Originally Posted by Bladewire

I was 6 and my "Mother" took me to watch it at the theatre. By that age I was already desensitized to real life violence, torture, skin burnings, scars, hospital stays in casts, watching people get beat, guns to the head, their teeth knocked out, blood, killing animals, watching others screaming in pain etc... BUT I will never forget that movie because it was the first time I saw a knife go into a body. It was a whole new level for me.

Before that I'd seen things hit bodies and break bones, bullets go into animals & wound them and/or kill them or whatever but I'd never seen a knife go into a body and cause damage it had never crossed my mind I kid you not. I was scared shitless during that movie and my "mother" was upset I kept closing my eyes and covering my ears so she quietly sat me on her lap, held my hands down under my legs and whispered "watch the movie".

I felt empowered after that movie and finally worked myself up to a frenzy some weeks later to getting a big knife out of the kitchen and threatning violence to stop violence. In my mind then I literally invoked the power I saw Michael Meyers had, I was Michael Meyers and I was going to do what he did to save my "mother" and it gave me strength, and it worked. It was the first time I really felt the power to change things and I remember screaming to be heard above my "moms" screams and the guy stopped hitting her and looked at me in fear and my "mom" did too and I felt power because of that movie and Michael Meyers. I ended up thrown against the wall & breaking a collar bone. That hospital stay was difficult I had nightmares every night screaming thinking Michael Meyers was walking down the hospital hallway mad coming to get me and it was my fault because I invoked him. Anyway I'll never forget that movie it was pivotal in my life in a good way no joke. Sorry for going on thinking of that movie that day brought back a flood of memories. GFY is a safe dumping ground. Excellent thread topic.