Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, when I was 5. I foolishly thought that since that was such a breaze, I could go straight from that to Halloween.


The 14+ option reminds me of when I heard that Paul Schrader hadn't seen a single film until he was 16. Completely blew my mind.

This is so true. I remember when I was kid, I used to think that cartoons were real people, and when someone died in a movie they really died. It used to worry me when that happened. I understood that movies were all set up, but I thought when someone got hurt, or blead it was real, and I'm sure most kids do. Kids need to think the world is perfect as long as they can. It's not fair to push our fears and concerns on them until it's their time to deal with it. Movies, and TV do that. I wouldn't even let my kids watch the news.

i remember squirm .. there was that one shot of the guy with the worms burried in his face ...

creepy for the time it came out

the first horror movie I remember seeing was NOES, too (not two). it scared me and I couldn't sleep for a few days. my folks didn't know b/c I liked being scared and staying up, so I didn't tell them. I think I was about 6.

I separated the options into age groups that, I thought, were very different in terms of how they dealt with movies. It made sense based on my perceptions of their "maturity levels."

oh, and I can remember the exact moment when I came to the realization that cartoons weren't "real". I was watching Thundercats.

It was a lonesome night, everyone was fast asleep, I was playing in the hallway, the tv was on in one of the bedrooms, and I could see it from across the hall.....The second I saw the images of dead girls all bloody in the hallway, to the black guy getting axed, I was in shock....the film is....The Shining when I was 6.

I was hooked from then on....Bela's Dracula, Godzilla films, and Night of The Living Dead were later introduced to me.....

I watched Frankenstein when I was 4 or 5. It scared the shit out of me back then, (would have been 1967-68) but after my Mom explained to me the whole "just actors wearing makeup/masks" thing...I was hooked on them and still, to this day, can't get enough Horror.

K i feel stupid for asking but what does NOES translat to

Nightmare on Elm Street

o man now i do feel stupid. how did i not notice, i must be slipping in my old age.

Yup, 18 is quite old there buddy.