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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using "scare" a little loosely here, but I was waaaay to young to have seen clips of Alien when I did. It really fucked up to the point that I wasn't able to sleep in pitch black into my adulthood. Nowadays, Alien is one of my favorite movies, specifically because it's so scary, but I avoided horror movies like the plague at least up until high school

I can certainly watch that movie no problem now, and I wouldn't say it scares me in the same way it did when I was little, but I wouldn't love it as a horror movie if it wasn't still one of the most frightening pieces of cinema

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Alien might be the scariest movie of all time, IMO, so this makes perfect sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alien was actually my first movie, although I was too young to remember. But I remember Aliens. That movie scared the shit out of me. I slept with the lights on for a long time. I still don’t like those movies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same here. At a family get together my older sister and the other older kids decided they wanted to watch Aliens.

I was all, “yeah, that’s cool. I’m cool. I’ll totally stay in here too.”

That movie scared. The. Shit. Out of 9 year old me.