Your first NIGHTMARE! Which horror film started it all?

[Desamo]

Here are mine. These arent really horror movies I know but my god these were scary monsters.

Legend prince of darkness I was about 5 or 6 years old and this was very scary monster.

Mars attacks martians. I saw nightmares.

 

[SwedishHeat]

Robocop and :Leprechaun.

I remember having nightmares that Robocop would just be standing in my bedroom doorway, silhouetted by the light in the hallway, sometimes it would be the Leprechaun instead. I don't remember ever watching those movies as a kid, so it was weird why they'd show up. But for a number of years, I would always sleep facing the wall, so I'd never wake up facing the doorway and risk seeing either one of them standing there.

 

[316what]

For me it was Jaws at the drive-in in the backseat of the parents VW bug. Don't remember much of the movie but what I do remember is my mom telling me to duck behind the seat and not look when Quint died.


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[JAWS]

My earliest memory of being scared in a film and it sticking with me well after the viewing was JAWS... However it had nothing to do with the Shark itself.. Nothing about Chrissie, Alex, or Quint getting eaten scared me... For me it was all about Ben Gardner's head.

I saw this in 1975 at the tender age of 4 and 1/2 (what were my parents thinking?) I feared waking up at night and seeing this on the edge of my bed.

After that it was this part from Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. I was five.

Then came Psychos shower scene, the arm grab at the end of Carrie, the Crate from Creepshow, and then the Exorcist

 

[cmiller99]

My earliest memory of being scared in a film and it sticking with me well after the viewing was JAWS... However it had nothing to do with the Shark itself.. Nothing about Chrissie, Alex, or Quint getting eaten scared me... For me it was all about Ben Gardner's head.

I saw this in 1975 at the tender age of 4 and 1/2 (what were my parents thinking?) I feared waking up at night and seeing this on the edge of my bed.

I remember that scaring the **** out of me when I was a kid too.

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

I don't remember what movie it was,but it may have been Texas Chainsaw Massacre (series) where 2 people were hung on hooks and then they got ripped apart. I think it was TCM because I did the fatality on MKXL with Leatherface, and the memories came rushing in lol.

 

[cerealkeller]

I have a few but my main film was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I was 5 when i saw it. Had 2 older brothers who watched horror movies and that led me to watch so many rated R movies before I probably should have. But TCM remains my terrifying childhood experience. Honestly to this day I still watch it with a light on.


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[rushmore223]

My earliest memory of being scared in a film and it sticking with me well after the viewing was JAWS... However it had nothing to do with the Shark itself.. Nothing about Chrissie, Alex, or Quint getting eaten scared me... For me it was all about Ben Gardner's head.

I saw this in 1975 at the tender age of 4 and 1/2 (what were my parents thinking?) I feared waking up at night and seeing this on the edge of my bed.

That is the exact moment I had to turn JAWS off for my 7 year old Daughter. She begged me to watch it, and I had forgotten that it had some graphic and jump-worthy moments like that.

 

[Staps1138]

For me it was Alien, I saw it when I was 9 but I think that was my first horror movie I saw in the theatre. I don't think I slept at all the night after seeing it but I loved it!

 

[Go Figure]

Salem's Lot was a film that gave me lingering shivers after watching it.

This scene creeped me out as a kid. I will never forget it lol

The original Omen was scary as well.

 

[BOBAFATTY]

I was 5yrs old when I seen chainsaw massacre at a drive in at my little Oklahoma town, since then I still cannot stand the sound of a saw firing up.


And then this damn thing.

 

[ZombieRepublican]

This freaking guy!

In the nightmare I'm getting chased by this guy. Every time I looked back he was closer and closer, until eventually I look back and he's gone. I turn back around and boom! He's right beside me...

I wake up in a pool of sweat! I look around and see I'm in my room. My heart rate slows, I blow a sigh of relief. I lay my head back on the pillow and turn over. Boom, he's in my face!

Double dreams are a *****!

 

[Remembermyname]

My first recollection is Bela Lugosi in Dracula1931, to clarify I watched the film in the 60's. The Vampyre thing was nothing compared to Boris Karloff in The Mummy 1933. Later as a teenager I visited the Cinema alone to see such films as Children should not play with dead things, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Ruby. I was now prepared for anything scary, well I thought so. It was a long bus journey home ending with a mile walk along an unlit country track, my imagination knew no bounds. I thought I was ready for Mr Myers in 79... heck no. My father said "It is not the dead you need to worry about but the living.

 

[ebor]

OG Dracula …Hungarians / Romanians scare me to this day…

 

[Knightstalker]

An American Werewolf in London and Salems Lot scared the utter hell out of me as a kid. That scene in the jail where Mr Barlow attacks the guy I swear gave me nightmares for years as did pretty much all of AWIL.

 

[Ramatuelle]

After I saw the 70's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I couldn't sleep for days. Specifically it was the scene where Donald Sutherland and Karen Black were walking, trying to blend in with the snatched and a dog with a human head started barking at them. I was 10 years old, maybe less.

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That was enough to send me over the edge.

I absolutely DETEST!!! body horror and this upset me too. And I was an adult. I didnt have nightmares but it was one of those things I wanted to bleach out of my brain. As a kid it didnt get any rougher than Hammer horror films on the Friday night scary movie with my dad, me and dad loved to watch those..... but adult Movies I Dislike:

1. Carpenters The Thing, this is really a great movie but I still wont watch the dog scene

2. Cronenbergs The Fly OH HELL TO THE NO!!!

3. Xtro - the trailer was bad enough, that thing by the road let you know what you were in for. If I see freaky aliens crawling beside the road, I am FLOORING IT HONEY. I have never seen the whole thing. I never plan to. Screw that birth scene.

4. The Exorcist extended cut has some stuff that stays with you....

5. The version of Body Snatchers referenced above was also kind of a No.

 

[Dave_W]

Nightmare on Elm Street when I was around 7-8. I didn't sleep properly for weeks.

 

[goatchumby]

Spoiler for the potential late night jump scare

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I didn't even have to go to the theaters! "Lizzie" from Tales From the Darkside (the TV series) was absolutely terrifying as a child. Nowadays, I quite enjoy the creepy lil' short story.

 

[Ramatuelle]

I'll mention one that had my horror-hardened younger brother really upset. I mean, this movie really messed with his head. It was the 1973 version of the film "Dont Be Afraid of the Dark."

Young couple inherits Victorian mansion with a bricked up fireplace. They are told not to remove the bricks, but is that woman going to be sensible? Haha, no. She removes some of the bricks and etc etc etc. I remember the last scene as being particularly upsetting. This movie hit a nerve and i do recommend.

Nowadays with cgi, everything is so perfect. Its almost obnoxiously perfect. Movies from the 70s and 80s were just primitive enough to be sort of more believable.

One more thing: DO NOT SHOW SMALL CHILDREN THIS MOVIE. It will give them the screaming heebie jeebies for weeks!!! My brother had to leave a light on for a WHILE after this one

 

[ironwez20]

Not film but video game.
Resident evil 1. First zombie interaction. Ugh it looks so stupid now but it was scary af at 8

Hmmm I remember being afraid of scream for a short period of time. Of course arachnophobia to this day.
I remember being afraid of house of the dead video game.