What was your gateway into horror?

[rogueslayer452]

There was this question I saw being circulated around asking what was your first horror movie you watched that got you into the genre, and I thought about it and honestly it's a tie between Scream (saw the beginning of at a sleepover in junior high) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (was on television when I was visiting a relative for Halloween), as I do believe it was around the same time frame. I remember those made a big impression on me specifically. Also because I know that I was interested in seeing I Still Know What You Did Last Summer when it came out in theaters because of Brandy who I knew from Moesha and loved her music, and actually I saw the film several times in the theaters because I became a bit obsessed with it.

I do think they were definitely influential enough to be the biggest gateway for me to look for more movies like those, I would go to the video rental store and look for horror and I was intrigued by the horror movies coming out whenever I saw previews of them on TV at the time. A lot of them were of the slasher category and b-movie types, and many quite underrated, imho. But yeah, I do believe it really took off from there.

(Of course, if you really want to go even further back I guess you could trace me interest in horror to all the nightmare fuel that I watched and was exposed to as a kid. Anything that was weird and bizarre and slightly unnerving I was fascinated by. I mean, Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch are among my top favorite childhood movies, and they are classified as horror-comedy, so y'know, it was definitely a early personal taste that just naturally evolved overtime.)

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

I've seen all of these. I've never watched much horror, but another big franchise I enjoyed was Final Destination (I don't think I've seen them all, but I've seen at least 3).

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I only watched the first two of the Final Destination franchise, I remember when they came out so I was invested in them, but I haven't seen the rest of the series. I know that it became more or less about the thrill of the kills and less about the mythology, but the last one in the franchise seemed to tie them all together somehow. Perhaps one day I'll sit and watch the entire series all the way through.