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Why do you like horror and when did it start?
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. |
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.
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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.
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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.
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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. |
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.
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