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How Did the Obsession Begin for You? I just signed up here, so I thought I'd get the ball rolling by posting something that's likely been posted before, and just generally annoying everyone with my noob-ness. Unlike (I suspect) a lot of you, I discovered the delights of the nasties and their kin very late. I'm 23 (as of writing), and so am far too young to remember the whole Video Recordings Act debacle and subsequent treasure-hunting that went on. I really only got into horror back when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was finally passed. Channel 4 screened it and a mate taped it. He lent me the tape and the rest is history. I went out and got a DVD player straight away purely to get myself a copy of TCM on DVD. Shortly after I picked up Stonevision's (admittedly cut) version of Zombie Flesh Eaters, which in turn led to me buying a bunch of Vipco's Vaults DVDs (I was young and naive). After that I realised the real goodies were to be found elsewhere and started purchasing from specialist places online (I had it easy, I know). Of course, once Vipco changed everything to boring covers and charged a lousy £5 for the priviledge, I bought a ton more of their offerings. This probably sounds stupid as hell, but I actually enjoy watching slightly crappy prints of these kind of films. That's how I got into the world of cult horror and exploitation anyway, and I'm thoroughly enjoying Shameless' releases so far (first was The Black Cat). How did you all get into it? |
I got into horror through my Mother, she would sit me down and show me classics like Squirm, The Keep, The Gate and The Monster Squad! As well as films like Night and Dawn of the Dead. I'm 24 (not for long though :(), so missed out on the boom to. In the early 90's I got stuck into Vipco tapes and stumbled across Fulci, then came Argento when I discovered Tartan video's release of Trauma. Italian horror took over my viewing from there on really. So basically I've grown up with a love of the horror genre thanks to, what some could call, wreckless parenting! ha. |
I always loved Horror as a kid , then when I saw uncut ZFE and Cannibal Holocaust on video I became obsessed with Italian horror films , which in turn lead to low budget US horror and thats how I became a collector. Italian horror is still my favourite. |
Good thread. I'm 31 now...... and was lucky enough to have parents who didn't beleive in censorship and who also worked full time. During the summer holidays once I had hit my teens, they would leave me home alone with a lovely diet of Nightmare on Elm Street movies and other late 80s horror. All rented from the 'Video Butcher' no less. He was a butcher.... who also rented videos..... long story. Tapes smelled of meat. So that was that, from about 1989 onwards I became gradually more and more obsessed with horror movies. This also coincided with the launch of Charlie Band's FULL MOON label as well, so things like Puppet Master, Subspecies and Trancers proved to be a cheap and readily available fix...... at least until I began to earn money and could afford to buy my way into a better taste in horror....... and THEN they invented the internet ...... |
I'm 23 aswell so I missed the whole 'golden age of horror' (70's and 80's IMO) too. I was always fascinated by it though, I remember being a little kid and going into the video shop with my parents who were quite young at the time, they'd be off renting Dirty Dancing or something :p and I'd make a straight B-Line for the horror section, I used to just look at the covers and read the blurbs on the backs of the video's over and over again, I must have memorised every tape in that section :D I finally got to watch Friday the 13th when I was around 13 and from then on bacame a full blown horror nut. 80's slashers were my first love within the genre as they were what I started out on, Halloween instantly became my favourite when I saw that (obviously :p) but also films like Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, Children of the Corn etc. When I was about 15 or 16 I discovered Fulci and Argento and things just pretty much took off from there. |
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I first really got into horror via the horror double-bills that BBC2 showed in the late 70's/early 80's. I was introduced to horrors both old and new. So I still have a soft spot for vintage horror, as this is what got me into horror. Then in the early 80's my first introduction to VHS horror was a double-bill of Carrie and The Exorcist and there was no turning back after that - that was a real eye-opener! So I avidly viewed any and every horror film I could get hold of after that. Then came DVD and I began collecting in earnest. |
I got into it thanks to my Dad and Nan who both love horror movies and also thanks to companies like VIPCO, who were releasing movies with previously banned on the cover, and made these movies irresistable. i distinctly remember going into video shops and seeing movies like The Nostril Picker, Zombie Flesh Eaters etc. They were happy days, and i think DVD has ruined the magic a bit. |
going into the local market as a kid and being fascinated by the 2nd hand ex rental horror and gore tapes on the video stall. i was scared of anything remotely creepy as a child up to the age of about 13 when i gave in and watched the evil dead with friends, changed my life big time. i think it sort of desensitized me and that was it, i was hungry for more. went on to watch the Of the Dead flicks (which have always been my all time favourites ever since) and then became zombie obsessed. i used to test myself by flicking the channel back and forth on late night friday C4 to docu's about The Exorcist et al. Finally seeing that on its release was a major ordeal for me and it was a huge childhood fear for some reason. Still cant really deal with it to this day. |
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I've been collecting magazines & films since I was 16 so that's 24 years now.My first recollection of any horror film was a viewing of Hammers The Gorgon when I was very young at my grans house.I was then chilled by the 1980/1 premiere of The Omen on ITV which scared me to death as a 12/13 year old.After this while I was on holiday in Mabelthorpe I came across an amusement arcade selling copies of the HOUSE OF HAMMER magazine.Issue 11 happened to have a Brian Lewis cover of The Gorgon so I bought this issue for the princely cover price of 35p,as along with issue 12 it contained the comic adaption of the film.I also bought issue 1 which featured Dracula (1958) as the adaption.A year later I came across a Spar shop in Ingoldmells which had further issues & copies of Famous Monsters Of Filmland which I also bought.Then in 1984 my stepdad rented a Fergusson Videostar toploading VHS video & we first rented The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark & the uncut Guild precert of 10 To Midnight (Which I was not allowed to watch).Not too long after during the hysteria whipped up by the Press & MPs regarding 'Video nasties' I was able to pick up cheap ex-rentals from video stores clearing shelves of iffy titles.I picked up Evilspeak on the Videospace label for £3.00 & when Fox's Music & Video had a clear out I bought The Witch Who Came In From The Sea (VTC)Dead & Buried (Thorn EMI) & The Toolbox Murders (Heavily cut) among others.I can also remember my first blank tape I bought which was about £10.00 & I remember Alien being about the first film I ever recorded though it had been shown earlier in 1982 during the World Cup on ITV.I sold The Witch Who Came In From The Sea to my mate who owned a second hand shop.One of his friends asked who had sold it & this was how I met my mate 'Ollie' who introduced me to the tape underground where I was introduced to the uncut versions of Dawn Of The Dead,Weasels Rip My Flesh,Zombies 90 Extreme Pestilence (absolute shite) & Ilsa Keeper Of The Harem Of Oil Sheiks among others.Hell you youngsters have it easy now as you can pick stuff up at the click of a mouse !I miss the old days at it has took the fun out of collecting but I'm still a big horror fanatic:woot: |
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Another old timer here :D Started watching Dr Who as a kid at the beginning of the Pertwee era and loved the scary / horror element. Sometime later I bought World Of Horror magazine as it had a Dr Who cover and got interested in the horror films they featured. As a result I then started watching the Friday night horror films on my local ITV station. Onwards to the brilliant BBC2 horror double bills....and the rest is history, as they say :) |
My uncle said once I started courting or got married I'd stop collecting !.Wrong, though my wife does not share my taste in films preferring Elvis & Doris Day movies.TShe did like the first Saw film & the TCM remake,but does not like any Hammer films.:( |
I grew up on a healthy diet of Hammer Horror films on late night T.V. which turned into a fascination for the films of Argento, Cronenberg, Romero and Carpenter. I saw quite a few of the video nasties before they became known as video nasties. I was always interested in finding out how the effects were done and still love to see behind the scenes and making of extras on DVD's especially when they go in depth on the effects side. My father bought me "Bad Taste" and "Zombie Flesh Eaters" for Christamas one year purely because he thought the covers were something that would appeal to me. Luckily my wife does share my love of horror, to a certain point. My other love is Martial Arts/Hong Kong cinema. That she has no time for unless it's Bruce Lee related. |
My introduction to the genre was slighly different as I got into horror via radio plays, which were very popular in 70's/80's Germany and could be bought cheaply on vinyl and tapes, most of them were cheap knock-offs of classic Hammer movie plots, featuring all the greats from Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, the Mummy...later came the "Alien" and Zombie rip offs as radio plays...until the German censorship craze in the 80's also ruined this creative outlet for horror....:( They got me so inspired I started to write and tape my own "scary" radio plays when I was about 11, later on I began to collect horror movie soundtracks to beef my amateurish radio plays up (which never had a commercial run back in those days). Horror movies were hard to come by in 80's Germany, but I read a book called "Lexikon des Horrorfilms" in which about every post Hammer genre title got severely bashed. The writers had a special disliking for slashers and Italian undead flicks.... Nonetheless I got interested and wanted to see the movies, which I only "knew" through their music, like Carpenter's "Halloween" and so on. Then my father (of all people!) ACCIDENTLY rented the original "Friday, the 13th" from the highly restricted "for adults" video store, mistaking it for some comedy:p. Since I knew what it was, I popped the VHS into the player while everybody was still sleeping... What's to say? I was 15 and I fell instantly in love....!:blush: |
I first became obssessed with the artwork in DER's VIDEO AT HOME catalogue. The only person I knew who had a Video recorder,was my uncle,who btw,was a psychiatrist (I shit you not).He also had a car and used to take the whole family on our holidays,he seemed fascinated by my fascination on horror videos.When he came to collect us from our holidays,he had bought me HORROR MOVIES by Alan Frank,which was fully illustrated. So there you have it,a shrink started me out on my horror film obssession. These days,if he'd given a nine/ten year old that book,they'd have had him struck off.... |
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Hold on to her mate,they're a rare breed,mine would rather watch shite like Mamma Mia.....:puke::headbang: |
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No but I did the Mash (it was the Monster Mash). http://www.shameless-films.com/forum...es/biggrin.gif |
I grew up on horror so I couldn't pinpoint when my obsession began. In fact I can't remember ever being scared of a horror film... Spooky! :D |
A late night viewing of the beast with five fingers when i was 4.That was it...the rest as they say,is history. First video viewings were a double bill of carrie and zombie flesh eaters when i was 10.When we got our own video(rented for years from der)the first movie i rented from their video at home catalogue was zombies: dawn of the dead on the intervision label. The look on my mums face when we all sat down to watch it was priceless.:D Of course,after watching the trailers at the beginning i had to seek out shivers,night of the living dead and rabid. I was lucky in the respect that my parents were(up to a point)pretty easy going about my viewing habits,probably thought it was a phase i'd grow out of.How wrong could they be.eh!! |
BWFF now,there's a movie which needs a DVD release mate....:cool: |
Tell me about it! Had it taped off the tv years back.Quite laughable now,but that disembodied hand has stayed with me through the years.Damn scary as a nipper.:) |
Obviously my Mom was out cause one night my Dad let me watch JAWS and that was it ever since. |
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my brother got a betamax vcr when i was about 6 (1981),the 1st film i watched was "American werewolf in London" and loved it about 6 months later my dad rented a Vhs vcr at the same time BBC 2 had double bills of hammer movies on every Friday night so i started to tape them,my mum let me go to the video shop every day i knew every 1 who worked in there,id go to the shops for them,put the cards back in the boxes,i got all the best posters,didnt need a adult to rent me movies they knew i was allowed to watch any film i wanted to,no waiting on the list for a new release I remember i rlly wanted to see "Demons" and "House" but there was a 3 week waiting list but that was np as soon as i said i wanted to see them they would phone up the next person on the list and say the person didnt bring it back sorry you will have to wait till 2mr :) i also had a Saturday job when i was young (was only 9 and had to pretend i was 14)i did a milk round and with the £7 i got i would go to the video shop and buy any horror film i could.The VRA come out so they were selling all there nasties i bought loads |
Nobody has posted on this thread for ages here goes.... I'm 39 now, so recall the whole nasties era, but think the Friday night Hammer shorts on telly got me into horror, will never forget one episode with the childrens party and the pipe coming through the ceiling and covering everyone in blood, scared the shit outta me! The nasties stink really got me into it, telling you you are not allowed to view makes you want to doesn't it? Well, friends at school as well as a superb local video shop (which seemed to have its head in the sand regarding video banning) helped me view a lot, first nasty I watched was Evil dead uncut too. Managed to rent zombie flesh eaters, TCM,Living dead at Manchester morgue and more. Just wish I could go back in time with my current knowledge, they probably had the whole DPP list!!! I think a lot of the appeal nowadays for me is watching these and taking my mind back to this time when it was more of a thrill to be lucky enough to get your hands on one of these films. Remembering the damp smell of that video shop and countless shelves of big box video covers and hours taken to pick just one film, those were the days. |
Beginning of your Horror obsession? Ok so this is my first thread (go gentle on me, i don't think i've seen this topic here before). All you horror freaks out there... I first experienced horror movies from watching late night double bills on BBC and i think C4 in the early eighties.(Boris Karloff is still my favourite):) I remember watching the old universal movies such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman and soon after got into the Hammer film's through TV too. I remember reading from first issue a comic called Scream that only lasted i think 15 issues.(probably due to Mary Whitehouse) I remember 2 sets of horror top trumps cards around this time that i used to love and a colouring book filled with images from films such as House of usher, Plague of zombies and Francis Bacon images(?). I remember buying a book 'Horror Films' (that i still have) by Alan Frank filled with loads of photo's that i obsessed over and wanted to see all the films. I remember first being really scared by Halloween, Carrie(the hand scene) and the Omen. I remember watching The Hammer House of Horror TV series when it was first on and being freaked out by "Two faces of Evil" episode. (repeatedly) I remember the first video nasties i watched on early video (Evil Dead & The House by the Edge of the park) at the tender age of 10. Then i started reading Stephen King & James Herbert novels. With all this exposure at an early age its no wonder i became the horror obsessed crazy nut job i am today.:dance: All of these factors contributed to my horror obsession that still grips me today. What started your love of horror? |
My dad had loads of videos. Stuff taped off telly or stuff he bought off car boots and charity shops. I used to watch loads of it. A lot of Bond movies, Star wars and older sci-fi like invasion of the body snatchers. The ones that really stood out though were his Hammer horror and the vincent price/corman poe movies. We also used to go to the local libary and the off-license near home both had great selections as well. I think though the real obsession came first when I picked up Jonathon Ross's incredibly strange film book. Mainly for the section on Russ Meyer as I was 'at that age' and all the photos of huge boobs were very appealing (some things don't change) Surprisingly though I actually READ the book and enjoyed it. I remembered reading the descriptions of Cannibal holocaust/ferox, evil dead ect and thinking that I HAD to see these films. My collecting obsession with comics began to fall by the way side as I actively hunted for banned and outlawed films! The other thing that kick-started my obsession was the Soavi film STAGEFRIGHT. The bloke at the off license would buy in anything horror related (also any action films, preferably Dolph lundgren, vanne damme ect) so the few italian exploitation pics that were actually still getting releases would hit the shelves alongside the latest Friday 13th/nightmare on elm street. I was blown away by the style and ferocity of the movie, it was unlike any of the western horrors I had been watching and I wanted more!! Incidentally, with the early stage fright VHS releases there was one with gold lettering and one with plain. The gold lettering version was more uncut. |
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... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-okV7_INcAr...0/darkside.jpg |
Looking back, I wonder if my obsession started with the Atmosfear board game series :lol: We had the first four, but I was always more interested in watching the host on the VHS slowly decompose over the course of the game, rather than actually playing it! I had a sketchbook full of drawings of the Baron Samedi zombie character. Around that time I was also obsessed with Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters 2 and Gremlins 2 - those three on a constant loop :lol: . . . |
I wrote an article about this three years ago and the answer can basically be summed up in two words: The Exorcist. Why Horror? | Film 365 |
I think for me it started when I was about 5 or 6 and saw the full version of Michael Jackson's Thriller video with my sister and her friends (which got her into trouble for allowing me to watch it), after that was when I started drawing page after page of monsters etc. Fast forward 3 years, I was given the Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller on VHS, which featured Rick Baker showing how he created the awesome FX work on the video, and John Landis talking about the original werewolf films from Universal in the 40's. After seeing this, I wanted to see the films they were talking about, but due to the lack of them in any of the rental shops near me, I had to "make do" with whatever films were shown on TV, these just happened to be films by a little known production company from the UK called Hammer ;) Fast forward again to August 1991, I'm shopping in town with my parents when I spot a magazine in the newsagent where I used to buy Metal Hammer magazine, that magazine was issue number 11 of the Dark Side (which I still have). The cover was a painting of a scene from Bava's Black Sunday and inside were interviews with the stars from TCM like Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal etc. After seeing the pics and reading the interviews, I was desperate to see this film, but it would be a further 9 years before I was able to due to it's banned status, same goes for the Exorcist, (which had it's own DS special issue in October 1991, also in my loft) that I'd read about in a book called the Modern Horror Film, a book I constantly borrowed from the library (I managed to buy a copy cheap from eBay a couple of years ago), it wasn't until it's 1999 cinema re-release that I got to see "the scariest film of all time". Over the years from about 1990-91, my obsession grew and grew, from reading the novels by Stephen King (first one being Pet Sematary), to watching the late night double bills on the BBC, to collecting Horror books and videos, reading any magazine with a Horror theme, collecting Movie Maniacs figures, right up to the present day where I only collect DVD's and BD's now, reading the Dark Side on occasion. Incidently, my 9 year old son is forever asking me why I love Horror films so much, my usual response is this: "I dunno, I just do" Truth is, I have no real answer for his question, I don't know why I love Horror films so much, I just do :) |
Twins Of Evil. I blame it for all my hang ups :laugh::lol::pound: (Seriously, also the Friday double bills) I can't remember a time when I didn't watch horror films really, like a few on here i had parents who were more concerned that I didn't kill myself jumping about the rocks at the beach (which was just across the road when I was a bairn)/ insert own dangerous childhood playtime activity here cough, than what we watched.....happy sensible days!! |
Terrific stories here, great hearing about this kind of stuff ! Everybody loves The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Exorcist, but we all have different stories about we discovered them. Very cool ! |
Yeah, I've cut a huge chunk out of my "Horror History", namely the time my English teacher, the bloody gorgeous Miss Lloyd, addressed her concerns to my parents at the fact I brought the Exorcist in to read in English when I was 12, instead of the Famous Five shite my classmates were reading. :pound: I was allowed to pretty much watch what I wanted, so long as it didn't contain any sexually explicit material (if only they knew I'd borrowed an nth generation pirate copy of I Spit on Your Grave from a mates dad when I was 14, even though it was cut slightly) ;) |
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