When/how did "you" start liking Horror movies?

[grlxx]

My first actual horror movie was "the gate" and i was about 6 at the time. my reaction, scared as hell for a few minutes and then i said "i like being scared!" and ever since, people thought i was weird for that... :thumbup3:

[Don of the Dead]

My parents hated horror, so I was shielded from it, then caught "Day of the Dead" on USA and loved it.

[Cataclysm]

I was forced to watch horror movies when I was little and was beaten severely if I refused or tried to look away.

[strtfghtr]

good topic. My grandmother would babysit myself and older brother (and cousins) and let us watch whatever we wanted. Jaws, creepshow, Friday the 13ths, anything and everything probably since I was 4 or 5. Managed to warp my cousin so good he writes and produces horror movies... Thanks Mamma

[darkoverlord]

i was into Horror at a young age when USA had the weekly Saturday Night series USA Saturday Nightmares

[IKickAssForTheLord]

My dad would always let me watch horror movies with him even though my mom would hate it... I started off watchin' old school Tales From The Crypt, I think my first movie was Child's Play, that movie scarred me from dolls when I Was a kid.

[Joker]

When I was in about 2nd or 3rd grade I used to always check out these orange books from the school library,there were a whole series one was about Dracula another The Wolfman,Godzilla,King Kong,Frankenstein and so on,that's what sparked my interest.
Then a few years later we finally got cable and my first horror movie watched was Fade to Black followed by Phantasm and then whenever I would go to a video store my first stop was always the horror section.

[1stindoor]

I grew up going to Drive Ins with my parents (couldn't always afford a sitter). So I've watched a lot of cheesy horror/slasher movies. I knew I was hooked though when I watched Phantasm and went to bed that night scared to death..."BOY!"

[IKickAssForTheLord]

I always think ur name says "StinkDoor"

[1stindoor]

I always think ur name says "StinkDoor"

lol...that's a new one. I've been using that same screen name for years. Comes from my job.

[Necromancer]

Been watching horror programs and movies since around the age of 5.

[woodenheart]

Great thread...my dad would watch old classic horror films. I would hear the screaming and creepy music. I would sneak out and go behind a chair and watch the tv...he never knew. Haha...5 older brothers would force me to watch some mainstream horror movies....thought they would scare me...yeah alittle, but then I really liked the feeling and what I saw....I wanted more of this and lots of it. I watched Night Of The Living Day 1968.....was scared and fasinated at the same time.

[Misfit]

dunno thats a hard question.....

[Shreds_of_Flesh]

When I was little watching old black & white horror films, 80's horror like Childs Play. Even though its not horror I watched a lot of Godzilla as a kid

[xxsic4slipknotxx]

I remember when I was little, my baby sitter always watched the NOES. I was one of the few kids she watched that didn't wanna take a nap. So I just sat on the couch watching horror movies with her. Of course, I also got severe nightmares from them, so that babysitter was fired.

The one horror flick that really got me into these flicks was Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead). I remember being 9 at the time when my friend brought this over and insist I check it out. I still remember my reaction to it. I ran to the bathroom and vomited. :lol:

[Doc Awesome]

When I was a just a little kid as young as 2, my grandma and great-grandma lived with my mom and so while my mom worked they would take care of me. On the weekends all three of us would sit on the couch and watch horror movies like F13th, NOES, Child's Play, all the traditional stuff and it's just been something that's always been apart of my life and part of who I am.

[CrazySicilian]

The first horror movie I saw was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I was seven years old. Been hooked on the genre ever since.

[KING]

Dad and I watched horror movies together sometimes. So I just started renting them for myself, it was hard to rent them though because of my age at the time and their strict policy on the underage. Didn't help that mum hated me watching them.

[JeNnYFuR]

i was into Horror at a young age when USA had the weekly Saturday Night series USA Saturday Nightmares

Me too! I wish they would bring that back. I don't remember the first horror movie that I have seen, I just remember liking horror ever since I was a small child.

[koolmike]

From the day I learned how to speak I loved horror. I was always fascinated by the Universal Studios monsters of the 30's and 40's which would always seem to be on the weekends when I was a kid. My favorite being Frankenstein of course...the first of the undead.

Saw NOTLD, The Exorcist, and JAWS all in the same week for the first time years later and officially became hooked.

[txjeff07]

My uncle was into horror flicks and I got to watch them when I went over to his place. I remember watching the original TCM, H78, and Maniac a couple years after they came out. Scared me as a kid but I couldn't look away, been hooked ever since

[3/6]

i dont really remember, been watching horror movies as long as i can remember

[scaryperry]

My aunt used to babysit me and thats all she had, so I started watching them. Candyman was my first I believe.

[UzumakiW]

I watched Goosebumps at a very young age, if that counts :ahheh:

Besides that, as far as I remember the first time I actually grew interested in horror movies, I'd say around the age of nine or ten, when I got a little booklet from BlockBuster at Halloween time showing a bunch of horror movies and short summaries about them. It included movies like Halloween, Misery, Candyman, etc... Reading about those movies really caught my interest, so, I got a few, and watched them, and loved them. Before that, I had seen horror movies before, but it didn't really catch my interest.

[Metapher]

Silver Bullet when I was 5. Mom didn't think it would be that bad being on TV so early. Something happened to me that day :D

[j-vc]

Been watching horror since probably the age of 4/5. My family was never restrictive on my entertainment, so I became a huge slasher fan before my teenage years - and then it became an obsession.

[steelba]

started back in 1985, b4 any of you n00bz were even born :smokin2:

[Lemmywinks]

My dad made it a tradition every halloween to rent horror movies.When I was 8 he rented Halloween,Night of the living Dead,Dawn of the Dead and The Exorcist.Couldn't sleep for a week because I thought Michael Myers was in my closet,zombies were outside and Reagan was under my bed going to pop up and barf on me.

[Necromancer]

[QUOTE=steelba;776977]started back in 1985, b4 any of you n00bz were even born :smokin2:




:2eyes:

[steelba]

are you a n00b Necromancer :sure:

[Get Some]

first horror movie was jaws when i was like 7 I never wanted to go in the ocean ever again

[zombie_horde]

I always liked horror movies but oneday I played Resident Evil and from that day on I became obsessed with horror movies. Started with zombie movies then branched out to all other typed.

[Necromancer]

are you a n00b Necromancer :sure:



nope I'm more of a grampz than a n00bz :D

[xoxani]

As far back as i can remember i have been watching horror movies with my mom and sister. They loved them ,so of course, i did too.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasnt the first horror movie i seen but its the first one i can remember because it was a pretty tramatic experience, all that shrieking and squealing from the victims being tortured was horrible! My sister literally forced me to watch it while she babysat and then when the movie was over she made me go down into the cellar to get some water.. Meanwhile her dickhead bf was waiting in the dark down there to scare the shit out of me. When i got down there he jumped out at me wearing this creepy old man mask and almost gave a 9 year a f***in heartattack. So yea trust me when i say i will never forget that experience.

[grlxx]

good grief..:die:

[Tarantino]

I've been watching horror movies since I was a kid, I wouldn't say I was obsessed but definitely curious and interested. I think the time where I really got into horror films was similar to whoever said it before, but it was mainly Resident Evil 2 that did it for me. But before that, the Elm Street series certain helped. And then 7th grade came around and then my friend and I made every attempt to see whatever horror movies we could.

[MEITTI]

Stephen King's It.

From that day, nightmares were frequent and I was hooked.

I was only 7 years old then. I became hardcore collector at the age of 12, when I bought myself the first Silent Hill game and had nightmares for one week straight.

Fear is like an adrenaline rush for me. Feels so great. Too bad I don't get that sort of feeling so frequently anymore.

[UzumakiW]

first horror movie was jaws when i was like 7 I never wanted to go in the ocean ever again

:thumbup:

[FloydMomma]

The First movie i saw when i was in Junior High was The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and i had a good laugh on that movie. The only thing is the townspeople knew what to kill the Mutant Tomatoes with was music. And the second movie that i kinda liked was The Toxic Avenger and that was funny as well but it made a lot of sense though..:thumbup:

[FreddyFreakChica17]

It was slightly mediocre horror films that got me hooked. I stumbled upon them accidentally when I was nine and going through my "OMG I Love Leonardo Dicaprio" phase. I rented Critters 3 because he was in it, and while it's not a very good film it did get me into the horror genre a little. I watched what I could get my hands on, and eventually my brother started supplying me with films to check out. We would have movie nights like once a month, and he made me a list of movies to rent when i had friends sleep over. Now I can't get enough horror.

[Godfatha]

Started 'liking' horror movies. Would have been watching them with my dad at like 5 or 6, because the local library had the old Universal Classics on VHS. However, I didn't like them simply because they were horror. I didn't start gravitating towards the genre until grade 7 or 8. when Scream and it's ilk poured into theaters.

[LadyFrankenstein]

My Dad. He loves horror. My first horror movie was The Return of The Living Dead, followed by Creepshow and Rawhead Rex. Rex gave me nightmares for years...and I can tell you why:
I was always scared watching horror, and sometimes couldn't sleep and my mom wanted to cut me off. As scared as I was I couldn't let that happen so I started sleeping with a cross under my pillow for protection..lol. It worked until I saw Rawhead Rex. The scene where the priest was warding him back from the church with a cross, and at first it works. I breathe a sigh of relief as I am about 6 yrs old and this was my protection too! And when he finally just walks into the church, breaks the cross and tosses the priest I remember thinking " I am so fucked." My last line of defense: gone!
Anyway, as scared as I was, it was something I wanted to see more of. I liked being scared, seeing different monsters, ghosts, or the creative kills some movies boasted. I guess I like them for a number of different reasons, as does my father, but I owe it all to him for allowing me to dive into it and ultimately encouraging it.

[strtfghtr]

The First movie i saw when i was in Junior High was The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and i had a good laugh on that movie. The only thing is the townspeople knew what to kill the Mutant Tomatoes with was music. And the second movie that i kinda liked was The Toxic Avenger and that was funny as well but it made a lot of sense though..:thumbup:

Ha Ha killer Tomatoes and Toxic Avenger...great movies :coolbeer:

[countess_bathory]

My first experience with horror films was the most memorable, i was about 5 and i was staying at my grandparents, at that stage my auntie and uncle we in their late teens, and my uncle girlfriend must have been no older than twenty, most days i would sit downstairs with my nan while my uncle etc would be upstairs, one day my nan went out and left me in the care of my auntie etc, i rember they had two films and one of them was drop dead fred, i was aloud to watch this, but when it was over i pleaded with them to let me watch the other film. eVentually they gave in and i sat there and watched 'childs play' for the first time. I must admit i was petrified but enjoyed the feeling of being scared..and that is where it all started!!

[grlxx]

awesome..

[krazykuz13]

Fright night was the very first horror movie i saw and it scared the hell out of me. After that I fell in love with horror movies. The Friday the 13th movies were another big event in my horror movie watching life...lol. Scared the hell out of me to but loved em. I even had the cracked issue back in the day that described every kill jason made and the area he killed them in...good shit...

[krazykuz13]

i remember creepshow, watched it with my biological dad and it scared the hell out of me when i was younger, especially the black blob in the water. when that girl gets up and you see her face eaten, good stuff!!!!

[3/6]

know that i think about it i think the very first movie i remember seeing was Mothers Day :D pretty fucked up for a 4 year old to watch...i loved it though

[MaryPoppins]

it was nightmares on elm street. freddy got me hooked.

[C.H.U.D.]

I've been into horror films ever since I could remember. I was Jason Voorhees in 2nd grade for Halloween...I think that says it all.

[smokey]

It was probably when my mum and dad bought me The Lost Boys on dvd. For christmas.

[Moar Brains]

Started watching them from the time my parents started renting them to watch, but they only rented the shitty ones, however there were some that branded something on me forever. Now I love horror movies.

[redmoon]

for me the first time i saw a horror movie was when i was 5-7 i'm not sure of the age but it was in those years, i saw nightmare on elm street and it scared the crap outta me i had nightmares for a week after i saw it, but at the same time even though i was scared something about it just kept me watching it, that was the first one i saw and even though i was scared i liked it enough, i didn't see any other horror movies for awhile until my brother convinced me to watch halloween with him a few years later and ever since then i've loved watching horror movies

[3/6]

I've been into horror films ever since I could remember. I was Jason Voorhees in 2nd grade for Halloween...I think that says it all.

:coolbeer:
i was jason in 3rd grade

[levil666]

First grade. Watched Cat's Eye, and for about two weeks I made sure there were things at the base boards of my wall. Good old Stephen King...

[Luris Blear]

started back in 1985, b4 any of you n00bz were even born :smokin2:I practically had Creepshow memorized by 1985. And Ghostbusters. My mom used to freak out because we would play with cereal boxes at the table, re-enacting the scene from the Shining where Jack Nicholson chops down the door.

Creepshow was probably my first. I was always more afraid of album covers and box cover art than the actual movies. Kubrick's The Shining is also worked in there.

The movie that cemented my fandom A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, when it first hit video. There was horror, fantasy, and a young Patricia Arquette in a nightgown. :drooling:

I had this poster that was a combination of the covers of NOES 2 and 3 hung over my bed at that point.

[burner]

around 4 or 5, watching horror with my dad, my mom hated it, but he didn't mind, now 25 years later i couldn't pick another genre to watch over and over