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Well the 'Child Catcher' scene in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has been voted one of the ten scariest scenes in cinema history, so I guess that was the first 'scary movie' I ever saw.
The first thing at the cinema to actually scare me was (I think) the 'march of the pink elephants' scene in Dumbo.
However the first 'proper' horror film I saw was probably a Hammer film or one of the 1930s/40s Universal Dracula/Frankenstein/Werewolf films as they were shown a lot on TV when I was a kid. I don't think I was ever scared by these.
But the thing that had the most lasting effect on me was the Autons in Dr Who (first time round, about 1969). That had plastic dolls and show room dummies coming to life and killing people. It took me years to be able to sit alone in a room with a doll after that. And I am still nervous of them. I know this is silly, but I cannot sleep in the same room as anything human shape made of plastic. Last summer I was in holiday and the hotel had left a small plastic doll in the room as part of the decoration. Before I could go to sleep I had to shut it in a draw, and pile the suitcases in front of the draw to stop it crawling out and 'getting me' in the night!
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