My parents, Mother especially, were fans of the genre and used to rent all sorts of nastiness from a video van that used to prowl the streets. Obviously being the responsible parents that they are, they didn't let my brother and I watch these films (I was about ten, my brother a year older). However, one afternoon we looked through the kitchen window while they were watching Dawn Of The Dead and that was it. I couldn't hear a thing but I was transfixed but what I was seeing.
Later that night I crept downstairs when everyone was a sleep and watched the whole film, I then started doing the same for every film they would rent. Eventually I got caught but the genie was already out of the bottle, they kind of turned a blind eye after a while, although they drew the line at Cannibal Holocaust (another midnight stealth mission resulted in me seeing that when I was much too young).
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