It was frighteningly realistic, and little Melanie, says Hedren, "freaked out".
When the Swans reached for the gearstick in the third quarter - the quarter that separates the pretenders from the contenders - the Blues were given windburn by a Rolls Royce of a team that is frighteningly good.
Here his relative obscurity enabled him to personify anonymity; practically unknown on screen, he could also be frighteningly invisible on the streets.
Perhaps the frighteningly vivid imagination that he can crawl into and inhabit so completely for such long periods originates here.
It's already ticked off alleged corruption, mistreatment of immigrant workers and a frighteningly iffy attitude to the LGBT community, and 2022 is still miles away.
And domestic energy consumption, currently around a quarter of production, is rising frighteningly fast as the population grows (it is predicted to reach 45m by 2050, from 28m today).
Shootings are still frighteningly common, admits the local police captain, but milder worries are creeping in.
It was about the frighteningly intricate "threads" that Americans unwittingly leave behind whenever they buy a house, register for a driver's licence, appear in court, file an insurance claim, pay their electricity bill, or indeed do almost anything at all.
A chill of cold war is creeping across the region, with a frighteningly nuclear-bound Iran and its varied allies who reject Israel confronting an array of pro-Western moderates looking more beleaguered.
It is just conceivable that a more frighteningly nationalist figure will emerge.
Although Mr Reagan's ultra-Keynesian America is barrelling along towards full employment, all its trading and budget accounts are frighteningly out of balance.
