The very first English horror movie I remember is Evil dead and the absolute hype surrounding it. There were stories of people dying of heart attacks after watching that movie. We borrowed a deck player to watch the movie. I don’t remember much but I remember a girl pulled by the vines and someone’s feet with cracks on the sole. What is your first horror movie that you remember?
I would have been watching a selection of the old Universal flicks from the '30s - Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy etc - on TV from a fairly early age, growing up in the '70. I really don’t know when or exactly what would have been my first though. These would have been joined by some of the Hammer and Amicus productions a little later.
I do recall staying up alone - at an age when staying up alone was just about allowed, but still a novelty for me - to watch what was perhaps the UK TV premier of The Omen (1976) on a crackly black and white set in a dark room and being blown away by it. I became obsessed with the whole biblical Revelations mythos side of it for quite some time after. It certainly had me reading more of the bible than endless Sunday school ever had.
Critters, think I was about 5. Fully not age appropriate and to this day I can’t have my toes peeping out from under the duvet due to those stupid films.
Maybe I should watch again as I bet it’s not 1/100th as scary through an adult lens.
The Evil Dead?!? Terrifying! Geez, we saw that one at the cinema! We were all peeing-our-pants screaming like little 11-year-old girls! 🤣
Years later I met Ellen Sandweiss (she needed copies of her headshot). I’d recognized her from The Evil Dead and she seemed embrassed!
Nightmare on Elm Street 3
I think it was It (the Tim Curry version), I found it very scary
Candyman. Saw it as a kid, and frickin loved it. I think I compared any horror to it afterwards without realising. Funnily enough as an adult I still love it.
Philip glass score and the urban, racial, lower class angle certainly help a lot.
Saw the recent sequel and liked it too.
Nice, I just did a double feature of Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021) last night. The original definitely holds up and is one of the best horror films of all time IMO, probably my favorite of the 90s.
For me it was Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight. Billy Zane fucking terrified me as a little kid with how evil he was.
Crowhaven Farm, I must’ve been 5 or 6 years old. The scene with the door gave me nightmares for years haha! I was so young I had no idea what the movie was, and as I grew older I kinda forgot about it. I only had that scene in my head and one day I googled the description of my memory and found the movie! It’s still pretty effective if you ask me. I love these old made for TV movies from the 70s :)
It wasn’t a horror movie per se but E.T. scared the living shit out of me when I was 5 years old. Every time I got sick I was scared some G-Men were going to abduct me and do experiments.
It was Hellrasier, I think I was about 8-10 YO. DirecTV was a curse and a blessing.
Trilogy of Terror. I find it funny now, but back when I was a kid the doll terrified me.
Talos the mummy.
first film I watched where
the good guys don’t win.
In the mid-70’s, BBC2 in the UK showed a season of old 50’s sci-fi/horror movies. So in very short order, aged 7, I watched Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Thing, I Married A Monster From Outer Space, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and the one that genuinely terrified me Invaders From Mars.
But that was it, from pretty much that moment on I was hooked on horror.
My mom let me watch children of the corn when I was about 5. I still love horror to this day. It became our thing.
Children Under the Stairs
I was too young for scary movies according to my parents, but they were at a party and the neighbor kid had HBO. So, one Halloween Eve I was able to watch that with a bunch of other kids. It’s been my favorite genre ever since.
