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Dante'sInferno
05-24-2007, 05:20 PM
Have any?Mine was when i went to go see The Lost World:Jurassic Park,my step-dad was really excited.He's like "Are you ready to go buddy?!?!"And im like "okay...:Then when we get to the theater we walk in and say"You better buy me a popcorn or im gonna stab you."
Anyone else have any like this?
neverending
05-24-2007, 08:08 PM
I don't understand your story. Whom did you threaten to stab?
Dante'sInferno
05-24-2007, 08:09 PM
I don't understand your story. Whom did you threaten to stab?My step-dad.
neverending
05-24-2007, 08:21 PM
I've posted this a few times here but I'll tell it again since it fits the topic.
When I was young we had something that doesn't exist any more: a neighborhood theatre. With one screen. Every Saturday I would go to the matinee. Admission was $1.25 and for that you got a double feature with cartoons, old newsreels, serials and prizes.
This is how I saw a lot of great movies: all the Corman films, all the Hammer films, all the AIP stuff- even sometimes old WB classics. There would be comedies, Disney kid flicks, westerns, action movies, but my faves were always the horror films.
One time I even won an Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Weirdohs model kit!
These were great times. It's too bad there's nothing like it today.
We also had a Cinerama theatre in our town- a full 180 degree screen. I saw 2001 there on its initial release, and that's the ONLY way to really see it. The space scenes just wrapped around you... indescribable.
deathrider
05-24-2007, 08:37 PM
I'm confused. Dantes' Infrerno, you were going to stab your step-dad with a bucket of popcorn??? Just kidding.
I didn't go to the cinema much when I was a kid, but I did rent a lot of movies. I remember sitting on my own watching Stephen King's IT, and almost shitting myself. I thought that Pennywise was a scary motherfucker when I was younger.
Dante'sInferno
05-24-2007, 08:41 PM
I'm confused. Dantes' Infrerno, you were going to stab your step-dad with a bucket of popcorn??? Just kidding.
I didn't go to the cinema much when I was a kid, but I did rent a lot of movies. I remember sitting on my own watching Stephen King's IT, and almost shitting myself. I thought that Pennywise was a scary motherfucker when I was younger.I always had a pocket knife.But i was just being a smart ass when i told him that.
Disease
05-24-2007, 09:00 PM
I grew up in a small town that didn't have a cinema, but sometimes a moviw would travell through small towns. One time when I was pretty young Teen Wolf played at the Town Hall, My parents took me, and when I got home I went in the bathroom and it was the first time I realy noticed my k9's. I was stareing in the mirror, thinking I was about to turn into a werewolf... It freaked me out a bit...
jenna26
05-24-2007, 09:01 PM
Not sure if I ever posted this story here before, but even if I did, it has been awhile so why not....
When I was about 8 or so, A Nightmare On Elm Street was showing at a local drive in, in Atlanta. I was already a monster movie fan by then. I don't think my parents knew how graphic the movie was...LOL...but they never really censored me TOO much, as long as they were watching with me, could talk to me if I got scared, or had questions, etc.
So I am in the car with my parents, watching ANOES.....my dad kept asking me....."are you okay? do we need to go?" Of course, I'm tough right? So I say "I'm FINE dad...." geez.....:rolleyes: ;) Well, you know the scene in the bathtub? That was my undoing....I think it was about 25 minutes in. I looked at my dad and said "we have to go NOW." And my dad looked at my mom, "yes, we need to go now".....and that was my first big screen horror experience.....:p And it is one of my favorite movies ever, because it was one of about 4 movies that scared the living hell outta me. ;)
deathrider
05-24-2007, 09:18 PM
Well, you know the scene in the bathtub? That was my undoing....
I love that particular scene. I got suspended from school once, when my art teacher saw me drawing a number of pictures involving Freddys claw appearing between Nancys legs as she lay in the bath-tub.
stubbornforgey
05-24-2007, 09:42 PM
my childhhood experience..
oh boi!!
dracula was my 1st horror movie...
for weeks ..(actually) longer than that :o
I was Mena..demanded ppl called me Mena .:o
I dropped a boyfriend cos he told me dracula was just a character on the screen.
:p
crabapple
05-24-2007, 10:06 PM
Ah ha ha ha!
"But Dracula is just a character on the screen, my dear!"
"Go away from me! I never want to see you again. You dumb ignorant bastard."
"Aw, don't be like that, baby..."
"Talk to the hand, cuz I don't wanna hear it!!"
Amalthea_unicorn
05-25-2007, 12:33 AM
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute was the first movie I saw in the cinema.
stubbornforgey
05-25-2007, 06:10 AM
Ah ha ha ha!
"But Dracula is just a character on the screen, my dear!"
"Go away from me! I never want to see you again. You dumb ignorant bastard."
"Aw, don't be like that, baby..."
"Talk to the hand, cuz I don't wanna hear it!!"
:o
he said if drac tried to steal his girl he was gonna
stab him with a PITCHFORK!!!!
HE HAD TO GO!!! 'squeals'
Misfit
05-26-2007, 03:02 PM
Hey guys... first horror film I ever watched on a borrowed video player (ha yeh I’m from Ireland! We didn’t own a video player at the time, or for a few years later! Lol!) was Zombie Flesh Eaters AKA Zombi 2 or Island of the Flesh Eaters depending on where ye live. I was about 10 years old at the time. It freaked me out so much that I couldn't take my eyes off it, also got me hooked on horrors! The next film that really got to me was a vampire film which I can’t remember the name of, black and white, it involved incest, very dark, would love to see it again but it would probably be not near as strange now as it was seen through slightly more innocent eyes. The next film that had a huge affect on me as a growing teenager was An American Werewolf in London which is probably my favourite film to this day. Also The Company of Wolves awakened something in me that was new. I think all the films that make us aware of something new within us are the films that remain our favourites forever. I’ve always been freaked out by zombies but always very attracted to vampires and werewolves ever since.
scaryben
05-26-2007, 10:36 PM
not really "childhood", but i remember scaring the crap outta my little sister when i brought a mask into the theatre to see Scream - muhahahahaha
i also remember sobbing when my mother took me to little mermaid - LOL.
well, it was not in a theater, but when i was 5 (a guess at my age- i'll look it up later) my grandmother let me watch 'polterguist' my brother freaked, and i watched it as intently as anything i had ever seen in my life... didn't scare me, and i have been looking ever since for a horror movie to scare me... so if you know one...
after it was over, my mom came back, and freaked when she heard what grandmother had let me watch.
good times.
1beastieibe
05-27-2007, 06:59 PM
I saw Crocodile Dundee everyday it was in the theater. I'm not quite sure why I was so obsessed, but my older brother worked at the theater and our family got discount tickets and my Dad took me every flippin night until they stopped playing it.
the_real_linda
05-28-2007, 03:36 PM
i was born in 1987 right but somehow i have a very very VERy faint memory of seeing the little mermaid.......like all i can see in my head when i think of it, is the bit when ursula is huge at the end and theres a whirpool.........but i cant remeber it..........
and the cinema it was at, just over the bridge out of town at the...now not there....warner brothers....
and this was in 1989.....
stubbornforgey
05-28-2007, 03:53 PM
i remember the good ole days of the late 80's ..good movies
great music..awesome dance moves..
'does the hustle'
Dante'sInferno
05-28-2007, 04:10 PM
i was born in 1987 right but somehow i have a very very VERy faint memory of seeing the little mermaid.......like all i can see in my head when i think of it, is the bit when ursula is huge at the end and theres a whirpool.........but i cant remeber it..........
and the cinema it was at, just over the bridge out of town at the...now not there....warner brothers....
and this was in 1989.....I found Ariel to be so hot,when i was 8.
the_real_linda
05-28-2007, 04:13 PM
I found Ariel to be so hot,when i was 8.
lol me too when i got a little older and watched it again on VHS....
ariel was the first disney girl to have a cleavage :rolleyes:
Dante'sInferno
05-28-2007, 04:19 PM
lol me too when i got a little older and watched it again on VHS....
ariel was the first disney girl to have a cleavage :rolleyes:Nah brah,The first ones were Cinderella and Snow white.Hah when i was a kid i thought snow white meant cocaine.
Mictlantechutli
05-29-2007, 01:45 PM
Jaws - age 7
it fucked me up
gordytheghoul
05-29-2007, 02:20 PM
When I was little, I mean real little, like five years old, I saw HIGHLANDER and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA together at the drive-in, I have never been the same since, nor would I want to be. Also the first R-rated movie I ever saw by myself in a thatre was NATURAL BORN KILLERS, that was trippy. :D
Ateup
05-29-2007, 09:49 PM
My grandpa lived in the first neighborhood in town that got cable back in the early 80's. I was around 10 at the time. We would watch Humanoids from the Deep, Prophecy, Halloween, Porky's and all those Playboy channel movies.:eek: I still remember him kicking my grandma and little sister out so him, my brother and I could watch necked ladies on TV.:D My grandma and sister went into the backroom and read the bible. No kidding. Good thread, BTW.
ferretchucker
05-30-2007, 02:53 AM
I saw friday the 13th at a very young age. Three or four. I don't remember much except being terrified and hiding behind the sofa. As for experiences in the cinema, i remember running out screaming when they did a re-showing of E.T when I was 5. It was the bit where E.T and elliot see each other in the grass and are both screaming.