Aimee Rivette Wardrobe Test
Private Collection
1978
While Aimee Rivette donned the horror makeup, Michelle Harper was haunted by the dog plushie seen in the photo. Rivette recalls: “Michelle never had a scene with the dog but it kept appearing in her dressing room. She thought it was Renato (Nicolodi) because he was trying to keep us on edge all the time. He denied it of course, but I always thought he was messing with her. After she found it (the dog plushie) in her glovebox, I confronted Renato about it. It was going too far, breaking into her car like that.”
“That weekend I get a frantic call from Michelle asking me to come over to her apartment as
soon as I could. When I got there, she told me to listen… I heard tapping behind her bathroom wall that sounded exactly like the tapping that would happen on set sometimes, sort of melodic. We talked a little about our nightmares, but it felt like she wasn’t telling me everything. She took a hammer to her own bathroom wall, just went nuts on it until there was this gaping hole.” She paused. “It was inside the wall… the dog. I couldn’t tell you how it got there.”
“That weekend I get a frantic call from Michelle asking me to come over to her apartment as
soon as I could. When I got there, she told me to listen… I heard tapping behind her bathroom wall that sounded exactly like the tapping that would happen on set sometimes, sort of melodic. We talked a little about our nightmares, but it felt like she wasn’t telling me everything. She took a hammer to her own bathroom wall, just went nuts on it until there was this gaping hole.” She paused. “It was inside the wall… the dog. I couldn’t tell you how it got there.”
