Cast your mind back...Your First Memory of a Horror Film & The First horror you saw?

[PeaSoupintheye]

Looking back - way back...I'm thinking my first memory of a horror film was an advertisement around the year '85 (which would make me 6 yrs old then) and I saw a trailer (through my dads fingers which were supposed to be covering my eyes!) on TV advertising a film which if I remember correctly was called 'The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'...it showed a camera shot of the mummy's fingers wriggling as the corpse gained consciousness and to be honest terrified the shit out of me.

Not too many years later when I was around the age of 9 my first ever horror film and still a present day favourite was 'The Lost Boys'. Not scary but it was still an exilarating watch. Had me glued to the screen and from then on...my love of all things horror had started. Now I'm just plain fanatical hehehehe.

[psycho_butthead]

The first thing close to horror i rember ever watching was tales fromt the crypt with my stepdad. the crypt keeper use to scare the shit out of me.

[Roderick Usher]

I found a cache of old EC Comics (Haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt) an a few Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines in my Uncle's closet when I was 5 or 6.

Instantly scared and instantly hooked.

...and nothing was going on in the closet, I swear...honest...no touching

[Vodstok]

As ive said several times before: Alien. Walked in on all the good gory parts when i was 5.


After that, Horror movie trailers scared the hell outta me. The creepshow trailer gave me nightmares.

When i was 8 i saw the comic book based on the movie, which was even worse. i can remember vividly staying up at night, afraid to move after reading "the Crate"


the twilight zone movie screwqed me up pretty good too. terror at 30,000 feet was the worst, followed by the one with th ekid who got whatever he wanted. His mouthless sister terrified me.

[newb]

Originally posted by Vodstok



the twilight zone movie screwqed me up pretty good too.

It didn't help Vic Morrow's career any either.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by newb
It didn't help Vic Morrow's career any either. LOL!

That was terrible....

Why didnt you list one newb?

It doesnt have to be a movie.... I know Edison hadn't filmed "Frankenstein" yet, but Poe had just written some good stuff when you were a kid.


:D

[Roderick Usher]

Originally posted by newb
It didn't help Vic Morrow's career any either.

It did get him an official posthumous membership in the rotary club:D

[Vodstok]

I hear before he worked for John landis, he was a cut above the rest.

he was a cut up though. he slayed those kids and had them rolling.


I think that was too far....

[newb]

Originally posted by Vodstok
LOL!

That was terrible....

Why didnt you list one newb?

It doesnt have to be a movie.... I know Edison hadn't filmed "Frankenstein" yet, but Poe had just written some good stuff when you were a kid.


:D

Very funny....ya wise ass whipper snapper.

At least mine was a movie.........urgeok's was most likely a cave painting.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by newb
Very funny....ya wise ass whipper snapper.

At least mine was a movie.........urgeok's was most likely a cave painting.


nahhh worse..

we used to play chicken with the dinosaurs ... we'd let them chase us then leap to a safe place, sit on our rocks and watch the slowest kid get eaten alive .. all while nibbling on our roasted trilobites.


what the hell are you talking about you crazy ass !, you're a year older than i am !
:p



arent you ?

[newb]

Originally posted by urgeok
nahhh worse..

we used to play chicken with the dinosaurs ... we'd let them chase us then leap to a safe place, sit on our rocks and watch the slowest kid get eaten alive .. all while nibbling on our roated trilobites.


what the hell are you talking about you crazy ass !, you're a year older than i am !
:p



arent you ?

uh..........maybe......senility can be a good thing.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by newb
uh..........maybe......senility can be a good thing.


could be wishful thinking on my part ...

by the way ...

still want the Tombs of the Blind Dead set ?

[Vodstok]

coversation between Newb and Urge:

Newb: I like suspiria
Urge: Good movie. i like Italian Movies.
Newb: Eh?
Urge:What?
Newb: WHAT?
Urge: eh? You say something?
Newb: I was talking about movies!
Urge: I like movies too. Why are you yelling!?
Newb: What? What Movie?
Urge:I liek syrup.
Newb: yeah.... Pencils are good....

[newb]

Originally posted by urgeok
could be wishful thinking on my part ...

by the way ...

still want the Tombs of the Blind Dead set ?

I d/l ed the second one....the first one would be nice.:D

How is the third?

[urgeok]

Originally posted by newb
I d/l ed the second one....the first one would be nice.:D

How is the third?


i'll just do all of them - 5 discs - so you'll have the same quality for all of them.

i tried to get you the origional boxset at festival of fear .. but at 20$ they were gone before the general public was let in .. the guys manning the other booths scooped them up (chris alexander - director fighter got one :)

i'm at a point where i can actually start fufilling the obligations i commited my self to months ago ..


ps .. vod farted

[Miss Olivia]

Alien, when I was a little kid. I walked in on the wrong part and I've had nightmares ever since.

The next huge scare I had was The Twilight Zone movie, when the thing is pressed against the window. Almost peed myself.

Then, The Blob remake. The guy being dissolved in the doctor's office also flipped me out pretty bad.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Miss Olivia
Alien, when I was a little kid. I walked in on the wrong part and I've had nightmares ever since.

The next huge scare I had was The Twilight Zone movie, when the thing is pressed against the window. Almost peed myself.

Then, The Blob remake. The guy being dissolved in the doctor's office also flipped me out pretty bad. You've posted this at least once before and it freaks me out. what are the odds that 2 people had the same horrific experiences with the same movies when they were kids?

[bbeastieboy]

My dad used to work at Save-on-Foods. They had a movie.game section there, and I used to walk up and down the horror aisle when I was like 6. I used to dare myself to look at the back on random movies. I also remember walking into a local video store with my mom once around age 6 and seeing the VHS case for Childs Play 2, and it freaked me out a bit. I saw the "Here's Johnny" scene in The Shining when I was around 5, by accident of course. I also remember seeing the blood pouring through the hallway too.

[hitman3005]

Ah My first horror movie memory. The scrolling text at the beginning of TCM then the camera flash of the corpses. Yep...pretty much screwed up a lil 4yo for life.

[Miss Olivia]

Originally posted by Vodstok
You've posted this at least once before and it freaks me out. what are the odds that 2 people had the same horrific experiences with the same movies when they were kids?

I don't know.....but with THAT movie, the odds are better than most. Still the scariest movie I've ever seen, hands down.

[ENTITY2000]

the thing

[Disease]

Thats a realy hard question, but it was probably Jaws

[PeaSoupintheye]

hehehe - I love the fact we were all disturbed as kids warped by the very films that we would grow up to love and later discuss on horror.com!!

I do remember around a christmas time when I was around 7-8 being transfixed by a poster of Freddy in a department store. I begged and pleaded with my mum to get it for me for christmas with which she responded the usual mum response ' No...It will give you nightmares for weeks'. That very night...I had nightmares.

[_____V_____]

Thinking back (and asked my Mom) my first one d be The Exorcist when I was 3. Not that I understood most parts, but the head turning scene had me shrieking into a cry. :eek:

Then Jaws when I was around 6 yrs old. I was afraid of the water for a long time after that, and had bad dreams that I was drowning in an ocean real fast. :confused:

Then came Alien when I was 8. That movie scared me so bad I didnt watch another horror movie for 5 whole years. :o

Then I gathered some courage to watch Evil Dead...bad idea! no horror movies for the next 2 yrs or so... :p

Since then I watched em regularly, and got over all my fears...became a horror addict! :D

[crabapple]

Well, I think the first SPECIFIC memory that comes to mind, where I can actually NAME the movie because I know what it was (I found out the title a few years back) is THE LAND UNKNOWN, a great lost world/dinosaurs chasing people type movie. This would have been around 1970. I'm watching TV, probably four years old. There's some people flying a helicopter through a thick fog. They can't see where they're going...

And suddenly a PTERODACTYL flies out of nowhere, screeching as they do, and bumps into the helicopter, then flies away. Total accident; there just happens to be a pterosaur flying nearby.

WTF!!!!! I remember reacting to this sudden shocking image.

I had a memory of seeing this scene for years but didn't know what movie it was. Then a long time later I rented the movie and saw the scene.

[kung-fu-jesus]

the original amityville horror, i was 4, and the thing that most stuck out was the scene with the kid in the window.

[horrormad]

Originally posted by Vodstok
As ive said several times before: Alien. Walked in on all the good gory parts when i was 5.


After that, Horror movie trailers scared the hell outta me. The creepshow trailer gave me nightmares.

When i was 8 i saw the comic book based on the movie, which was even worse. i can remember vividly staying up at night, afraid to move after reading "the Crate"


the twilight zone movie screwqed me up pretty good too. terror at 30,000 feet was the worst, followed by the one with th ekid who got whatever he wanted. His mouthless sister terrified me.

isn't creepshow that old b+w film where in in trailer they're under a cart thingy with i thing a gun?

[joshaube]

Creepshow is the Stephen King & George Romero collaberation, it's in colour. It's a short horror anthology, which is pretty damn good in an odd sense. Mimics the comic book feel of E.C.

[dark thoughts]

I don'tknow that was sooo long ago but i think it was Phantasm at the drive-in.

[evildemontoo]

I was a kid maybe 8 or 9, it was a tv movie (this was probably 1971?? or so) it was called something like the "The Screaming Woman" about a woman buried alive. The last scene was at night and someone was over the site were she was buried, and her hand comes up out of the ground and grabs the person standing on the grave. TOTALLY freaked me out, I wouldn't go to bed, was terrified someone was under my bed and would reach from underneath and grab my throat, I went to bed for years lying on my back in the middle of the bed with my hands wrapped around my neck in case someone tried to grab me!!!

My first "adult" horror movie??? LOL, PHANTASM at the Drive-In, many many years ago. I was 15.

- evildemontoo

[Elvis_Christ]

Well I was watching Happy Days as a kid and saw a twinkle in Ritchie Cunningham's eye that was soon to become Cocoon.

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[Geddy]

I remeber when I was little I always wanted to watch horror movies and I would bug my mom until she would rent me one.The first one was a Nightmare On Elm street I remeber seeing the fat boys music video and then i wanted to see the movie.I watched it and ended up being really scared about half way in and going to sleep.

[noctuary]

I remember peeking around the corner when my parents were watching the first Nightmare on Elm Street. I must have been about five or six at the time. My mom caught me looking and banished me to my bedroom, but the damage was done. I thought what I had seen was the coolest thing ever, and I wouldn't rest until I'd watched the entire thing.

[PeaSoupintheye]

Hehehehe...it seems we are all as bad as each other!! Keep them stories coming guys...

[Rabid Child]

My parents were very restrictive with the movies i watched so i had to sneek them on the sci/fi channle and and quickly change it when my parents walk buy. I remember watching the childs plays alot on tv and others but i can't recall the names