Welcome to the forum, not a pirate!
I dunno if I ever paused a movie for being to scary (much respect btw for admitting that, it's not easy saying you're afraid), not to memory have I anyway. Most anything I watch I'm multi-tasking, be it drawing or browsing the internet, so chances are that might keep me from getting too into a movie to get afraid if that were ever going to happen. Sometimes when it comes to certain things like glass and razors and getting cut with them, I cringe and look away to break my focus of the movie and kinda remind myself ''it's just a movie it's just a movie''. Still can't watch
all of Hellraiser II because of that one scene... After I hear it's over though I'm just fine for the rest of it.