#41
| ||||
| ||||
Quote:
__________________ Plutonium Shores - a journal cataloging interests, obsessions and random musings... so I don't forget. |
#42
| |||
| |||
My love for horror flicks started with the BBC's horror double bills. The first horror movie I was allowed to stay up and watch as a youngster was Hammer's The Vampire Lovers, with all the nudity and beheadings that was an eye-opener for sure. From TV horror I moved onto video, when my family bought their first VCR. I think the first video nasty I ever saw was the 'strong uncut version' of Zombie Flesh-Eaters, quickly followed by the uncut Replay Video edition of Cannibal Ferox. I just devoured video horror, action, comedy and sci-fi from then on. I also got into books and mags about the subject too, and my love has lasted to this day with all my old favourites now being released onto DVD and Blu-ray.
__________________ From the bowels of the earth they came ... to collect DVDs! |
#43
| ||||
| ||||
I just remember being absorbed by Horror films growing up, I felt like I was watching truly outlaw Cinema, and I loved the fact that the people around me hated horror movies. You could just mention the title of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and it would cause disgust. I mean I used to cue up ultra-splattery moments from the VHS copy of The Thing as my parents would walk in the room, just to be obnoxious.
__________________ Plutonium Shores - a journal cataloging interests, obsessions and random musings... so I don't forget. |
#44
| ||||
| ||||
Since the 1980s it has been so easy for fans of any genre to watch their favourite films due to home video beginning with VHS leading up to today's Blu Rays. I never had a VHS player until I was 26 and married and so had to see films at the cinema or wait until they were screened on one of the 3, and later 4, tv channels. I had no control over what films would be on telly over the weekend. The next best thing was books and I was a literary sponge absorbing everything I could on the famous and not so famous monsters, Dennis Gifford's "Pictorial History of Horror Movies" was on an almost indefinite loan to me from the Firth Park Library in Sheffield. The other BIG influences at this time were the Warren Publications "Creepy" and "Eerie" comics, as well as good stories and art they had all these cool adverts in them for things like Metaluna Mutant masks and other stuff that was impossible to get over hear. In the mid to late '70s was e series of horror films, mostly "Hammer" and "Amicus," that I and all my friends would watch and talk about for the rest of the week. Other early influences have to be TV series like "Doctor Who", "The Invaders", "The Night Gallery", "Doomwatch" and the "Twilight Zone". AND, we can't forget the great BBC Christmas Ghost Stories.
__________________ "Sometimes my soul just moves so slow Like a dream of diesel heart that just won't go" Monster Magnet |
#45
| ||||
| ||||
|
#46
| ||||
| ||||
Quote:
__________________ Plutonium Shores - a journal cataloging interests, obsessions and random musings... so I don't forget. |
#47
| ||||
| ||||
I rented Shocker purely because Megadeth had a version of Alice Cooper's No More Mr Nice Guy on the soundtrack, can't remember a damn thing about the film now though
__________________ If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the ****ing car! |
#48
| ||||
| ||||
Quote:
|
#49
| ||||
| ||||
Quote:
After that any book i saw on horror films was mine. Missed out on Eerie & Creepy magazines though. Remember briefly having a novel sized comic adaption of 'Tales from the crypt' film though don't know what happened to that. Got into Doctor who during Tom Baker's later stories, remember a season where BBC showed a story from each doctor, can't remember first Doctors story but remember watching Patrick Troughton's 'Kroton' story at this time and I think 'Carnival of Monster's' with mr Pertwee. Used to loan Doctor Who books from the library a lot when i was a whippersnapper. Remember watching Twilight Zone a lot too, but never caught up with The Outer limits till a few years ago. Good stuff!!! |
#50
| ||||
| ||||
I didn't have a video recorder in the house until i was about 16, my dad wasn't into technology much. Grew up watching basically anything horror that turned up on TV. And a lot of other good film's besides. Think late 70's and 80's TV was a golden time for horror films being shown on TV myself.(i saw many film's that have still not seen since). Such vivid memories for me. My dad wasn't into horror, so i would watch all the films late at night when everyone else had gone to bed. ( this is pretty much my reason for having a screwed up body clock - my general bed time is around 2am+ still) But it was well worth it !! |
Like this? Share it using the links below! |
| |