Great thread...
I always loved Fantasy Cinema since I can remember, I was never into sports, so instead of being a kid kicking a ball I was into dinosaur movies and things like
Ulysses 31 and
M.A.S.K. The first film I saw at the pictures was
E.T and I was lucky enough to have a big brother who would take me to see everything from
Return of the Jedi, to
Ghostbusters and well,
Condorman. I remember long lazy school summers watching rentals at my friend's house, seeing stuff like
Friday the 13th Part II and
A Nightmare on Elm Street, with never an eyebrow raised about 11 and 12 year olds watching such adult stuff. I began reading Fear magazine but things really shifted up a gear in 1992 with issue 20 of Dark Side magazine which profiled the Video Nasties, and needless to say life was never quite the same again...