Well a good way to start my posting her and to introduce myself is to enter this comp. I was introduced to true horror at a young age and I remember my parents going to the video library every weekend. It was great, i still can remember the smell and the mystical drive to the library in the middle of nowhere. It was a library with a bigger selection then the local library, so my parents would drive to the nearby village to rent vids!
So while they looked at films i would rummage around the horror films and gasp at all the fab covers - including Betamax. My parents would get the adult themed films (not porn, clear your filthy mind
) and I would get "U" or "PG" certs. Eventually, somehow, i convinced my parents to get a "15", it was Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I loved it but most importantly, i was scared witless. Mixing pointy teeth, clowns, blood, and big space ships just frightened the socks of me. Then suddenly, from then on they'd let me stay up late to watch all types of things as long as they knew it wasn't "too bad" for a child. I saw Monster Squad, Lost Boys, Vamp, Friday the 13th - all these "teenage" type horrors. Then they'd let me watch Alien, Aliens, Predator, Phantasm, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead...the list is endless. I remember Aliens scared me witless too, my dad would have to put my pet hamster in my room while i slept - in my mind i thought that the hamster would "eat the giant insects" that were in the film. Haha!
I also remember the local video shop letting me rent the films even if i was well under age, ha, they must have realised i would see them anyway i suppose.
The first true horror experience at the cinema was An American Werewolf In Paris, i got in free as i dressed up for Halloween. I think i had just turned 15 when that came out. Of course I had seen Jurassic Park, does that count!?!
Well, not so as exciting, but i hope i have a chance.