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bloodcreature
11-28-2006, 01:22 PM
Okay, I'm trying something different. I'm starting a thread about horror on a horror forum (sarcasm alart).

Anyway, I wonder why you like horror and when did start?

I began linking horror/sci-fi as a young child watching Night Owl Theatre and DR. Who. I like it because it fascinates me and gives my mind another place to visit, and put reality in perspective.
Also, since most horror has a basis in a true event(s) it perks my interest, makes me wonder if it really happened.

Geddy
11-28-2006, 02:32 PM
I liked black and white horror when I was little and then i stopped watching horror for a couple of years and about last year I started watching it again.

neverending
11-28-2006, 04:02 PM
First- I'd have a small quibble with you about whether "most horror is based on true events." Perhaps a lot of horror movies of the last 20 years or so have dealt with serial killers, mass murderers, dranged weirdos and the like, but over the course of film history I think the number of horror films which have a supernatural base or various kinds of monsters would predominate. But that's a minor matter.

One of my earliest memories of watching movies was catching a glimpse of "The Amazing Collosal Man" on tv one night and begging my parents to let me stay up and watch it. I must have been 7 years old or so. The sight of this giant guy with the horribly disfigured face fascinated me. I was hooked from that moment on. Horror movies were cool cause they gave me something out of the ordinary- something more interesting than regular movies.

I soon found my first issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and that fueled my interest in horror and sci-fi movies. Monsters were big stuff in the 60s- they were everywhere in the media. Though most horror films from the past 25 years don't measure up to movies from the past, as far as my taste is concerned, I do still find an occasional winner. And when I find a new horror film I enjoy, it still gives me that thrill I first got when I glimpsed The Amazing Collosal Man through the door.

Roderick Usher
11-28-2006, 05:00 PM
Forest J Ackerman and William M Gaines are to blame.

I found a stash of Famous Monster of Filmland and EC Comics in my grandmother's basement when I was six years-old...instant obsession!

From there on it was the Universal Monsters, the 50's atomic monsters and then Poe and King.

stubbornforgey
11-28-2006, 05:03 PM
The thrill of the unknown ..
and when i was very young..Now i know this wasnt horror..
doctor who and his little fucken robots scared the shot out of me ..
n thats what started me off.

1beastieibe
11-28-2006, 10:11 PM
My brother read Stephen King to me when I was very little. He did it to scare me, but instead I became intrigued. I went to private school, and I was the only kid who owned Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, Halloween ect..and all my friends would come over to watch and read all the things I had at my house.

the_real_linda
11-28-2006, 10:59 PM
i dunno....i watched a lot of horror films as a child......i never seen a "start" exactly.........always been interested i supose.......just like kids like kids films or disney i always liked a good or lame horror.

bloodcreature
11-29-2006, 07:36 AM
neverending, all the horror that comes from the mind, comes from the inate fears in that mind. We call them monsters, paint them a face and draw a creative story about defeating them.

We use movies and books to share these Horror Stories, but their basis in reality cannot be denied. I used true events loosely, but maybe this will clear it up some.

tcardenas
11-29-2006, 07:40 AM
ive always liked horror movies because my mother HATES them. she never let me watch them as a kid, so whenever i would go to a friends house, i felt like a rebel when i would watch them. that all started an obession. now the only movies i really watch are horror movies and i just love them. my husband and i have quite a collection.

the_real_linda
11-29-2006, 08:07 AM
ive always liked horror movies because my mother HATES them. she never let me watch them as a kid, so whenever i would go to a friends house, i felt like a rebel when i would watch them. that all started an obession. now the only movies i really watch are horror movies and i just love them. my husband and i have quite a collection.

yay thats fab....i was always allowed to watch them.....my mother self censored them...it was up to her whether she deemed them okay.......we do it for my sister now.....we dont want her to have to watch stuff behind our backs.....and they do no harm anyway as long as its not explicit...like she cant watch left house on the left or i spit on your grave or....erm canibal holocaust....stuff with sex in it in a graphic form but basically anything else is fine.....im so glad you were a rebel tho :D

The Flayed One
11-29-2006, 08:12 AM
Mine started with a love for monsters. Some of my favorite movies as a kid were Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, Creature from the Black Lagoon and King Kong. It just gradually progressed from there. Thinking back on it, I can't really think of a moment when I realized I liked horror. It just seems to be in my blood.

the_real_linda
11-29-2006, 08:28 AM
i think the in the blood thing is waht i was trying to say/type............

pinhead-i am pain

PhilnEdee
11-29-2006, 10:30 AM
I was forutnate enough to have 2 or 3 super cool babysitters when I was in the 6-10 range. Watched "scary" movies with me then, carried me to haunted houses...the very first horror I remember was the original Wolfman on Sat night cinema in about 1978 or so...it stuck and it is my favorite form of entertainment...movies, shows, haunted places, Halloween, etc...

Zero
11-29-2006, 03:53 PM
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q108/zerohdc/monkey-fire.jpg

PhilnEdee
11-30-2006, 09:12 AM
Alot of damn monkeys on this forum.

La Maschera del Demonio
11-30-2006, 09:50 AM
I have started to love the horror when I saw the films of Dario Argento, above all Profondo Rosso and Phenomena, but I also remember other films as The Fog and Winged serpent. There are some film as The Exorcist and Baby Killer that I didn't succeed in seeing them to the epoch because my mother forbade me him.

bloodcreature
11-30-2006, 07:13 PM
I want to add that I like any horror that shows me something different and makes me think, and horror that makes me wonder "what if?"

incubust
11-30-2006, 07:28 PM
Episodes of the Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond and The Outer Limits got the ball rolling for me. My dad was hooked and me and my brother were along for the ride. Then he'd take us to see Christopher Lee and Vincent Price movies in the 70's.

orangestar
12-01-2006, 12:35 PM
It started after being a rebel and renting Pet Sematary when I was 12. Even with the lights on, it scared me to death. I hated all horror movies until I was 15 and literally forced myself to watch Scream, and immediately became addicted.

ferretchucker
01-28-2010, 08:12 AM
I miss The_Real_Linda. :(

Angra
01-28-2010, 09:55 AM
I miss The_Real_Linda. :(

Why?

She was soooo fake.

Her real name was Diana actually.

krugger
02-09-2010, 11:25 AM
Watching Midnight Theater when my parents went to bed. Came on Friday nights and they showed late 60's mid-70's horror. Then my dad took me to see FRIDAY THE 13TH when I was 7 or 8 years old. From then on I could not get enough horror. Now I'm trying to get a good horror collection started.

Laura6
02-09-2010, 02:58 PM
When I saw the Excorcist in the theatre about age 8 and a couple of years later seeing Jaws...I was scared out of mind and I have been trying to scare myself ever since!

Kieran
01-09-2016, 08:32 PM
My first touch with horror, that I can recall, is watching one of the Critters movies on TV with my family when I was four years old. Holy crap, it was scary back then but I suspect it turned me into a horror fan, particularly of the supernatural. I wasn't allowed to watch just any kind of horror films as a young child, but almost any vampire or werewolf movie was fine and totally on my must-see list any time such would air on TV. Also, Hitchcok's The Birds was one that I remember viewing at primary school age, as a couple of disturbing scenes from it were burned into my mind right down to this day. Like, of course I've seen it a few times since but the mental snapshots that I get any time the movie is mentioned are from that first view. Great movie, one of my favourites of the genre.

I remember wanting to watch Pet Semetary and A Nightmare on Elm Street around age 10 or earlier but wasn't allowed, of which I'm very glad these days. The latter is one of my all time favourite horror films but it was terrifying enough when I first watched it when I was 13-years old, and that was when I first widened my view of the horror genre into the slashers and so on. As for the Pet Semetary, I first saw it as a teen and I absolutely love the theme of how far a human being might go in their grief and that it was done through a story about a father losing his toddler child, his only son, in such a brutal way. That's what I appreciate the most about the story while the main character's descent into madness is brilliantly executed, especially in the book which I read two and a half times as a teen. (Because I couldn't take it anymore at the third time. Because Rachel's sister is too much for me, though moreso in the movie.)

As a child I also read a lot, book series such as The Little Vampire, and if R.L. Stine's Goosebumps book had been translated to my language back then in the '90s I definitely would've loved them.

I've never really given any thought to why I love horror stuff. I just do. There's just that something about the feeling called fear and its thrill, when you get it while you know you're safe. And especially about all the interesting, fascinating stories and mosnters that have been and can be created for the genre. I think me being passionately creative/artistic soul may have something to do with my horror love - deep emotions and creative ideas appeal to me.

Anthropophagus
01-10-2016, 02:56 AM
My love of horror started as a child much like most of us here.I am now 52 so quite a few years have passed.I started when we only had three tv channels to view and on Fridays they often had a horror movie.namely Frankenstein/Dracula type movies and the Hammer horrors.

Notable ones was The Gorgon and The Reptile,both of which i have seen countless times.As i said the early Franky and Drac flics were a staple for me.I also enjoyed many Sci-Fi movies,many which crossed over into horror.

Why do i love them,they are different and an escape from reality.I know those monsters do not exists and are made from imagination.The unusual,the scary,the eerie atmospheres are what i love.

Over the decades i have seen thousands of horror movies,some i love, some i hate.But i never bore of them and will watch them till i enter the big box in the ground.

Disconser
01-10-2016, 05:04 AM
The first horror movie I ever watched was It. I wanted to watch it because I already liked the book. Two years later - in May 2015 - I suddenly had the urge to watch The Silence of the Lambs which isn't quite much of a horror movie but it was thrilling.

I also used to watch a lot of trash horror movies and one day I had the thought that I could watch a good one. It was in the holidays on October 20th when I watched A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) which was followed by Halloween (1978). I completed watching both series within a few days. I'm still quite new to all of this though.

Toddallthingshorror
01-11-2016, 04:58 PM
The first horror I ever watched was Jaws in the 8-9 range. I didnt become a horror nut (going to cons, reading everything I could, collecting VHS tapes) until I saw a VHS copy of Dawn of the Dead around 15 or 16. Ever since then I've been hooked.

I like horror because.....I dont really know why. I guess its that good vs evil thing. Seeing the hero get his shit together and save the day is great. But I also like seeing the bad guy win as well. Never really thought about why I liked horror. ::confused::

anglewitch
01-13-2016, 01:57 PM
I started watching horror at age 3. The first horror movie I watched when I was little was Hellraiser 2. I made a note to myself that said "When reincarnated again, remember that you're to young for that stage of horror".
Like hell I would listen to that note!