This is remarkable, because I had precisely the opposite experience with E.T.

…ledge. I believe it was a birthday trip for my older sister, and that I was four or five years old. The only image from the film that I held onto for any length of time was the scariest portion, when Elliott’s house gets transformed into a med-lab nightmare of white and clear plastic as the invasive authorities study — and fail to save — E.T. But it wasn’t the shots of the deathly-pale alien that seared themselves into my brain, or Elliott’s…
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Simon Dillon
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This is remarkable, because I had precisely the opposite experience with E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. I was a bit older than you at the time (seven) but I recall everything in the film vividly except this sequence. It was so traumatic I shut it out.
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