What was your first Horror/Sci-Fi memory?

[ColonelKlink]

For me, it was the original series V. I was only 5 when it debuted and seeing the
"lizard men" scared the hell out of me.LOL

[retrorussell]

The drive-in theater in 1977.  I saw "Damnation Alley" and "Wizards" on a double bill.  That, and watching Monster Matinee on the weekends with my sisters, getting my fill of Godzilla, Gamera, Rodan, etc. in the late '70s.

[Psycho Circus]

My dad telling me to watch Hellraiser at age 7, because "it's a top film where they pull people's skin off with hooks!".

Thanks dad. 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Seeing the 1970's King Kong.  I onmly remember the helicopter gunshop battle at the end, and all the blood.
-Ed

[JJ80]

Most likely the Hanna-Barbera "Godzilla" and "Spiderman And His Amazing Friends" cartoons on "Saturday Superstore" in the early to mid-Eighties.

[Nightowl]

Nightmare On Elm Street is probably the first horror movie that I remember watching. NOES really gave me some bad nightmares.

As for Sci-fi, i'll probably have to say The X-Files. I still remember watching that show on FOX when I was young.

[JaseSF]

I was closer to 10 at the time but I recall those lizard faced aliens scaring the beejeezus out of me too! And I know "Salem's Lot" (the 1979 mini) scared the crap outta me too (Actually it was the flying kid vampire that frightened me silly there). My earliest Sci-Fi memories are of stuff like the 80s "Astroboy" cartoon and Disney's THE BLACK HOLE. Also recall watching Marvel Super-Heroes like Captain America, Iron Man, The Mighty Thor, The Incredible Hulk, The Sub-Mariner and of course Spider-Man.

[Flick James]

since you say first memory, I am trying to dig, and it's hazy. I think the first bit of horror I ever saw was one of those wierd black and white brain movies. I don't know the name, but it was that one with the flying brains. I think they had tails. That really creeped me out. I think I was 5 or 6 at the time. Wow, what was that movie? I think I have a "What was the film" entry.

[JaseSF]

That's  definitely FIEND WITHOUT A FACE you're describing. Awesome classic horror chiller!

[El Misfit]

Pod People

[Mr. DS]

Probably Friday The 13th, Poltergeist or Jaws on LaserDisc.

[Shadow]

The original Night of the Living Dead. I watched it with my mom and sisters when it debuted on TV in the early 70's. I was four/five years of age and it scared the crap out of me.

[akiratubo]

The first act, specifically Jabba the Hutt and the rancor, from Return of the Jedi.  Mom and Dad took me to the theater to see it.  I would have been three or four depending on when in 1983 it came out.

I either slept through the rest of the movie or we left, because I have no memories of anything beyond Luke blowing up Jabba's barge.

[Javakoala]

Jesus, reading the post here make me feel old.

I have vague memories of the late night horror movie show my oldest brother (12 years older than me) used to watch late Saturday night and I would always cry to watch it with him (I seriously looked up to my oldest brother). Then I'd cry because it scared me so.

I think it was The 4D Man that freaked me out the most as a child when he shoved his arm through the solid brick or sheet of metal (it's been years since I've seen this movie) and I remember having this image of his ability vanishing and his arm being stuck in that thing.  Gave me nightmares for weeks.  I still have a stomach-churning problem with man-made objects embedded in human tissue.  I pray I never need a stent.

[WingedSerpent]

Earliest sci-fi is probably one of the many cartoons shows that I watched as a kid.  The one can can really remember is watching Ghidorah: the Space monster at my grandmother's house when I was much younger.  I was aware of monster movies, but I don't recall anything before that.