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?
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It was Hellrasier, I think I was about 8-10 YO. DirecTV was a curse and a blessing.
I think it was It (the Tim Curry version), I found it very scary
For me it was Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight. Billy Zane fucking terrified me as a little kid with how evil he was.
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.
lol Billy the Kid Versus Dracula. I was however old a person is when they’re in kindergarten. My mom let me pick out “a scary movie” from the video rental place, and that’s what I chose.
Not too many visits after that, though, my mom bought me a VHS copy of the original Night of the Living Dead. I still have it!
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 :)
Watched Return of the Living Dead Part II at a friends house when I was 14, then rode home in the dark.
Do not recommend.
Mine was ‘The Green Slime,’ a Japan/Italy/US production that I saw when I was 4 or so. Wasn’t really that scary, but it was my first introduction to the theme of ‘microorganisms as monsters.’ Later, when I was about 10, my dad took me to see ‘Alien.’ Both these movies really rammed home the importance of good hygiene, lest that infection grow into a planet-devouring monster.
The Burning. I want to call it a Friday 13th part 2 rip-off but they came out the same year so that’s not terribly likely I suppose. So maybe a bad Halloween homage that takes place at summer camp.
Nightmare on Elm Street 3
The first one that was deliberately a horror film that I can recall is seeing the very start of Aliens on tv and getting to the point where the soldiers discover the woman who gets chestburst, then immediately shutting the tv off and going to bed.
There must have been some scary childrens movies along the way but thats the first one I can remember that was too much for me.
The Gate.
The scene with the construction worker traumatized me. Being scared of shit under the bed or in a closet was one thing. Zombies coming out of walls and mirrors was a whole new way to be terrified of everything around me.
The first Friday the 13th.
I was traumatized for years…
Alien. I was way too young for it and didn’t dare watch it all the way.
I did end up becoming a horror movie fan, a shitty local channel seemed to give free rein to some bloke so after midnight they showed all sorts of horror movies. Lots of Full Moon Features movies. I’ve been hooked ever since.
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.
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!
