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- From: Felipe_Soto@qms1.life.uiuc.edu
- Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
- References: <1689C78DB.S954818@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> <machala.721507881@delphi> <1d <1992Nov15.044412.27853@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:58:06 GMT
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- >Actually, it wasn't so much the movies at 8, but the movies at
- >13, a much more confusing age, that affected me. I mentioned
- >earlier a couple of horror movies that scared me at 8 or 9, but
- >at 13, I remember _Bonnie and Clyde_ giving me nightmares for
- >weeks, and for some reason _Houdini_ with Tony Curtis really
- >upset me--I still vividly remember having dreams of drowning
- >after seeing the end of the movie where Houdini dies on stage
- >when he can't break out of a giant glass tank filled with water.
- >I didn't know til years later that he didn't really die this way.
- >I had a fear of water until my early 20s; I just now, in composing
- >this post, put 2 and 2 together. Wow! The power of movies!
- >--Michael
- >
-
- II had a similar experience. When I was 8 or so I saw just the end of tthe
- Houdini movie and couldn't sleep for a week or so. Two other mmovies had the
- same effect on me when I was 7, but I don't know the ttitle of either of them.
- One was about an invible alien from outer sspace. I just saw the scene whe he
- takes off his â””space vest? (I ddon't know the proper term in english). After
- that I could be alone aanywhere iin the house (even during the day) because I
- thought that this thing was going to kill and I was defenseles because I
- couldn't ssee him. The other movie was about a soldier that recieves large
- aamouts of radioactivity and becomes a giant. I saw pieces of this mmovie
- several ttimes (the last time when I was 10 or so) and every ttime it scared
- the hell out of me.
- II'm not sure this is strictly tied to age because I had a similar eexperience
- when I was 22-23. I saw a preview of Dracula's Dogs (I'm not sure this is the
- title but it had to do with Dracula's Dogs, of course) and that night I had
- horrible nightmares. After I saw the movie I slept like a baby. I think that
- horror out of context is worse than than in context because your mind doesn't
- know how to defend itself. It has no background, doesn't know the weakneses of,
- and therfore doesn't know how, to destroy the monster.
-
- Any comments on this Idea?
-
- Finally, of all the movies Ihave seen the most disturbing one was The Exorcist
- (the first one of course). But this may be a very personal experience because I
- was 13 and I'm the son of a Presbyterian Pastor that was growing up in the
- church with its good things and the not so good intense fear of hell and the
- devil.
-
- Felipe N. Soto
-