Don't laugh, but when I was 5 years old I was a Michael Jackson fan. The first time I saw the mini-movie/video for "Thriller" it scared the living shit out of me. C'mon, I was 5 years old for christ's sake. After that I, for some reason, began to watch movies like Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead 2, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and so on, and so on. Every new movie I watched I would lay in bed at night cowering under the covers and crying for mama, but I couldnt NOT watch horror movies. Its like a canker sore in your mouth that you can't stop rubbing with your tongue even though it hurts like a sonofabitch. Then I progressed into movies like TCM, The Shining, The Changeling and others. The rest is history.
Well, for me it started thanks to my dad, my Uncle and my aunt. I was 4 years old and they were watching "Tales From The Crypt." I still remember what episode it was. After that I worked my way into Chucky, TCM, Friday the 13th and so on and so forth until I became like, obsessed or something. I have to give the credit to the writers from "Tales From the Crypt" though, they're the ones that got me addicted.
My dad loves all the old B movies and watches them a lot. On occasion, I would watch movies like Motel Hell and NOTLD with him. Back then, the only horror I would call a favorite was AOD.
It wasn't until my late teens, after catching the first ANOES, that the genre really sparked with me. A friend of mine owned the whole ANOES series and I would borrow them two at a time. I then expanded into other series and caught well-known classics and became hooked.
Well the one movie that really scared the shit out of me but made me enjoy being scared was IT. To this day that movie still scares me. I could watch it over and over again and that SOB would still scare me. Other movies that made me enjoy horror ALOT were Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, Friday The 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street.
The first time I saw a horror movie was when I about 8. We were at a family friends house, their kids were about 16 at the time and were watching NOES 2 so I sat down and started watching it. It was up to the part where the guy kills the gym teacher in the shower and he sees that he has freddys hand! Then the family friend walked in and said don't watch that with him! So they turned it off...
But then when I was around 11-12 in 6th grade my friend told me to come over to his house and watch Candyman and Children of the Corn with him. That is when it began.
I started watching Stephen King horrors first like It, Sometimes They Come Back, Pet Semetary etc.
But when I was in about 7-8th grade I started hiring all the TCM's, COTC's, NOES's, Friday's and just about every good looking horror movie that was on the video shelf and still do!
Jaws and Alien were on tv when I was heaps young!
I remember Friday The 13th Part 6 being on tv and The Night Flyer haha