One of my favourite genres of film is horror. My first experience watching a horror film when I was at an age where I could properly comprehend what I was seeing was when I was around 11 or 12 years old and my friend and I hired A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). This film scared the hell out of me, and it made it difficult for me to sleep, and I felt disgusted weeks after viewing it whenever I'd think of it - the impact upon me was great, and would ultimately be the first and last time a horror movie ever scared me.
There are many sub-genres that fall under the general heading of horror and while my first introduction was through a slasher film (with a supernatural bent) and I of course saw other slasher films like Halloween (1978) and the Friday the 13th series but as I got older I found myself drawn more to supernatural horror films about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena and entities, and while I still like seeing some of those slasher movies it's more the older ones, and not so much the more realistic ones such as Saw and Hostel.
What horror films are you drawn to and what was your first experience with the genre?
There are many sub-genres that fall under the general heading of horror and while my first introduction was through a slasher film (with a supernatural bent) and I of course saw other slasher films like Halloween (1978) and the Friday the 13th series but as I got older I found myself drawn more to supernatural horror films about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena and entities, and while I still like seeing some of those slasher movies it's more the older ones, and not so much the more realistic ones such as Saw and Hostel.
What horror films are you drawn to and what was your first experience with the genre?