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You know you want to….

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I have to be honest here and say I can’t think of one.

I was one of those weird kids who loved to turn out the lights and watch horror flicks. Alone, in the dark.

Nothing freaked me out. Nothing scared me. I never thought there were boogie men under my bed or monsters in my closet.

I was the kid who laughed when Linda Blair’s head started spinning in the Exorcist.

I happily went swimming after seeing Jaws.

The mad slasher films of the 80’s? Pfft. They made me laugh .

If forced to choose one, I guess I’d have to say the old Rosemary’s Baby. It didn’t scare me per se… but i remember it being creepy and atmospheric.

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How about you.

What movie scared the bejesus out of your childish self?

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37 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  3. Mine is an Italian film called “Black Sabbath”, directed by Mario Bava. There’s no blood but lots of atmosphere and straight up good technical filmmaking. And it scared me. A lot.

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  4. 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – I know, I know – not a horror film but I visualized tentacles coming up through the shower drain and would take my showers glued to the walls of the shower. Then there was Brides of Dracula, in color, which had me sleeping with the lights on and checking the closet and under the bed and keeping the window closed at night. And grew up hating if anyone tried to nuzzle or kiss my neck.

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  10. I’m going to have to go with Audrey Rose. It’s not scary like blood and gore scary and more the psychological scary. The idea of reincarnation for me as an eight year old was just, WTF? And it’s the first time I saw Anthony Hopkins in anything and thought to myself, wow what a creepy stalker. Then I saw Silence of the Lambs and it all made sense…lol. I’m like you, slasher, blood and gore not my thing. Give me a good psychological thriller and I’m in!

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  12. I think I told you this before, but here goes again. It was the 1950s. I had never seen a movie, on TV or in a theatre. My best friend had just got the first television on our block. We stayed up late watching till the test screen came on. The Late Movie was not a horror film per se, just a normal movie. But I had no idea it was fiction. A tiger was loose in a city (in India, I learned later) and killing people in the streets. I refused to go home because the tiger was so scary. I had to phone home on our new party line, and ask my bigger brother to come walk me home, all of 5 houses away. I was never so scared in my life! Even when in San Diego a gentleman of Latin descent held a knife to my throat and threatened to kill me for being white in his neighnourhood. I’m not even white, I just look that way. But I asked him what his problem was, and I told him I was a Canadian tourist just looking at the neat houses. The knife disappeared and we partied for the rest of the day. One of the greatest days of my life. But that night watching TV, that was real fear. No idea what the movie was called. Sorry.

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  13. As a youngin’ at home I’d say the Peter Lorre creepy hand flick “The beast with 5 fingers” as I watched on the couch at 5 my dad was on the floor and reached up for a sheet, i thought his hand was the beast 😆 In the theater I am going to go with Halloween (1978) at 8years old and my brother was 13 he used a lot of scenes from that film to scare the hell out of me

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  14. I’m blanking. I’m sure whatever it was it was not meant as a horror film.

    Did you swim in the ocean after Jaws? My younger sister was even afraid of toilets after that film!

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