The first horror film you saw

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meandubabe

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My mum used to meet me from work once a week and we'd go to the pictures, I remember us going to see Psycho in the early 60's and it frightened the bejesus out of both of us. I would have been about 17 at the time.

But before that, I remember seeing Jeckyl and Hyde and The Quatermass Experiment on TV, they also scared me. They'd be laughable now.
 
Mine was The Gorgon in the 60's.
I was 13, looked older, and got in, it scared me shitless.
Now i've seen it as an adult and wondered why, it could easily be shown on childrens TV nowadays.
 
I'm guessing here but it was probably FRANKENSTEIN, the 1931 version starring Boris Karloff.

Note how I didn't say the 'original' Frankenstein, because there was one before that, made in 1910, which I have also seen.:)

And that's quite scary too. :eek:
 
My earliest memory of horror movies are a mish-mash of scenes from Hammer Horror, the Nightmare on Elm Street series (the scene in 2 where he takes the bus hostage and also a scene from a later one where he turns into a motorbike and kills the guy riding it stuck in my memory), Fright Night & Jaws but I wouldn't really consider these my first horror movies...

An American Werewolf in London & The Fog are two movies I distinctly remember watching with my mum and being extremely scared of. IT was one I watched with my frienRAB and it absolutely terrified all of us - I can't remember which of these three would be the first though, I would lean towarRAB The Fog.
 
Friday 13th, when the original first came back all those years ago, I remember when Jason came out of the water at the end I nearly jumped out of my seat....I had to sleep with my mum that night (I was 15 at the time!).....:o
 
I thought it was called Fright Night, but it's not the vampire one with McDowall.

I think it was one BBC2 and the beginning was a camera going through a misty/foggy graveyard ending up at a tombstone. It could have even been a series and not a film.


A couple of the first films I can remember are

I think a film in Halloween series where a load of worms/snakes comeout of a pumpkin.
One of the Freddie films where he puts a pencil through a kiRAB ear/head.
 
Pretty sure it was Frankenstein & The Monster From Hell in the 70s.
I bought it on dvd recently for memories sake, and it's basically just a fat guy in a rubber suit, but I remember being terrified out of my tiny mind when I first saw it aged about 9.
 
I'd have seen the Dracula and Frankenstein movies as a kid, but the film that i can specifically remember watching, with the folks of course, was An American Werewolf in London when i was about 6..

Still have the mental scars..
 
Anybody from the Tyne Tees area remember the post-News at Ten "Fear on Friday" films from the early 80s? I remember watching the first 10-15 minutes of what were mainly Hammer horror films before my parents sent me to bed. The first horror film i can remember watching all the way through was probably Poltergeist.
 
I don't remember a specific first film, but I do remember staying up late on friday nights to watch "Appointment with fear" on Yorkshire TV. Each friday they would have a horror movie in this series, usually from amicus or hammer, and the opening credits for the series were the faces of classic horror villians and monsters melting into dust. The one that particularly stays with me was a Peter Cushing film called "the Skull", which was all about the skull of the Marquis de Sade. This one in particular scared me shitless, because it was the first time I saw a flm where evil won. Anyone else remember?
 
One of the Christopher Lee 'Dracula's' when I was about 7. Scared me to death, and for years I always pulled the covers up to my ear, meaning my neck wasn't showing.
 
Probably 'The Thing'. This was back in the early days of VHS rental. I was far too young and it scared the hell out of me.

I think it's a top film now. :D

Other early memories include The Fog, any number of Hammer Horror films :D and Halloween. Jaws really put the wind up me as a kid too. I hated the music! It's probably my favourite film now though.
 
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