyes at that scene after seeing the film 50 times. The hosts laugh and commiserate — Ash's 10-year-old twins want to watch Jaws and she's been showing them behind-the-scenes photos of the mechanical shark to soften the blow.
Paul Tremblay's father sold him Jaws as a film about the feeling of catching a fish. It destroyed him. He had a decade of shark nightmares, and still covers his eyes when Quint gets bitten — even after watching it 50 times. Horror's most enduring images never really leave.
Paul Tremblay saw Jaws at age 10 and suffered approximately 10 years of shark-related nightmares as a result.
