what movie started your love of horror movies?

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swiftdog2.0

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Probably Jaws.

The Amityville Horror & The Last House On The Left as well. Saw those at a double drive-in feature when I was like six. My Dad took my sister and I to that. Ole' SwiftDad was in the doghouse for a while after that one.

I also used to watch The Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoons on Channel 56 with my Dad on the rare occasions he had a weekend off.
 

muskrat

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Lordy, I can't rightly remember. Hard to recall when the fear gave way to a lifelong obsession/ fascination. Was it Hooper's Salem's Lot? No...I was only about four or five then, and at the time all it did was scare the crap out of me. Same deal with Amityville, and that miniseries adaption of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles (ye gads, that Mars is Heaven segment gave me nightmares). I can recall staying up late with ma and my two goonish older sisters to watch stuff like The Haunting, and creepy Sissy Spacechick as crazy Carrie. Helter Skelter--are you kidding me? The seventies were freaky scary, bub.

Come the eighties, and blessed video rentals, my terror morphed into love. Karloff as Frankenstein. Creepshow! The whole damn Friday the 13th series. We loved Jason, all us kids did. He came with accessories, like an action figure--just a big serial-killing G.I. Joe. Romero's Dead flicks. All that great Savini gore. Ahh...childhood.
 

mjs9153

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Lordy, I can't rightly remember. Hard to recall when the fear gave way to a lifelong obsession/ fascination. Was it Hooper's Salem's Lot? No...I was only about four or five then, and at the time all it did was scare the crap out of me. Same deal with Amityville, and that miniseries adaption of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles (ye gads, that Mars is Heaven segment gave me nightmares). I can recall staying up late with ma and my two goonish older sisters to watch stuff like The Haunting, and creepy Sissy Spacechick as crazy Carrie. Helter Skelter--are you kidding me? The seventies were freaky scary, bub.

Come the eighties, and blessed video rentals, my terror morphed into love. Karloff as Frankenstein. Creepshow! The whole damn Friday the 13th series. We loved Jason, all us kids did. He came with accessories, like an action figure--just a big serial-killing G.I. Joe. Romero's Dead flicks. All that great Savini gore. Ahh...childhood.
Gotta admit,action figures have come a ways since the seventies and eighties..
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mjs9153

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Rainy Saturday afternoons at my brother in law and sister's house,at my house we lived too far out to have cable in the seventies,so it was new to me back then..the horror films,vincent price,the hammer films,bela Lugosi and lon chaney,etc,loved em all before I ever went to a horror movie at the theater..first one of those was Jaws I think,remember when Quint got chomped and chokes on his blood? Cool stuff,man..
 

skimom2

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Nightmare Theater, a local scary movie thing on TV, when I was REALLY small. My dad was in Vietnam for his second tour, and my mom would often have her brothers or sisters stay with her, my brother, and me (she was only 22 or so--I can't imagine having 2 kids at that age!); one of my uncles, who would have been just a teenager, loved the show. I never was good at sleeping if I can hear anyone else up in the house, and the rattling chains and moaning when the show started often got me creeping out of bed to see what was going on. I remember watching Isle of the Dead. The part when the narcoleptic woman who is buried alive is trying to get out of her coffin scared the crap out of me. I LOVED that show--wish it was still on. It didn't treat the movies as funny (like Elvira or Svengooli).
 

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Does anyone remember Creature Feature? I believe it may have been every afternoon at 3pm on UHF (you won't have a clue what this is if you are under 40). It may have only been on weekends. I vividly remember being an only child and sitting in mom's laundry basket watching that - so I wasn't more than 5 - I got a sister when I was 6. All those old creepy movies - the woman's head in the jar and SHE STILL TALKED! Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Mummy - and all those Vincent Price movies from Edgar Allen Poe stories. That's the first I remember. After that - Salem's Lot on TV with David Soul. And Danny Glick at the window scratching. Scared the life out of me.
 

Arcadevere

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Yes!! I recently went to Bali. And courage played late at night while I was there. I had never really watched it before. And as a 23yr old it scared me a bit!!! That was full on!!

Gosh, i once watched courage during night (i was 15 years old at that time) nd i ended up covering myself in pillows.

The most scariest for me was the King Ramses' curse
"RETTUUUUURRRNNN TTHHHEE SSSLLLLAAABBBBB, OOOORRR SSUUUFFFEEERRR MYYY CUUURRSSSEEE"
 

mal

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'Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte'. Mom let us watch when we were elementary school age and
when that head rolled down the stairs
I remembered it forever. Saw it again in my 40's and laughed. My first scary one on my own (young pre-teen at movie with my friends) was 'It's Alive!'. Ooohhh...that one was scary. I never did watch it again but I'm sure I'd laugh this time around as well.
 

not_nadine

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'Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte'. Mom let us watch when we were elementary school age and
when that head rolled down the stairs
I remembered it forever. Saw it again in my 40's and laughed. My first scary one on my own (young pre-teen at movie with my friends) was 'It's Alive!'. Ooohhh...that one was scary. I never did watch it again but I'm sure I'd laugh this time around as well.

My mom used to sing the song at random times. Scared me more than the movie.
She did it on purpose. :)

 

fljoe0

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I can't pinpoint one movie but I can pinpoint a group of them and they were the Roger Corman Poe movies. Back in the three channel days (and only two of them good), I remember watching these after school. There must have been some regular afternoon movie on one of the channels because I remember watching these Corman movies after school. I saw some of them several times so they must have played often. My first horror movie memories are of these Corman flicks.
 

carrie's younger brother

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I can't pinpoint one movie but I can pinpoint a group of them and they were the Roger Corman Poe movies. Back in the three channel days (and only two of them good), I remember watching these after school. There must have been some regular afternoon movie on one of the channels because I remember watching these Corman movies after school. I saw some of them several times so they must have played often. My first horror movie memories are of these Corman flicks.
Yes!!! I was just going to post the same! I just saw The Pit and the Pendulum the other night and it brought back such memories. I hadn't seen it in a while. Those Corman movies and the Hammer movies were my intro to horror. Very atmospheric and over the top, Grand Guignol-type of horror. To this day they still creep me out.
 

Steffen

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I think I was maybe 8 or 9 when Psycho was on TV (a Saturday afternoon, no less). My mom walked past during the scene where Mrs Bates is revealed and she asked what I was watching. I said "I dunno" and she said "Okay" and kept walking. Bless her heart, cause when I was a child she let me watch anything on TV as long as it didn't have any nekkid people.