Anyway, I think so too. Humans seem to have an innate fear of the dark, and any recent memory of danger will increase that effect. Heck, I'm an adult and still after watching something like Aliens I get seriously stressed when going to bathroom at night. And my closest friend openly refuses to watch scary movies when she expects to be alone home at night.
I think most people do, actually, regardless of what types of movies they watched when they were little.
Darkness invokes a primal fear in animals that have not evolved to operate comfortably in it (such as felines).