" During a live Internet broadcast, students were to spend a MTV-likeReal Worldnight in Myers' childhood home.When the promoter's gate money was stolen by a carjacking hief named Dennis Carradine (Michael Papajohn), Peter avoided stopping him, but soon after realized the thief had carjacked his Uncle's car on the street and tragically shot him to death.Peter: Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.Werdegast: Supernatural, perhaps -baloney, perhaps not! There are many things under the sun.Poelzig: I shall show you your rooms.Peter: It's strange about the cat.Joan seemed so curiously affected when you killed it.Werdegast: That was coincidence, I think.However, certain ancient books say that the Black Cat is the living embodiment of Evil.And if that Evil enters into the nearest living thing, it is...Poelzig: (interrupting) The Black Cat does not die.Those same books, if I'm not mistaken, teach that the Black Cat is deathless.Deathless as Evil.It is the origin of the common superstition.You know, the cat with nine lives.At his bedroom door, Poelzig bids Vitus (and then Peter) goodnight: "Sleep well." Peter criticizes Poelzig's architectural aste as he speaks to Werdegast through an adjoining bedroom: "Well, I suppose we've got to have architects too.It was also memorable for the cameo appearances of real-life journalists-reporters (Elmer Davis, H.V.Kaltenborn, Drew Pearson, and Gabriel Heater) playing themselves.The entire film was a precursor o Spielberg'sClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)andE.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and to John Carpenter'sStarman (1984).Director Brad Bird's animated Cold War fableThe Iron Giant (1999), set in the 1950s, was about another peace-loving giant robot from outer space and its friendship with a young boy, who were sought by a paranoid government agent.