Faces of Death when I was like 8.
I had a really weird friend named Jim. His parents were loaded and he and his sister were adopted when they were babies. His family was well known in the town I'm from. But he was always so strange. We were staying at my other friends house one night when we were about 13, and we went to the old school movie rental place in town, the 90's old school shop with the slashers in the back. The owner was also a old TV repair guy who didn't give a sht what age you were and just checked you out. Miss those days.
Well we checked out faces of death. It was the one with the politician who killed himself on camera before going to prison, Bud Dryer? maybe?
So we watched it and lost a chunk of our childhood that night. Later on while we were sleeping my buddy woke me up and said Jim is downstairs watching it again by himself. It was the middle of the night and we were already scared enough, the hell is he doing down there in the dark watching it, man we were like f that.
We went downstairs and sat on the steps where we could see into the living room. We sat there for about 10 minutes watching Jim rewind the part where Bud was killing himself. He would watch it and rewind, watch and rewind, watch and rewind. My father always told my other friends parents that Jim wasn't right and they shouldnt have him over. Well a few years later Jim was staying over there again and he planned out an idea.
He swapped my friends mother's eye solution on her night stand with super glue and waited outside her room during the night to wait for it to happen. Sure enough she woke up and went to put solution in her eyes and grabbed the super glue instead. My buddy said she started screaming and saw Jim watching from outside her room at some point. He apparently stayed downstairs to wait for it and see it in real time, or that's what we all believed at the time. I mean he was already down there by her room. He later admitted to it. Jim also had a massive knife collection that I've thought back on and realized there were some crazy warning signs.
His parents ended up kicking him out of the house after high school. He now lives in Arkansas last I checked, I've always thought the day will come when I'd see him on cold case files for the murder of a dozen women.
