What got you into Horror

I think Dawn of the Dead was the first real horror film that really made an impact on me.
Hold on, no, there was a Peter Cushing film about Abominable snowmen that scared me too.

for me it was 1982, I was 12 years old, the movie was John Carpenter's The Thing.

the scene with the dog rearing back and its face peeling open like a banana haunted me for years, see I love dogs and seeing that just hit a nerve, and it was the first movie to ever give me nightmares. I have loved horror since then.

I would have to say watching "Evil Dead 2" with my dad when I was little is what did it. On weekends on TNT, they used to have "Monster Vision" and we would always watch it together, along with Elvira's show. I also remember "The Cat's Eye" (which is the main reason why I own a cat!) and "Creepshow." I will never pick up a hitchhiker.

After being scared for years, I now love it all! I'm not big on gorey movies, though.

I grew up in a family that loved horror movies, so I saw a lot of them in my childhood. The two that stand out for me now, though they came a little later, are Texas Chainsaw Massacre and An American Werewolf in London.

There was at the time a modern sense to them both. They both had amazing production design and character design. And the sense of hopelessness--you cannot escape the evil out there or the evil inside yourself--seemed to fit in with the mood of the whole world at the time.

It was much later that I finally saw Night of the Living Dead and saw where a lot of this came from. That's why I love zombie movies!

The earliest I can remember enjoying was the crawling eye. It had ciant clay-mation eyes with telepathic powers. Today, not so scary. Back then, horrifying.

I was actually in college when I first saw NOTLD. I saw the sequels prior to that.

Mine was a double feature of the Brood and Halloween 2, the next week I watched the Car and about crapped myself. I was an avid biker and the devil in a car that runs you off the road just about made me quit. The brood was facinating especially the meat tenderizer to the old mans dome. That was epic in my book. My 1st zombie was of course the Night of the Living dead. Watched it on HBO like five times in two days.

Japanese movies! Godzilla, Attack of the Mushroom People! Good stuff!

I loved Godzilla and any other giant monster movie I could watch as a kid. I was also big on the Universal Classics as a kid. Frankenstein was a favorite, but I've always loved Invisible Man. Still love that one, and I've got the Legacy Collection.

The first movie to really scare me was part of The Exorcist that I was when I was about 4 years old. I'm not exactly sure what part, I'd like to say the stairs, but it scared the hell out of me.

From then on trying to find a movie that scared me became a bit of a fascination. I really enjoy finding something that truly and honestly scares me. The only recent movie I've seen that scared me was The Orphanage. It was so atmospheric that walking through a house similar to that one scared me.

Another one that got to me was the original Night of the Living Dead. I watched it at 2 am with a friend. This friend lives in an old farm house. I had to go to the cellar to get more pop after it was over. Walking down the stairs, I noticed a table with a trowel on it. All I could think about was the lamp swinging. That did it for me... That basement still creeps me out.

My family has been big horror movie watchers and my parents never restricted my brother or me. I've seen many scary movies over the years. But the first I remember being afraid of (on any long term basis) was Night of the Living Dead. We had just got our first VCR and my mom bought the tape. One day when I was about 12 I was home sick from school and we watched it. And it scared the shit out of me. As a matter of fact it is the only movie to this day that I can't watch after dark because it still scares the shit out of me.

I was 4 or 5 when my parents rented The Omen and settled in to watch it after I went to bed. For whatever reason, I snuck out of bed and watched it from behind the couch without them noticing. I snuck back to my bedroom and had some sort of really bad nightmare and screamed myself awake. After that I was pretty much hooked.

Since Ive grown up the only movie to scare me (and laugh if ya want)was One Hour Photo

For me, it was the guy who lived down the street from me when I was growing up. Had this really kickin hearse and a glass eye that was always looking a little off center. His name was Dick Bennick and he hosted a show called Creature Feature using the name Dr. Paul Bearer. Really opened my eyes up to the world of horror.

For me, it was the guy who lived down the street from me when I was growing up. Had this really kickin hearse and a glass eye that was always looking a little off center. His name was Dick Bennick and he hosted a show called Creature Feature using the name Dr. Paul Bearer. Really opened my eyes up to the world of horror.

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-bradzeke

wow man thats kinda cool dude. was it like a local access show or just a normal network affiliate? I.E. is this guy someone we might have seen or was it a local dude type thing

Hmmmm...he looks a little "peculiar".....

wow man thats kinda cool dude. was it like a local access show or just a normal network affiliate? I.E. is this guy someone we might have seen or was it a local dude type thing

-unoshato

If you happened to to live in Central Florida anytime between 71 and to 95 the show was Saturday mornings. Notably he was the longest running horror host on television so you might have seen him at some point.

Not sure of the exact timeline but in a short period of time my dad and I watched Night of the Living Dead and Halloween after I was done trick or treating. Around the same time I was over a friends house and her dad showed me his fancy new beta and the copy of Friday the 13th he had. These events were enough to hook me for life.

My Daddy told me ghost stories instead of fairy tales.