Mark Nielsen (Producer)
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Poster for Mater and the Ghostlight
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John Lasseter Dan Scanlon (co-director) |
| Produced by |
Darla K. Anderson Mark Nielsen |
| Story by |
Joe Ranft John Lasseter Dan Scanlon |
| Starring |
Larry the Cable Guy Owen Wilson Paul Newman Bonnie Hunt Cheech Marin Michael Wallis |
| Music by | Bruno Coon Brad Paisley (Behind the Clouds) |
| Edited by | Torbin Xan Bullock |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Home Entertainment |
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| Language | English |
Mater and the Ghostlight is a 2006 Pixar computer-animated short created for the DVD of Cars, which was released in the United States and Canada on November 7, 2006. The short, set in the Cars world, tells a story of Mater being haunted by a mysterious blue light.
The short film opens with Mater playing pranks on the other residents of Radiator Springs: moving Red's flowers, bursting out from a pile of tires to scare Guido and Luigi, dressing up as a cone vampire to scare Sally, attempting to scare Lizzie while she's sleeping (which is unsuccessful), moving Fillmore's gas can's back outside while he takes them in, and jumpscaring Lightning McQueen when he believes Mater is hiding behind a pile of cans ready to jump out (what was really behind the pile of cans is one of Mater's signs). This sequence culminates with Mater teasing McQueen as if he had seen "the Ghostlight," a Route 66 legend recounted to Pixar by Dean Walker of the Kansas Historic Route 66 Association.
Sheriff admonishes him for mocking the urban legend. When McQueen question about the Ghostlight, Sheriff explains that the Ghostlight is a blue paranormal orb of light that haunts Radiator Springs, but Mater reminds Lightning that it isn't real. Sheriff points out that it is real, shocking them. He then tells everyone the tale of the Ghostlight, explaining the disappearance of a young couple that encountered it, leaving behind two "out-of-state license plates" and that it hates the sound of clanking metal. At this point, Mater is so scare that he begins making the noise that the Ghostlight hates the most and tries to stop himself. Sheriff ends the story with a warning that the Ghostlight could be anywhere. The rest of the gang say goodnight and turn off all the store lights, leaving a nervous and scared Mater all alone in the dark. Nervous, he returns to the junkyard and sees a shadow of a monster and, in a sudden shock, shines his light on it, revealing it to be just a pile of junk. After his headlight breaks, he enters his wall-less garage and closes the door, which then falls down. A light suddenly appears in front of him and he panics, believing it to be the Ghostlight until he realizes it is just a lighting bug. Suddenly, a blue light appears behind him. After using his mirror to observe it, he runs for it, thinking it is that Ghostlight.
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