The Joker said:BULLS**T. When I was a kid, my parents would let me watch horror movies. I'm talking s**t like the first Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre here. I saw A Clockwork Orange the first time when I was 8. And at the time, they freaked me the hell out, yes. Oft was the time I made sure I was home before dark simply because I didnt want a guy wearing a mask made out of skin to cut me in half with a chainsaw. But it made me stronger in the end, because I eventually had to just think "Those are just movie, they're not real and not that scary because of that." And I also got a great appreciation of horror movies out of it. So if some guy running into a room yelling "The monster!" is going to scar a kid for life, that's cause the kid was probably coddled and made weak his entire life, which is the real abuse there.
Yeah my parents were the same way. Looking back at it I am glad I was able to watch those movies then, because thats when they actually scare you.