# Your first scary movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-scary-movie/498123 "2009-05-30T04:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-scary-movie/498123/19 "2009-05-30T19:31:41Z")
Although I doubt it was my _first_, it’s the first one I can really pinpoint. From [this thread about movie surprises](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9701371): > [@Your Biggest Surprise in a Movie \[Open Spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/90): > > Yeah, little bit. I was, what, maybe twelve? I was staying with some family friends while my parents were away for a few days…I was having a blast, because they actually had HBO! You could watch movies! And sometimes there were boobs! > > Anyway, it was around 10 at night, and _Friday The 13th_ was coming on. Man…an actual grown-up horror flick…not like those ones they show on _The 4:30 Movie_…one with blood and guts and everything! The kids of this family had an “Oh, _this_ movie again?” attitude, and went to bed. But not me, no way, I was staying on that couch until the very end. > > And what a sweet ending…Mrs. Voorhees was dead, and Alice was safe and sound floating in the middle of the lake, and _OHSWEETMOTHEROFFUCKWHATTHEFUCKISTHAT?!?!?!?_ > > As I recall, the family was none-to-pleased with my midnight shrieking. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-scary-movie/498123)._