horror

Your 4th grader might be watching "Halloween" this week.

Only 46 percent of us think we could survive as a character in a scary movie, but we're quick to let 10-year olds watch and weigh in. Are we nuts?

Can we all agree that scary clowns are horrifying? Yes? OK, great let's proceed. By the way, the proper term for fear of clowns? Coulrophobia.

I used to worry that those images would sear themselves into my sub-conscious forever and I'd be scarred irreparably.

Perhaps part of it was realizing that whenever I walked outside, the chance that I would be confronted by a hungry zombie mob was generally a small one.