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The First Film That Scared Me...

Posted by: HORNHEAD13

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The first film that scared me was "X, The Man With X-Ray Eyes." I know, I know, that wasn't a scary movie with a terrifying looking monster in it. That's why it scared me! I was raised in a church and the final scene in the tent revival with that fire-and-brimstone preacher preaching hard at "X" which resulted in X tearing his eyes out shocked me. I didn't cry or call for my parents, but I did walk down our dark hall to my bedroom with my back to the wall. I then got into bed where I crawled under the covers, sweating profusely with fear. I woke up a couple of hours or so later and realized that I was okay. I wasn't under the covers anymore and was no longer afraid.

The second movie that scared me scared me and my sister enough to run into our parents room and wake my dad up so that HE could go into the front room and turn off the TV! It was called, "Equinox." It was a low-budget movie about Satanic rituals and beliefs that was made by some college students someplace. The scene that prompted my sister and I to run to our parents room was the scene where the "good guys" (young adults as I recall) ran to a forest ranger for help and HE turned out to be either Satan himself or one of Satan's helpers. THAT scene scared me because I was a young boy (and my sister was even younger than I was) and always did a lot of camping with my parents (we belonged to a camping club and camped once a month for several years). We were always taught that we could trust a park ranger. After seeing that evil park ranger in that movie that night, I was filled with fear and ran to my dad's bedside. My sister, who was equally terrified was probably even more scared than I was because she saw her big brother who had NEVER been scared by a horror movie before (I was scared by that "X, The Man With The X-Ray Eyes" movie but my sister wasn't at home that night to see me scared by it!) running like a scared cat to another room! LOL!

The third movie that scared me was "Night of the Living Dead." I simply turned that movie off and watched something else when that got to be too scary for me.

It has been more than 20 years since any movie has scared me enough to turn it over or to be scared by it. I have watched both, THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and X, THE MAN WITH THE X RAY EYES since then with NO problem whatsoever. As for EQUINOX, while I would love to see that low-budget flick again(and this time I would watch the whole thing), it simply is on television anymore. Not to my knowledge, anyways.

- HORNHEAD13

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