Earliest "horror memory"
 

Hate to start another damn thread, but I almost veered off onto this topic in another thread and thought it would be best to keep the topics separated.

Been a fan of horror "for as long as you can remember?" How long, exactly? What's your first memory of encountering something that formed the catalyst for your interest horror?

For me, I remember when I was around 3 or 4, my mom bought me a jigsaw puzzle in a coffin-shaped box. It was a two-sided puzzle, with Dracula on one side and Frankenstein on the other. I loved that thing (and wish I still had it.) Since then, I have been drawn to all things grusome and macabre ... albeit reluctantly at times.

I remember browsing the magazine shelves of a local drugstore and being horrified by an issue of "Fangoria" (with a photo from "Creepshow" of the guy with bugs bursting out of his face on the cover). Horrified, and yet strangely unable to look away. Gave me nightmares forever.

Still had to look at the thing, though.

just as I was about to 'plop' out and there was this horrid fat russian nurse waiting to grap me as I flew.

Horror comic books. They would have them on a spinning rack in the drugstore buy the checkout. I'd have to hide them from my Mom and read them at night or at a friends. I was 8 or 9 which was along time ago...oh my

I remember one where on the cover Frankenstein was holding a girl who's legs were bloody stumps missing from the knee down, Dracula was looking on, and the Wolfman was devouring one of her legs.

Woah, that's some memory you've got.

But you've got a point ... being that close to my mom's carpetbag still gives me the shivers.

My last reply was a response to ShankS memory ... heh.

I saw Alien at five. Around the same time, i have my first memories of trick or treating.

We had a bunch of decorations thatmy grandmother had made, and she is an artist, so i became obsessed with dark things, werewolves, vampires, monsters, that kind of thing.

Shortly thereafter, i saw ghostbusters, and that was it.

Halloween is a great way to hook little kiddies <evil grin>. Hanging up the decorations for Halloween was almost better than Christmas.

Halloween is christmas without the snow or drunk relatives.


And small, evil people :)

They had practically done away with the horror comics when I was a kid, which is a shame. Every so often they would put out a special movie tie-in comic, which I would always relish ... particularly because when anyone screamed in them it was always "AIIIIEEEEE!!"

I make it a point to scream like that even today.

lol no need to repost, just use the old edit button and change the previous one :) ;)



lol as for my memory, over here in the Uk there's an old joke kind of thing, that you hope, if you ever get admitted into hospital, you'll get cared for by a fit blond nurse in a short skirt, unfortunatly it's usually by some fat old dog with bad breath....... hence my previous joke in first post.

:)

My best Barbara Streisand impression......ahem..ahem...

Mem'ries,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories

My first memories would have to be , my parents sticking me and my brother in our car, with our PJ's on [ ya know, the one with the feet in them ] and heading off to the drive-in theatre to see The Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr. Those were the days. Pack a bunch of food and soda, maybe a lounge chair and blankets. Ain't to many drive-ins left but when I was little there were a shitload.

My first memory, AND horror experience, is a nightmare. In the nightmare, the trailer we were living in at the time was alive. The walls had huge, distorted faces with huge, sharp teeth, and they were trying to eat me.

i posted this somewhere in the first horror movie thread...

one of the first and best memories i have of horror...

nightmare on elm st. was on USA and i remember flipping to it just by chance.. i stood up and was watchingfrom like 3 feet away.. it was right at the part where tina wakes up and is lured outside by freddy.. i watch all the way through to where she was being gutted on the ceiling.. and let me tell you.. that entire sequence is VERY VERY awesome and dirsturbing to a little 4 year old... my mom heard the screaming and hollered in there... and she came in yelling to turn it off... that "you can invite bad stuff in by watching that kind of thing" ... that phrase stuck with me...

i also had many experiences in my house as a little one because i believe it was haunted.. used to see a blurred dark shadow crawl or walk past my door... such a frightening child hood i had

The first time I ever really enjoyed a horror movie was when I was 12 or 13 and I was watcing Scream. I had been terrified of anything gory since I was little, so I was watching the part where Drew Barrymore is hung from a tree with my hands covering my eyes. I took them off when they actually show her body on the tree and I just remember thinking "Wow, Im addicted to this now".

As with myself. My mother told me that it was haunted when I was very young....you could hear footsteps....I never did, but not long ago, I saw....um.....cant really describe it, but sorta a 3-D shadow in the hall. Scared the shit outta me.

Also, my aunt lived on Elm Street. Not THE Elm Street, obviously, but like Freddy said "Every town has an Elm Street". I saw a preview or something for one of the Elm Street movies, and I wouldnt visit my aunt for months.....

How can you remember something that you are pretty much born into?...Can you remember taking your first breath?...The memory of the first sound you ever made as you entered this world SCREAMING (It's as if we know)...Memories of the first sounds you ever heard, the first person you ever saw, the smell of the room in which you were born...the pain and the cold upon your arrival?.....I can't remember any of that, and so...I cannot give an accurate account of my first experience with horror...I have always known it...It has always been with me...........Ahhh....Sweet Horror:)

When I was 4, my dad let me watch Tremers, I was scared shitles, Then that night i pissed my pants in bed b/c i was scared to wlak to the bathroom, because i thought a tremer would get me

i remember being attacked by 3 mexican prostitutes with saggy tits when i was 11 months old.....THAT WAS HORROR

lmao