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For some reason I developed a specialized skill at waking up early and finding old sci-fi movies on the TV. There were at least half a dozen times I would run upstairs and wake up my parents because some black and white film had scared me. I specifically remember The Blob and War of the Worlds causing me to hide behind the couch in the den because I was so scared.
After that I realized that those stories just seemed to have something ~more~ to them than, say, most of the stuff being dished out in the 80's. I watched Friday the 13th and was scared to be by myself for 6 months. Hellraiser did the same thing to me. And after spending 6 months scared that Jason was going to pop out of a closet and kill me with a machete, I started to realize I actually kind of liked the sensation of being scared. So it's been a slow-developing thing over time.
Right after I realized that I saw Aliens and the original Halloween and fell in love with them. They've always been in my top faves ever since.
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