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pipi_k

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20. Totally cannot

Sun Apr 7, 2013, 12:47 PM

Apr 2013

watch scary movies anymore, but when I was younger I saw quite a few.

Anyway, the earliest trauma I can remember from a scary movie was when I saw the original "The Fly".

The movie theater was only a few blocks from my house, and by the time I got home I was still white as a ghost, so my mother said.

The other movie that scared the shit out of me was "The Day After", which is not the same movie as "The Day After Tomorrow".

"The Day After" involves nuclear war, something that traumatized me from a very early age, during the Cold War days, and having to do the "duck and cover" drills in school. That movie, plus "Fail Safe" and "On The Beach".

They gave me nightmares for a long time.

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