Also anecdotally: as a young teenager I'd remember scenes from movies like Aliens in order to psyche myself up for doing things that were scary. Like: "Okay, se

Also anecdotally: as a young teenager I'd remember scenes from movies like Aliens in order to psyche myself up for doing things that were scary. Like: "Okay, self. You can go into that dark basement. It's scary, but not as scary as a bunch of marines going into an alien-infested death trap." Don't get me wrong: Aliens was really freaking scary to me. Probably the most a movie has ever scared me. As soon as they encounter the first xenomorph it's pretty much sheer terror for the next hour.