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as they say "freddy scared the piss out of me when I was a kid" I believe that part of the reason was that they were kids. Today as we watch horror we know that it is not true or not gonna happen to us when we fall asleep etc... we have become desensitized to the horror aspect because we know that we are safe in our homes or in our rooms watching this stuff on TV. I remember when I was young that TCM 2 just came out. I lived in a part of Indianapolis where there were a lot of motorcycles and everytime I heard one start I panicked thinking that they were chainsaws. Now as an adult I know that the dead dont come alive ( ROTLD where it says that it is based on actuall events) and that freddy is not gonna kill me in my sleep. That is why that I dont find them scary anymore. I get "shocks" from time to time but that is only fleeting. True horror and scaryness live in my childhood from my vulnerability and left when I started growing up. A sad sude effect of the aging process to be sure but one that cant be avoided, but I still love horror all the same
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