How old were you when you saw your first horror movie?

[knife_fight]

I am willing to bet that most people who like horror movies started watching them early and, simply as a tool of mental survival, acclimated themselves to them and were no longer scared. So, just to test my theory (and to humor your ol pal knife_fight), please vote and post how old you were when you saw your first horror flick. thanks

[Sistinas]

I'm sure I had seen several by the age of 5.The first one I remember(but i'm sure not the first one) was Stanley Kubricks The Shining.It freaked me the fuck out(those twins still do).I didn't understand it, but it still scared the crap outta me!

[Sedated_replica]

Like a lot of people, I seen Horror REALLY young, The Hell Raisers and the Hallowens. And when your 7 shit really scares you, it was fucking awesome

[BIG MEAT EATER]

Boris karloff got me started

[Arioch]

NOt really sure, im guessing 6-9...it was pretty early....

[MichaelMyers]

When I was a sperm.

[megalomaniac]

my first horror movie was the fog when i was 4

[Rebel Yell]

3.

The Invisible Man Returns.

[massacre man]

i saw my first horror movie when i was 14 :rolleyes:

[friday13thfan]

8 for me i saw Friday the 13th

[LilMissScareAll]

I think I was about 5...my mom let me watch Child's Play. It scared me at the time, considering my age and that I had a room full of dolls. haha :p

[Hate_Breeder]

When i was 17

[Haphazard]

If Jaws counts...then it was Jaws. If watching most of the movie with my face half hidden behind a pillow counts...then I was probably about 5 or 6 yrs old.

My parents took me to a drive-in. Scared the shit out of me!

And the movie was pretty feirce too.

No, seriously...I loved Jaws -- even though I was a total wuss. But that was the first time I realized that fear was an emotion that I got a high from.

[evil_blonde]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
When i was 17


:eek: That's a lie!

[Hate_Breeder]

Originally posted by evil_blonde
:eek: That's a lie!

hahah i was wondering when someone was gonna notice!

Well in all reality i first saw "NOES" when i was about 5 or 6

[evil_blonde]

Lol. I guess I know you too well......;)

[ShankS]

I saw Underworld when I was 4, Kate Beckinsale gave me my first pre-pubescant boner.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by ShankS
I saw Underworld when I was 4, Kate Beckinsale gave me my first pre-pubescant boner.

LMFAO......I agree KB is hot :p :D

[DraculaInDallas]

I was 5.....double feature on tv before Halloween.............Horror Of Dracula and Frankenstein

[ShankS]

Originally posted by DraculaInDallas
LMFAO......I agree KB is hot :p :D

sweaty leather cat suit..... yum :D

[dantehorrorfan]

5 the first horror movie i ever saw was puppet master i was like this movie is sweet!!!!! i want to be blade!!!!:D but of course thats when i was 5

[BIG MEAT EATER]

Originally posted by ShankS
I saw Underworld when I was 4, Kate Beckinsale gave me my first pre-pubescant boner. I'm guessing that would make you about six years old then?

[FairyKorpes]

Originally posted by BIG MEAT EATER
I'm guessing that would make you about six years old then?

Lmao :p

[massacre man]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
When i was 17 i already did that joke on this thread

[BIG MEAT EATER]

LOL ShankSie must have been sent to bed by now

[necromancer2643]

I came home from school and the "House of Usher" was on instead of caartoons... i was only in 2nd grade... it was cool

[Steve_Hutchison]

I was 4-5 years old. My babysitter's daughter had the NOES tape and they let me watch it over and over. My second movie was The Exorcist. My father rent it for me when he started realizing how much I loved NOES.

[ShankS]

Originally posted by BIG MEAT EATER
LOL ShankSie must have been sent to bed by now

yeah with a crate of beer stashed under the bed :D

[BIG MEAT EATER]

Originally posted by ShankS
yeah with a crate of beer stashed under the bed :D LOL starting drinking that early ShankS aint gonna bode well for the future, you gotta be thinking about school, college etc. Besides which, what are the other kids gonna think?:D

[movieman64]

Gotta be around 8-9 (1970-71). We had a Friday night program called the Sammy Terry Show. I can remember begging to stay up and sitting there with all the lights on trying to watch him and the show. He always played the B/W classics, Bride of Frankenstein, that sorta stuff, or what was then more modern films of the time like the Hammer films.

[allmykids]

Buried Alive....... when I was 7.

[I_Still_Know!]

Amityville Horror when I was 5.

It was on after flying high at the drive ins. I was too scared to watch and ended up in the back on the station wagon and fell asleep.

[BIG MEAT EATER]

Originally posted by allmykids
Buried Alive....... when I was 7. F**k that sounds awful, How did you get out????:eek:

[knife_fight]

bump (my bad)

[tachii]

i can't remember how old i was when i saw my first horror flic or what the movie was. i know the second TCM scared me shitless.

i also continued the tradition and started my nephew off young, he was two and his first film was nightmare on elm st. it was love at first sight. kinda makes me wish i knew who started me off and what the movie was (turns head and pouts).

[urgeok]

thats insane !

I would never let my kid (who's 4) see anything worse than ghostbusters or gremlins ..

you can tell he likes the scary stuff but then the next thing you know ... he's afraid of the dark .. or has weird worries.

kids have to be able to understand the difference between fantsy and reality before being exposed to serious horror ..

and no one at 2 or 4 or even 6 is equipped to see Nightmare on Elm Street..
they might love it but its gotta have a detremental effect down the road....

[tachii]

naw, not really, he still watches mostly kid shows. the mummy (a tamer feature) is one of his favorates, and its not like we leave him alone in the room or anything; that would be considered mental abuse or something. we all sit around and watch this stuff, nightmare just happened to be the first one to catch him.

[urgeok]

when my kid was a baby .. you could watch stuff and he wouldnt take notice ..
then i noticed once that he was affected when he was a little older ... he would be sitting in his little flying saucer and when things got tense he started to spin madly around looking distressed .. so i immediately turned it off..

its not hard to see how horrifying images can stay throughout your life so i want to make sure that until he has a firm grasp on reality that his experiences are as positive as possible... until he is at a maturity level where he can understand - its just a movie.

at 2 years old kids think animals can talk from what they see on TV !

i know they always cant be protected .. he's still upset by the death of one of our cats .. and you have to be looking carefully to see it .. there are subtle signs rather than his coming out and saying anything ...

I'm looking forward to when i can show him all of the cool horror movies i have and watch them together (if he even likes them) but i dont want him to have the exposure until he's quite a bit older.

[tachii]

flying saucer?

anyway makes sence that your would be looking out for your offspring, i on the other hand have none, so i wouldn't understand the concern; although i do see your point. i just never thought of it along those lines, don't get me wrong, its not like horror is all he watchs when we hang out. he also likes gremlins, the hobbit, and shreck so he does get to see more apprriate films when he stays over. he always chooses, not me.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

I was 3 when i saw my first. I came downstairs about 6 in the morning to watch some tv when a movie called "Squrm"was on, a movie about killer worms. I was all excited when something cool and horrifying happend. Then it went from there. As for having kids, when i ever have a kid he/she is totally getting fucked over with Playstation and Horror films.

[The STE]

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, when I was 5. I foolishly thought that since that was such a breaze, I could go straight from that to Halloween.


The 14+ option reminds me of when I heard that Paul Schrader hadn't seen a single film until he was 16. Completely blew my mind.

[Marroe]

Originally posted by urgeok


its not hard to see how horrifying images can stay throughout your life so i want to make sure that until he has a firm grasp on reality that his experiences are as positive as possible... until he is at a maturity level where he can understand - its just a movie.

at 2 years old kids think animals can talk from what they see on TV !
This is so true. I remember when I was kid, I used to think that cartoons were real people, and when someone died in a movie they really died. It used to worry me when that happened. I understood that movies were all set up, but I thought when someone got hurt, or blead it was real, and I'm sure most kids do. Kids need to think the world is perfect as long as they can. It's not fair to push our fears and concerns on them until it's their time to deal with it. Movies, and TV do that. I wouldn't even let my kids watch the news.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
I was 3 when i saw my first. I came downstairs about 6 in the morning to watch some tv when a movie called "Squrm"was on, a movie about killer worms. I was all excited when something cool and horrifying happend. Then it went from there. As for having kids, when i ever have a kid he/she is totally getting fucked over with Playstation and Horror films.


i remember squirm .. there was that one shot of the guy with the worms burried in his face ...

creepy for the time it came out

[knife_fight]

the first horror movie I remember seeing was NOES, too (not two). it scared me and I couldn't sleep for a few days. my folks didn't know b/c I liked being scared and staying up, so I didn't tell them. I think I was about 6.

I separated the options into age groups that, I thought, were very different in terms of how they dealt with movies. It made sense based on my perceptions of their "maturity levels."

oh, and I can remember the exact moment when I came to the realization that cartoons weren't "real". I was watching Thundercats.

[ClassicHorror]

It was a lonesome night, everyone was fast asleep, I was playing in the hallway, the tv was on in one of the bedrooms, and I could see it from across the hall.....The second I saw the images of dead girls all bloody in the hallway, to the black guy getting axed, I was in shock....the film is....The Shining when I was 6.

I was hooked from then on....Bela's Dracula, Godzilla films, and Night of The Living Dead were later introduced to me.....

[Tat2]

I watched Frankenstein when I was 4 or 5. It scared the shit out of me back then, (would have been 1967-68) but after my Mom explained to me the whole "just actors wearing makeup/masks" thing...I was hooked on them and still, to this day, can't get enough Horror.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

K i feel stupid for asking but what does NOES translat to

[knife_fight]

Nightmare on Elm Street

[IDrinkYourBlood]

o man now i do feel stupid. how did i not notice, i must be slipping in my old age.

[Marroe]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
o man now i do feel stupid. how did i not notice, i must be slipping in my old age. Yup, 18 is quite old there buddy.

[TheOmen]

It was a lonesome night, everyone was fast asleep, I was playing in the hallway, the tv was on in one of the bedrooms, and I could see it from across the hall.....The second I saw the images of dead girls all bloody in the hallway, to the black guy getting axed, I was in shock....the film is....The Shining when I was 6.

You are so lucky...man , I wish that was my first horror movie.

My first was a movie called 'magic'(or magik?) with Anthony Hopkins when I was 5. About a ventriliquist dummy that comes to life and stabs people, or something. I snuck out of my room while my parents had friends over. It was on HBO way back when having cable was a huge deal. So they were watching it, and I watched it from the hallway behind them. It fucked me up forever. I had two of those dummies in my room, so needless to say, my dreams of being a ventriliquist were over. But my need to feel frightened just kept growing.

I think my second was Rats or Frogs. One of those giant reptile/animal disaster pics.

[Gojira]

I started watching Horror movies when I was 5 years old in 1966 and I havent not stopped yet. Damn I hope I am not sick

[massacre man]

Originally posted by TheOmen
You are so lucky...man , I wish that was my first horror movie.

My first was a movie called 'magic'(or magik?) with Anthony Hopkins when I was 5. About a ventriliquist dummy that comes to life and stabs people, or something. I snuck out of my room while my parents had friends over. It was on HBO way back when having cable was a huge deal. So they were watching it, and I watched it from the hallway behind them. It fucked me up forever. I had two of those dummies in my room, so needless to say, my dreams of being a ventriliquist were over. But my need to feel frightened just kept growing.

I think my second was Rats or Frogs. One of those giant reptile/animal disaster pics. ventriloquist tee-pee for my bunghole

[lee challenger]

I was six when Ifirst saw Christopher Lee in Dracula on TV .The first time Iwas genuinely scared by a film was when Iwas 8 in 1975. My Dad let me have an afternoon off school and he took me to see JAWS. I will never forget the experience as for it's time and considering my age JAWS was an amazing film. The sheer terror of the opening sequence, the jump out of your seat moment of the head in the sunken boat and the gruelling demise of Quint have lived with me ever since. The only other film to have such an effect on me was The Exorcist which I saw when Iwas 15 in a virtually empty cinema on a particularly horrible winters night.

[Death By Jell-O]

I believe the first horror flick I saw was Psycho when I was about 5 or 6.....

[Gojira]

I remember going to see the Exorcist in 73 and I was very impressed by it but not for the reasons you might think. I liked how they did the floating lady Illusion in the movie and the only thing missing was a hoop. But yeah very effective spfx. But I still prefer the Omen

[gnarly]

when i was one i saw poltagiest and i was runing a round saying its going to pull me in side the t.v AAAHHHHh...

and when i was 2 or 3 i saw pupert master and evil dead,
horror movies where scary back then.

[Gojira]

What the heck is Pupert Master? LOL