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Post by Gore FatheR on Jun 30, 2012 4:51:20 GMT -5
We all had to start somewhere. How did you become interested in horror films?
For me, i had a mate who's older brothers hired out films on a weekend when their parents went out. I never use to stick around for most of them but one film sounded pretty good. I decided to stick around and watch it. It scared the crap outta me! Seriously!
Once i had seen it, i ran home down the centre of the roads to avoid being grabbed by anything lurking in the bushes. I didnt sleep very well that night.
When i got up the next morning i realized i had been a complete tit and that it was only a film, but at the time it didnt feel like that.
The first horror film i ever saw was Madman. I was 12 years old and remember thinking that if a fim can induce that ammount of fear in someone but leave them unharmed then thats godda be a good thing, right?!
I decided to find out more about similar films and shortly after watching Madman, i discovered David Cronenbergs Shivers. That was a completely different kind of film but i loved it and then went on to find The Video Dead. Those were the first 3 films i ever saw from the horror world and from that point on, i was hooked.
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Post by endo on Jul 2, 2012 9:40:47 GMT -5
Caught a horror film on "Creature Feature" one Saturday night with my Mom, been hooked ever since. My Mom didn't drive, so I always bugged my older sister to death to take me to the newest horror movie out in theaters.
As you can imagine, my 12 years older sister didn't want her little brother hanging around with her and her friends. It was tough to see the new releases back in the day, lol.
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Post by gorepolice on Jul 2, 2012 20:46:43 GMT -5
I always went through phases with movies. For the longest time I watched mostly action movies, then I went to sci-fi, then martial arts, then horror. Once I started my horror phase, I just never stopped.
I used to watch the occasional horror film when I was younger because my Dad would let me, though my Mom always hated that.
I remember watching the classic Universal monster movies like The Wolfman, Frankenstein, Dracula and Creature From The Black Lagoon, then moving on to The Thing (which scared the crap out of me), Dawn of the Dead, Maniac and Alien.
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Post by Gore FatheR on Jul 3, 2012 4:31:50 GMT -5
We all have the sickness, lol!
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Post by NDX on Jul 3, 2012 19:36:48 GMT -5
I tend to watch anything. What I like about many horror films is the predominant use of practical effects. I'm not a huge fan of overly realistic gore and super-scares. My heart can't handle it. But the 80s stuff is like the pinnacle for me.
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Post by Gore FatheR on Jul 4, 2012 4:01:06 GMT -5
I tend to watch anything. What I like about many horror films is the predominant use of practical effects. I'm not a huge fan of overly realistic gore and super-scares. My heart can't handle it. But the 80s stuff is like the pinnacle for me. Im with ya on the practical fx. Far better, for me, in horror. The 70's and 80's are pretty much the best decades for horror. CGI works if, and only if they are small, like adding lightening fx etc. I know that indie film makers may use CGI purely to keep costs, and time down. |
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Post by gorepolice on Jul 4, 2012 20:17:24 GMT -5
Practical is so much better. I like the feel of it, the look, and knowing all the hard work that went into making it happen.
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Post by NDX on Jul 4, 2012 21:14:11 GMT -5
It's also a lot of fun learning the ins and outs of it all. Why one of my favorite dvds is The Thing, with a crapload of making of footage that deals with the creation of the creature and gore effects.
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Post by endo on Jul 4, 2012 22:24:03 GMT -5
Same. I have a thread around here somewhere about Dick Smith's Monster Make-Up Kit. You could make yourself Frankensteins monster if you wanted.
It was great.
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Post by lyrikah on Oct 17, 2012 13:00:49 GMT -5
I got into it because of my old man. He was a fan of action and horror and he would always get us all together (except my mom because she's a hater) and we would watch a bunch of stuff. Have popcorn and occasionally riff on the movies if they were super cheese-tastic.
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Post by endo on Oct 17, 2012 18:02:01 GMT -5
I grew up with my Mom and she basically got me into it, by hooking me up with the Saturday night Creature Feature as I've mentioned.
My thing was, it didn't stop, lol. I begged for the Dick Smith makeup kit, and, even though she probably couldn't afford it, I got it for Christmas...from Santa no less. Love my Mom.
I ended up making the simplest thing I could, a stick on bullet hole. Put it right in the center of my forehead, added some fake blood, and went shambling aroung the apartment complex at 6-7 years old, lol.
It was a Sunday morning, so I didn't see many people, but the ones I did looked like they were shitting bricks, lol.
One of the best memories of my childhood I have, and all thanks to my Mom. She never tried to kill the horror fan in me, she just let me go for it.
Love her much for that.
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Post by MacReadyOrNot on Feb 3, 2020 16:44:25 GMT -5
My mom got me into horror too. I don't know how young, but I remember seeing the likes of Nightmare on Elm Street and John Carpenter's The Thing at an early age. I love the crap out of horror thanks to her.
She can't handle those kinds of movies as much nowadays, but she still watches them from time to time. Especially the original Halloween. That's her favorite.
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Post by leangreen76 on Mar 7, 2020 5:20:47 GMT -5
As I never chimed in this...
I blame Gremlins... No but seriously, I blame UK TV for showing the same movies every year , year in year out growing up in the 80's. From Terminator and Aliens to a slew of Stephen King adaptions mainly - Carrie, Christine, Children of the Corn, Salem's lot, The Shining and such.
Also I was a bookworm back then but as a kid I was just that, enjoying the likes of the "choose Your own adventure" type books but because of the influence just before my pre-teens, Halloween, Nightmare on Elmstreet films switching to reading horror novels. (Mainly Stephen King but also UK author James Herbert) through what the Americans would call high school. With film influences and then books the bug bit me and never let go.
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