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Originally Posted by hammerfan
Speaking for myself, I'm a lot older than you, Goathead (57). So, when I was a kid, the movies that were coming out weren't as graphic as the movies 10 years ago. The worst one was The Exorcist (which still scares the shit out of me today). I grew up watching the Hammer films, the Saturday afternoon horror movies on TV were always the old Universal and giant creature movies. I actually don't care for the slasher films. I don't equate gore with horror. It's just gore. I prefer creatures/monsters/spooks, etc. There have been a few newer movies that I like, but not many.
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Horror movies the afternoon? Awesome. I first came in contact with Universal movies like maybe three years ago caused I bought a Bluray Collection of Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man and so on...shame we don't watch that so often, my girlfriend doesn't like black and white movies :/
But still, there were not only gory horror movies in TV when I was a kid, but my parents didn't let me. I think my first horror movies that I watched were Final Destination and Darkness Falls and it creeped the shit out of me. I am not sure if the infant mind is able to digest the happenings in a horror movie (Universal films aside). I don't know how it's like in America but in Germany horror movies have an age restriction of 16, sometimes 18 if it's gory. France is not so strict though (living in France now), here horror movies can be seen mostly with age of 12.