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04-11-2002, 01:39 AM
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What movie turned you into a horror fan?
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.
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04-11-2002, 01:43 AM
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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!
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04-11-2002, 02:54 AM
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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....
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04-11-2002, 03:03 AM
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04-11-2002, 03:28 AM
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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. |
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04-11-2002, 04:22 AM
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If I remember correctly, my first scary movie that got me hooked was Alien.
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04-11-2002, 04:39 AM
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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. 
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04-11-2002, 05:21 AM
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Anyhow, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 did it for me when I was 7 or 8. I've never recovered. |
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04-11-2002, 07:42 AM
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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.
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04-11-2002, 07:48 AM
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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!!
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04-11-2002, 07:59 AM
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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.
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04-11-2002, 08:09 AM
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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.
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04-11-2002, 09:58 AM
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Nifty thread!
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!
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04-11-2002, 12:42 PM
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04-11-2002, 01:10 PM
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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.
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