The Horror Thread - Part 7

[NDX]

My first was the original House on Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price. It was in a VHS bargain bin at a grocery store check out and my mom said she used to watch it when she was a kid, so she bought it. I got a good kick out of it.

This might have been mine too. I remember watching it with my grandmother and getting the **** scared outta me by the skeleton.

I was a chicken****. For a long, long time.

 

[Asr]

Due to the pandemic, a local horror film festival went virtual, so now everyone around the world can enjoy! It's the Mile High Horror Film Festival based here in Colorado, running 9/24 through 10/4: https://www.mhhff.com/

Tickets are $75. Lots of indie horror flicks planned!

Sleepaway Camp is a total bore fest outside of that amazing ending and final shot. I would totally watch it again with someone who doesn't know the ending though. I want to see someone's reaction.

I saw Sleepaway Camp for the first time last year, in a local theater that specializes in indie film. The crowd was decently big and was almost at capacity (which I'd guess might be 100?). Some folks had obviously seen the movie before, but there were also plenty of others who hadn't, and it was certainly an experience seeing it with a crowd. It got more laughs than anything else due to all of the 80s fashion & trends. Particularly with the men wearing short shorts.

The ending caught me off-guard completely. And I've seen that image before on the Interwebs too - showing the girl's face, at least. Not the rest of her.

 

[Broseph44]

Oh and another one of the very first ones my dad showed me was House Of Wax with Vincent Price.

 

[The Shape]

My first was the original House on Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price. It was in a VHS bargain bin at a grocery store check out and my mom said she used to watch it when she was a kid, so she bought it. I got a good kick out of it.

Same here. I was like 4 years old. The creepy old lady who glides by on the skateboard scared ther **** out of me. Then I saw Halloween on TV. But after House on Haunted Hill, I was never really "scared" by another horror film. Desensitized me at a young age.

 

[Marvolo]

What was everyone's first horror movie?

Mine was Halloween, my Dad introduced me to it as a kid, he was really good at knowing what films I would like and what my limits were with horror. Its funny because Halloween didn't scare me (tbf horror movies don't really and have never really scared me), I just thought it was so mesmerising, of course I jumped at points but they're the fun scares. To this day I haven't seen a horror film that I enjoy more than Halloween. Don't get me wrong there are films I love nearly as much but Halloween is just perfection for me. Is some of that nostalgia? definitely but its just a brilliant film and I'm glad to this day that my Dad let me watch it. Who knows if I would have loved horror as much as I do now were it not for me seeing Halloween when I did.

The first one that I can remember watching was I Know What You Did Last Summer. Mom and my sis were watching it, and I kept going into the room and watching parts of it. I was 7 and the sleepless night put me off horror movies for almost a decade. It wasn't until 2005 when the House of Wax remake came out that I tried the genre again. But the real gateway film for me was Alien. I think I was 16 when I watched it for the first time. After that I dived head first into the genre.

 

[SupermanFan]

Regrettably, mine was not Halloween.

instead it was H20. I was around five or six and I'd convinced my parents to let me stay up and watch it with them. Seeing JGL with an ice skate embedded in his face shook me up a little, but I was still game. I got as far as Michael slitting Marion Chambers' throat before I ran out of the room and went to bed with nightmares. Great first horror experience.

Haha that’s an awesome first experience

Halloween was my first horror film as well thanks to my mom who made us watch it as a family every Halloween during the 90's and early 2000's along with some of the other films in the franchise.

I had to be only like 5 or 6 years old too, but I was also watching a lot of crazy stuff back then like Hellraiser, Candyman, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Friday The 13th films.

Scream, Urban Legend and I Know What You Did Last Summer were some that I watched a ton of times too even though those came a little later. I wish I had been old enough to see them in theatre though, because man was I into slasher films back during those days.

When I got to my teen years I sought out just about every slasher film I could find, I’d seen the classics but not a lot of the sequels. One of my favourite summers ever was collecting all the Friday the 13th movies, I then did the same with Halloween and Nightmare. Great times.

My first ones my dad introduced me to were Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, Poltergeist and Psycho. Just great memories watching them together. Man I really miss him.

Sorry to hear mate, lost my Dad back in 2004 there’s so many films I wish I could watch with him. He really moulded my taste in movies in many ways.

The first one that I can remember watching was I Know What You Did Last Summer. Mom and my sis were watching it, and I kept going into the room and watching parts of it. I was 7 and the sleepless night put me off horror movies for almost a decade. It wasn't until 2005 when the House of Wax remake came out that I tried the genre again. But the real gateway film for me was Alien. I think I was 16 when I watched it for the first time. After that I dived head first into the genre.

You know I really should revisit IKWYDLS, I haven’t seen it for a long time.

That House of Wax remake was surprisingly very entertaining.

 

[DyeLorean]

I think the earliest memory of a horror film that I remember watching for my own amusement is Child's Play 2.

 

[Broseph44]

Sorry to hear mate, lost my Dad back in 2004 there’s so many films I wish I could watch with him. He really moulded my taste in movies in many ways.

Thanks man I appreciate it a lot it’s been about a year and a half now since I lost him. I’m sorry for your loss too man. My dad definitely got me started with the horror at a young age and music as well lots of great classic rock.

 

[SupermanFan]

Thanks man I appreciate it a lot it’s been about a year and a half now since I lost him. I’m sorry for your loss too man. My dad definitely got me started with the horror at a young age and music as well lots of great classic rock.

If you ever need to talk mate hit me up in the DMs.

 

[chamber-music]

Evil Dead was probably the oldest horror I can recall seeing. I was about five or six.

Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play and Scream franchise were all weirdly popular with most kids I knew in the nineties.

 

[Broseph44]

If you ever need to talk mate hit me up in the DMs.

Same goes for you

 

[NDX]

Evil Dead was probably the oldest horror I can recall seeing. I was about five or six.

Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play and Scream franchise were all weirdly popular with most kids I knew in the nineties.

Child's Play still is, at least 5 years ago. The kids I worked with used to mention Chucky all the time,

 

[Kane52630]

It might have been Beetlejuice for me, but I don't remember. What I did remember scaring the sh** out of me was on tv...

 

[Broseph44]

It might have been Beetlejuice for me, but I don't remember. What I did remember scaring the sh** out of me was on tv...

Beetlejuice was definitely another I’d watch with my dad. And man Are You Afraid Of The Dark was great and Tales From The Crypt.

 

[NDX]

It might have been Beetlejuice for me, but I don't remember. What I did remember scaring the sh** out of me was on tv...

That was pure nightmare feul.

I know I watch Beetlejuice often as a kid (still do), and I remember Davis pulling off her face hanging in the closet used to get me every time. Nothing else really bothered me about the film except that.

 

[DyeLorean]

Chucky was the perfect introduction to horror for kids, I must say. Genius premise.

 

[SupermanFan]

Same goes for you

Thanks mate

It might have been Beetlejuice for me, but I don't remember. What I did remember scaring the sh** out of me was on tv...

Oh man that was such an awesome episode

 

[Broseph44]

Ya know who else was creepy af? Zeke The Plumber.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Growing up in the 80's (I was 5 in 1980) I was 'fortunate' to experience horror quite early on, especially as having an older brother, 5 years older, so at any one stage he was entering that age at about 13 where you get inquisitive about scary films. First 'real' scare I think was watching the VHS copy of Thriller which scared the s**t out of me, especially when having to walk home on my own after watching it at a friends house in Winter time.

 

[Broseph44]

We are just about a week away guys from the best month of the year! The best season, best month and best holiday all together. I’m so happy I could dance!

 

[Lily Adler]

We are just about a week away guys from the best month of the year! The best season, best month and best holiday all together. I’m so happy I could dance!

Ah the film that spawned several crappy sequels and remakes.

 

[Captain Tired]

I thought TCM2 and the first remake were quite good tbh.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I quite like TCM2.

I prefer the first, but I like how it feels closer to Hooper's more playful and strange sensibilities that he found in this time of his career. It's still twisted and horrific just in a tongue in cheek sort of way which makes it kind of charming.

Anyone seen Lifeforce? What a ****ing awesome movie.

 

[Broseph44]

Ah the film that spawned several crappy sequels and remakes.

Strongly disagree. For me still personally love TCM 2, TCM 3, TCM 2003 and TCM The Beginning. But yeah just my preferences.

 

[Asr]

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