What was the first horror movie you ever seen?

RCMerchant · January 25, 2022, 11:50:29 AM

Mine was FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1941) on TV in 1967.
I was 5!

http://youtu.be/_Kaa88LIwJo

What was yours?

Rev. Powell · January 25, 2022, 12:55:19 PM

I can't remember for sure.

I remember seeing part of what must be FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN as a young person. I remember seeing all of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, and I think that's what sparked my love of horror. The actual first horror film I remember seeing was ALIEN, followed soon by THE SHINING.

Trevor · January 25, 2022, 01:16:41 PM

For me it was Horror Express, on TV in the middle 1970s. It was in black and white as we had no color TV back then and this made it creepier.

ER · January 25, 2022, 01:28:25 PM

Bride of Frankenstein, if that counts. It was on late-night TV when I was staying up late with my dad when I was about three, and he kept asking, "You sure this isn't scaring you?" It didn't at all, but a family-friendly movie called The Wizard of Oz haunted my young dreams every time I saw it as a child.

RCMerchant · January 25, 2022, 01:36:38 PM

^ BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN most certainly counts!

Alex · January 25, 2022, 02:42:57 PM

I don't remember the first one I saw, although I am lead to believe it would most likely either have been The Blob or The Wolfman*. The first one I can remember though was Alien. I am not sure what age I would have been but I would have been between 6 and 8.

*As a wedding present my parents had been given a movie projector and those were two of the films they got with it which I am told I wanted to watch constantly. I did not know these things were available to watch at home prior to VHS and I can't say I remember it growing up.

The Burgomaster · January 25, 2022, 05:13:44 PM

I'm not sure. I've been watching horror movies on TV since I was a little kid. But I can say this with certainty:

* The first Frankenstein movie I ever saw was House of Frankenstein. I remember watching it on TV at night with my mother and father. I was probably about 5 or 6 years old.

* The first horror movie I saw in a theater was House of Dark Shadows. My father took me when I was 6 years old.

* The second horror movie I saw in a theater was Willard (1971 version). I went with my older cousins.

FatFreddysCat · January 26, 2022, 08:06:27 AM

I'm not 100 percent sure but I think it was the original Amityville Horror.

Eleven year old me didn't sleep for a couple of days after that one!

retrorussell · January 26, 2022, 02:57:56 PM

The first actual horror film I saw in the theater was probably INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978). My mom dropped me and my sisters off to see it. We were scared sh**less!

Before that I probably saw plenty of old horror films on the local show SINISTER CINEMA.
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RCMerchant · January 26, 2022, 03:02:16 PM

Quote from: The Burgomaster on January 25, 2022, 05:13:44 PM
I'm not sure. I've been watching horror movies on TV since I was a little kid. But I can say this with certainty:

* The second horror movie I saw in a theater was Willard (1971 version). I went with my older cousins.

Not counting PLANET OF THE APES (which is more sci-fi), WILLARD is the first real horror movie I seen in a theater! I went with my older brother Mike. I was 9. Mike was 12. Our Dad dropped us off at the theater.

lester1/2jr · January 26, 2022, 03:31:04 PM

might have been friday the 13th part 2 on tv?

bob · January 26, 2022, 05:43:37 PM

Jason Takes Manhattan on tv as a youngster

I didn't like it to the point where it took me off horror films until I saw Saw in the theater in 2004

indianasmith · January 26, 2022, 08:03:49 PM

I grew up watching classic horror films on Sunday afternoon TV - DRACULA (1933), FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, and so on. I don't know which one I saw first. The first horror movie I saw in the theaters was probably either LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK or HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS - I remember seeing them, but don't remember which I saw first.

Trevor · January 31, 2022, 01:16:59 AM

The second scary movie I saw - I think it was an unsold TV pilot - was Baffled! with Leonard Nimoy and Susan Hampshire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffled!

It was also the first film I bought on VHS.

Cult_Moody_Movies · January 31, 2022, 03:23:39 AM

When I was a child I was only aloud to rent old school horror films or PG-13 fair. So if I recall the Jaws franchise, the Godzilla franchise and The Thing from Another World was the first series I saw on TV. The first thing I rented on my own was the 50's version of The Blob.