[neverending]

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.