Enough of the serious stuff. Trolling around the TV channels this evening, I discover the original Alien movie, with Sigourney Weaver. And I remember that, twenty years or so ago, also trolling around the TV channels I came upon the movie about which I knew nothing. I was immediately engrossed, and, quite unexpectedly,found myself terrified at the appropriate moments, so that at one point I felt like I was back, once againa terrified pre-teen boy in the Nyack movie theatre, saying silently to myself: "Its only a movie! Its only a movie!"So now that Ive bared my soul or psyche, tell me what was your scaredest moments at the movies, either as a child or as an adult. Books can come later.

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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