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Only a few movies made a actual impact on me, movies that scared me when I was 10 notwithstanding.
I made the mistake of seeing The Exorcist when I was 14 at the midnight moves with my girlfriend (her older sister got us in). So that meant I had to walk home after seeing that damn thing at about 2 am. Suffice to say it was a scary walk home, my personal senses heightened to about Defcon 2 mode doing the Bruce Lee side step the whole way home.
The other movie that got me was about the same age when I first say Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the early days of cable premium movie channels. I really had never considered that there were people that fucked up in the world and that made an impact on me. I knew there were killers and murderers and such, but I hadn't considered more deranged aspects of such people.
It was the little macabre touches like the arms of the chair being actual arms at the dinner table that did a number on my adolescent brain. Also gave me a significant disdain for the slasher films of that era (Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.) and those that came later (Saw, Hostel, etc.) The first couple Halloweens now have something of a positive nostalgia feel to them, but I still don't care for the genre.
I'd much rather watch Godzilla stomp Tokyo or older Universal monster movies.
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