My dad started taking me to horror movies with him when I was like 5 years old. He used to lie to my mom that we were going to see some kid friendly movie and instead he'd have my wide eyed precocious little self watching murder and mayhem with him.
I think most of us horror watchers were influenced by inappropriate age exposure to murder and mayhem movies.
it either goes one of two ways- there are the kids who never watch a horror movie again, ending up scarred off scares and carry that into adulthood or those become a lifelong purveyor of the genre like it’s embedded into your dna and your interests are forever peaked. Thanks, Dad.
my son ended up being the former- he HATES horror movies, he refuses to even engage. He’s disturbed by the fact that his mother is an avid horror fan. I should have known when “that”
scene from The Lion King had him shook that he wasn’t ready. Fail.