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Director Damien McCarthy delves into the lore of 'Hokum's' unsettling monster, Jack the Jackass. Learn how a seemingly innocent children's TV show character becomes a symbol of trauma for the film's protagonist.
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00:00Yeah, so it's Jack. Jack the Jackass. I guess in the context of the story, it was a kid's TV
00:05show that Adam's character used to watch as a child, and it was playing on the TV when something terrible
00:11happened. And I think it's just the idea that this innocent childhood thing is now warped into something that's haunting
00:19him and following him and he associates with a really bad time. It's also just a way to kind of
00:25work in exposition in a kind of a horrifying way.
00:28It was, say, in the world of the story. I think if you were to dig up that footage, I
00:31don't think he could possibly have looked that demonic and horrifying, but, you know, that's probably close enough.
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