Why do you like horror and when did it start?

[bloodcreature]

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.

[Geddy]

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.

[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.

[Roderick Usher]

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.

[stubbornforgey]

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.

[1beastieibe]

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.

[the_real_linda]

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.

[bloodcreature]

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.

[tcardenas]

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.

[the_real_linda]

Originally Posted by tcardenas

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.

yay thats fab....i was always allowed to watch them.....my mother self censored them...it was up to her whether she deemed them okay.......we do it for my sister now.....we dont want her to have to watch stuff behind our backs.....and they do no harm anyway as long as its not explicit...like she cant watch left house on the left or i spit on your grave or....erm canibal holocaust....stuff with sex in it in a graphic form but basically anything else is fine.....im so glad you were a rebel tho :D