What movie first made you love movies?

[RCMerchant]

...like the geek s**t we watch?
I first saw FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1942) on a B+W TV back in 1967. I was f**king amazed. I saw the PLANET OF THE APES at a theater in Wappinger Falls, NY with my brother Mike and Aunt Carroll in 68. I was hooked.

[316zombie]

alice in wonderland-1954. we had just moved back to the states fron newfoundland, i was 4, saw it at the drivein. hooked forever. for horror movies, a drivein triple feature of dracula,frankenstein and the mummy, the B&W versions, when i was 6.

[RCMerchant]

alice in wonderland-1954. we had just moved back to the states fron newfoundland, i was 4, saw it at the drivein. hooked forever. for horror movies, a drivein triple feature of dracula,frankenstein and the mummy, the B&W versions, when i was 6.

You have my upmost respect! 

[indianasmith]

I can remember when I was a LITTLE kid, no more than 5, Channel 4 would run this Sunday afternoon movie show called FAMILY THEATER, but it was all classic black and white horror films - good stuff like DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, and FRANKENSTEIN, and crap like THE MONOLITH MONSTERS.  I watched them ALL!

[RCMerchant]

I can remember when I was a LITTLE kid, no more than 5, Channel 4 would run this Sunday afternoon movie show called FAMILY THEATER, but it was all classic black and white horror films - good stuff like DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, and FRANKENSTEIN, and crap like THE MONOLITH MONSTERS.  I watched them ALL!

I seen the MONOLITH MONSTERS on channel 28 Double Creature Feature with some obscure thing called BEAST OF MOROCCO. That was about 1971, I think. Maybe 1972. It was out of Mishiwaka, Indiana.

[Alex]

When I was tiny my parents had a projector. I've been told I loved watching The Blob and The Wolfman on it.

[Trevor]

For me it was Murder On The Orient Express (1974) which I saw with my folks when I was 7.



Sir Sean Connery and Vanessa Redgrave think that's funny 

The first bad movie I ever saw was the horrible Lost Horizon (1973): what a pile of s**t that was.  It also made me a bad movie fan so its not all bad. 

[Gabriel Knight]

I can't really say, but I do remember watching a s**tload of horror movies when I was a kid. The most prominent memories I have are from CRITTERS and TREMORS, which were sorta new at the time. During summer vacations, with my group of friends we gathered every weekend and rented a horror movie and sometimes a comedy, depending on how disturbing was the first one. I will never forget IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, I was the only one who remained awake. Even when I couldn't understand much of the movie, I was amazed by it.
I distinctly remember a night when all my cousins stayed in my house and two movies were on the only two channels we had: CRITTERS and ET. We wanted to watch the evil hairy monsters, but sadly the girls complained more to the authorities (read: my mom) and we got stuck with that f**king gay alien.

I can't stand ET.

[Trevor]

I can't stand ET.

I was upset by the undercurrent in that movie: ET comes to earth, no one recognizes him for who he truly is, his Earth mother's name is Mary, he has one true disciple (Elliott), he's persecuted, dies, is resurrected and then disappears again. Spielberg was saying that the God I believe in was a butt ugly dwarf alien: no thanks. 

[FatFreddysCat]

Channel 9 (WOR-TV) and Channel 11 (WPIX) in NYC always had cool B-movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoons when I was growing up in the '80s. I remember watching Piranha, Star Crash, several Godzillas, the original King Kong, etc.

I have a vague memory of King Kong being aired on Thanksgiving Day every year for some reason. I'm not sure what the connection was.

[claws]

Our family would go to the movie theater on a regular basis like, once or twice a week for many many years. It was Jaws that made me love movies. I collected everything from Jaws, including a giant fold out poster which I kept on my wall for a long time.

[Rev. Powell]

Probably YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, at the drive-in. I soon became obsessed with Universal monsters.

[zombie no.one]

probably BACK TO THE FUTURE.

[RCMerchant]

Channel 9 (WOR-TV) and Channel 11 (WPIX) in NYC always had cool B-movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoons when I was growing up in the '80s. I remember watching Piranha, Star Crash, several Godzillas, the original King Kong, etc.

I have a vague memory of King Kong being aired on Thanksgiving Day every year for some reason. I'm not sure what the connection was.

Channel 9 did KING KONG on Thanksgiving when I lived upstate NY in 1967, maybe earlier.I seen it every year. But I was only there until 1969. But they played it on channel 41 out of Kalamazoo every Thanksgiving too. I don't know the connection either.  
Channel 9 was the best! In the early 80's I was in the Bronx, they had the Addams Family, Godzilla movies, Benny Hill and Chiller!

[The Burgomaster]

I don't remember a specific movie. I remember watching a lot of movies on TV with my mother when I was a kid. My earliest memories are probably from when I was about 5 years old. When we got the newspaper on Sunday, my mother would read the TV listings and mention a few movies to me. "Do you know what's on next Saturday? War of the Worlds." I'd get all excited and wait impatiently for Saturday to come. A few I remember watching many, many times are:

* WAR OF THE WORLDS
* JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
* ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS
* DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
* WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
* ATTACK OF THE MUSHOOM PEOPLE
* WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS
* Any Jerry Lewis movie that was on TV

When I was 6, I made my father take me to the theater to see HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS. Prior to that, all I had seen in theaters were kiddie matinee movies (K.Gordon Murray imports and such).