Comments on: Do You Like Horror Movies?

By: David Lore

David Lore — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:18:59 +0000

Hi Ben, great story, I can feel your passion for horror movies coming out of my computer screen. Iv just ordered a couple of shirts and I am looking forward to them arriving.

I can remember seeing The Thing From Another World when I was about 12, I also saw Halloween on tv when I was quite young, Im not sure how old I was. I live in Australia and when it got shown on tv they showed the tv edit, which had scenes that were shot whilst making Halloween 2. Years later I hired the Halloween on video and was wondering were the scenes that I could remember from years back were. Then many years later I read in Fangoria that there was a tv edition that had some different scenes in it. I was so glad because I thought I was going a little mad. I know a copy was released on dvd but it wasnt rerleased in Australia. I hope to order it from the states one day.

I was also given a book on horror movies when I was 15, at the time we didnt have a video player so I read that book so many times, when my parents finally got a video recorder I was down at the local video store every friday night and I havnt been the same since.

Enjoy the horror.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:04:41 +0000

i think its a more common story than i thought, as my parents forbidden me to ever watch horror movies at least right up until i was about 15… All because i had nightmares for a good 6 months when i was 8 after watching Troll! (dont laugh) I think these nightmares were due to the script as opposed to the movie monsters… (if you can call them that)
Of course i didnt listen to these instructions and it had only fueled my thirst for horror films and monster movies, so i used to sneak a viewing at my friends house (as his mother and father werent too bothered about him watching them) as he had cleverly fused all 3 evil dead films into one whole film.
I remember having a ginormous video shop across the road and spent most of my free time helping out in there and stacking the videos into the right category. I loved nothing more than to peer at the backs and fronts of the horror videos, the artwork on some of them really peirced into my imagination. it wasnt long until i realized that movies made me happy and it is because of this video shop (now closed down due to the dvd revolution) that i am now a collector of rare, out of print and banned horror movies.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:31:51 +0000

I can’t remember what horror movie I actally seen first but I know I had to be around 3 or 4 yrs. old. I remember wanting to stay up untill 3:00am to see Happy Birthday to Me being so little my parents said “if you could stay up you can watch it.” Naturally I fell asleep. But the next day I cried and screamed and threw such a fit they actually went and rented it for me. Probly thinking I would be scared and not want to watch it once it got going and then I would have a lesson learned. WRONG! I watched the whole thing and only wanted more. Lucky for me I have a brother who is 10 yrs older than me so I started to watch as many horror ficks as I could. I never had nightmares or asked to sleep with my parents. Inever picked up the cussing or stuff so they let me continue. By the age of 6 or seven my father told me they became my babysitters. Just give me a horror tape from the video store(god I miss the days of good video stores) and I would not move. My parents asked me why I never was scared. Probly hoping I was’nt getting to be some desensitzed physco. I said “I wanna know how they make things that are’nt real well real” So hear it is I am 28 and have been doing special effects since just about that time. Luckily I am also artistic. So I stared drawing and sculpting and sewing my Halloween costumes ect… My dad has always been a supporter of this artform sp that helped me out alot. Now being in the industry my love grows and grows.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:26:09 +0000

wow, where do i start, oh i know, evil dead, halloween 2, nightmare on elm street 2, and friday the 13th 3, when i was 6 yrs. old, i rented this movie called the evil dead, holy shit, i was sitting by the fire in our living room and i almost shit myself, i will never forget it, and raw head rex, that was the shit, now i wish they would make another raw head, total classics, ben your shirts are cool as hell, i will be buying from you forever bro.

By: Anthony Thomas

Anthony Thomas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:57:57 +0000

It was 1989 or 1990, I was 5 or 6 years old when my mom took me to the library to rent some movies. I had no idea what a scary movie was back then, but the picture on the cover of the original Night of the living Dead caught my eye. My mom not knowing what it was let me rent it, and it scared the hell out of me to the point that my parent said they’d never let me watch it again. But sure enough next time i went to rent something, i tricked them into letting me get it again. My older cousin introduced me to Dawn of the Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre after that I was hooked. By the age of 11 I had seen every horror movie I could get my hands on! Horror is the best genre of film!

By: Franco Sianturi

Franco Sianturi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:01:16 +0000

My very first experience of watching horror was an Indonesian horror movie that I watched during one afternoon on familly holiday. It was about a farmer who was struck by lightning and then he become living corpse after a black cat jumped on him at his funeral. Since then he started terrorize the whole village and finally being defeated by religious leader of the village (typical Indonesian horror movies in 70’s & 80’s). As for western movie, I would say Lucio Fulci’s Zombie gave me a long nightmare for several nights

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:36:59 +0000

As a kid my cousins would spend the night at my house,because my mom would let them watch horror movies here after I went to bed.I would sneak out and usually end up being too scared to go back to sleep.

I remember them watching The Evil Dead,Dolls,Toxic Avenger,and Childs Play.My mom had a huge collection of Dolls so Childs Play and Dolls pretty much ruined my childhood lol.

When I was about six years old I was allowed to watch The Lost Boys,Fright Night ,Monster Squad,and Waxwork.They scared me,but I loved watching them!A few years later I watched the first friday the 13th,Jason goes to hell(watched it at the drive in,and was too afraid to go swimming the next day!)and The Sentinal.

I was attacked by some older guys when I was 14,and after that decided to face alot of my fears.One night I watched a Friday the 13th marathon,and my love for horror movies was resurrected,and the “scary” feeling from my childhood went away.

Now I own a ton of horror movies,and have gone to a few conventions which were a great time!Someday I would love to take part in a horror movie,weather it be as a writer or actor.My all time favorite movie is THE LOST BOYS!!!

By: David Perry

David Perry — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:39:40 +0000

I think for me to say I like horror movies would be putting it too lightly.
To paraphrase a song I hear in church often; Horror movies are the air I breathe. My daily bread, etc.

They became a part of my life at a very early age from watching one on home video to telling each other scary stories to reading them.

I remember one time when me and my little brother ran off from the restaurant and just kind of roamed the area for a bit. When my sister and her friend caught up to us, they told us about a monster that roams the Oak Park area (where we were) and catches kids alone and…you know the rest.
I thought she was bs-ing us, but she sounded so serious and plus, a little girl did go missing from the area a few days ago so my brother and I felt she may be onto something.
From that point, horror movies were no longer for entertainment, but for research. What is it? How do we stop it? Will it be for good?
My imagination could win the indie 500 (LOL).

Thanks Ben for sharing your experience with us. I thought Halloween was one of the best movies (horror or not) ever made.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:11:22 +0000

Awesome story Ben…and the thing about John Carpenter’s Halloween theme is so true…as soon as you hear that music you know you can’t leave until the end, no matter how many times you’ve seen it before. My first ever horror film was the original 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. My grandfather was wathching me one day and he had brought this over and told me that it was his favorite film as a kid(yes my grandfather is that old)…and much like Ben I wasn’t scared by dracula more along the lines of being transfixed with this obviously evil,menacing, and sinister character which at the same time retained a since of charm…a monster in an expensive suit. As I got older I continued to see this movie but my focus grew away from Bela Lugosi and I payed more attention to David Frye as Renfield…his lunacy scared me more than Lugosi chilling stare. So ever since then Ive been addicted to horror you could say…i love the feeling it gives you and I love the characters which aren’t like those of any other genre…

Anyways thatnks for sharing your stories, Ben and everybody else.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:50:26 +0000

To Klye Blockelman. There is a pitition link on Joe Bobs web site.