Your first horror

[Venice]

Can you guys remember the first horror film you watched...and did it scare you....

Mne was Amityville...the scene with the red eyes at the window still gives me the creeps........|shocking|

[ecchi]

Well the 'Child Catcher' scene in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has been voted one of the ten scariest scenes in cinema history, so I guess that was the first 'scary movie' I ever saw.

The first thing at the cinema to actually scare me was (I think) the 'march of the pink elephants' scene in Dumbo.

However the first 'proper' horror film I saw was probably a Hammer film or one of the 1930s/40s Universal Dracula/Frankenstein/Werewolf films as they were shown a lot on TV when I was a kid. I don't think I was ever scared by these.

But the thing that had the most lasting effect on me was the Autons in Dr Who (first time round, about 1969). That had plastic dolls and show room dummies coming to life and killing people. It took me years to be able to sit alone in a room with a doll after that. And I am still nervous of them. I know this is silly, but I cannot sleep in the same room as anything human shape made of plastic. Last summer I was in holiday and the hotel had left a small plastic doll in the room as part of the decoration. Before I could go to sleep I had to shut it in a draw, and pile the suitcases in front of the draw to stop it crawling out and 'getting me' in the night!

[docholly]

Bela Lugosi in Dracula in the 60's on the Midnight horror shows.. i was like 10 yrs old and will never forget my initial fear and reaction to see those eyes..

[ponygirl]

I don't remember the first one I saw, but the one that stays with me the most is 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. I love horror & it doesn't bother me but this one was disturbing I still get the willies from it

[bluemoney]

Psycho . . . . Hitchcock was brilliant

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by bluemoney

Psycho . . . . Hitchcock was brilliant

yep that was my first horror movie i saw, but the one which got me the most was "the fog" i was very young when i saw that movie, it took me years to get outside when there was fog, to be honest in summer when i am at my summerhome, alone midnight fishing ...sometimes there is a sudden fog above the water and i still feel very uncomfortable when that happens, could be because my freaken moron of a hubby always try to scare the shit out of me in the dark ( did i mention i cant see very well in the dark?)|shocking|

[Torn Rose]

The "red eyes" got me too, but I think I saw “Halloween” first.

But I think arguably the scariest movie ever made is "Jaws", just think of how many people were forever changed by that movie and even swimming in a pool is scary to many people because of it.

[docholly]

Originally Posted by Torn

The "red eyes" got me too, but I think I saw “Halloween” first.

But I think arguably the scariest movie ever made is "Jaws", just think of how many people were forever changed by that movie and even swimming in a pool is scary to many people because of it.

i was already grown when that came out but i didn't shower for i think 3 weeks after i saw jaws.. i was very RIPE ..and i never saw psycho until i was like 30 something..

[CelticTiger]

I remember watching Salems Lot in the 70's when I was about 6 or 7....the young kid floating in his brothers window scared the shit out of me....I saw it recently again didn't think it was particular scary - but I do rememeber being scared silly when I first saw it

[ecchi]

I would have said Jaws was one of the funniest movies ever made. I nearly wet myself laughing when the shark first appeared, even for it's time it must rank as one of the worst 'monster' special effects ever (and remember I am a big fan of the original series of Dr Who, so I know all about really bad 'monster' special effects).

[Jim]

I just watched a documentary on HBO that included people from Jaws. They said that for most of the movie, the shark didn't work and they thought that is what made the movie so good. For instance, in the beginning when you only see the girl swimming and then being yanked around by the invisible shark, there was no shark available. The scene was supposed to include the shark but, as I said, it hardly ever worked.

It was a scary movie to me as well. But, I was only 14 when I first saw it and of course, sat in the front row of the movie theater.

[spacemanspiff]

I saw this really stupid B movie in '72 called The Legend of Boggy Creek. It is about as hokey as a movie can get, but I was 10. My dad said he didn't think we should be seeing a scary movie, but I begged him to bring me and a friend until he finally relented. I wouldn't watch horror flicks for years after that.

[virgohippy]

Mine was probably ET, the Extra Terrestrial. Made me feel scary inside for a while... why? Because I'm a wuss!

I don't watch scary movies, or movies about aliens and ghosts, unless I have someone to hold onto.

Sexy vampires are okay though.

[sue-fl]

I also don't remember the first scary movie I saw which tells you that I'm really old.... But The Birds would have to be one of the first few scary movies I watched, and scare me it did

I agree with Torn that Jaws changed a lot of people, the way the girl got eaten was classic!!

[bluemoney]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

Mine was probably ET, the Extra Terrestrial. Made me feel scary inside for a while... why? Because I'm a wuss!

That would explain the feline avatar because your not a wuss, your a pussy . . . just kidding of course, I was having a "U Dub" episode

[Preacher]

Nightmare on Elm Street #3, The Dream Warriors. If you haven't seen it then there are a couple of Simpson's references you will never get.

It didn't scare me, not nearly as bad as Red Dawn did.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by bluemoney

your a pussy

If I were, I'd probably have more fun then I do now.

[juggernaut]

Salems Lot was the first one I watched all the way to the end and when that large vampire dude came out of the closets I freaked. 2nd movie that scared the shit out of me was the Exorcist see that at 5 years old and you will never turn off the light. lol

[itto]

maan, i still fuck up when i think of that creepy Zelda sister in "Pet Cemetary"..

[Agent]

Wouldnt be the first but I remember being scared shitless by the Poltergeist movie where the kid is being pulled under his bed by a stuffed animal.

I had a stuffed sock monkey I couldn't be around after that little episode. I had to be taken home from my aunt's too because I was scared shitless. It's my own fault. My cousins had tried very hard to make me go to bed before it came on.

[juggernaut]

God I feel old from the last two posts lol. I think I was almost 17 when those badboys came out lol.

[Jim]

I think the scariest movie I saw for the time was "The Morning After". It was in the early 80s and made for TV. I think it ran commercial free and was about Nuclear War. I remember for weeks, looking at the sky waiting to see mushroom clouds.

[Ms Naughty]

I couldn't sleep after seeing Jack Nicholson weilding the axe in the Shining. I think I was 10. Also, the clown under the bed in Poltergeist screwed with my head.

But I got freaked out by the Exorcism of Emily Rose so I'm not big on horror movies.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

But I got freaked out by the Exorcism of Emily Rose so I'm not big on horror movies.

I see a lot of horror films, and that movie is the only film in years that scared me.

[digifan]

Jack Nicholson, Stephen King, Hitchcock, mmm... none of them scared me off but loved them actually. Still do!