First Horror Movies?

Tonight’s survey, should you choose to participate:

What were some of the first horror movies you ever saw?

What effects did they have on you?

I’ll have to give this some thought, but mine may have been the original Halloween. As mentioned on one of our recent podcasts, my sister watched it on some long ago night when she was ostensibly babysitting me, but really just existing in the same space.

I have no idea why I decided to join her, but minutes after I did, she retired to her bedroom for another of her classic hourlong phone calls, leaving me on the couch with nothing but dim lighting and Michael Fucking Myers. I was so paralyzed with fear that I couldn’t even turn off the television.

It was an awful feeling, but one I’d pay (and in fact, have paid) good money to feel as an adult.