What moments in film history are branded onto your brain that makes you love horror… that impacted you and taught you the thrill or love…
FOR ME? These are the films that slightly effected me, that were horror and important before I knew horror or important.
Shining saw too young.. and the blood elevator was bad, but the butler with the bear messed me up
Scanners – head explosion. I saw that at age 6 or so.
Creepshow – Ted Danson, our friend from Cheers, getting owned on the beach
Something Wicked this way Comes
Watcher in the Woods – this really, really fucked me up
Friday the 13th Part II – not that it’s special, just that I saw it at the right time.
The Day After – messed with my reality versus fiction
My 7th grade Sex ed class that showed herpes pictures
Poltergeist – the face peeling scene
Thriller (Yes, Landis got me.. speaking of Landis) – namely the oil drippy mouth scene
American Werewolf in London – the offhanded way they dealt with horror as real… a conversation with a corpse.
Blue Velvet when he finds the ear
Willy Wonka with the chicken head cut off scene
The Thing – the dog scene
Amityville Horror (saw way way too young)
Excorcist (saw bits and pieces by accident for years)
The scene in Close Encounters when the kid is sucked through the door.
*HUGE*… the scene in last starfighter where you see the android forming to be the main character…. he is all computery android fleshy and dripping and looks like he is melting in acid. That was a huge moment of intrigued but frightened…
V where they eat the rat
Dark Crystal.
Indy Jones with the heart in the chest in temple of doom.
when ET’s house got quarantined.
Dreamscape… when dude turned into a snake man.
I lost it.
I think the Lady in White wrecked me too
Jacob’s Ladder, Serpent & the Rainbow… wow.
And Chiller Theatre on KTVU as a kid…. saw a lot there.
There was some others.. I am sure I will remember. I am always interested in what sparked my fandom.