Comments on: Give Us Your Thoughts On Horror.

By: Nichole LaRoche

Nichole LaRoche — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:38:27 +0000

Oh, I just glanced at someone else’s comment and saw Fright Night! I can not believe I forgot to add that one to my list. That used to be my and my childhood best friend’s FAVORITE movie of all time. We actually (for some reason) used to act it out for some of the neighborhood kids! We were quite the interesting pair when we were younger!

By: Nichole LaRoche

Nichole LaRoche — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:35:24 +0000

I hardly get the chance to sit online and look at a lot of things in depth, so here I am seeing this blog almost a year after this entry was posted…

ANYWAY….I was about 4 years old when my babysitter let me watch Return of the Living Dead and I was INSTANTLY hooked! For the next several years I spent my time finding out more about horror movies by reading the backs of just about every VHS box at the video store. The video store was hooked up to the laundromat so when my mom dragged us there along with her, I’d just hang out in the video section

By the time I was 10, I was in love with movies like Night of the Living Dead, Day and Dawn of the Dead, etc, Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm St (the 3rd was the first one I ever watched,) Frankenhooker, Class of Nuke Em High, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Lady in White, Night of the Creeps, Monster Squad, House 1 & 2, From Beyond, Scanners, Dreamscape, Hellraiser, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Night of the Demons, Happy Birthday to Me, Troll 1 & 2 (my sister and I were OBSESSED with Troll 2 long before we found out there was a cult following, hehehe) Oh my god, the list could probably go on and on, but that’s about it off the very top of my head!

Needless to say, horror movies have always been a part of my life. I even just came across a “book” I wrote in the 3rd grade called, “I Love Horror Flicks!” in which I focused partly on my love of werewolf films. I’d also read a lot of the Tales From the Crypt and Vault of Horror comics. (Ah, there’s another piece of horror that I watched as a child…) And who DIDN’T love the Scary Stories books when they were a kid? But it wasn’t until I was about 9 or 10 that I started reading horror NOVELS.

The first horror book I can clearly remember reading was Stephen King’s Christine. I loved being able to picture everything in my head the way I thought it should look! I stuck with King for a while before branching out to other works such as Lovecraft and Poe. Speaking of reading horror, just in case anyone reads this, MCC offers a course called “Literature of Horror” in which students get to read such awesome classics like King, Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, etc. So if you like to read, write, and wrap yourself in horror, that class will be an easy A.

Wow, I feel like I almost wrote more than Tim in his original post. What can I say? I’m a bit of a writer at heart. When I start it can be hard to stop…especially when I’m passionate about the topic!

By: Eric Matthues

Eric Matthues — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:07:13 +0000

I went to a strict catholic school run by nuns. Imagine my surprise when I found Stephen King’s NIght Shift stashed away in a shadowy corner of the library. The cover had a strange hand with eyes embedded in it wearing a burial shroud. I’m not sure the nuns realized it was there- they wouldn’t have approved. I fell in love with horror that day. King’s collection of short tales of the macabre struck a chord within my hungry ten-year-old mind. I still have the tattered remnants of that volume to this day…I have nightmares of an ancient, dessicated nun librarian chasing me down the dark halls of that crumbling, ancient manse, a yardstick gripped violently in her bloody, skelatal claws. “You have an overdue book child!, she rasped from the depths of her black habit…

By: TypH

TypH — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:14:44 +0000

I can remeber back when I was around 5 or so it was a Saturday morning an It was earlyish an I was watching the SPACE channel while my parents were making pancakes an such, & Last Man On Earth & the original Night Of The Living Dead came on an I was hooked on horror ever since then, & since then I am now trying to become a horror comic book artist an writer, I love everything about horror, it’s amazing an the world needs more horror stuff in it!!

By: oniloco

oniloco — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:19:16 +0000

I can;t even distinguish any specific early memories- horror films have just always surrounded me and bled (pun intended) into my everyday life.

I do recall Evil Dead II scaring me senseless as an 8year old, but even then I knew something was so great and funny about the film that I’d have to revisit it as soon as I could face up to it again….

I’ve actually gone on to get a film degree, specialising in horror. My dissertation was on Phantasm, and in researching it I found that mine was the only known text ever written about it. Technically this makes me the sole Phantasm academic in the world today!

By: Sam(The Horror Man)

Sam(The Horror Man) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:35:02 +0000

As a person who is constantly looking for new horror goodies to sink my teeth into, I must look back at what I grew up on
I fondly remember being dragged into my uncles room and being shocked at seeing Pinhead get the pins hammerd into his skull.
I must have been 4 and damn it scared the poop outta me.
From then on I was always looking for new horror weather it be in music(The Misfits) or in comics(Tales from the crypt and E.C ).
So to this day I love horror.

By: Knut Nerheim Bergene

Knut Nerheim Bergene — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:41:29 +0000

Well, the movie that had the most impact on me personally, was C.H.U.D. I saw this with my older brother when I was pretty young (I know for sure I was WAY below the allowed age). That scared the s@*t out of me, man! For years I avoided manholes, and I took the longer way around them. C.H.U.Ds were some sick ugly f*@kers that scared me for a looong looong time.

I love them dearly though. Had to get the shirt from FR of course.

By: Nikita Leigh

Nikita Leigh — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:01:01 +0000

For the movies, it all started with the late night tv hosts. I’m too young for Ghoulardi, but luckily Cleveland stuck with it’s horror hosting over the years. I grew up watching Big Chuck & Lil John and The Ghoul. Then later on cable :Elvira, Joe Bob Briggs and Rhonda Shear. I remember watching The Gate and being scared, laughing at 976-Evil and seeing Tales From the Darkside at the drive-in, but don’t actually recall the first horror film I ever saw.

It was a Scholastic book fair that started my love affair with reading supernatural/horror titles; all those scary urban legends, tales of vampire teachers and aliens. To this day, I devour anything that even remotely appeals to me. Clive Barker has been a steadfast fav though.

I love macabre art in all mediums and try to create awesome horror pieces in stained glass.

By: plastek

plastek — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:50:56 +0000

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was in the “Comedy” section of the local rental store. Mom thought I would enjoy it. I was only about 8, or 9 at that time, so it messed me up pretty good.
Later on a friend of my dad’s (who moved here from texas) would regularly hang out at my house, and had me convinced he knew Leatherface, it was not a cool situation.
I seriously feared for my life for several years.
Think that has something to do with why I’m obsessed..

BTW; Thanks for the cool swag.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:13:48 +0000

When I was a very young boy, my Dad showed me Universal’s 1931 Frankenstein on Super 8 for my birthday (yes, I’m that old!). Even though that antiquated format only showed a truncated version of like 15 mins of the film, I was hooked for life. Seriously, today we even have a room in our house dubbed “The Monster Room” decked out in full monster décor (my wife calls it “Monster-Chic”). Resting nicely on display between a Freddy glove and two Phantasm spheres is a little glass vial of dirt that I recently acquired through some awesome website….
Anyway, those classic Universal horror films are still my favorites. While my youngest son was being born, my Dad was passing the time in the hospital waiting room watching Creature from the Black Lagoon on his Ipod. I have taken great pleasure in bringing things full circle by recently sharing some of these same films with my two young boys.