Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Top 20 Best Horror Movie Trailers of All Time" video.

The boys next door to me begged to watch "Paranormal Activity" at my house on Friday night, and since their mom said ok, I ordered pizzas and we had a scary fright fest. They were pretty young, but held up well until it was late and they had to go next door to go to bed. They did not want to go outside in the dark even though it was only a few feet away! I was like, "there are no ghosts on the front lawn! I will go with you!". I did, they went in, and i turned around and the wind suddenly picked up and the branches on the oak trees started scraping together...my porch was pitch dark, because I forgot to turn the light on...I practically broke my hand trying to get into the house!
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@ADCFproductions Well, Mr. District Attorney, since I am apparently on the stand, I will testify that I opened my statement to immediately identify that the people who were going to watch the movie with me were "boys", who lived next door. That short description tells you who they were, what sex, and that they were young, without a lot of tiresome explanation, which I have to give now. Anyone reading it would assume that because I referred to them familiarly, I obviously knew them well enough to be on friendly terms to have invited them over to eat pizza with me and watch a movie. If I had not identified them as I did in my original post, someone might have been unclear as to who it was that was coming over and why it might be humorous that I walked them back to their house, even though it was just next door, then felt uneasy myself, as the adult, going back alone. It was meant as a mild anecdote about an experience I had. Does that satisfy the jury?
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I can't watch movies based on real events after growing up in the Bay Area during the Zodiac Killer attacks...I was in 4th grade and the police came to each classroom to tell us to go home in pairs and not to talk to any strangers! Also, stay at home moms volunteered to put "Safety Signs" in their windows, so if you were being chased by a serial killer, and still a block from home, theoretically, you would have some house to run to nearby. It was a lot to take in! We were scared after that permanently!
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@Reaperguy67 I am too, but it was so awful! At the same time, there were other we iui rd events going on, "stinky the rapist" was attacking Berkeley students, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the SLA and the Stanford Prison Experiment took place, just a couple of miles from my house! I knew about it, because a hippie teacher I had in 7th grade brought a bootlegged copy of the tapes to class and told us it was really important to see it. Talk about trauma! Every kid at Palo Alto High School was supposed to go to Stanford or Davis, and seeing that film freaked me out forever on Stanford. There was a lot of anger and the parents of the kids who participated all sued, supposedly. The original raw films are pretty unbearable, you really get how the Nazi regime came about if it only took two or three days for wealthy, comfortable, bright students could turn into monsters...
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When the trailer came out for Blair witch project, I kept thinking it had to be real because she was really cold and crying, it wasn't acting! I was right, she was cold and crying, but mostly because they were stuck out in the woods for months in winter being treated like crap....I'm not sure which is scarier, the witch, or unfeeling movie directors!
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@SFBenjaminK I'm so old I grew up in the 60s and 70s! I remember when the Exorcist came to theaters and people were on the news being dragged fainting and throwing up out of theatres and all these religious leaders freaking out and railing against it!
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@SFBenjaminK Actually, my mom and her best friend went to see it in the theater, and when she came back she said, "I think they actually killed a couple of extras.."! She was totally horrified by it! You're right, it's not mentioned as much, but really terrifying. I never sat down and watched it, because I'm freaky about it, it was too scary for me! The Exorcist wasn't as scary, in a weird way. I don't know exactly why, though...
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