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Originally Posted by Cida
I know someone who, after seeing Psycho, could not take a shower with an opaque curtain again.
There are lots of films I wouldn't see again for similar reasons, but it's easier just to avoid horror and not watch when something obviously bad is coming.
That would be me as well! I am glad I am not the only one. I watched it as a kid when my aunt decided to watch old horror movies. I was there watching with her.
Fast forward years later now, I dont have shower curtain on my bathtub. Instead I have two clear liners; one act as a liner itself falling into the bathtub, the other one acts as a shower curtain falling outside of the bathtub.
Another movie that kinda traumatized me as a kid was IT. I hate clowns to today. Prior to watching it, I remember having a clown in my birthday party and I was that kid who followed the clown everywhere because I think he / she is funny.
This is really embarrassing to admit and I didn't know if I should put this in movies or psychology but here goes.
When I was a little kid (8? 9?) my irresponsible older brother in charge let me watch the TV version of "The Exorcist". My mother was working late I guess and it was easier for him than having to actually watch me. Teenagers. So, I was a pretty gullible little kid as it was and, while we were not Catholic, I was what you'd probably call"quasi-Catholic" anyway because I spent every Sunday at Mass with my close friend whose family was Catholic and I was very familiar with a lot of Catholic teachings.
So at that age, that movie did a number on me that has literally lasted a lifetime. Now, I am 42 years old and I am not scared by movies at all. I haven't been for a long time. I have seen all the classic scary movies and while I may enjoy them, they don't scare me. I've seen other movies in childhood (not that young though!) that didn't scare me much either, The Omen movies, The Shining, Children of the Corn, etc, and if so it wasn't a lasting thing.
The Exorcist, however!? I had nightmares for months that followed seeing it. I was convinced that a demon lived under my bed. I prayed non-stop because I believed that this was the only way to keep from being possessed. I slept with my rosary.
Obviously that got better (and I am not Catholic), but I NEVER watched the film again and to this day, if I hear the opening theme I get chills and a little sick to my stomach.
It all seems really silly when I read it all typed out but I wondered if anyone else had this kind of extreme reaction to a movie, lasting years!? People have told me I should watch it now, as an adult, and that I'd probably find it ridiculous, the way I do most other horror films, but I just can't bring myself to do it.
My dad took my brother and I to see The Birds, and it scared the living **** out of me.
When I was 9 or 10 for some reason I never understood my Mother, who normally monitored what we watched on TV, let my sister and I watch Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. I had nightmares forever about that scene with the lady with her eyes pecked out and had to have the closet door shut when I went to bed and I hated birds for a long time too.
I saw The Excorcist when I was in high school, that freaked me out for a long time too. Whenever I see it's on TV I do NOT watch it.
I didn't even have to watch the movie. I was little and they kept playing the ad for a scary movie. The scene is where this little girl is in bed with her doll and falls asleep. The dolls eyes open and the doll rotates and her arms come up and she's reaching for the kids throat.....cut
There wasn't that much variety in dolls those days, the all looked fairly similar. mine went down the basement and i didn't want to go near them.
I was in high school during the exoricist and was terrified. I still hate it when storm winds blow the curtains around, wind in general making noises, things fall over. I get really tense.
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but here goes. 
I had nightmares for months that followed seeing it. I was convinced that a demon lived under my bed. I prayed non-stop because I believed that this was the only way to keep from being possessed. I slept with my rosary. 
