How Did You Get Into Horror Films??....
Was it a particular movie, series of movies, the work a certain director or a friend that got you into horror films?
For me I'll say it was my old man who got me into them in the mid 80s. My dad was always a horror fan and used to look after me every Saturday, he was one hell of an irresponsible parent so he used to rent a whole batch of horror for me to watch. Been into horror ever since.
I always was a fan of movies, it began with the common action-flicks when I was young. My fascination for movies did keep me studying TV-guides for anything interesting. Then, on some day (age like 11 or something), I came along the brief introduction of Friday the 13th, which was showed that night. I just had to check it out! Scared my butt off, but I liked the feel! Not much later I first saw Jaws and I was hooked for life. Since then any nice horrormovie get my recorder buzzing, and I am a frequent flier at the video rental. Still there is so much I need to see yet...
Well,when I was 11,I saw my first horror movie "Puppet master 2".I love those movies.I didn't watch any horror movies besides them until i was 16 when i saw nightmare on Elm Street for the first time.I thought it was pretty good.
But then,when i turned 17,i saw Halloween 4 and then i was intrigued and in a matter of 5 months,I have seen over a 100 horror movies.
started watching them 20 years ago with my mom. Alot of movies on network television (which was alot back then...NBC would play the hell out of Friday the 13th and other big name films). Since they were edited for tv my mom didn't have a problem with me watching them with her. When she saw that I had no problems with the content on tv and that I really liked the genre, she would let me watch her horror movie rentals with her.
when I got older and was allowed to pick my own video rentals (around 10-11) I always chose horror. I was already hooked. If the pic on the box intrigued me, I rented it.......which resulted in me seeing an assload of crappy, forgetable 70's B-films. I'm still like that today...to a certain extent. With the internet I can actually find out about movies beforehand and actually seek certain titles out.
Kids have it so good today. Blockbuster and Hollywood video rent almost exclusively big name horror films. If they have it...somebody, somewhere liked the movie and it made some money....even if it is complete nonsense like Wrong Turn.
The first horror film I can remember watching which really got me interested in horror was Nightmare on Elm Street. Went to a friends sleep over for her birthday and she got her parents to rent out a load of horror films, and NOES was one that I loved. I kept looking behind me after watching it since I was the one nearest the door...
Horror was a film genre which was the only type of film I would watch when I was younger, but then I moved onto everything in the film world when I was older. So have horror to thank for getting my obsessed in film overall.
Horror for me was my first genre in movies. I watched some old vampire movies when I was 11. I got interested in horror because of vampires movies. But then I kinda broke away and got into Old school Martial Arts and Spaghetti Westerns movies. It wasn't till I saw Hellraiser that I became a fan of horror again. I never was much into Freddy or Jason, but Pinhead just got me back into the horror genre. I was enjoying horror movies again and ever since then I been digging through the old horror of the late 70's movies. During my searchs I found the Italian horror films and those films really got me more into horror. The gore and the cheese dialogues just got me hype and even today I still looking hoping to find some more of those movies. I just love them.
I see myself as a regular not a hardcore fan of horror. I've expanded my collection these past 2 years and is not very big (As mention before I'm a huge fan of other genres) but I think is decent for an average fan. There are things about horror that I understand and there are things I don't understand. I like to keep myself updated on whats new, but I just sometimes don't keep track all the time. Anyways, the first horror film I saw was a TV movie call Salem's Lot. But the film that got me into the genre was Hellraiser.
Originally posted by Evil Dead
started watching them 20 years ago with my mom. Alot of movies on network television (which was alot back then...NBC would play the hell out of Friday the 13th and other big name films). Since they were edited for tv my mom didn't have a problem with me watching them with her. When she saw that I had no problems with the content on tv and that I really liked the genre, she would let me watch her horror movie rentals with her.when I got older and was allowed to pick my own video rentals (around 10-11) I always chose horror. I was already hooked. If the pic on the box intrigued me, I rented it.......which resulted in me seeing an assload of crappy, forgetable 70's B-films. I'm still like that today...to a certain extent. With the internet I can actually find out about movies beforehand and actually seek certain titles out.
Kids have it so good today. Blockbuster and Hollywood video rent almost exclusively big name horror films. If they have it...somebody, somewhere liked the movie and it made some money....even if it is complete nonsense like Wrong Turn.
Yeah,my mom is probably the reason I got into horror in the first place.We're both horror freaks.
Ive allways been a movie freak but what got me into horror was my mum. She used to tape all the hammer horror films (which are great) dont know if u guys in the states watch em, And the universal frankenstein films. Me and my bro used to sneak down early and watch em befor she woke up i was only 6 or 7 then been hooked since. Now i have every universal & hammer frankenstein film plus any others i find. There class
I dont know exactly how I got interested in horror movies, I was introduced to them at a young age and as I can remember my very first movie of that sort was 'Fire in the sky' and a movie like that is piercing on a child, my mother said it scared me. But its cool now. I was basically made a 'non-girlish' person and everything. Most of my friends refuse to see a horror movie in theaters with me, and if they do they hide their eyes...me? Im the first one to see it, I enjoy the show.