Issue: November 4, 2005 - Issue #848
Cheers for Fears
Wanna see something really scary? There's more to choose from than ever. Out Halloween guide to the spookiest creepshows on television and in movies.
Why this show is the scariest thing on TV.
Exec producer Shaun Cassidy, 47, just comes right out and says it: Invasion’s post-hurricane Florida wasteland is scary ... because it’s true. Except for the aliens. "I wish all the bad things were just happening on TV and life were wonderful," he says. "But it is out there. Every family in the country is asking itself the same questions: How do we protect our children? What’s going on here? You don’t need aliens for that."
Best Halloween costume.
"Most actors that I know don’t like Halloween. It’s like amateur night."
Favorite horror movie.
"I really go in for the Rosemary’s Baby kind of horror: ‘Everything’s normal! Except ... what’s wrong with my baby?’ Scary stuff in the bright sun."
Spooky show secrets.
Cassidy swears we’re about to find out what’s really going on in the battle between good (Cibrian’s park ranger/hot dad) and maybe-evil (Fichtner’s eerie town sheriff). "By the time the ninth episode has aired, basically all of the questions raised int eh pilot are answered. We find out what happened to that skeleton, what happened to Mariel (the creepy, water-obsessed doctor]. We find out that what’s going on is an experiment that’s failed in other places – but for some reason it seems to be catching on here."
We’ll believe it when we see it, sir.
"I know. When you’re doing a mystery show, you get the sense from the audience that they want to believe – but there’s this layer of cynicism you have to cut through, because they’ve been burned before."