But the fact you skirted around remains true, if you show a little kid an 18 movie like Alien or something, they'll be scared sh*tless and have nightmares about it.
If you show an 18 year old kid, whose always been protected against anything potentialy dangerous, and never stimulated or challenged, he'll be scared @#!*less and have lasting nightmares too. Hell you could probably show it to a group of death row inmates, and some of them would be scared @#!*less aswell. It's a scarey movie! The only reason you're not scared of it now, is because you've seen it before, or been exposed to similar stimuli. It has nothing to do with you being 18. I think I was 12 when I saw it first, and I didn't think it was nearly as scarey as 'The Fly', and the worst bit of that was the vomiting part. theorising is great, but there's nothing like REAL experience.
That's nice. You don't know what real experience I have. You just assume that because I don't agree with you, I must not know what I'm talking about.