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Horror movie of my childhood


For some reason (I had it on tape?) I watched this movie many times when I was a kid and it kind of shaped my fears. I put it alongside IT, Children of the corn, Nightmare in Elm Street, Poltergeist, Friday the 13th and other big horror flicks in my mind's gallery of horror.

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Agreed this movie had the scary elements that went along with most kid's childhood something under the bed, something in the closet, something behind the mirror,something in the wall, pretty freaky even to this day if you let your mind screw with you lol.

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I had the unfortunate luck of having seen this movie when I was only 2-3 years old. (I don't know what my parents must have been smoking when they let me watch it). Nowadays I'm usually unfazed my scary movies, yet this one still sends shivers down my spine.

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YEs this was like my personal horror movie to me growing up as a kid,..because the story had kids as the main charechters i could relate to that,.. and it felt like somethign that could happen to me...stories i used to think about as a kid.

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i agree with all you said but i took it a step further....i still remember going to the library to look up demon/demonlogy stuff. i even tried to see if there was a real "dark book". lol i knew the movie was fake dont get me wrong, but i thought there might be something similar.

i dont know if i was just curious or hoped to try and raise demons but yeah. lol

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