Halloween Eve: First horror movie you ever saw

[wyldwolf]

Mine was either...

or

[valerief]

1. Mine was probably the 30's Frankenstein or Dracula on teevee. nt

[kairos12]

2. House on Haunted Hill

[livetohike]

27. That was mine tool I saw it again a few years ago. It's still scary!

[Archae]

3. Horror Of Dracula

Scared the patooties out of me!

(Saw it on TV in the early 70's.)

[femmocrat]

4. Not sure --- maybe "The Blob"

We had a neighborhood theater and would go every Friday night. I saw all those hokey old horror movies from the 1950s and '60s. I remember a lot of the Vincent Price movies, too. Those were better quality, as I recall.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. At the theatre, when I was a kid, probably

Still love that movie. Still want 'the Car'.

[2theleft]

6. Salem's Lot...

And not even at the movie theater, but on TV. Wasn't supposed to watch it, was in 4th grade. Did any way and it scared me to death!

[Ron Obvious]

7. Probably Hill House

I see now that that's called The Haunting. I may be mixing it up with the Legend of Hell House, but I'm pretty sure it's the older of the two in B&W.

Scared the crap out of me at the time. Saw it again as an adult some years ago and, well, meh...

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. If you count TV

The one that I remember making an impact on me was the original "The Haunting" (1963). I was probably 8 or so when I watched on TV . I especially remember this scene

[Skittles]

13. hey seem my response further down

generally in these kind of threads I post first and then read other responses

[Glorfindel]

9. The original "King Kong." I saw it at the theatre when I was about five years old

Scared the life out of me!

[onehandle]

10. Dunno if it counts, but Jaws in the theater.

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I think I peed myself a bit when the head popped out of the boat hull in one of the diving scenes.

[Archae]

14. A friend sitting next to me at the theater...

Said I levitated seeing that scene.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. My godfather was chucking ice from his drink

When that head popped out, he threw ice all over the people behind him!

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Either "Village of the Damned" or "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" ...

If you haven't seen VOTD, don't read the Wiki -- total spoiler.

I was too young to understand what HHSC was about -- just remember lots of dark, shadowy scenes and suspense.

[Skittles]

12. The Haunting (1963)

still the best

[PADemD]

16. Dracula, 1931 version

[dilby]

17. Night of The Living Dead

My mom used to let me stay up to watch it every Halloween as a kid, became kind of a tradition.

[bigwillq]

18. Amityville Horror (nt)

[cyberswede]

19. The Terror

I saw it on tv when I was 7 or 8 - had no idea what it was or who the actors were, but certain scenes stuck with me. I looked it up years later to find out about it.

[CBGLuthier]

20. I think it might have been Homicidal, William Castle's not too bad knockoff of Psycho

Came in during the wedding scene which ends very, very surprisingly especially if you don't know the name of the movie is Homicidal.

[sharp_stick]

21. I think it was Halloween (1978)

I was just a kid but we got into the theater somehow. I think a friends brother was working and he let us in. I don't think I slept for a week

I saw this unedited on TV awhile ago and was amazed at how little blood there actually was. The number of times Jamie Lee-Curtis could have easily escaped or actually killed Michael Myers is hilarious.

[lame54]

22. It was the one where the people being chased by the murderer kept making bad decisions

[Ron Obvious]

23. Is that the one with the fake scare that turned out to be just a cat?

The one with all those teenagers in it?

If so, I haven't seen that one.

[frogmarch]

24. 1950s

Invaders from Mars (1953) I was 9 when I saw this movie, and I eyed my family warily for a very long time afterwards.

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(full movie - incorrectly tagged on YT as "Invasion from Mars&quot

It Came From Outer Space (1953) I wanted to marry Richard Carlson when I grew up, because...I don't know.

(full movie)

Them! (top-grossing movie of 1954) It was at Christmastime when I saw this movie. I’d just turned 10. I remember looking up at the sky from my bedroom window on Christmas Eve as I’d always done, but this time I wasn’t looking for the Christmas Star. I was looking for giant freaking flying ants. I was never quite right after seeing this movie.

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[Codeine]

25. A bunch of Hammer films that aired on cable in the late 70s.

The first horror film I remember actually scaring me was The Changeling, with George C. Scott -- terrified me like nothing before or since.

[Hoyt]

26. First one I remember -- The Black Cat. It was made long before I saw it

on late night TV.

Frankenstein, the Werewolf, Creature from Black Lagoon, came next.