Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat spend the night in an old dark house, whose horrors only Sylvester sees.
Direction
Chuck Jones builds genuine dread in 8 minutes.
Acting
Mel Blanc's terrified Sylvester screams are iconic.
Director
Chuck Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jones designed this as a deliberate horror parody, studying Universal monster films to nail the lighting and shadows. The terror is real even when the monsters aren't.
This was the debut of Sylvester's terrified scream, which Blanc based on his own genuine fear of—ironically—cats as a child.
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