"I put a lot of effort into making Cujo scary. That started when I was preparing Alligator. I had Jaws in mind when I was doing that. Before I started that I film, I wanted to have a few scenes that would make people jump, so I thought about the films I'd seen in my lifetime that scared me. And I focused on a few that had particularly frightening scenes that made me jump. The scene in Jaws I selected is where Richard Dreyfuss is swimming underwater at night, discovers a hole in the bottom of a boat, and a head falls into view. Another scene I focused on was in Wait Until Dark...I studied those scenes to find out what they had in common, to extract a set of principles I could utilize to make a scary scene, and I applied them..."
- Director Lewis Teague talks horror movie craft, in my book, Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), page 310.
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