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The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
Christopher Bollen
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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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