I started watching horror movies when I was in elementary school. I didn't really like watching them, but I went along because my friends liked them and I wanted to be one of the dudes. I also liked proving to myself that I could stand to see them from start to finish, kind of like the exercise of sniffing the pickled herring my mom kept in the refrigerator; just to see how long I could stand the exposure before having to retreat. I've never seen a scary movie on a date. I used to be extraordinarily sensitive to horror movies, even though I forced myself to sit through them all the time. I remember staying up a whole entire night after seeing "Poltergeist 3" in the theaters. I kept hearing a scratching against my bedroom wall and I actually went outside at 3AM in total exasperation to prove to myself that it was just the wind pushing the branches of the rose bush along the side of the house and not some demon spawn trapped in the insulation.
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