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Originally Posted by Mark S.
I was raised on horror movies of every sort.
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Same.
When I was little (4-5 years old), my parents often left me in the care of a family friend who ran a local cinema and he would take me to work with him where I could watch whatever was on that day. I saw Nosferatu and god knows how many Bela Lugosi films sitting in that projector room and none left me scarred. I loved those experiences, the smell of film and the glue used to fix tears, the noise the projector made, the black and white images, and even the cloud of cigarette smoke hanging in the air with trails of ghost images in it, all as vivid now as they were back then. I've not had a single nightmare from watching horror but had a recurrent one of atomic explosions and, rather randomly, a flying cow that used to wake me up screaming.
One of the schools I went to also ran a once a week horror movie night. As far as I can remember, there was no age restriction as most could be trusted to leave if they didn't like it. I guess a lot of the fear was lost through the enthusiastic cheering and general mockery that went on. That was around the time I was 7 or 8 and zombie/dead rising from the graves was all the rage back then.
Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, Hammer House of Horror, and The Twilight Zone were all a staple of my diet.
If I were to add a random movie to the list of already suggested titles I'd say try Stephen King's
Maximum Overdrive. Different kind of horror and something the two of you could make fun of together. And for just general odd eeriness, King's
The Langoliers.
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