What movie turned you into a horror fan?

[Upsyndrome]

I'm sure most of the...ahem...older people here are gonna say Night of the Living Dead. But since I'm only 22, I watched The Shining when I was about 7 and I've been hooked on horror since.

[rhett]

The Shining was the first horror film that I had ever seen, but it wasn't until seeing Halloween (hence the sig) back in around 1992 that got me hooked on horror. Cool thread Ups!

[KillerCannabis]

For me it would have to be Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. My parents didnt like me to watch horror movies, so my brother and I had to sneak watching it on USA late at night, usually during one of their Friday the 13th marathons. Those were the days....

[DefJeff]

halloween

[napalm68]

Strangely enough, it wasn't a movie that started my lifelong interest in horror, it was actually a christian comic series. I was bought up in a fundamentalist family, and they had all those Jack Chick "Crusader" Comic series. They were stuff to give young kids nightmares, and pretty graphic, although they all had some jesus fucking loves you message at the end... :)

Movie wise - John Carpenter's The Thing sold me on horror films.

[aoiookami]

If I remember correctly, my first scary movie that got me hooked was Alien.
take care

[Mark Relford]

Um, let's see... Poltergeist, The Shining, Kingdom of the Spiders, Friday the 13th, and Maniac turned me into a horror fan. Also, watching the original NOTLD on late-night TV when I was little made a huge impact.
*A special thanks goes out to mom and dad for renting every damn horror movie in the video store and corrupting their son.:D

[Jog]

Originally posted by napalm68
Strangely enough, it wasn't a movie that started my lifelong interest in horror, it was actually a christian comic series. I was bought up in a fundamentalist family, and they had all those Jack Chick "Crusader" Comic series. They were stuff to give young kids nightmares, and pretty graphic, although they all had some jesus fucking loves you message at the end... :)


Holy smokes, Jack Chick is amazing!!! The Crusaders was one of the most extreme horror comix of its day, religious message or not. Chick is a true underground legend, and I don't even believe his "message" at all. I think many of his fans today are NOT the people he had in mind when he crafted his magical little books though... :D

Anyhow, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 did it for me when I was 7 or 8. I've never recovered.

[fatclown]

The movie that really made me like horror was a made for tv movie in the 70s called (I am guessing here!) "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". The boy's father is walking home in the woods and is bitten by a growling shadow abomination. The father gets home and his wound heals. He goes to this hippie gathering and finds out that he is cursed. That's all I can recall from this movie since I saw it in 1978 in the abc network.

[slinker]

You guyz are gonna think im like way old for this, but i used to watch loads of black n white horror that they would repeat endlessly on TV in the early 80`s...stuff like Boris Karloffs `Frankenstein` and Bela Lugosis `Dracula` and all the Lon Chaney stuff....that sparked off the interest in the macarbe. The first horror movie i rented was `Friday the 13th part II` when i was about 9 or 10 then it just snowballed!! ;)

[Vasilis]

The movie that turned me in to a horror fan was Fulci's the house by the cemetery. I remember clearly watching in awe the gore scenes. I wasn't used to this kind of mayhem, mainly because the typical horror film you could watch on the greek tv channels was horror, or scars of dracula, cut most of the time of course. That was back in 1985. I've been a horror fan ever since. I'm a sucker for Eurohorror and specially Italian ultra low budget blood soaked horror films.

[thrashard76]

Poltergeist totally started it all for me. I was scared for nights...I had to run to my parents room because I was scared of noises I'd heard in my quiet room at night. Then I saw Nightmare On Elm Street 3. That gave me nightmares for a week. I would sit up quick in bed from a deep sleep and scream for a couple seconds...look around my quite dark room and wait...did I see that curtain move...what was that bump over there...man I scared myself so bad when I was younger.:p

[Lindane]

I was 6 years old and my father made a bet with me. He swore up and down that my local grocery store did not rent out videos. I absolutely knew that they did. He said if they did he would rent me my first horror film. Sure enough I was right and he got me Nightmare on Elm Street 1. Ever since Iv'e been hooked! :)

[napalm68]

Originally posted by Jog


Holy smokes, Jack Chick is amazing!!! The Crusaders was one of the most extreme horror comix of its day, religious message or not. Chick is a true underground legend, and I don't even believe his "message" at all. I think many of his fans today are NOT the people he had in mind when he crafted his magical little books though... :D

Anyhow, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 did it for me when I was 7 or 8. I've never recovered.

Wow, so I'm not the only person to recall these. I have been meaning to buy them all again. Classics.

[rxfiend]

hmm, not for sure which movie. probably ANOES. My parents used to watch horror films all the time when i was young, so i can't really pinpoint a particular film.

[Agent Z]

Too hard to pick that one particular film, but the following sure made an impression:

JAWS- My parents took us to see JAWS at a drive-in(!) when it was re-released. I remember not being able to even take a bath for days afterwards. Thankfully, I was small enough to get by with a sponge bath. There was no way I was getting in that tub full of shark-infested bathwater! :D

BURNT OFFERINGS- I never have seen this all the way through, but I remember catching most of it on a Saturday afternoon television. The film had a great atmosphere and the soft-focus photography had a nice creepy edge to it.

POLTERGEIST- That damn clown! THAT clown made me not just casually get into bed at night...BUT..I had to get a running start and JUMP into my bed real quick...so the clown underneath MY bed couldn't grab my leg!

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD- Our local PBS station used to air this every Halloween. I caught it once there and was just totally into it.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 (IN 3D!)- Yes, I was WAY too young to be seeing this in a theater, but my uncle Tom took me and my two brothers to see this in New York. I think I was covering my eyes half the time...and I remember my uncle apologizing afterwards for taking me. The funny part was when I TRIED to go to bed that night. The room I was in had the window propped up with a small hatchet. Now, it was tough enough to close my eyes after seeing the movie, but seeing that hatchet in the corner, holding the window up, had me thinking all night: " Great! They leave the window up AND leave a hatchet for Jason to use when he stops by!" I never did sleep that night, let alone close my eyes.

[BlazeRockhard]

There wasn't really one film that did it for me, but a handful that really got me into the horror genre.

"Humanoids from the Deep" - I remember watching this on HBO when I was quite young. Let's see, there were some monsters and some naked girls. Maybe that's why I liked it. Have not got around to ordering this on DVD yet, but for like $8.95 at deepdiscountdvd I think I will soon.

"Piranha" - Another fond HBO memory. Picked this up a while ago and have watched it several times.

"Alligator" - I remember going to the drive in with my parents when I was young. I don't know what film they were watching, but I turned around and watched this flick on another screen. It's a shame this isn't out on region 1 yet, I do believe there is a region 2 release. If any one has any info on any DVD release on this, that would be great.

"Poltergeist" - I too remember quite a few sleepless nights fearing that a clown would come out from under my bed. Saw this in the theatre and had the "moving meat" image ingrained in my head for quite some time.

"Creature from the Black Lagoon" - There used to be a show on Saturdays called Monster Mash. They would play various older horror flicks such as this and "Frankenstein", "Dracula", etc. This has always been one of my favorites. I really wish Universal would release the other "Creature" titles. Got scared when the Universal Classic monster flick went OOP. Thank goodness for Columbia House.

Also thoroughly enjoyed the "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" movies as well. Can't wait for Jason X and Halloween 8.

Enough rambling. Thanks for the sweet topic.

Blaze Rockhard

[Shannafey]

Can't remember if it was one movie, but I watched a steady stream of monster movies when I was a kid. Universal stuff, godzilla and other Japanese stuff. Then, I naturally progressed to slasher films and others.

[moogong]

Originally posted by napalm68
Strangely enough, it wasn't a movie that started my lifelong interest in horror, it was actually a christian comic series. I was bought up in a fundamentalist family, and they had all those Jack Chick "Crusader" Comic series. They were stuff to give young kids nightmares, and pretty graphic, although they all had some jesus fucking loves you message at the end... :)

Movie wise - John Carpenter's The Thing sold me on horror films.

hey naplam....wasnt this the series where every teenager was either a pcp freak or a black metal satan worshiper?

I seem to recall those. I think I have a link for those comics. I will see if I cant find it for you.

[mystro]

Fulci's House by the Cemetery. A great mind-f**k!! Kick started my decline into the horror genre.

[Hellbilly]

"Jaws"
That film did it for me.

[moogong]

Don Knotts in "The Ghost in Mr. Chicken".

I kid you not. Even though it was a comedy it was spooky as hell and I was only 4.

I loved being scared so much my older brother took it upon himself to introduce me to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th pt. 2. After that I had a serious addiction to Critters and The Gate. HBO played them constantly!!

[Yowie]

For me it was the original "King Kong" and Karloff's monster in the first "Frankenstein". Silly me would hide my head behind a pillow and miss all the good stuff, that's how scary they were. They wouldn't scare a fly today of course, but a young kid in the early '70s apparently had a lot in common with 1930's audiences !. I knew I was watching something special then, and I've been hooked ever since.

[Mattster]

A Nightmare on Elm Street all the way. Heather Langenkamp is just awesome in that movie. She's in my top ten favorite heroines.

[mybordy]

Is... HALLOWEEN. I remember the night of halloween in 1998 in a digital channel, HALLOWEEN is my best favourite horror film. But, FRIDAY THE 13TH PART FOUR: THE FINAL CHAPTER is my first horror movie than i see in my life.

The night he came home....

JOHN CARPENTER'S H

HALLOWEEN

I have got the limited anchor bay edition DVD, is fanstatic edition, a hologram cover in the cover, documentary 30 min, trailers, spots, poster and still galery, radio spots, trivia, about the tv version and a cast & crew biografies...

[napalm68]

Originally posted by moogong77


hey naplam....wasnt this the series where every teenager was either a pcp freak or a black metal satan worshiper?

I seem to recall those. I think I have a link for those comics. I will see if I cant find it for you.

Yeah, thats probably the ones. And the leads were a pair of christian gay looking dudes, one black, one white, who helped people for Jesus.

I'll have a dig around myself.

[Andrew]

Hmm... the first four Friday the 13th flicks 2 years ago. Me and my friend rented them, and proceded to rent out Blockbuster's selection. I moved on and started buying other "weirder" flicks, he didn't. His loss :p.

[Luna]

Ya know, I've been racking my brain, trying to figure out what the first horror movie I ever saw was...

I cannot, for the life of me, remember exactly which movie it was. :o What I do remember, though, is always watching the late movie and the late LATE movie, which half the time had horror movies, old and new (well, 70's new back then, heh). I remember getting hooked on Friday the 13th, Halloween and stuff like that from about 5 years old and on, around 1980. At about 6 or 7 years old, I'd go to the local candy store and buy Fangoria with my allowance, which really blew their minds. Picture a young, innocent looking girl in pigtails coming in to buy THAT. I'd sit at their counter, drink a chocolate eggcream and read the magazine. They'd even ask me why I wanted to read stuff like that. Of course, I told them, "Because I like it!", which probably just confused 'em further. :p

Anyway though, perhaps I can attribute my love of horror to my mom. She's the one who let me watch horror movies ALL my life because she was a horror fanatic as well. She even went to see the Exorcist with me in the womb. My grandma begged her not to go see it because I might come out a devil child, but erm, at any rate... here I am. :D

[moogong]

Originally posted by napalm68


Yeah, thats probably the ones. And the leads were a pair of christian gay looking dudes, one black, one white, who helped people for Jesus.

I'll have a dig around myself.


ha! I found the website. its www.chick.com

they are funny now...but looking back..these things scared the hell outta me. what the hell kinda way was that to shape a kids mind???

[CrumpsBro]

NOTLD!

I guess that makes me an old fogey. :D

I can still remember to this day, staying up late and watching this movie with mom. It must have been just a few years after it came out, maybe 1973-74 and it aired at 11:30 on Saturday night on WABC in New York. I had never heard of the movie and just tuned it cause it had such a cool title. Naturally, I was hooked within minutes.

The funny thing was that the TV station was airing "warning" messages after each commercial break, reminding people that this movie was not real, I guess because of the all the fake TV news bulletins in the flick! Man, was that a more innocent time or what!

[nailzer]

The original 1956 version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. I was staying at a friends house and it was on the friday night Fright Theater. Scared the pure crap out of me. That was about 1960 or so when I was around 10.

[Luna]

Originally posted by CrumpsBro
and it aired at 11:30 on Saturday night on WABC in New York.

I used to watch the late movie on WABC all the time. Perhaps it's just me looking back with rose-colored glasses, but they used to show damn cool movies late at night back then. I'd even look forward to Saturdays, I think it was either WPIX, WWOR or perhaps whatever channel FOX is now in NY, but they'd show the best movies in the afternoon around 3pm. I think maybe it was called the Drive-In Movie? I was really young so I forget, but they'd show horror and karate/kung-fu flicks all the time. Oh yeah, and comedy, like the Three Stooges and Abbott & Costello and stuff like that.

Nobody seems to do this anymore, as they're only concerned with getting $$$. It's rather depressing! What the hell DO kids watch for thrills nowadays anyway? :mad:

Is there somewhere I can sign up to be a horror mentor? ;) :p

[rxfiend]

Nobody seems to do this anymore, as they're only concerned with getting $$$. It's rather depressing! What the hell DO kids watch for thrills nowadays anyway?



it sucks that no one shows horror films on tv like they used to. I remember when i was a child, there was a channel in Bloomington, IN (i think it was around there) that would play horor movies on every saturday night. They had a host named Samentary (or something like that). that dude always scared the shit out of me. LOL but i remember seeing great movies like the original evil dead, some godzilla flicks, etc....

[Mark Relford]

Originally posted by rxfiend
I remember when i was a child, there was a channel in Bloomington, IN (i think it was around there) that would play horor movies on every saturday night. They had a host named Samentary (or something like that). that dude always scared the shit out of me. LOL but i remember seeing great movies like the original evil dead, some godzilla flicks, etc....

Sammy Terry!:D He had a pet spider named Stanley. I used to watch that show. I met him at some halloween gathering years ago. You could have your picture taken with him. He was in full makeup and drunk.

[Foxx]

The Evil Dead did me in. I had seen a few slasher movies before then - none of which really impressed me - but along came ED, and it was *so* well made and ambitious it really opened me up to the quality that the genre can produce by a talented group. I then proceeded to hook all my friends on Evil Dead, of course. :D

the first horror movie I ever saw probably waaasss... American Werewolf In London. AWiL rocks. :D

[Demon Tech]

Not a movie. A video game called "Resident Evil 2"

[chrishicks]

Phantasm

[MISFITZ]

This movie didn't turn me into a horror fan 9was one waaaay before this), and I honestly don't think it was a movie that made me like horror. My love for horror branches out to different areas.

But one film throughout my years always makes me feel proud to be a horror fan and also disects the horror fan and 'brief' history of horror movies...

TERROR IN THE AISLES

I swear, watch that film and you just feel good about being a horror movie fan! They did a good job at looking at a variety of horror movie era's!! Maybe an update is needed to go over the late 80's and 90's films!! (the good and the bad)

[napalm68]

Originally posted by moogong77



ha! I found the website. its www.chick.com

they are funny now...but looking back..these things scared the hell outta me. what the hell kinda way was that to shape a kids mind???

Most excellent - they have a Jumbo Pack with all 18 comics. I'll have to order one.Oddly enough, it seems like he hasn';t written any more since the 80s.

[CrumpsBro]

Originally posted by Luna
I used to watch the late movie on WABC all the time. Perhaps it's just me looking back with rose-colored glasses, but they used to show damn cool movies late at night back then. I'd even look forward to Saturdays, I think it was either WPIX, WWOR or perhaps whatever channel FOX is now in NY, but they'd show the best movies in the afternoon around 3pm. I think maybe it was called the Drive-In Movie? I was really young so I forget, but they'd show horror and karate/kung-fu flicks all the time. Oh yeah, and comedy, like the Three Stooges and Abbott & Costello and stuff like that.


Excuse me while Luna and I reminisce...

Yup, WPIX had "Chiller Theater" which aired Saturday @ midnight and again on Sunday @ 1PM and WNEW (channel 5) had "Creature Features" which aired at 10AM and 8PM on Saturdays. Then, in between all that WOR used to air horror movies of its own here and there and many of them would be practically UNCUT for the first few times they aired! I mean violence, nudity, just unbelievable stuff for broadcast TV. Then, after a few airings (all within the span of like 3 weeks; they played the hell out of these flicks) the movies would suddenly start airing with massive cuts, as if someone at the station had just realized what kind of movie "Die Screaming Marianne" was and decided they had better cover their asses.

I saw a lot of great, great horror flicks during those days. And to this day I still tell people about how that animated logo for "Chiller Theater" would freak me out as a kid. It was of a hand rising out of a crimson red river to snatch up the letters C-H-I-L-L-E-R one at a time. And--I hope I don't scare too many of you youngsters, now--the hand had SIX fingers on it! AHHHHHHHH!

[Luna]

Originally posted by CrumpsBro


Excuse me while Luna and I reminisce...

YES!! Oh, sweet, lovely memories! *sigh*

I LOVED when those shows would come on. Obviously, I never got much sleep as a kid, as I'd be up into the very wee hours. No wonder I fell asleep in school all the time. :D

I even liked the PBS one (I think it was PBS, anyway! Perhaps you could confirm this?) where they'd show Dracula, The Wolfman and perhaps Frankenstein or the Phantom of the Opera in the opening... and on the topic of PBS, I'd watch the opening to "Mystery!" for the animation and then when the boring people came on, I'd change the channel. *cackle*

Originally posted by CrumpsBro
It was of a hand rising out of a crimson red river to snatch up the letters C-H-I-L-L-E-R one at a time. And--I hope I don't scare too many of you youngsters, now--the hand had SIX fingers on it! AHHHHHHHH!

Ohmigod. I almost forgot about that!! Wow, thanks for reminding me how cool just the OPENING of that show was, never mind what they'd actually show! I was just telling my friend how if I was born in 1990 or after, I would probably suck SO much... I would be a completely different person! :p

[Peter Vincent]

I'd have to say Romero & King's Creepshow! I was about 7 years old and thought it just the ultimate fright flick ever made at the time! I even bought the comic against my mother's advise about having those images burned in my skull 4-ever (which I still have by the way...a little beat up, but legible). That movie made me a horror fan for life!

[Hellbilly]

Originally posted by Peter Vincent
I even bought the comic against my mother's advise
Glad to hear your Mom wasn't that strict like Tom Atkins in Creepshow/Billy's Father. ;)

[Erg0n]

i think it was jason, poltergeist, or phantasm

[wago70]

My parents were so cool - they let me stay up late every Friday and Saturday night to watch horror movies. It all started sometime in the early seventies and I was, like, six years old watching the classic Dracula and Mummy movies on Oakland's Creature Features program. Jaws was my first taste of (then) modern horror. Night of the Living Dead was known, but I could never catch it on TV! Same with Psycho...everyone else saw them, but I looked and looked in the TV guide every week and they never turned up on our channels!
There was a cool station in Sacramento that showed week-night horror films like: Boy Who Cried Werewolf (yeah!), Trilogy of Terror, Beyond the Door and the Hammer stuff.
But I credit the old Mummy and Dracula classics as my first venture into a life-long love for horror. Oh yeah, Invaders From Mars was another first love.

[fatclown]

The exact title is "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" 1973.
This movie though very old, will send chills to any Jason or Freddy fan.

[Wez4555]

id say nightmare on elm street and friday the 13th...i used to ask my dad if it was ok if i watched them on USA (along ass time ago when i was like 7) im 19 now and im a horror psycho. im coarse im away from mainstream movies and into forein horror. i dont know what it was that was so intresting......

oh yeah also the movie house..it scared the shit out of me (again when i was like 7) of coarse now i look at it (on dvd of coarse) and relize its only really good for shits and giggles.

[allmessedup]

I guess I'd have to say CARRIE, just because that was the first movie to really scare me [they played a trailer for it before a kiddie movie when I was 3] but at the same time, it triggered something where I wanted to see as many scary things as possible.
I grew up watching the old Universals on the local TV station, but CARRIE was the first movie that really scared me.

The movie that sealed it for me was NOTLD, which I saw when I was 12.

[Luna]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't know if I went into the movies that turned me into evil horror child, but Dawn of the Dead and The Children were some of the earliest movie theater experiences that I can remember. By 1980, I was buying Fangoria with my paltry allowance money, when I wasn't buying 45s. :D

Soon after, I acquired both Friday the 13th and Halloween parts 1 and 2 on Beta and used to watch them seemingly every week or hell, every other day. It seems like I watched those movies to death back then.

[The Black Death]

the day my mom wouldn't let me rent evil dad II sealed my fate

[Marco]

I guess it where Nightmare on Elmstreet which I always watched with some friends when I was young, and Hellraiser.
When I purchased a dvd-player realy was a boost to buy more Horror, so I gues my dvd-recorder also was a reason.

[bigdaddyhorse]

I can't remember which ones were the first to get me started. Probably Creature From The Black Lagoon.
I know what shifted and cemented my love of horror though. I was 11 and a local network played Friday The 13th part 2 uncut (R rated, but on normal tv after 11pm or midnight, that detail is unsure). Seeing titties and gore I just knew these were the movies for me. Plus at that age all the scares worked on me, I didn't know who, if anyone, would live, etc.
Warpped me! That was when part 3 came out, and I begged my parents to take me but they wouldn't after watching part 2 with me. :cry:
Part 4 holds a special place as one of the first R rated movies I snuck into. :)

[sacateca]

Corman's Fall of the House of Usher was the first good movie i ever saw, being about 18 at the time and having only seen garbage until that, and that's when i started slipping away from mainstream movies, gradually into horror and other stuff, too. i bought this tape of Jodorowsky's El Topo that had Argento's Phenomena on it, too, and was just blown away by both of them. With that tape i got Chas. Balun's book and soon after that on a Halloween night there was a few movies on tv that i read about in the book and watched them out of curiosity...Zombie, Dawn of the Mummy and Evil Dead 2. i guess that's the point where i really got specifically into horror.

They were all just so much better to my sensibilities than any mainstream stuff. As bad as Dawn of the Mummy may be, it's just so much better than something like Lethal Weapon.

[MorallySound]

The first horror movie I ever saw was Freddy's Dead when I was 5. It scared the shit outta me and I had nightmares for 3 years after that, and created a fear of q-tips.

But the first horror movie that actually got me started, and interested in horror, the one that bit me in the ass and I liked it and actually enjoyed the horror: The original 'Night of the Living Dead' when I was in Grade 5.

[gorelover]

Dawn for me. Watched it on the big screen back in '79...been addicted ever since. :banana:

[RyanPC]

I'm not sure exactly which movie got me into the horror genre, but I used to be obsessed with all of the Universal monster flicks: Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, etc. Then, I discovered my mom's stash of movies that were recorded off of TV, and she had a lot of horror films, like Friday the 13th parts 1 and 2, Halloween, Psycho, Psycho II, The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, The Amityville Horror, Carrie, Graduation Day, and more. She never liked slasher films, but she said she recorded them for my father when they were married. Either way, I used to watch those movies over and over again. When I finally wised up and realized they were cut, I begged my mom to let me rent Halloween from the video store. She said no, so I had my grandfather take me there to rent it anyway. When I got there, I found all the Halloween sequels, and decided I wanted to see them more, so I ended up getting Halloween II. My mom was on her way to work when I came home, and I told her that I rented it and was going to watch it whether or not she wanted me to (I was a spoiled little brat!). She left and I popped it in, loving every minute of it. However, I felt bad for disobeying my mother, so when she came home from work, I told her I ended up not watching it after all. The fact that I disobeyed my mother doesn't matter now, because later on she let me rent whatever I wanted (except for Faces of Death, so unfortunately I didn't get to see that until later). I have many fond memories of renting stuff like Make Them Die Slowly (Cannibal Ferox), all the Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Psycho movies, Sleepaway Camp 1 and 2, The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, and many more. By that time, I was a full-fledged horror addict. :D

[betterdan]

The very first horror movie I remember seeing was the Mask at the drive in. No not the shitty Jim Carrey movie but the 1961 3d one where they kept saying "Put the mask on" everytime there was a 3d sequence. :nervous:

[Damed]

When I was 13 I watched ANOES, ANOES2 and ANOES3 all in 1 night.


That did it for me.

[Tye]

I'm not sure if there was a single horror film that turned me into a fan, however the horror flicks that I remember watching as a child were House of the Long Shadows, Children of the Corn and The Shining.

[Peter Vincent]

Mine would have to be Creepshow, I was 8 and had the comic and was DYING to see the movie...mommy didn't let me, and took me to see Blood Beach instead :(

Once that bad boy was on video & we rented it was a MAJOR EVENT for me to finally watch this movie...ever since then horror movies were the shiznit for me!

[evildeadfan123]

The Brood

[Franco]

Tourist Trap

[Ash28M]

My earliest memories of Loving horror films were Friday the 13th part 3, Carrie, Jaws and the Thriller video scared the hell out of me when I was 8!!. I slowed down during High school but Blair Witch got me back into it again.

[Damage]

It wasn't a single movie that introduced me to the wild world of horror but rather, a program. Living in Southwest Ontario, we had access to Channel 7 Detroit and in the early 70s they had the after-school movie show running Monday to Friday at 4:00 pm. Each week had a different theme: James Bond, WWII, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Godzilla, Gamera, Dracula, Planet of the Apes, etc. I'd run home from school to check the movie out before suppertime. It was pretty damn cool!

[Luna]

We had that on our local channel 7 (ABC-NY) as well in the late 70s to very early 80s when I watched. I loved when they'd show Vincent Price movies. :banana:

[Workshed]

I begged my mother to take me to Gremlins in the theater, and she did. I loved it, although it freaked me out. Then, I saw Jaws on television with my dad. Blew my mind that a fear like that could be put to screen and be believable.

Ever since....

[eric_angelus]

Beyond the Door
Halloween
Both of these are thearical experience that changed my life at a very young age.

[4Gotten1]

The Legend of Hell House is probably the one theatrical experience that ever changed my love for horror films. I was about 10 years old and it was playing at a duplex theater, the other movie featured was On Any Sunday. At the time I was a huge motorcycle enthusiast (my first bike was a Yamaha 60 :D ) and it tortured me to have to pick which movie I was going to see but I finally gave in to Legend of Hell House. Well it scared the shit out of me. Funny thing is, we went back for the next couple of weeks while they were still playing and every single time I opted to see Legend over On any Sunday. It seemed, I was hooked.

[Myron Breck]

Seeing POLTERGEIST on cable and JUST BEFORE DAWN on a local channel late at night got me seriously interested. Then I watched FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER and went schizoid! I couldn't believe how violent it was (I was a very sheltered child) and I loved every second of it. I've never looked back.

[dapigg]

I remember being fond of the Friday Night Frights movies on Atlanta's pre-Superstation channel 17 back in the mid 70's... and Night Stalker was one of my favorites... but I would have to say that the original Friday the 13th is what hooked me. It had to be 1982 or so and the Movie Channel was running a free weekend. After watching the whole movie by myself and then seeing Jason jumping out of the water at the end then picking myself up off of the floor... I figured I survived this and I liked it.

"Hey man I like being scared and I wish you all were here"

[The Chaostar]

Suspiria.
I became not just a horror fan but a cinema fan! I discovered foreign cinema from Argento.

[Atmims]

Empire of the Ants I believe was first horror movie I ever seen, I was maybe five or younger. Me and my twin brother were hooked before then, we could never rent any, but we would go to the Video Store and marvel at the horror covers.

[philxus]

:evil: EVIL DEAD :evil:

[nukfut]

Friday the 13th. It was the first horror film I remember seeing and I haven't been the same since.

[RyanPC]

mommy didn't let me, and took me to see Blood Beach instead :(

I'm surprised that movie didn't turn you off of horror movies for life! :lol:

[Jamm]

Like many, I can't remember the exact movie, but there were many I saw prior to the age of ten that got me hooked. They would include Phantasm, The Omen, The Exorcist, NOTLD, lots of Godzilla and King Kong movies, the old Universal B&W (I actually never saw the original Bela Lugosi Dracula until I was in my 20's), and a lot of stuff on Chiller Theater, which seems to be another favorite childhood memory for some other forum members too.

[X-human]

I think James Whales's Frankenstein is what really hooked me, my mom taped most of the Universal Classics off of TCM for me. I was regularly watching Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, Son of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man and The Creature From the Black Lagoon before I was 5 years old. Huge influence on me, I've memorized almost every frame of those films before I had begun grade school.

They're still my favorites, I can't think of a group of films as dear to my heart as the Universal Classics.

[wago70]

Seeing the Universal THE MUMMY, X From Outer Space and King Kong on TV when I was old enough to walk and talk in the early '70's.

[Shokk]

As with most..i'd be hard pressed to nail down one specific film.Though the original King Kong,JAWS and The Exorcist all had a huge impact on me in my younger days..

[maskull]

Um...probably Poltergeist, Fright Night, Lost Boys, House, and NOES.

I would add Jaws and Aliens but honestly I just loved watching those flicks, they really didn't make me go out looking for other horror flicks.

Though I think the Friday The 13th series were the ones that really cemented my love. I used to watch them over and over on VHS.

[Wayne Manor]

Strangely enough, it wasn't a movie that started my lifelong interest in horror, it was actually a christian comic series. I was bought up in a fundamentalist family, and they had all those Jack Chick "Crusader" Comic series. They were stuff to give young kids nightmares, and pretty graphic, although they all had some jesus fucking loves you message at the end... :)

Movie wise - John Carpenter's The Thing sold me on horror films.

In the deathless words of the Jack T. Chick devils, "HAW HAW HAW!"

It was "Attack of the Mushroom People" on Sci-Fi Theatre in Saginaw MI for me. Not so much "horror" as "horrifying".

[Horrorfan]

Dracula (1931) at three years old it mesemerized me.

[Arkiliknam]

Evil Dead. I'd hated horror when I was a kid... never saw any freddy movies as was too scared.

I saw Army of Darkness, and loved it, being a big fantasy fan. Eventualy hunted down Evil dead and saw it. That was the begining. Since then, I've become a huge Romero fan, and general gore lover :)

Cant wait to see Sam Raimis next Evil Dead which he and Brucie boy are talking about :)

[Anthropophagus]

A trio of horror films that in hindsight are pure cheese, keep in mind I was only five or so when I first saw these: The Car with James Brolin, Octaman and the original Amityville Horror. These three had the most impact on me as a kid-Rabid also scared the crap outta me and gave me nightmares for weeks.

[Luna]

In the deathless words of the Jack T. Chick devils, "HAW HAW HAW!" :lol: :lol: :lol:

Jack Chick is amazing, really. I wish some hardcore Christians would drop some of those comics on my doorstep in hopes of saving me 'cause that stuff is very entertaining.

[BloodMan]

I can recall... one of the first ever films to make me take wonder into this genre... I must have been 4 or so... my uncle was watching that "Company of Wolves". He told me to go to bed when that dude started peeling his skin off and changing.
I also remember watching "Prophecy" with my mom and getting right scared when that bear mauled the cop guy when he went up to look around to see if everything was clear. :)
Then I started to watch all kinds of flicks with my cousin Christopher... "The Uncanny" was a big shocker for me when I was about 6. There was one other movie... I can't recall the title but it was set in this big house that was incomplete (the roof was not on) way out in the forest somewhere, and there was a family and something was in the bush trying to get them. It was set in daytime, no night stuff. It was friggin awesome tho... dunno about now (if I ever figure out what it is) :)
Oh, and those Harryhausen monster movies had a big effect on me too.

[allmessedup]

The Jack Chick stuff is so hardcore even a lot of the fundamentalists won't have anything to do with him. A lot of the mainstream Christian bookstores don't carry his tracts and comics. Fortunately, my hometown is podunk enough that the local Christian bookstore has a full supply of Chick merchandise.

As far as the Chick/Horror connection goes, I remember his "EXORCISTS" comic where they have to cast a demon out of some kid who was praying to a drawing of Satan.
That was pretty good, as was "THE BROKEN CROSS" which was sort of like RACE WITH THE DEVIL.

[Damage]

I've never heard of Jack Chick. I did a little searching and found this site (http://www.chick.com/). That is some hateful, freaky stuff!

[DrHerbertWest]

IT. I watched it when I was young and it developed three things. 1.) An intense hatred/fear of clowns, 2.) A love for horror movies and 3.) a deep devotion to John Ritter.

[tobaccoman]

I can name three

1 - The Class Of Nuke 'Em High - freaked the shit out of me when I was younger, but tought me how funny horror could be just a year or two later
2 - Sleepaway Camp - the only film that has ever truly disturbed me and at the age of 5 I was nowhere near ready for that twist, nor am I capable of handling it now
3 - Nightmare On Elm Street - biggest horror influence on me as a child as it invaded both my waking hours and terrified me twice as much after hours even at times when the film should've been a distant memory

[nukfut]

As far as the Chick/Horror connection goes, I remember his "EXORCISTS" comic where they have to cast a demon out of some kid who was praying to a drawing of Satan.


The Chick comics are classic. There are too many favorites for me to mention but the one that always sticks out for me is the D&D tract...

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

"The intense occult training through D&D prepared Debbie to accept the invitation to enter a witches' coven."

Please stop, you're killing me. LOL!

[Luna]

That one damn near destroyed me the first time I read it. :lol:

[allmessedup]

Ah yes, "DARK DUNGEONS." That was the one where the girl commits suicide after her character dies. There was also the comic "SPELLBOUND" about the evils of rock music--funny part was it seemed to be populated by 70s era cokehead rockers and was out of date by the early 80s. I wonder if he's updated it any...he does that on occasion.

[Bobbywoodhogan]

Fright night

[henrychinaski]

Frankenstein

[It's me, Billy]

To the best of my knowledge I began watching horror films sometime in the late '80s. I pretty much started off with just the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm Street films. I didn't really start branching out until a few years later. Around 1986 or 1987 (maybe even 1988) we got one of those C-Band satellite systems. Those were the big dishes that moved every time you changed to a different satellite on your remote control. Channels were spread across different satellites. I can still remember a lot of the different satellites. F1, F3, G1, G3, G5, C1, T1, etc. Each satellite had 24 channels. One really nice thing about C-Band was that there were certain feed channels on one satellite (maybe others too) where you could watch multiple episodes (sometimes up to 5) of syndicated shows back to back. Anyway, I remember watching a Friday the 13th/Friday the 13th, Part II double feature late one night on WSBK's "The Movie Loft." At the time I wasn't too familiar with the series so I was wondering why Jason wasn't the killer in the first one and why he didn't have the hockey mask in number two. Still, I had a blast. One Halloween (also in the late '80s) I remember rushing home from my elementary school's carnival to watch Friday the 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter. After trick or treating one year I settled in for a viewing of Halloween and Halloween II. (I passed on Halloween III: Season of the Witch because it didn't have anything to do with Michael Myers.) Man, they scared the hell out of me. The hospital setting in Halloween II creeped me out. Those were good times. I wish these films felt as magical now as they did all those years ago. I still enjoy them, but nothing like I did back then. I also remember watching a lot of "Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series" episodes and being genuinely disappointed that "Friday the 13th: The Series" had nothing to do with Jason Voorhees. Terror in the Aisles was an early favorite of mine. I still remember seeing a TV spot for Halloween 4 back in 1988. The voice-over announcer said "Ten years ago, Halloween. Evil had a (face or shape), terror had a night, and now, he's back." (Insert footage of Dr. Loomis in the Sheriff's Office saying "Six bodies, Sheriff! That's what I've seen, between here and Ridgemont! A filling station in flames! I tell you Michael Myers is here, in this town!" Then cut to the title which is seen and read over a zoomed in shot of Myers' mask. Pretty much all you can see are the black eyes and some whiteness from the mask. "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers." (Insert quote of Loomis saying "He's come home to kill." playing over the video of Jamie Lloyd frantically trying to open her bedroom door, the door opening suddenly, and Myers standing there and raising the butcher knife. Jamie SCREAMS LOUDLY.) "Halloween 4. Rated R." One of the pay-per-view channels at that time was Cable Video Store. Sometimes they would fuck up and the signal would go unscrambled for several hours on end. I got to tape Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood for free. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors kept me from sleeping for awhile. Good times indeed. :banana: