What's your first horror?

gogo · 24-06-2004 9:35pm #1

I was just reminded in another post here about nightmare in elm street, and That was the first horror film i ever saw, I was about six and my older brother was babysitting me and my younger brother and he made us watch nightmare on elm st, 1 or 2, not to sure which. I remember my mother walking in and my brother and I bursting into tears, I think my younger brother was also struck dumb for a few days.

The first horror I watched by choice was Carrie, my local video shop used to do special deals on halloween, and it was all i could afford. but i haven't looked back since.

My older brother was a bit of a rocker/meteler and he thinks, that it was just a natural progresion for them to like horrors, plus the fact that he would've looked a right idiot renting anything else dressed in his best leather clothes and blue and red docs.
So there you have it, what was the first horror you watched and why?

Tusky · 24-06-2004 10:42pm

Think it was Alien or The Lost Boys but I cant be sure , I was well into it from an early age so watched by own choice

Etain · 25-06-2004 9:16pm

House of Wax, an old black& white movie with Vincent Price, is the first horror movie I can recall. My teen-aged sister was watching me and let me watch it before bed. I was about 5. It scared me so badly that I had to sleep in her room for weeks.
She got into so much trouble over that.
I saw it again quite recently, and it really is well done

TCamen · 26-06-2004 5:08pm

My first horror would be Nightmare on Elm Street also. My mum taped it one night for us to watch with the babysitter when my parents went out to dinner. I was 6 at the time. God bless my parents for not worrying too much about age certificates

I remember seeing bits of Poltergeist III on the TV around then too (the idea of people in the mirrors really freaked me out as a kid), but Nightmare was the first full horror movie I saw.

If I'm gonna go for first scary imagery, it wouldn't be Freddy Krueger, but the stop motion animation Medusa from 'Clash of the Titan' that I saw when I was 4 or so *shiver*

Xcom2 · 26-06-2004 11:51pm

Piranha in the cinema! I was 9 or 10.My dad brought me and my brother to see it and it scared the **** out of me.I've been obsessed ever since.

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http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Nora%20Kuzma

Mac daddy · 01-07-2004 11:24am

This Film called Incubus 1982 cheezy horror flick the first and only time that i seen this i almost **** in pants when i was younger- i was something like 7 when i seen it.

It was about all these woman who get raped and ripped apart- bits of there womb missing nasty film to see when your younger.

kurtmark22 · 02-07-2004 8:28pm

My First Horror film was if you can call it a Horror film, Jaws. The first horror I saw in a cinema was one Elm Street 3. (Better than most of the dull Elm street sequels)

koneko · 05-07-2004 2:10pm

If Jaws can be considered horror, then that's it (I was probably about 4).

Actual horror though, Rosemary's Killer, but I don't remember much of it. Nightmare on Elm Street was another early-ish one when it came out on video first. Thank fuck my mam was into horror when I was a wee nipper

kurtmark22 · 05-07-2004 3:15pm

Actual horror though, Rosemary's Killer

Do you mean Rosemary's Baby?

Fysh · 05-07-2004 3:21pm

First movie with gruesome bits in it would be Robocop (I still remember being appalled at watching Murphy being torn to bits by bullets), first proper horror was one of the Elm Streets....whichever one it was started with Freddy driving the bus.

kurtmark22 · 05-07-2004 3:25pm

That would be Elm Street 2 then.

koneko · 05-07-2004 3:28pm

Originally posted by kurtmark22
Do you mean Rosemary's Baby?

No, I mean Rosemary's Killer.

Was known as The Prowler in other places. It was called Rosemary's Killer on the VHS copy we had of it. Not memorable movie history, but one of the first horror films i remember watching.

kurtmark22 · 05-07-2004 3:31pm

Can't say I ever heard of that film.

BrookieD · 05-07-2004 3:33pm

Hi All
My stepdad made me watch Susperior at a young age, 7 maybe 8. I have never watched a full horror film since, Infact elm street 1 was on Tg4 a few nights ago and I only got 30 mins from the end before ROTFL at the tounge coming out of the phone. how crap was that.

Still I will never watcha 70's horros film?

Batbat · 05-07-2004 3:37pm

Salems Lot, brr scary, btw just downloaded Salems Lot (TNT) 2004 remake, have not seen it yet

kurtmark22 · 05-07-2004 3:38pm

Still I will never watcha 70's horros film

Then you will miss 2 of the all time great horror films Halloween (1978 /9) & Texas Chainsaw Massacre (197? 4 I think)

LoneGunM@n · 05-07-2004 3:43pm

Originally posted by Batbat
Salems Lot, brr scary, btw just downloaded Salems Lot (TNT) 2004 remake, have not seen it yet

Salem's Lot was also my first horror movie ... scared the bejebus out of me ... especially when the janitor is sitting in the rocking chair :eek:

That movie gave me nightmares for years after ... fecking Stephen King ... the man's a physco

Mac daddy · 06-07-2004 12:17pm

And stephen king's IT jesus that scared the boll*x out of me to when i was younger- scared to take a shower for days man.
When i did have one keept on looking at the drain hoping that he would not pop out :eek:

RE*AC*TOR · 06-07-2004 12:58pm

The Omen was the first I remember seeing - didn't even watch it all - the part with the babysitter on the roof:-
it all for you Damien - that was enough for me.
IT scared the pants off me at the time (it was on sky one i think).

kurtmark22 · 07-07-2004 7:32pm

Salems lot scared me back when I first seen it. (I was about 12 at the time)

wrecked · 10-07-2004 2:21am

mine was with some blob of goo or sumthing, it cud be "the blob" just remem the scene when dude puts his hand down drain disposal and it turns on and he's sucked in or sumthing.

saw elm street last nite, jesus how can you guys call that scary it's so bloody funny come on the ending when manican pulled in, ok i'm saying this symplistically so it's not really a spoiler anyone who saw the ending knows. funny sh@t

kurtmark22 · 10-07-2004 3:50pm

Anybody who knows anything about Elm Street will tell you, Wrecked, That the Director Wes Craven did not want that tacked on ending. The studio New Line forced him to use it. Other than that Elm St is a scary film.

brucecampbell · 25-07-2004 1:14am

ok my first horror that i remember is nightmare on elm st 1...i was scared outta my life!!!!!!!!!but i also remember some film about an evil leprachaun...n there was some song in it..."this old man, he played one, he played knick knack on a lung"
did i dream that or am i actually sane????

gogo · 27-07-2004 1:33pm

ah the leprechaun.. Jennifer Aniston is in that.
The leprechaun is looking for his lost pot of gold?

scargill · 27-07-2004 1:54pm

The Amityville Horror frightened the sh1t out of me when I saw it first. I can still remember the music - eerie.

The old fire station in Naas (on the way into the public swimming pool) has similar shaped windows. that also used to put the ****s up me when I was young!

http://www.castleofspirits.com/amityville.html

RuggieBear · 27-07-2004 2:12pm

Can't remeber the name of it but it had this tv advert and people were buying these costumes or masks or sumting.....something like "Three more days to Haloween, Halloween, Halloween..."etc to the tune of "london bridge is falling down"

Not sure if it was a horror but it scared the ****e out of me....

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brianomc · 27-07-2004 5:29pm

That was Halloween 3:Season of the witch. All the kids were buying these masks (made by a company called Silver Shamrock) and when the ad counted down to halloween they were to become possessed. Had absolutely nothing to with Michael Myers but on its own wasn't a bad movie.

"Three more days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock" Must say i love that jingle

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brianomc · 27-07-2004 5:33pm

Can't remember the name of my own.

Would have been pre-1987. The first few minutes involved some guy in a spaceship landing on a red planet, i remember he was trying to crawl out of the quicksand and some tentacle/creature grabbing his leg. Much like return of the jedi scene but definitely not the same film. Any clues cause its been confusing me for about 10 years now. Thats all i remember of the film

RuggieBear · 27-07-2004 10:22pm

Originally posted by brianomc
That was Halloween 3:Season of the witch. All the kids were buying these masks (made by a company called Silver Shamrock) and when the ad counted down to halloween they were to become possessed. Had absolutely nothing to with Michael Myers but on its own wasn't a bad movie.

"Three more days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock" Must say i love that jingle

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Thanks....that's the one by the sound of it....that jingle was really catchy....my brother and I still use it when we are describing something weird or scary!!!

brianomc · 27-07-2004 11:09pm

Figured out mine, just asked my cousin. It was Enemy Mine, a sci-fi film really but i remember it scaring me

John · 18-08-2004 1:19pm

My first was Jaws as well. I still think it's the most frightening thing I've seen (sharks freak me out). I was a very squeemish child so I never got into horror until I was about 12.

skittishkitten · 18-08-2004 3:23pm

The first one that freaked me out was Gargoyles ( not the cartoon) , I watched it because the folks had it on .... I was very young .... I kept thinking they were in my room at night waiting for them to crawl over the bed and get me .

doonothing · 26-08-2004 6:15pm

hmm... the 1st "horror" (by which i mean "film i saw when i was very young that scared me so much that i thought it was a horror") was either edward scissorhands or beetlejuice. god was i terrified, my sister was in bits after beetlejuice, she would not trust a banister for months...
my first "real" horror was scream 2. i was a late starter, what with overprotective parents, but that started me off well indeed...

garthv · 26-08-2004 6:16pm

Evil Dead 2,
scared the sh*t outta me as a kid but its just funny:)

Bunnyefey · 28-08-2004 5:06pm

Mac daddy wrote:

And stephen king's IT jesus that scared the boll*x out of me to when i was younger- scared to take a shower for days man.
When i did have one keept on looking at the drain hoping that he would not pop out :eek:

Ditto, IT had me freakin scared to do anything for a long time. My unhealthy fear of Clowns was multiplied after watching that movie. But you know what really blows monkeys? That when I sat down with my best mate a couple of years ago to watch IT again, we just didn't get the same thrill from it. God, I hate growing old.

gogul · 31-08-2004 5:20pm

Night of the Living Dead. Scared the crap outta me, but then again so did that evil b*stard Chucky. Two films that prob should not have been seen by me at a young impressionable age

jared almasy · 28-09-2004 9:49pm

the first that i actually have a memory of is 'the birds', very creepy.we got rid of the budgie soon after that

bopper · 29-09-2004 5:01pm

mine was either child's play two or halloween can't remember which i saw first

Retr0gamer · 02-10-2004 8:16pm

First one was Critters. My cousin was babysitting us and rented it out. Didn't actually scare me, thought it was hilarious.

First film that scared me was probably Terminator. I remember finding it on the tv when I was about 6 by accident.

Hugh Hefner · 07-10-2004 6:03pm

I can't remember how I got into Horror. But I can remember the first movie I was scared by. It's not a horror at all, it's Starship Troopers the movie. It's really bad but the bugs scared me ****less.

Has anyone here seen Susperia? It's a horror concerning witches that run an old ballet college. It's one of the goriest I've seen. Especially the part in the room of barbed-wire. :eek:

strangelove · 11-10-2004 10:57am

the first movie that scared the living s**t out of me was Aracnapobia, I still have a thing about spider.
first movie by choice was either Jaws or Alien, great classics.
Now I laugh myself stupid at movies like Hellraiser and Event Horizon, I think I may have become desensitised to violence. oh well
KILL KILL EVeRyone must be gone hA HA!!!! :eek:
lol!

George White · 02-12-2012 3:44pm

My first was Daleks Invasion 2150 Ad.

Bambii_ · 09-12-2012 12:13am

The Amityville horror. (original one) I remember begging my nanny to let me stay up and watch it. I was terrified xD

Hurricane Carter · 09-12-2012 12:20am

An American Werewolf in London was my first (I think). That or Nightmare on Elm Street.

The beginning of AAWIL is still fantastic. Scared the crap out of me as a kid!!!

Tindie · 18-12-2012 11:16pm

I think It was Tremors my gate away to the horror world, I loved it when I 4

I thought it was great movie, even now still love it!

spooky donkey · 22-12-2012 12:12pm

i think for me it was either evil dead one or driller killer, cant remember that was a long time ago. way to make a kid see a film ban it as a video nasty and they the kids are sure to see it

Pawwed Rig · 22-12-2012 12:27pm

I watched Poltergeist when I was 8 or 9. I dunno what my parents were thinking at the time but it scared the hell out of me.

Another more obscure movie I saw very young was The Sword and the Sorcerer. At the time it was so scarey and really disturbbed me. I watched it again in my mid 20's and it was pants:D

George White · 25-12-2012 4:54pm

Sword and Sorcerer is a great piece of 80s cheese with featuring Lee Horsley, the poor man's Tom Selleck, himself the poor man's Burt Reynolds, who once was the poor man's Clint Eastwood appearing in spaghetti westerns.

saintsaltynuts · 25-12-2012 4:58pm

The Gate(1987) with a young Steven Dorff.Shat meself.

Caveat_ · 22-03-2014 7:24pm

The Fog was mine. Took me a long time to go out in fog after that.

Ring4Fea · 23-03-2014 1:46am

Sadly it was a tellie repeat of The Screaming Skull.

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