I grew up in the 80's, so basically every movie in this thread when they were still new. I remember seeing "The Thing" when I was around 7. I was too young to even be scared by it, I was just
when dude's head fell off then proceeded to crawl across the floor.
When I got a little older around 9-10 a few horror movies had me shook, but I still loved them. "A Nightmare On Elm Street" specifically had me shook, because he could enter your dreams. Actually "Dreamscape" was before that, and had a similar premise.
By '87-'88 I was like 12, and actively looked for horror/sci-fi stuff. Whenever my parents weren't home I'd watch the Saturday night horror marathon, seen "Bastketcase", "The Brood", "Shockwaves", the OG "Waxworks", all kinds of stuff.
The only time gore really fukked me up was "The Kindred". My aunt took me to see it when my parents were out of town. shyt had me
in the theater so much I almost threw up. It was the watermelon scene in the car, if you've seen them movie.
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and snuck me into the next theater to watch Richard Pryor's "Critical Condition".
Watching it now the special effects are terrible, not sure why it affected me like it did. Especially when I'd seen worse stuff.
Fred.