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Creature from the Black Lagoon was my first. I also was little and more than scared of it but it tapped into my inner horror fascination and started me looking into the genre at a very young age.
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I believe so. My friends would father every Friday in a garage with a tv, vcr and DVD to watch horror films. My first was either the thing or night of the living dead.
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I watched it once and I was a little disappointed. I could tell who the alien was, it wasn't creepy or atmospheric like the original.
shareNight of the Living Dead came pretty soon after Creature for me, that was an OK film at the time but when you watch it as an adult it is altogether a much better movie. A real treat.
shareHey Wilson. I agree. But I have to confess it scared me. I know some who found it boring at that age
shareI was very scared when I watched it as a kid. Behind the fingers peeking through scared. And the way it ended left me really unhappy. I didn't get all the racist connotations at the time and just thought the hero had been killed and that's no way to end a story.
As I said, when I watched it as an adult it was a completely different kettle of fish.
That ending made me feel really bad too. I felt so sad for that guy!
shareI can't even remember the first, I was watching horror movies on tv from such a young age. Maybe 6 or 7. I watched all the movies on Creature Features!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295076/
Old movies, black and whites, the classics dracula, frankenstein, the mummy, the wolf man, movies with ghosts and haunted houses. Vincent Price movies, Hammer films.
Old sci fi too. Old Godzilla movies.
These aren't the first but are some of the ones I remember most:
Night of the Living Dead
Mr. Sardonicus
The Screaming Skull
House of Wax
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
House on Haunted Hill
The Fly (the original)
The Thing That Couldn't Die
Yog Monster From Space
Day of the Triffids
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Them ( the 1954 one about giant ants)
The Blob
Trilogy of Terror (a tv movie)
TV series Dark Shadows, Twilight Zone, Outer limits and Night Gallery
Edit to add Dementia 13!
House of wax, haunted hill and the blob sounds like a treat at that she. That are some of my favorites
shareThe good thing about 1970's television was that they also played a lot of movies from the 50's and 60's, (and even older) so even though those were before my time, I still got a chance to see them.
A lot of them are public domain now. If you want to see them again there is a great selection to watch free here:
https://archive.org/details/SciFi_Horror
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is this it?
https://archive.org/details/TheGhoul
https://archive.org/details/dom-168221-theghoul1933
it does not list Cushing, it lists Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson
it says " TheGhoul was once considered to be a lost film since the original nitrate negative had succumbed to decomposition and no prints of the film were known to exist. However, an incomplete and partly decomposed Czech release print was discovered which was the only available print for several decades. Then, finally, an excellent quality print was discovered in the archives of the British Film Institute."
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I can't remember if I have seen it, I saw so many with Cushing. he was in a million movies in the 70s!
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I just finished Vampire's grave and got drawn in. Let me ask you do you think James took his father's place or possessed?
shareDazed, check ebay, you may find it there...if it's available on DVD.
shareDazed...found 1 DVD copy of "The Ghoul" with Peter Cushing, on ebay. Here's the link: The Ghoul
shareIt you get a chance The Stone Tape is a masterpiece of early 70's BBC horror and still stands today with the atmosphere it creates.
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He did Quatermass. This is a lot less science fiction than aliens though, I like science fiction horror too but the science fiction should take a back seat. This is the perfect blend of both.
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That was a bit like First Born / Gor but with more horror elements to it wasn't it. American lead?
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It certainly was. We Brits used to be good at making decent atmospheric horror stories, do you remember The Tripods (1984)?
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They were all good back then, still work now if you can make room for the period they were set.
TWD needs to die, I hope it is not renewed after this series. It really is awful now and has nothing in it worth waiting for or talking about.
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Yep, I've seen most of those too Popcorn. Creature Features was awesome too! 😄👍👍
shareNot strictly horror (or at all :D), but it must have been Edward Scissorhands. Because I was afraid that he lived in my building's basement for a few years there. And I remember watching some horror movie with spiders as a very small child (probably Arachnophobia) and being terrified. Other than that, Children of the Corn and Hellraiser were pretty early viewings. A cable channel used to show horror movies from the 80's and I'd stay up late to watch them (not a lot of parental supervision in my youth lol).
But my enthusiasm for horror has subsided a bit as I've gotten older. I much prefer a blend of horror with comedy now. But I still love 80's horror. (That's a lot of uses of horror in a few sentences lol)
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I hadn't seen Hellraiser since I was a kid and rewatched it a few years back. I didn't find it as terrifying this time around, but still greatly enjoyed it. I haven't read that much Clive Barker, but I'd look for the novella sometime.
Children of the Corn is indeed Stephen Kind. I don't remember it that well, though. Adaptations of his books are always a hit or miss I feel. A recent one is Cell, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack (doing his best Nick Cage impression lol). It was bad. But also, I remember enjoying myself watching it. And Maximum Overdrive will forever have a special place in my heart. It used to be on cable all the time, and every time I'd watch it.
Village of the Damned (1960) was no doubt where Kind got his idea from and is a much scarier story and film.
shareVillage of the damned has been on my watchlist for quite a few years, but I still haven't gotten around to seeing it, so I can't make a informed comparison. But from my understanding it's considered a classic, so it wouldn't surprise me if he drew some inspiration from it.
shareThey are both good films but the Village of the Damned is by far a superior film and story. You should move it up your list if you have access to watching it - it's very good indeed!
shareAs of now, no access whatsoever. I suppose I could look into ordering it from abroad in the future, but I prefer having the option of a local translation/subtitles, if I'm going to own something.
The remake is available, but I'm not that enthusiastic about that one.
DO NOT watch the remake MinaVladimir, it is awful and will spoil the original for you should you ever get around to seeing it.
Hold off, it will be available at some point, I'm sure of it. It's coming up on its 60th anniversary, there will be a release around then I'm sure.
Oh, I'm in no hurry to subject myself to another 1990's John Carpenter "masterpiece". I'll just have to wait for this one :)
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Same here Dazed, it was good enough to keep me interested. One I REALLY enjoyed was "The Stand"! Now there's something that could actually happen...which, in turn, make it a bit scary and disturbing. It's kinda like the black plague thing in a way. It made me really think
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Yeah well, his books are so long, that's why I just watch the films. Not a big reader anyway, myself.
I don't know if I would want to watch a remake of "The Stand". And yeah...the one with Gary Sinise. That was so good.
I liked "Needful Things" a lot too, and "Pet Sematary". Seen them all several times. "The Green Mile" is one of my faves...even though it's not a horror. Then there's "It", pretty good. "The Dead Zone", "Secret Window", "Rose Red"...and on and on. I've liked all those. Haven't watched those last 3 in awhile, maybe will give them a watch this week. But yeah...the list just goes on and on...lol.
I'd forgotten about The Langoliers. I've never had a problem with liking something, even when I knew it wasn't that great. As long as you're getting something out of it, it's all good :)
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Back in the early 60's, when I was 3, I would always watch "One Step Beyond", "The Outer Limits", and "The Twilight Zone". A lot of episodes would scare me but I loved watching the shows. Night Gallery was good too but, not so much scary...just weird. Can't remember my first horror film though. LoL...I've been a horror junkie since I was 3! No wonder I'm so messed up...lol! 😉😉
shareStyx I think you and I would be best friends in real life based on our love for horror.
shareYa think? LoL 😉😉 Yeah, at 3, I was an addict...hahaha! 😄😄 Well, we can be best friends here at least, that's cool! 😄👍👍
Have always loved my horror, it gets the blood pumping and lets you know you're alive. 😉
That's true instead of Paris we'll always have this site. Tell me Styx what are your three favorite horror movies.
shareOoooo...my three favourite horror movies? That's a tough one! My first would definitely be "The Shining". Second, "The Exorcist", and third, hmmm...I'll have to think on that one a bit, I have a zillion dancing in my head.
What about you Strannger? What would YOU pick as your three favourite horror films?
Halloween, Friday the 13th and black Christmas.
shareI like them too...except I don't think I've seen Black Christmas yet.
I think my third favourite would have to be "The Changeling" (1980). That was pretty creepy and a great story!
Based on a true story about a mother who loses her son and replaced with another child.
shareNo, that's "Changeling" (2008), with Angelina Jolie and is a crime/drama/biography. The one I'm talking about is completely different and was 28 years earlier and is called "THE Changeling". It has George C. Scott in it and is about him moving into this mansion where he encounters a little boy's spirit that haunts him. It's a very good horror film, you should check it out sometime!
shareI don't really remember my first horror movie but I do remember being terrified by a Twilight Zone episode. It was, Eye of the Beholder. I had to have been about three years old according to the year it aired. the big reveal of the doctors and nurses scared the living daylights out of me. I just screamed when I saw them.
Ofcoaurse years later, I didn't find them all that scary. I do like the story though and the idea behind it. TZ was always thought provoking. Fantastic show.
LOVE horror films.
A horror series. Probably based on Edgar Allan Poe's stories. I could've been 6 or 7. I remember that one of the episodes had a man bricked into a dungeon. But this episode wasn't the one that scared me, it was another episode that got me running away from the room, screaming. I avoided horror movies after that for a while.
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I wish I remembered more. That episode had a man who was repeating the same actions. I suddenly got a feeling that the next time he repeats it, something terrible would happen. So I run away. That's all I remember.
shareApis, is it, Tales of Terror (1962), with Vincent Price & Peter Lorre maybe? It had three stories in it. Actually, I think he bricks his wife up in this one though, in the story, "The Black Cat".
shareI think it was a series, and not 3 part movie, but it was so long ago, I can't be sure. (this is turning into "I need to know" heh)
The scene with bricking a man was a man and not a wife. Actually, the guy was so drunk that he helped laying bricks. He only realized what's going on when it was too late to escape. After that, a guy who bricked him in went outside and joined the party, like nothing happened. Last scene shows him dancing and smiling.
Ok, I DO know of it but can't remember what it was called either. Yep...sounds like a "I need to know" thing alright. If I think of it, I'll try and remember to let you know. And you're certain it was a Poe story?
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