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• Sorry to Bother You

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  "As an adult, watching Sorry to Bother You changed the way I saw horror in general, as it brought it much closer to reality. Fewer supernatural monsters and more human monsters. I still think of this one regularly, and it gives me chills." (Erin S.)

• Jaws

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  "I saw this movie when I was 10 years old at the Penn Theater in downtown Plymouth. At the time, my only experience with swimming was in our backyard pool. Seeing a ferocious shark on the big screen was absolutely terrifying. Watching this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poltergeist

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  "I watched this movie at too young an age for sure! The tree scratching on the window; the voices and blood from the ceiling—I don't think I could walk past a dark television without my shoulders up to my ears in anxiety for a long time!" (Jaclyn) …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Exorcist

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  "I refused to sleep in my bed for a week, thinking that it would start jumping up and down and my head would turn completely around." (Amy L.)

• Oculus

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  "The psychological horror of this movie caught me off guard. I thought I hated it, but the longer I sat with it, the more it haunted me. I was double-checking that my apples weren't light bulbs for a little while." (Stacey)

• Twilight Zone

  the Movie

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  "I saw the (80s) Twilight Zone Movie on TV when I was in elementary school. The third segment, directed by Joe Dante, in which a young boy with magic mind powers can make basically anything happen, so everyone is afraid of making him angry…There's a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It

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  "After watching It at thirteen years old, I felt haunted every time I was home alone. I had a particular aversion to the basement stairs for several years." (Erin S.)

• Pet Sematary Two

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  "I think I was about 10 years old when I watched Pet Sematary Two with my older neighbor friend. She was 13, an actual teen, so obviously very cool. We watched it because Edward Furlong was in it, and he was very much a tween dreamboat at the time.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Signs

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  "I’ve never been a fan of jump scares or scary movies in general, and in 7th grade, my class watched this film as part of a ‘fun’ movie day. I still remember one friend hiding under her desk while my other friend and I held onto each other the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Birds

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  "Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds definitely left me with a lasting aversion to birds." (Jenny)

• Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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  "In 1974, during the hottest month of a blistering Texas summer, a bunch of college students and actors captured a waking nightmare on film when they came together to create a movie that causes people to recoil just by hearing its title: The Texas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Halloween

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  "I watched the first Halloween while babysitting. I highly recommend not doing that. Ever." (Amy L.)

• The Wizard of Oz

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  "While The Wizard of Oz no longer gives me nightmares, when I first watched it at five years old, the flying monkeys haunted my dreams for months. And after reading Wicked, it’s no wonder." (Erin S.)

• Candyman

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  "I intended to go see Candyman once. There was a showing on the big screen, and I didn’t even make it through the credits. The medicine cabinet swung open, and I excused myself, making a whole row of people stand up so I could leave." (Kat B.)