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Scary Movies

What movies scared me?

Honestly, I don't get scared of movies that much. This is not to say that I am brave. I don't like going in Haunted Houses (at carnivals or things like that.). But somehow movies don't bother me.

Of course, sometimes movies scared me when I was a kid. Sometimes even movies that were supposed to be for kids scared me, like the The Wizard of Oz. That witch was terrifying. Do you think that stopped me from watching it religiously year after year?

Nope.

Ironically, Sometimes T.V. shows scared me more then movies. Like when I was eleven, and they brought back Alfred Hitchcock Presents. My entire family watched an episode called The Man From the South. It was about this creepy guy who asks this youngster to bet the little finger of his left hand. It was very suspenseful, but then the game is interrupted by this woman who claims that the creepy man was betting things which weren't even his. "I won it all. It took a while, but I won it all," and you get the site of the woman's fingerless hand.

That last scene scared both me and my little sister. The difference was that it made me a huge fan of the show, while my sister wanted nothing more to do with it. For a long time after that, I would torment her by humming the "Alfred Hitcock" theme.