I grew up before VCRs but I lived on a steady diet of horror movies on the 4:30 movie and Chiller Theater. I now search Amazon collecting the ones I remember in their uncut versions. What I missed in the TV versions.
My parents didn't mind. When I was in High School we got HBO and my mother sat down and watched Freddie and Jason with me. She thought they were stupid. She preferred Porky's.
I'm now making my through my mother's VHS collection. Who needs Freddie and Jason when you have 1930's and 1940's musicals?
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did your parents ever bring scary movies home?
I always thought that noise was octopi trying to get out of the sewers.I also developed a taste for hot showers because for months afterward I was worried that sharks would come out of my shower and eat me if I use too much cold water.HA!
When I was a kid, my elder cousin told me that if I took too long in the shower, sharks would follow the trail of my dead skin cells and scent and break through the bottom of the tub to eat me. And that the gurgling noise in the drain after I couldn't see the water anymore, that was the sound of sharks circling.
It was just after I'd seen Jaws, too.
I always thought that noise was octopi trying to get out of the sewers.I also developed a taste for hot showers because for months afterward I was worried that sharks would come out of my shower and eat me if I use too much cold water.HA!
When I was a kid, my elder cousin told me that if I took too long in the shower, sharks would follow the trail of my dead skin cells and scent and break through the bottom of the tub to eat me. And that the gurgling noise in the drain after I couldn't see the water anymore, that was the sound of sharks circling.
It was just after I'd seen Jaws, too.
Is that so? I always thought it was the Blob waiting for the water to go away so it can grab you and pull you RIGHT THROUGH THE DRAIN!!!
I was traumatized by a clip of Chucky I saw on I Love the 80's at the tender age of 6. yeah, we weren't big on the horror and my parents never watched any of those movies. Now I love scary shit like that.
haha,i bet i know just the clip cuase that stuck with me too. i never watched horror movies when i was a kid, but somewhere along the way i musta seen Chucky becuase i always remembered that scene where he's going down the hall with the knife and that just scared the SHIT outa me when i was young. my bedroom was at the top floor of our house at the end of the hall and i'd freak myself out every night. so i'd go downstairs to the living room couch…didnt help that eventually Freddy Krueger lived in back of it…
but my dad and i used to watch Svenghoolie every week after the three stooges were on. [Svenghoolie was an alice cooper looking horror movie host on the local chicago staion.] and one day they had the original Night of the Living Dead on and all bets were off. fucking fell in LOVE with it.still am. Cinematic beauty.
but hell, isnt childhood much more fun when yer scared of everything?
Yup. Mom brought home "Night of the Living Dead". I didn't understand most of it at the time, but I was intrigued. After watching "Poltergeist" soon after, I came to the conclusion that dead people are jerks. It wasn't until quite some time later that I realized that this isn't necessarily true, but by then I was hooked on the genre.
I mean, come on…what other genre of movies lets you see skinny, "pretty", stuck-up knotheads get chopped up in oh-so-satisfying ways?
Horror movies always annoyed me as a kid because of how friggin illogical they were. And then I'd annoy my older brother or parents (depending on who rented it/was watching it) with all my inane questions.
Such as…
"Mom, if three of their friends have already died in horrible ways that they can't understand, why are they still camping out in the middle of nowhere, and why do they want to have sex instead of running like idiots to the nearest car?"
"Dad, why is that man running away from a doll? (Chuckie) He's got a head kinda like a football, why doesn't he just punt for the goalposts? SCORE, movie over."
Things like that. :) Logic never did have much use for horror movies, I suppose…
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Nope. Scary movies are not to the taste of my family or me.
The first movie I remember being afraid because was dumbo. Mostly, I was confused and didn't understand the "pink elephant dream." I don't think I got the context and so it was just this terrible illogical scene that caused me nightmares.
I loved "Are You Afraid of the Dark" when I was growing up, but that wasn't really meant to be a scary show. – My sister was seriously freaked out by the clown episodes, though.
I think the creepiest thing I ever saw was my first experience with anime. It was Perfect Blue. I saw it with my brother and later with my sister's friend. My sister refuses to watch it – ever. I later watched some non-animated Japanese horror-thrillers. They are very well done. They don't scare me though.
(I blame my parents for teaching me the difference between fiction and reality at a young age… Now the only thing that can disturb me is the news.)
I saw on I Love the 80's at the tender age of 6.Ack! It WAS the 80's when I was six!
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