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

[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..

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

[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 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.

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

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.

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