What was your first horror movie you seen?

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Ok gonna show my age but I was 9 yrs old when I watched this by myself.

@Mic Miller wrote:

The Wizard of Oz (I was five).

Glad to know that I am not the only person who (as a child), thought of this movie as scary. Not a fan of flying monkeys to this day.

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”   Another movie that haunts me.

On Friday nights, my siblings watched scary movies hosted by Sammy Terry...never did like Friday nights either!  

Good ol' Sammy Terry. Robert "Bob" Carter (1929-2013) was watched by generations in Indiana when hosting WTTV's (now Fox 59) Shock Theater which was later renamed Nightmare Theater from 1962 to 1983. My brother and I grew up with him camping those Grade B horror flicks. (Thanks for being a part of this kid's memorable childhood, Bob. Keep resting in peace.)



Trivia: "Sammy Terry" was a play on the word cemetery. Bob once filled in for Dick Clark on American Bandstand.

@Mic Miller wrote:

The Wizard of Oz (I was five).

Those flying monkeys!!!  ,


I think mine was "Attack of the Killer Klowns"

I don't think I could tell you the first horror movie I saw.  It was such a long time ago.  When I was very young I'd watch the old Universal monster movies; I was fond of them and still am, sort of.  You know, the classic 1931 Frankenstein, or the 1932 Dracula, and so on.  These were never really scary, more atmospheric.  I still love them.

I could easily tell you the first movie which scared me, and that was in 1978: John Carpenter's original Halloween.  This was my introduction to the "jump scare" movie.

The Blob.    I was under the age of 10 and we had vents just like those in the movie;  that the blob oozed out of. I was quite the scared little child. 

    

invasion of the body snatchers

The Fly, the original, double-billed with The Angry Red Planet.  I was 8 years old, so 1959 or 60, and I had nightmares about The Fly for YEARS!  My dad took us to the drive-in, the one and only time he did, and I have never learned why he chose those movies and if he ever regretted it.  I don't even know if my parents knew I was having nightmares, we are not a demonstrative people.