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Post by bootdaripper on Jul 29, 2012 6:51:20 GMT -5
Used to watch movies on Friday and Saturday nights When Horror Hosts like the Cool Ghoul with Scream-in, and Shock Theater were on. Friday night was usually an Abott and Costello movie and either Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan double feature. Saturday night was the Cool Ghoul and movies like Reptilicus and Dimensia 13. I would sit in my room with my old portable black and white tv and get creeped out - Ah- the good ol' days.....
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OgreVI
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I'm ugly on the inside, too.
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Post by OgreVI on Aug 1, 2012 0:27:22 GMT -5
My father was a big fan of the Universal films, and when I was in first grade I had a whole collection of books about those old movies...I wish I still had those books. Anyway, when I was about ten the local independent TV station (hard to believe there used to be independent TV stations) would play two horror films every Saturday night. I can't be sure of the times, but I think they played a Universal at nine and then a more recent film at ten-thirty or eleven. I was allowed to stay up with Pop to watch the Universal, and it was so great to finally see the films that I'd already read about so much I knew the stories and casts by heart. I wasn't supposed to watch the later film (usually a Hammer or an AIP), but often Pop would fall asleep during the Universal and I could watch 'til he'd happen to wake up and chase me to bed. So I guess there wasn't any specific film. It's just the memory of all those Saturday nights, huddling in the dark with Boris and Bela, listening to Pop snore and hoping he wouldn't wake 'til both movies were over.
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Post by craftfear on Aug 24, 2012 0:02:32 GMT -5
Does the cartoon version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" count? Saw that at age 4 and imagined headless horseman crashing through my bedroom walls for years afterward.
If it doesn't...I was an overprotected goody-two-shoes as a kid so it'd have to be Dracula 2000 in high school. To me, Tim Burton barely counts, but that was in there as well.
Once I realized that most horror movies aren't nearly as fucked up as the Bible stories or Shakespeare plays I'd been taught as a kid, I was all in and no one could stop me. Seriously, there's entire story in the Bible where these teenage boys are calling one of the prophets "baldy-head" and he calls BEARS out of the mountains to maul them to death! What does that even mean??
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Post by xtrialbyfirex on Aug 24, 2012 1:26:48 GMT -5
Does the cartoon version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" count? Saw that at age 4 and imagined headless horseman crashing through my bedroom walls for years afterward. Once I realized that most horror movies aren't nearly as fucked up as the Bible stories or Shakespeare plays I'd been taught as a kid, I was all in and no one could stop me. Seriously, there's entire story in the Bible where these teenage boys are calling one of the prophets "baldy-head" and he calls BEARS out of the mountains to maul them to death! What does that even mean?? If my parents would have let me I'd have watched that sleepy hollow movie 1,000 times lol. That might be my first if I could count it too I think it's fair to say the Bible is kind of like a giant horror story. And yes in 2kings YHWH does butcher 40+ children for calling a prophet bald. I think the passage is intended to scare people into being reverent toward YHWH and His prophets, but to me it's one of the many things that shows YHWH is neither merciful or loving. But I'm Gnostic, not orthodox so I might not be the best person to ask about how that passage is meant to be interpreted
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Post by cronos2 on Aug 27, 2012 5:56:30 GMT -5
Rented An American werewolf in London at the age of 7 or 8. Scared the shit right out of me. Been a horror fanatic ever since...
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Post by jprmorgan on Aug 28, 2012 13:54:59 GMT -5
John Carpenter's The Fog when I was about 5/6, on holiday in Spain my parents, they left me at a kids club, they'd take all the kids to a local pub to watch films. One day they got the time wrong and instead of watching a pirate copy of ET we saw the last hour of The Fog.
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jwn
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Post by jwn on Sept 4, 2012 20:03:38 GMT -5
Mine was An American Werewolf in London. I must have been about 8 or 9 and my dad had told me about id seen it so I kind of imagined how the film would have played out. As soon as I heard the wolf howl when there were on the moors the tv was straight off.
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Post by darkfiction74 on Sept 14, 2012 21:08:54 GMT -5
The first horror movie I saw from beginning to end was Friday the 13th part 4. It was love a first sight.
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Post by patientzero on Sept 17, 2012 19:45:34 GMT -5
Either Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman or Dracula, Prince of Darkness. I was only 3-4, but my brother is seven years older and I watched them on tv with him.
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