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I aint really a movie geek-mostly a monster movie geek.
I think it may be as early when I seen FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943) in 1967-I was 5.
But I think by 1969-when I read my first Famous Monsters magazine-I went apes**t.

Probably when my family got its first VCR when I was 16 and I went out and rented THE GODFATHER, TAXI DRIVER, all the Monty Python movies, BARBARIAN QUEEN, THE CHEERLEADERS... all the classics!

My second or third movie ever was DeLauerntis' King Kong in the theatre.   From there it was Saturday Matinees of monster films at the base theatre and then  Night Flight on USA. 

-Ed

Somewhere around the age of 4 or 5. My oldest brother, who I looked up to in both meanings of the term, watched Fantastic Theater. http://tulsatvmemories.com/fantastic.html (http://tulsatvmemories.com/fantastic.html) Check out the theme music and Peter Hardt's voice. Awesome stuff.

Naturally, if he liked it, I liked it. And, like RC, once I found Famous Monsters magazine, that was all she wrote. I was addicted.

When I was around 5 or 6 years old, there was a three o'clock show on Sunday afternoons called FAMILY THEATER that featured all the old classic monster films - DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE WOLFMAN, and many others.  I would watch them every Sunday after church with my Aunt Willie, burying my face in her arms during the scary parts!

as far as bad movies I really liked "Pigs in Space" on The Muppet Show and also the live action Spider Man on electric company. I always thought what some people would call campy and cheap was stylish and entertaining.

as for movies proper: I think the first ones I got into were late night horror movies, usually some sort of animal attacking, different movies with a Satanic theme (that was very taboo in the 80's), of course Elvira. my sister got a job at a video store at one point and I got to rent movies for free. that set in motion endless rentals of horror and kung fu which are still the base.

Friends of my parents dragged me along to see this POS in 1973 when I was six:

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I hated it: that is when I became a bad movie fan although it nearly put me off watching films forever.

Then the following year, my parents took me to see this and that is when I became a movie geek:

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In the late 70s I was a Star Wars crazed grade school kid. I'd always liked going to the movies and watching them on cable but I don't think my movie-nerd obsession was truly planted till my family got our first VCR in the mid 80s.

     I can't recall a time when I wasn't; when I was three, I saw the original FRANKENSTEIN on "The Nite Movie", and I was enthralled....and crying.  Ma thought it was because I was scared, but I explained to her that I was sad for the monster-he hadn't done anything, and everyone was mistreating him.

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     When I was little, as long as I didn't have to get up early for school, I was allowed to sit up and watch the movie(s) after the news, with the provisio that, if Ma or my grandfather got up and found me asleep in front of the tv, I'd lose the privilege. So, I learned to shut off the set and go to bed if I got sleepy. I saw comedies, westerns, melodramas, horror, sci-fi, and I loved all of it....still do.

     Some of the most entertaining movies I've ever seen were the ones where the TV Guide  would just say, "Movie".

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     This one comes immediately to mind....

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I took the film studies class my junior year of high school (1992) but failed that class.  I guess he was really tough due to him not wanting students to think that they could just watch movies the entire semester and not have to work.

Probably 2003 or so when I started watching MST3K pretty seriously is when I really became a movie geek - especially bad ones.  I wrote to that teacher a couple years ago and said that he should consider inflicting Manos on his film studies students just to show how bad movies could get. 

I grew up with a vcr and 80s horror.

Plus, in Philly, there was a UHF station, each weekend was themed. One weekend was martial arts, the next horror, and then Sci-fi like Gamera

I lived in upstate NY-Milton NY to be exact-and I usta watch this show-



http://youtu.be/XXjHvhpRQ8U (http://youtu.be/XXjHvhpRQ8U)

then when I lived in Paw Paw Michigan,in 1969,I watched Double Creature Feature on channel 28,UHF out of Indiana-I saw old Universals, 1950's monster movies,and weird s**t like BEAST OF MOROCCO and ASTRO ZOMBIES. I started collecting the Aurora models-I had books,posters,skulls,puzzles,a Frankenstein garbage can,the Mego toys,rubber jiggly monsters on elastic strings,those corny monster bubble gum cards,-I had a black lite Frankenstein poster!

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It seems I see a common factor here-we most all started very,VERY, young.
That's interesting in some kinda way.  :question:
Cripes-I wonder why some folks are almost BORN to be obsessed by a certain...I dunno-thing.
Well-I'm glad Im a Monster geek-It's better than obsessing with women's shoes with the feet still in them.
In his closet....MooohoooHAHAHAHAha!  :buggedout:

Hard to say...
It might have been when Star Wars came out, and for the first time in our lives, life was centered around a movie. Even when we still went "OutSide" to play, even long after it had left theaters, we couldn't get enough toys, trading cards & picture books, and was a factor in every pretend adventure.

Or it might have been when cable came out, and our parents would try one or two of those premium channels, and we'd get to see Star Wars rip offs we'd otherwise never heard of.

Or it might have been when UHF started to catch on, showing old reruns by day, and by night, classic sci-fi, lot's of kung fu, horror, action, as long as it was cheesy.

I think a big one for me, was when I'd had my own cheap black & white for a year & my parents got divorced, so the bedtime concept went out the window, and I started watching those movies that come on between midnight & six AM. The more I'd watch, the titles would get more obscure, the plots would get sillier, the content sleazier, and sometimes the censors would miss something...

I'd had a VCR for several years before we had our first video rental store. I would visit those pretty regularly, renting all those movies that my mom wouldn't let me see when they were in theaters. But I don't think it was until I saw Not Of This Earth (1988) with it's plethora of borrowed footage that I really began to obsess.

Then again, my high school library had a copy of The Book Of Cult Movies by Danny Perry...

Agreed!  I do not know when I first watched bad movies, but I know I sat with my Dad at a very young age and learned from him to love them.  I have a very early memory of a babysitter allowing me to watch "THEM" on TV, maybe around 1963-4.  Also know I saw Lugosi's Dracula with Dad very early on, as well as Frankenstein and the Wolfman and Attack of the Crab Monsters.  Must have been back in the mid 1960's.  62-67.  Somewhere in there.  Yeah, I'm old.   :lookingup:

Not old. Vintage or classic, but never old.

You say the sweetest things.  Welcome back!

That comment from before on this thread... I didn't post that. Must have been my friend on my computer?

Anyways, I'm not sure what year I became a movie geek, but ever since I was a kid I was interested in monster movies. Particular the Japanese ones and "tokusatsu", which were the shows like Ultraman that had the doofy rubber hero go up against the cheesy rubber monsters. And I'm still into those cheesy monster movies, heheh.

Not sure exactly when the fascination started...probably watching movies with my parents and grandparents. Have distinct memories of being terrified by vampire films my family were watching in the 1970s (actually I think they may have left the room to greet guests and left me in the room with the TV on - recall being mortified by Salem's Lot, The Brides of Dracula, and the late 70s version of Dracula. Recall my grandmother watching the 1970s version of King Kong and me as a youngster being enthralled with Kong. Later saw Jaws at my other grandmother's which frightened me as well and made me jump behind a chair peeking out more than once. Actually I also have vivid memories of greatly enjoying movies via youth club where I saw via film projector all the classic Bruce Lee films which I loved. Also later on saw Risky Business when I was like 11-12 year old.  In elementary school also via film projector saw the following films which I loved: Supergirl, Superman: the Movie, Batman: the Movie, and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. In high school, saw The Delta Force. As a kid, I would never miss Wonderful World of Disney and had record/book versions of The Black Hole and Tron which would also prove to be movies I loved. I also owned a Star Wars book as a kid which developed a fascination with that movie too. I'd love that when I finally saw it as well.

Agreed: Newt is our Mom figure here  :smile:

1965, the year we moved back to massachusetts from newfoundland. my momma took us to the drivein and we saw son of dracula(1943) and dead of night( 1945). that also created my obsession with anthology movies and shows, lol!
   i was 4 then, and had to have surgery on my stomach, was in hospital for something like a month and this one nurse showed me the wild and wonderful world of UHF TV, creature feature, creature double feature, chiller theater, and a show with a host named mongo, i think, can't recall the name though.
  i'm still obsessed with antholgies and bad movies, especially horror~!
good to see you java! :cheers:

Just for the record: I am not old enough to be Trevor's mom.  Most of the rest of you, maybe.

I was born in 1956. The year Godzilla premiered in the U.S. I started early!

I'd say for me I was probably 5-6 years old so probably around 1978-1979.

My apologies: what I meant by Mom figure is that you always seem to be keeping an eye on and looking after all of us here - also keeping some of us in line.  :smile:

Although I can't remember this my mum and dad used to have a projector and as a very young child I used to watch The Blob and The Wolfman on it all the time. I guess I'd have to say I've been a movie geek since I was 2 (1976).

No need to apologise, Trevor!  I knew what you meant.  I meant you no discomfort.  :bluesad: My comment was a desperate attempt to be humorous in the face of my maturity.  :tongueout:  And you guys have been so well-behaved lately that I forgot myself.   

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

So we've been good? Righto: time to start burning things and breaking windows. *Picks up mug with pens in it*  :wink:

Let's all run in the hallways with scissors in our hands!

Yea! The return of the prodigal...eh, mom!

1969... CARNIVAL OF SOULS on TV one Saturday afternoon... and ISADORA DUNCAN, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD (the ending scared me so much I tried to get my distracted Mommy's attention when she returned from her trip to England - to no avail).  I wanted to whine, I think.  It took decades for me to learn what that ISADORA DUNCAN movie was called...

With Redgrave?  The scarf scene?  I remember that as shocking and distressing.

     One of the SHOCK THEATRE (Ghoulardi) movies that helped hook me on movies....

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No, not that one with VANESSA REDGRAVE and that horrible scene.  THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD is earlier, was made for BBC television I think by KEN RUSSELL and it must have been shown, probably on a NY public television station, in the late 1960s... 1969 to be exact, the memory is vivid, and that movie's ending is even worse than that one with VANESSA... 

http://youtu.be/7bTmoyOWiEg