How old were you when you saw your first horror movie?

[The STE]

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, when I was 5. I foolishly thought that since that was such a breaze, I could go straight from that to Halloween.


The 14+ option reminds me of when I heard that Paul Schrader hadn't seen a single film until he was 16. Completely blew my mind.

[Marroe]

Originally posted by urgeok


its not hard to see how horrifying images can stay throughout your life so i want to make sure that until he has a firm grasp on reality that his experiences are as positive as possible... until he is at a maturity level where he can understand - its just a movie.

at 2 years old kids think animals can talk from what they see on TV !

This is so true. I remember when I was kid, I used to think that cartoons were real people, and when someone died in a movie they really died. It used to worry me when that happened. I understood that movies were all set up, but I thought when someone got hurt, or blead it was real, and I'm sure most kids do. Kids need to think the world is perfect as long as they can. It's not fair to push our fears and concerns on them until it's their time to deal with it. Movies, and TV do that. I wouldn't even let my kids watch the news.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
I was 3 when i saw my first. I came downstairs about 6 in the morning to watch some tv when a movie called "Squrm"was on, a movie about killer worms. I was all excited when something cool and horrifying happend. Then it went from there. As for having kids, when i ever have a kid he/she is totally getting fucked over with Playstation and Horror films.

i remember squirm .. there was that one shot of the guy with the worms burried in his face ...

creepy for the time it came out

[knife_fight]

the first horror movie I remember seeing was NOES, too (not two). it scared me and I couldn't sleep for a few days. my folks didn't know b/c I liked being scared and staying up, so I didn't tell them. I think I was about 6.

I separated the options into age groups that, I thought, were very different in terms of how they dealt with movies. It made sense based on my perceptions of their "maturity levels."

oh, and I can remember the exact moment when I came to the realization that cartoons weren't "real". I was watching Thundercats.

[ClassicHorror]

It was a lonesome night, everyone was fast asleep, I was playing in the hallway, the tv was on in one of the bedrooms, and I could see it from across the hall.....The second I saw the images of dead girls all bloody in the hallway, to the black guy getting axed, I was in shock....the film is....The Shining when I was 6.

I was hooked from then on....Bela's Dracula, Godzilla films, and Night of The Living Dead were later introduced to me.....

[Tat2]

I watched Frankenstein when I was 4 or 5. It scared the shit out of me back then, (would have been 1967-68) but after my Mom explained to me the whole "just actors wearing makeup/masks" thing...I was hooked on them and still, to this day, can't get enough Horror.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

K i feel stupid for asking but what does NOES translat to

[knife_fight]

Nightmare on Elm Street

[IDrinkYourBlood]

o man now i do feel stupid. how did i not notice, i must be slipping in my old age.

[Marroe]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
o man now i do feel stupid. how did i not notice, i must be slipping in my old age.

Yup, 18 is quite old there buddy.