yes, this is the movie poster for 'the legacy.' i remember seeing this image like, on posters, and on those glossy slick paperback books that hit the shelves at roughly the same time. it creeped me out, like, seriously. i didn't even know what the word 'legacy' meant at the time. and, even though i loved cats, that yowling, white, disembodied cat head didn't exactly make sugar plums dance, i promise you. in fact, i think i even laid awake in my bed one night, after having seen the book cover at the grocery store. i had this sick-scary image of the cat head like, coming to life in the dark and-closed-for-the-night grocery store, and like, i imagined it jumped off the book, and like, 'spider-walked' down the street on its craggly 'human-hand'-legs, marching straight for my house, like, letting out little evil tortured cat mewls all the way. and i knew 'the way' to the store so well, i remember trying to like, imagine in 'real time' which houses it would pass on its way to come and 'get me.' i even imagined the humming sound of the streetlights when it passed underneath one. it marched past johnson street elementary, then straight up to lexington, screeching, and i think i maybe even saw it with a little purplish lightning-filled 'storm cloud' imploding over its head. even with all that vivid imagination going on, i can't remember ever deciding what it was gonna do to me once it got all the way to my bedroom door. i think at the time, i figured it was creepy enough if it just stood there, silently, outside my door in the hall, so i could see the disturbance in the stripe of 'light-under-the-door,' and know it was out there. man, i was crazy then, and i'm eeeee-crazzzy now! (oh, and hey, now that i read the fine print, it looks like roger daltrey's in it, man! )
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