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So TERRIFYING it will change your life!
Having already offered a list of scary movies, I’d like to ask a different question: What movies really, really, really, really scared you?
Keep in mind, I don’t mean a movie that only made you go “EEEEEEEE!� or even a movie that creeped you out for a couple of hours. I mean a movie that scared you so badly, it actually changed your behavior.
And while I’d love to hear any and all examples, please don’t limit yourselves to horror films. It can be any kind of movie.
I was trying to think of films that changed my behavior, but most of the ones I came up with were about things I was already scared of. “Jaws� gave me a pretty good start when ol’ Brucie popped his head out of the water when Chief Brody was tossing the chum, but I can’t swim, so I never thought it was safe to go in the water.
I’d like to say “The Blair Witch Project� swore me off ever walking in the woods at night again, but I’m too big of a klutz to walk safely in the woods in broad daylight, so never mind that.
I was attacked by seagulls when I was about 4 years old on Huntington Beach in California when they went after my McDonald’s French Fries that I had been throwing out to them (Mine? Mine? Mine?). So I was already freaked out by the fowl creatures of the earth when I saw “The Birds.�
Ah, but it was McDonald’s that gave me a different kind of scare. After I saw “Super Size Me,� in which Morgan Spurlock ruined his health by eating nothing but Mickey D’s for a month, I swore off Quarter Pounders — for a little while, anyway. No Royale with Cheese for me!
So tell me, what movies, horror or otherwise scarred you so much, the made you change your tune like that? Disney movies? Scary movies? Michael Bay movies? Fire or frighten away!
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