My first “too scary” movie was the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser. For those unfamiliar: not very scary at all, but I was probably eight when I saw it.

My siblings and I would fight over who got to sleep with the cat - in the movie the mummy is scared away by cats. Anybody who owns a cat knows this is a pointless argument, and the cat sleeps with who it wants.

My mother used to make me watch scary movies with her to toughen me up.

Gave me nightmares for years.

I begged to see Poltergeist when it came out in 1982, I was 11. One of my main arguments was that it was only rated PG, ET came out the same year and it was rated PG; the PG-13 rating didn’t exist yet.

I did not sleep in my room for 3 months after that and when I finally was able to go back all my stuffed animals had to be out of the room.

I have never found another movie again that scared me so much and I have seen more horror movies than I could count.

That reminds me that my most terrifying movie scene as a kid wasn’t actually an scary movie.

It was a movie with a scene were the toilet talks or acts as he is going to eat the kid, can’t quite remember the details. The trauma was serious I couldn’t go to the bathroom to take a shit without feeling weird, terrified that it would bite my ass and all that, I tried to avoid going as long as possible…

I can’t seem to find the movie or the scene, all I see is a scene from Look Who Is Talking but that’s not it. I did see it like later on life and I think it was like in a public bathroom and maybe the kid kind of had a daydream… But honestly no clue, I couldn’t find it.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind terrified me as a kid. Not because of the alien shit, but because the thought of a vacuum turning on and running by itself was just the most horrific thing I could imagine.