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Post by Messiahknot on Jun 25, 2008 2:59:00 GMT -5
What horror films have a strong link to your childhood, whether they are films you remember fondly, ones that scared you, or films that ushered you into the horror world? For me it'd probably be The Exorcist. That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a child. The whole religious aspect, coupled with the notion of possession by a demon unnerved me. When I watched it I had the impression that I was somehow inviting evil forces to enter me because I was so fixated on it. Made me a bit paranoid for a while . It got me really interested in the genre. Another would be Basket Case. My friends dad used to tell us how tripped out and gory it was, how he'd never seen anything like it. It took on a mystical stature in my mind. My brain was working overtime imagining what it must be like. Same with Texas Chain Saw and Evil Dead. The covers in the video store were enough to get my imagination into overdrive. Halloween and Friday the 13th sealed the deal though. I remember being babysat when I was little on Friday the 13th, and they had a horror marathon of Friday films on. I snuck out and stayed up, watching until I was freaked out enough not to move. I realised then the profound power horror films have. The same happened with Halloween, but it was more from a technical standpoint. I saw how well horror films were made. It made me a devotee for forever thereafter. So what films do you remember as sticking in your mind when you were a kid?
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Post by wank_herod on Jun 25, 2008 3:28:16 GMT -5
...Basket Case. My friends dad used to tell us how tripped out and gory it was, how he'd never seen anything like it. It took on a mystical stature in my mind. My brain was working overtime imagining what it must be like. Yeah, I'd get exactly the same feeling about films that my Dad told me about. He described 'Psycho' to me (without spoilers, of course) years before he allowed me to see it, and, like you said, the film acquired almost mystical proportions in my mind. For me, two things. One is the 'Video Nasty'. Coming from the UK, and being aged 13 in 1982, I watched a lot of the video nasties before they were banned. Films like 'Don't Go In The House', 'Nightmares In A Damaged Brain', 'The Witch Who Came From The Sea' etc, I will always associate with being a shit-scared kid trying to pretend that I wasn't at all scared by the nightmares I was watching on screen. Consequentially, I have a very strong attachment to the 'Nasties'. I have collected every one on either DVD or VHS, and I love them all. Yes, even 'Don't Go In The Woods...Alone!' The other film that I associate with my childhood is 'Burnt Offerings' starring Karen Black and Ollie Reed. This one just stuck in my mind after I saw it late one night on TV aged about 12 or something. I think the reason it stuck with me is that I always wanted to see it again, and never managed to until a couple of years ago, 25 or so years down the line. By this time, the film had mutated in my mind into the scariest film ever. Of course, it wasn't, but it's still a good little movie.
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jessicaligula
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Post by jessicaligula on Jun 25, 2008 9:17:10 GMT -5
Cujo, Poltergeist and Pumpkinhead are a few that pop out for me.
I'm fairly certain Cujo is the reason I was afraid of dogs for so many years. Thankfully, I got over that.
As a kid, I was ultra shy and sensitive (and still am to a much lesser degree.) I think horror had a hand in helping me develop a thicker skin.
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Post by hardcockzombie on Jun 25, 2008 9:55:14 GMT -5
Another Basket Case kid here. I saw that on the local FOX station late one night and I loved it. I also saw TCM 2 on that same FOX station.
I used to watch USA Up All Night and Joe Bob Briggs Monstervision pretty regularly. I remember seeing one of the Toxie movies, Return of Swamp Thing, and some of the Puppet Master flicks on USA, but Monstervision was where it was at. NotLD '90, Return of the Living Dead 2, The Devil's Rain, Motel Hell and more that I could never remember. I don't ever remember renting horror movies as a kid. Weird.
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Post by Tara ntula on Jun 25, 2008 11:50:39 GMT -5
The Exorcist would be numero uno because it was the first horror film that I watched parts of (sneaking glances from behind the couch, it was the pea soup scene). The film seemed so terrifying and iconic and I was completely hooked. I also lamely have to give credit to Prom Night because it was my first horror watched in its entirety and I fondly recall my excitement over the decap scene. Jaws gets credit, too, because it sparked a love for horror, cinema in general and of sharks and marine bio. Also have to mention F13 and most of the sequels because they were watched and re-watched at my house growing up and when I think of my childhood, I think of the damn Vorhees.
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Post by Jerry Ex on Jun 25, 2008 15:16:09 GMT -5
The very first movie I bought on VHS back in 1987 was Sleepaway Camp. It's not my favorite movie now or anything, but it does remind me a lot of my childhood.
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Post by obscure437 on Jun 25, 2008 15:23:58 GMT -5
I saw some of Onibaba on tv when I was like 4 or something. Only identified it last year. Don't think I saw a full proper horror film till I was about 10, which was The Shining. Then I developed a full on obsession with cinema, and have to this day obsessively watched anything that interests me. My mums friend had a great VHS collection, and I used to borrow lots of horror from them.
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Post by Coffin Jim on Jun 25, 2008 15:25:55 GMT -5
Thrust into manhood after becoming a father at 3, I never really had a childhood. But I think Halloween reminds me most of being a kid. I would watch it constantly on the rainy, overcast October days leading up to the holiday. Now I watch it constantly year-round.
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