The Evil Dead (1981)
I snuck watched it without my dad knowing. I remember it had me creeped out for weeks, still one of my favourites to revisit though.
How about your guys? How old werw you when you started watching?
Friday the 13th — the original, not the sequels, remakes, or tv series by the same name. Saw it on cable at a friends house and thought it was awesome.
Before that, I tried to sneak watch the Salem’s Lot mini series when I wasn’t supposed to. I got too scared and turned it off! I was eight years old after all. When I got older, I watched the whole thing. I still think it’s an amazing adaptation.
I think it was the Thriller music video, but I was pretty young and thought it was a full movie. It played before the main feature at a drive in movie.
After that I think it was The Fly. The arm wrestling scene still scares me.
My wife told me a story about how Tremors was her first horror movie. Her dad actually woke her up to watch it and said “you’ve got to see this!” because he thought the movie was so awesome. Scared the hell out of her.
I think the first one I remember is It with Tim Curry (technically a TV miniseries I think but whatever). I think I was maybe around 6 or 7 at the time.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre when I was 8. Not a good idea for an 8yo.
Not bad. The one that gave me nightmares was Pet Semetery. And not even the evil super natural shit, but the flashback scene where the mom remembers her sick sister in bed.
Zombie kids and cats aren’t real. But getting sick is. My mom used to let me know that Wizard of Oz scared me as a kid, too. But not the flying monkies or the witch; I was afraid of the tornado.