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.

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.

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

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.

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.....

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.

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

Nightmare on Elm Street

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.

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.

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

ventriloquist tee-pee for my bunghole

How Old Were You When You Saw Your First Horror Movie
 

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.

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

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

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.

What the heck is Pupert Master? LOL