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the films of your life

Started by maria paula, April 14, 2004, 02:12:15 PM

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maria paula

ok, so here i shot a one very original, fot  the ones who complains about the lack of originality in this phorum ( being hironic :)).
today i was thinking about what were the firts horror films i  saw in my life, the ones that really impressed me  much,and the ones that made me start to love horror films for the rest of my life, most of them are about the 70ish and 80ish, its a pity that nowadays films are not scaring, anymore. many years will go by and this films will  keep scaring  me forever more.
"threads"  and "the day after" both talk about nuclear war, and evey body should watch them, just as a good lesson to learn, both are very realistic.
The changeling - Peter Medak, 1980, The other- Thomas Tryon 1971 i would never watch this films alone :).
the entity -Sidney J. Furie 1981, what it really scared me about this film it was supposedly based partially on a true story, now i grow up, should i keep beliving that?? i wish i shouldnt :).
if u havent seen these films yet, dont waste your time and go running to rent them .ok these are my top ones, and yours???



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pauli

odinn7

I started off early in my life watching movies with my father on Saturday nights. We used to watch a show called "Creature Feature" (anyone remember this?). Wolfman, Frankenstein, Dracula...I had seen them all by the time I was 6. When I was in my early teens, we got a VCR (they were about $600-$800 back then and not common like now) and I rented everything I could get. The guys at the video store that I used to go to would recommend horror movies to me. The very first "bad" horror movie I saw was MANIAC. I loved it. I rented DR. BUTCHER, MOTHER'S DAY, HILLS HAVE EYES, every cheesy horror flick I could. From this point I was hooked. By the way, I mentioned those 3 movies specifically because they are my favorite horror/gore movies and I bought them on tape years ago because of this. My wife, however, gets mad at me when I refer to MANIAC as pure art. What does she know?

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maria paula

i have in my mind the video tape´s cover of "mother´s day"everytime i was going  to the video store, always wanted to pick up this film, but as i was about 9 years my parents never gave me their permission for it,it became an obsession, but never get to convince them . guess its one of the films of my life too, even that i could never get to watch it :).

pauli

Deej

Friday The 13th was my first horror movie. Saw it with my parents in the theater. Slept in my parents' room for weeks after(I was only 5). My Bloody Valentine, He Knows You're Alone and This House Posessed were some other cheesy horror flicks I was subjected to early in life. They're not my favorites, but I still remember than fondly.

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jmc

My first were probably the Universal horror films....the local TV station would play a ton of them late on Friday night.  Unfortunately I could never seem to stay awake long enough to see most of them.   The Godzilla films also had a big impression on me too, and when I got a little older I had less problem staying up, and also the UHF station would play double feature horror films on Saturday nights.  There was also another station in there that would play a lot of the AIP flicks on Saturday nights...Blacula, all the Vincent Price Poe stuff, etc.  

The first one to really scare me was Carrie, even though I didn't see it until much later.  I was around 3 and they showed a trailer for it while I was waiting to see The Shaggy D.A.  Scared the crap out of me!  

But I don't think a horror film really got into my mind until I was around 12, when I saw Night of the Living Dead.  There was no going back after that.  I had been reading Stephen King and he talked about the movie a lot...I had nightmares about it before I even saw it.

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.  .  .  .  House and Nightmare on Elm Street 3 stay in my head from whence I was younger.  Freddy is still within my skull and he won't leave; the only scene/character to stick with me.  My dad rented Bad Taste when I was younger and I thought it was a really screwed-up movie, but it was kind of funny to me.  Basket Case was the first to shock me, but it was (edited) on my retailer of B-movies, "USA Up-All Night."  I was exposed to various "classics," but I don't remember watching them.  
.  .  .  .  You are the second person to recommend The Other (1972), on a post.  I have it duped off AMC (re: edit), am I going to be missing much of anything, if/when I watch it?  (I guess I'm off topic again, sorry).


maria paula

watch it anyway, its a great movie, no, gore, no crime scenes, no monsters, but scaring anyway :), in my opinion of course :).

pauli

Mr_Vindictive

The first horror film that I actually sat down and watched was The Evil Dead.  I thought it was a fantastic film and immediatly went on a horror renting spree.  Then I discovered the good stuff.  Films like Romero's Dead Trilogy, the Phantasm films, The Mutilator, etc.  Now my own DVD collection consits mainly of horror films and to this day is still my favorite genre.

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I remember when I was a kid, I got to see movies like, alien, aliens, return of the living dead, the fly, the 3 house movies, Warlock. At the time I was terrified by them, which is why I became fascinated by them, mostly by the aliens movies. Just remembering how scared I was as a child it made me want to watch these films again, now some of them are my all time favourites. I remember seeing that tar Zombie and nearly s**tting my pants, these dead creatures running around killing people. now I love zombie movies, I love the first 2 alien movies, theres just something about horror, sci fi and other b-grade genres that really captures my imagination.

The Burgomaster

I saw a lot of the old, black & white horror movies on TV when I was a kid.  The first two I saw in theaters were HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and the original WILLARD.

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I was born in 1970. My frist horror movies on TV that got me hooked were, Link,  King Kong,  Beastmaster, and The Car plus a variety of unknowns.  First horror-like movie in the theater were Dragonslayer and Terminator.

Vermin Boy

Most of the horror movies I grew up with were public-domain video store dregs from the 50s and 60s-- Killers from Space, Scared to Death, Godzilla vs. Megalon, and a compilation of trailers hosted by an aging Vincent Price. The word "b-movie" was in my vocabulary at a very early age, and I always thought they were cool, but I don't believe I actively laughed at one until I was maybe 11, when Night of the Lepus came on TV at Easter.

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