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The first horror you saw and at what age!
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"It was some movie about witches but I can't remember what the name was or what happened, mostly because I kept leaving cos I was too scared to watch "
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First proper one was the omen when I was about 10 on a dodgy video. Until that point I used to go too my best friends house to watch the hammer horror films but they were quite tame. Nightmare on elm street was the first to scare me properly |
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"Hammer time for me at nine years of age was The Satanic Rites of Dracula with Christopher Lee. "
Oh yes Hammer House of Horrors were on the edge. The grainy images and castles definitely gave me shivers. |
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"First proper one was the omen when I was about 10 on a dodgy video. Until that point I used to go too my best friends house to watch the hammer horror films but they were quite tame. Nightmare on elm street was the first to scare me properly"
I think that has some.of the best horror music. |
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"First proper one was the omen when I was about 10 on a dodgy video. Until that point I used to go too my best friends house to watch the hammer horror films but they were quite tame. Nightmare on elm street was the first to scare me properly"
Today's kids will never understand the excitement of a pirate video, the picture quality and and old tube TV. |
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By (user no longer on site) 43 weeks ago
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Oddly, if my memory serves me correct… it was in the most amazing film starred in and directed by Roman Polanski!
The name of the horror film with a slight comedy twist was called “dance of the vampires”
As a young boy, I do remember hiding behind the sofa for a couple of times!
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By (user no longer on site) 43 weeks ago
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Don't remember the first, but I saw The Exorcist when I was under 8 or 9.
It was a bit meh. However, around the same age, I saw the original The Hills Have Eyes and I was traumatised  |
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It was a film where these 2 couples were chased in a campervan and at the end there was fire all about. The campervan chase was good but I think it was a horror film. Devil worshippers or something. I’ll have to look it up. |
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By (user no longer on site) 43 weeks ago
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"Salem's lot, I think I must have been about 6/7. jeez, I wasn't right for a while 🤣"
My brother and I ran upstairs and jumped into bed,to hide under the covers.
Then my dad came upstairs and started scratching on the door,like Danny Gluck did on the window in it.
We knew who it was,but it still frightened us half to death...lol |
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By *ooleyMan 43 weeks ago
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I watched "The Thing" & "Salem's Lot" one afternoon. A double bill in front of the telly with my mate. Terrified me.
E.T. also gave me nightmares for years for some reason. Not horror, I guess but something very spooky about E.T. - is it old, is it young? |
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It's been mentioned already but the original IT is the one that caused me multiple nightmares as a child. Can't remember if it was the first horror I saw but it is the one that has left a lasting impression 🎈 |
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Had a babysitter that would watch 80s slashers like Halloween and nightmare on elm St from about 6 years old. They never really bothered me. However in the early 90s there was a TV adaptation of Tommyknockers and that gave me a pretty irrational fear of porcelain dolls for years!! |
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By (user no longer on site) 43 weeks ago
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The exorcist. I was about 9 or 10. Laughed at bits while watching it like when she crab crawls down the stairs or when she pishes the carpet. Thought it didn't bother me until it was bed time and I had to switch the light off. Never slept for a fortnight  |
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By (user no longer on site) 43 weeks ago
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Can't remember what it was called but it scared the shit out of me around the age of 10
All I remember of it was about 2 sisters, one sane the other..well not lol, she kept on killing her sisters friends/work mates and at the end she sat all the dead bodies around a table as she lured her sister into the house...also there was a scene where a doberman ripped the throat out of one poor dear....gave me nightmares for months lol |
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"I saw "It" when I was like four.
Red balloons still creep me the fuck out. But at least I've had enough therapy to enjoy clown porn by now 🤡 💜"
I haven't even seen IT and the Clown gives me the shivers! |
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"First proper one was the omen when I was about 10 on a dodgy video. Until that point I used to go too my best friends house to watch the hammer horror films but they were quite tame. Nightmare on elm street was the first to scare me properly"
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By *ayRyuMan 31 weeks ago
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Watched a lot of horrors as a kid. My cousin was right into importing video nasties and he always made me watch them.
Never really bothered me much.
Yet watching watership down fucked me up for ages around rabbits  |
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By (user no longer on site) 28 weeks ago
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I caught the back end of 'The Curse Of Frankenstein' when I was three or four. I crept out of my bedroom and sat on the stairs until someone noticed me and put me back to bed.... I still love the film to this day |
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Peter Watkins 'documentary' on nuclear war in Britain called The War Game.
My folks taped it when it was finally broadcast in the mid 80s by the Beeb after 20 years of hiding it in a filing cabinet.
I was 8 and we sneaked a watch of it. It's still brutal.  |
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Puppet master when I was about 9, it was at my sisters house I begged her to let me watch it fuck me what a mistake that was I was terrified at night and had to sleeep with the light on for the following 2 or so years |
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By (user no longer on site) 28 weeks ago
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Same, scared the living daylights out of me. My best mates elder brother was a complete jerk and made it ten times worse.
Looking at it now makes me chuckle at my younger self though |
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The Howling, must’ve been about 8 or 9. Mum came home a little d*unk and put it on the VHS when the babysitter left. I came downstairs but she’d already fallen asleep on the sofa, so stayed up and watched it. Gave me fucking nightmares for years afterwards lol |
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I remember being 3 and someone, can't remember who, renting what was the new Hellraiser movie and watching that at home.
I also remember seeing an old black and white movie where a giant tarantula comes out from a cave and attacked a U.S. town. when I was was the same age. Very different ideas of horror |
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Trilogy of Terror (1975): An anthology film with one story, "Amelia," featuring a woman who is terrorized by a zuni fetish doll that is used via a voodoo-like method.
I was about 7 or 8 when I saw it and it gave me nightmares for several nights in a row.
I think it was summer holidays and I was staying with some relatives. Not the sort of thing my parents would have allowed me to watch. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 28 weeks ago
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I seem to recall that it was Hammer Horror's original Dracula, with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing (which explains a lot). I was 9 or 10. We only got TV in South Africa in 1976, so I'd had no exposure to horror movies before that. Christopher Lee's Count scared me shitless. I really empathised with the women Dracula preyed upon, and right there was born my fascination with vampires. 🧛🏻♀️ |
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By (user no longer on site) 28 weeks ago
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Not sure if this counts but watched ghostwatch when I was 9. On the upstairs TV alone. Absolutely terrified me. I was convinced ghosts were taking over the country |
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