I mean, yeah, the scream is funky but it’s supposed to be. It’s a defense mechanism. But the rest of the movie is so good that we took to teasing him about his fear. I even do a fair job of impersonating the scream so that made the teasing even more fun.

Despite all this, he finally said yes to watching it again.

Admittedly, a lot of it had to do with the fact that he’s doing a research project on Steven Spielberg at school and how can you do that without covering E.T., right?

We’re also watching Jaws and Ready Player One. Not sure if he’d be ready for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not that it’s particularly scary. But those aliens haunted me for years. Still do.

The Grays. Urrrggghhhh… the Grays.