My First Scare Movie
 

I was 12 and it was Humanoids from the Deep (it was rerunning on HBO and I was at a friends house). Sacred the crap out of me (the humanoid baby delivering seen was the worst). :bolt:

Carrie. I was 7 I think. maybe 8. my brother, who enjoyed damaging me, brought me into the living room when he was babysitting me (14) and let me watch it with him. I had nightmares for years.

I was 8, 9 years old and I must give credit to two. JAWS and Grizzly.


I still don't act right.

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Jaws wasn't my first scary movie but it was the one that had the most effect on me. I never looked at the water in the same way again. But thankfully in a couple of years the fear part died down and my curiosity and interest was peaked and that eventually evolved into a deep love and respect for the ocean and everything in it.

I have no segue that works so I'll just say speaking of scary movies, my son (my ex gave birth to him but were together when she did so he is mine to me) who was about 2 ½ at the time, was sleeping and we were watching one of the many Friday the 13th movies, I don’t remember which one but it was during a particularly bloody part when I heard this little voice say “Ooo, mess”. I turned and there he was staring at the screen, absolutely mesmerized. He had gotten up and neither of us heard him. I scooped him up and carried him back to bed agreeing with him all the while. Yes, sweetie such a mess. They’ll clean it up I’m sure. He seemed comforted to hear that. He was always a very neat kid.

A couple of years later when he was about 4 I rented the movie Labyrinth (not a horror movie) to watch with him. He loved it. We had a great time watching it together. The next day when I went to pick him up after work at his daycare, the administrator called me in to tell me he had been acting very aggressively all day. I asked what he was doing and she told me he kept trying to pull the heads off of the other kids.

Never saw that coming.

If you ever saw Labyrinth you know there are characters in the story, Fireys, with detachable body parts who try to pull the head off the main character. Who would’ve figured he’d focus on that?

The Sir Graves Ghastly Show
 

There isn't anything quite like the B horror flick on a Sunday afternoon.




ha.

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Not sure what the VERY first movie was. My youth is a blurry vision of Wes Craven, Scott Cunningham, Clive barker and like director/writers. I can remember as early as around 4/5 and watching Stephen King movies. Its a toss up between Hellraiser, Child's Play or the Blob. Regardless, my tormented youth has truly shaped me into the twisted person I am today.

Friday the 13th when I was 5 or 6 years old. My cousins were staying over and they were watching it so I wanted to watch it with them. I just remember that I watched it, but nothing about that particular experience.

Around the same age though I saw Stephen King's IT and it scared the shit out of me. To this day I'm shit scared of clowns lol

They ALLLL float down here Gemme....

'The Shining' when I was 7, and my Uncle Steve (a teenager and my babysitter) told me that I looked just like the ghost girls and that I must have an evil twin ghost sister living in the house. :|

I had 'big-wheel on the patterned carpet' nightmares for years!

hmmm thats easy it was poltergiest and I was 5 yrs old and I constantly even now cry my eyes out when they push the tv out the motel room ... I dont know why but I have been doig it since I was 5 lol we all knew I was a lil odd though lol

I don't remember the first scary movie I saw but the first one that I do remember was Last House On The Left. We saw it at a drive-in, I was about 13 or 14 and it scared the beejezus out of me. To this day, I am not a fan of slasher type movies.

Clown alert!!!!!!
 

<shivers> it was even scarier in my mind....the book FAR surpasses the movie...over 1000 pages...I read it in under 2 weeks...mostly during high school biology lol Poor Mr Moge....

My first scary movie was Salem's Lot. I was terrified something was going to be tapping on my window after that.....

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First scary movie was A nightmare on Elm Street. I love scary movies!! :byebye:

The first scary movie was Alien and I loved it. I was 7 I think.
The first movie that really scared me was House on Haunted Hill (1999), about a year later. All those preserved organs and fetus... and then I got obsessed with horror movies. :popcorn:

As kid I saw a lot of old school horror films and 1963 The Haunting gave me nightmares for weeks.I caught it on late night creature features and had to be around 7 years old.

I've never seen Salem's Lot but when I hear tapping on my window pane I get scared just the same:blink:

"Phantasm" at the drive in with my mom and brother. It was a triple play with "Ghost ship" and "The fog". I was probably 10 or 11.

I'm not sure what the first one was but do know it was one of the following three.

Dumbo – Because I thought his ears were cancerous and would need to be chopped off soon or he would die and if his ears were gone then he wouldn't be able to fly anymore and then he'd lose the very thing that made him so special and helped him to meet other animals and maybe become friends so he wouldn't have to be lonesome.

Bambi – His mother died, who unlike my mother seemed nice, what a loss. And such a shame to perish in a fire like that, an especially painful, anquished way to go. He couldn't have my mother though. Not because I was too selfish to share but because I cared enough about Bambi to not be cruel enough to punish him with her as a gift.

Sleeping Beauty – Maleficent. There are lots of scary things for a very young child to be frightened of about Maleficent but of all of them it was her ability to turn herself into a fire breathing dragon and send great walls of fiery flame shooting up everywhere that freaked me out the most - No, I don't want to get chased by any dragons, especially not a fire breathing one. I'm already a fire sign, I don't need to be on fire. Being set on fire is for somebody else. Like who? I don't know maybe my sister could have it.

When I read this and thought back to the Disney movies, you're so right some of these were scary as hell for a child:popcorn:......

Not the 2015 version..... The original & omg it scared the hooly dooly out of me... Watched it at the movies with my school friends & of course I had a damn scary looking tree right outside my bedroom window... I never got much sleep that night that's for sure!

Bambi - my mom took me to it, having no idea that Bambi's mom died. Apparently the damn fire wasn't scary enough. His mommy DIED. I was inconsolable. My mother was furious with Walt Disney.

Not sure of the very first one but I do remember that 1973 movie DONT BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. I watched it with my Mom. And I remember IT'S ALIVE about that baby, Rosemary's Baby, and I think it was called THE BABYSITTER?

I'm not responding to your post but to your links. I went to YouTube, watched a couple and love them. Thanks for sharing.

An interesting thing happened on the right of the YouTube page. A series of videos appeared posted by Bawdy Storytelling. OMG. I may be the last person to discover them, but I actually had to tell myself after an hour that I didn't have to binge watch all of them at the same time. :::fanning self:::

Given my age more than likely Rosemary's Baby........

House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price
 

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I don't remember how old I was, but I was younger than 8 y/o and watched it with my sister. It shook me up.

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Jaws. I was about 8. It was months before I could take a bath without staring hard at the drain in case that shark figured out a way to swim up.

Katniss~~ :shark:

The Exorcist

I'm not good with time frames but I think somewhere between ages 7 and 9.

Now it makes me laugh if I watch it but back then...... :hiding:

Now that I think back on it, it must of been some movie with Vincent Price:popcorn:

It may of been Diary of a Madman.......1963 I would of been about 11 or so..

It may of been the Omen............

Yup, Rosemary's Baby :hangloose:

I don't remember the name of the movie but it's a well known one. And I didn't watch the whole movie because my mother didn't let me turn on the tv when she wasn't there.

But.....I was at home with a baby sitter and I decided to sneak on the tv. I turned it on at the EXACT moment this girl was spewing green goop out of her mouth and floating in the air over a bed. That cured me of turning on the tv without my mom.

I think I was maybe 6???

Sounds like maybe the Exorcist with Linda Blair................