Which one movie got you into liking horror movies?

[ScaryFreak1827]

I'm sure this topic has been done before, but I viewed through some old posts and couldn't find it. Anyone what one movie, it can be horror or non-horror, got you intrested into this genre.

[FeydRautha]

When I was 5 years old I saw "King Kong" on TV. That got me started. After that I saw a lot of the Universal classics..."Dracula" starring Bela Lugosi, "Frankenstein" starring Boris Karloff, and so on.

But I suppose "King Kong" will always be the movie that started me on a lifelong love of horror.

[countchocula]

I can't pinpoint one specific film, but the Godzilla romps piqued my interest as a wee lad. The rest is history...

[Living_Dead_Dude]

Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Halloween, Friday the 13th and other slasher flicks got me interested, but the Evil Dead movies (Dead by Dawn in particular), turned me into a hardcore fan, I remember the first time I saw Evil Dead 2 late night on t.v., I remember turning the channel, seeing the book of the dead during the prologue, and it intriging me (I didn't even know what the hell it was, I knew the title was Evil Dead 2, and I wasn't sure if was was supposed to be funny, but it was) ---awww the memories

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[Sam Hain]

halloween

[Flesh Eater]

I think the Friday The 13th series got me into liking horror mives.

[sleepawaycampfan#1]

my first horror movie that i watched was sleepaway camp 2: unhappy campers. ever since i watched that, i started to rent other horror movies.

[stevereno]

THE LOST BOYS

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Klownzilla]

THE WOLF MAN (1941), which I saw when I was 5.

[Boogeyman]

HALLOWEEN

later

[The Claw]

Childs Play, which was the first horror movie i watched, i dont know what age i was, but i have been watching them since.

[Evil Spike]

the texas chainsaw massacre http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[pig farmer]

Halloween and Friday the 13th.

[Gregorious8]

Nightmare on Elm Street.

[NightHorrorChick]

A couple years after Scream came out I liked the series, but it didn't get me into horror, just those 3 films and I Know What you Did Last Summer.
It was probably around January when I was watching t.v. and caught A Nightmare on Elm Street Dream Warriors and thought it was an awesome movie. I rented the Nightmares, then moved on to any other slasher I could find at my local, not well supplied, video store. A Nightmare on Elm Street has become my favorite horror movie.
I always watched horror, but never thrived(for lack of a better word) to watch all I could get my hands on until Nightmare on Elm Street Dream Warriors.

[KingPhenom007]

Halloween back in 81 when I was 4

[BILL FIEND]

The Evil Dead when i was 6.......

[CAPTAIN BLAKE]

The first horror film I can remember seeing (also my earliest memory, stragely enough) was the made for TV flick TRILOGY OF TERROR with Karen Black. I was 3 or 4, and it fucked me up something terrible...that Zuni warrior fetish doll haunted my dreams for a long time after.

I've been a fan of everything scary from birth, according to my parents. They asked me one Christmas Eve (my second or third) if I knew who was going to be coming to visit us that evening. I said "Santa of course!", right? Hell no. I told them "the witch" was coming. This freaked my mom out in a bad way. My dad thought it was funny, but I think he may have been a little nervous as well. If we had only had a chimney for her to skitter down, she might very well have paid us a visit. A childs imagination can bring to life all kinds of nasty things, you know.

Moviewise, though, after the cherry popping TRILOGY the films that hit me the hardest as a kid were CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (hey, it was my first zombie flick...), PHANTASM and HALLOWEEN. HALLOWEEN especially. Saw it on it's network premiere in '81 along with just about everybody else, and I haven't been the same since.

[ICP RULZ]

Ok,I would have to say the Halloween and Friday the 13th series. They werent the first horror movies that I watched,actualy they were like my last,but I remember seeing previews for them and wanting to see them soo bad.But they were the reason why I got into horror.

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[reelmaster]

Hey captain blake: Me too
I was 4 when i saw trilogy in 1977 and that bloody Zuni fetish doll gave me nightmares for a week. And i have only managed to add it to my collection this year
Anchor Bay NTSC VHS re release

Unfortunately TOT was never released in australia. We only have #2 which ain't that great

[Kastman]

i only started watching horror a couople of years ago.

the first horror movie i saw was i still know what you did last summer and i liked, guilty pleasure i guess. it was on cable and i just left it on and realised it was good to watch other people get brutally murdered. since then i have probably seen about 75 horror movies so im still a beginner

[CeMeTaRy_GaTeS]

ALIEN may be the first movie with horror in it that I loved. But EVIL DEAD was the one that got me into straight up horror and not a cross genre flick

[kubotakhan01]

"A nightmare on elm street" was the first film I actually watched all the way through and liked alot.

[Psychocandy]

Possibly King Kong. So long ago I can't pinpoint which movie it was with anything like accuracy. It seems like i've always liked horror.

[moviebuff86]

one of the nightmare on elm streets but the one tht really got me into horror movies was scream

[zipperha]

I;ve been a horror fanatic for only six years. I never really liked horror until I saw "Scream". I saw a lot of teen movies then, and thought it looked cool (I also love "Friends"). But at that time it was a masterpiece. It actually got me into gore most of all. By now I've graduated past "Scream" -like horror to Argento (my fave), but for me, "Scream" started it all.

[Bill Foster]

Basket Case, believe it or not.