(August 27, 2014 at 9:42 am)Losty Wrote: I haven't done this since I was a teenager, but I think the very best way to watch a scary movie is with someone who isn't scared (especially if they're the nice kind who won't scare you bc they think it's funny). Just get under their arm in kind of a ball with your face against their side. Then you just turn into them and hide for every scary part. Yes that's definitely the best way.When I was a child, my dad would let me watch scary movies and TV shows late at night, mostly to piss off my mom. He would boast to people how I could remain calm through the scariest parts of any movie or show. I never told him, but I wasn't calm... I was still. As in petrified. But I loved it.
I don't see the point in watching a scary film if you don't get scared. But I was never the type to scream and cover my eyes. I might get startled and laugh nervously after a particularly effective scare, but I don't panic. So I guess we could watch scary movies together. But if you pressed your face against me it would feel like you were getting a massage due to the shaking and shivering.
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