FabSwingers.com forum: The first horror you saw and at what age!

By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

Mine was Evil Dead and I must have been 9yo.

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By *a1970Man
4 weeks ago

East cork

A Dracula black and white

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By *acchus LyaeosMan
4 weeks ago

London

It was some movie about witches but I can't remember what the name was or what happened, mostly because I kept leaving cos I was too scared to watch

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By *hat.coupleCouple
4 weeks ago

Kent

Poltergeist, I was about 9. I was so terrified I didn't sleep for weeks. For years I was terrified whenever the tele would go snowy. Ifkyk!

Mrs x

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By *antricSeeker60Man
4 weeks ago

Durham

Hammer time for me at nine years of age was The Satanic Rites of Dracula with Christopher Lee.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
4 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Cannibal Holocaust I was about 12. Think it got banned

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"A Dracula black and white"

Black and white added to the horror.

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
4 weeks ago

Carlisle usually

I saw It when I was about 5.

I've got over the clown thing after about 30 years. A single balloon still creeps me the fuck out though 💜

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"It was some movie about witches but I can't remember what the name was or what happened, mostly because I kept leaving cos I was too scared to watch "

You should try and find it. Everything is on YouTube.

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By *r Man45Man
4 weeks ago

North West

The elephant man, it was traumatic to say the least. I had a nightmare when i went bed and flew down stairs, dont think my feet touched any stairs on the way down.

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By *carlet SeductionWoman
4 weeks ago

Maidstone

First proper one was the omen when I was about 10 on a dodgy video. Until that point I used to go too my best friends house to watch the hammer horror films but they were quite tame. Nightmare on elm street was the first to scare me properly

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By *awpleasureMan
4 weeks ago

Sutton Coldfield

Tower of Evil with a very young Robin Askeith. I must've been about 8.

After that it was poltergeist and evil dead

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"Hammer time for me at nine years of age was The Satanic Rites of Dracula with Christopher Lee. "

Oh yes Hammer House of Horrors were on the edge. The grainy images and castles definitely gave me shivers.

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"The elephant man, it was traumatic to say the least. I had a nightmare when i went bed and flew down stairs, dont think my feet touched any stairs on the way down. "

That's a very sad film.

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By *peedyGMan
4 weeks ago

Telford

I think it was A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday 13th.... can't remember which way around tbh.

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"First proper one was the omen when I was about 10 on a dodgy video. Until that point I used to go too my best friends house to watch the hammer horror films but they were quite tame. Nightmare on elm street was the first to scare me properly"

I think that has some.of the best horror music.

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"I think it was A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday 13th.... can't remember which way around tbh."

Both blurred into one film.

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"Cannibal Holocaust I was about 12. Think it got banned"

I don't know this one. Will ha e to look it up.

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By *rHotNottsMan
4 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Rosemary's Baby, think I was about 7 , scary.

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

Today's kids will never understand the excitement of a pirate video, the picture quality and and old tube TV.

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By *herry.bombWoman
4 weeks ago

basingstoke

I saw 2001 space odyssey when I was about 10-11 and babysitting. Scared the shit out of me and I’ve been scared of space/AI ever since.

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"Rosemary's Baby, think I was about 7 , scary."

I watched this in my 20s and was drifting in and out of sleep...it was the one film that got to me

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By *ripfillMan
4 weeks ago

Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Havant

Oddly, if my memory serves me correct… it was in the most amazing film starred in and directed by Roman Polanski!

The name of the horror film with a slight comedy twist was called “dance of the vampires”

As a young boy, I do remember hiding behind the sofa for a couple of times!

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By *offysmangoMan
4 weeks ago

Colchester

Texas chainsaw massacre 8 years old

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By *ric-shawnMan
4 weeks ago

By the beach...

Salem's lot, I think I must have been about 6/7. jeez, I wasn't right for a while 🤣

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By *aughtywelsh89Man
4 weeks ago

Pontyclun

The Thing 15

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By *ettaManMan
4 weeks ago

Based in Kerry, work in Cork.

Nightmare on Elm Street, when I was 8 or 9, I think.

It fucked my sleep for a few years

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By *un loving couple 1971Couple
4 weeks ago

doncaster

I spit on your grave . Age 15

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By *inxy777Woman
4 weeks ago

essex

The exorcist, way too young! X

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
4 weeks ago

1313 Mockingbird Lane…

Nosferatu - Was probably only a toddler

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By *hortyscotWoman
4 weeks ago

Glasgow

Don't remember the first, but I saw The Exorcist when I was under 8 or 9.

It was a bit meh. However, around the same age, I saw the original The Hills Have Eyes and I was traumatised

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By *eavenNhellCouple
4 weeks ago

carrbrook stalybridge

carry on screaming aged about 7

Them ! but that's more of a creatures feature aged 7

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By *hickthighs25Woman
4 weeks ago

Stockton

Texas chainsaw i was traumatised still couldnt watch it now 🤣

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By *recticWoman
4 weeks ago

taunton

In the Company of Wolves. Must’ve been about 7 and I thought it was terrifying. You see worse on Nickelodeon now haha

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By *olvesxcoupleCouple
4 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

The Omen. Guessing I was about 12.

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By *ames_liptonMan
4 weeks ago

Darlington

The grudge 🤮 makes me sick just saying it

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By *rightonsteveMan
4 weeks ago

Brighton - even Hove!

It was a film where these 2 couples were chased in a campervan and at the end there was fire all about. The campervan chase was good but I think it was a horror film. Devil worshippers or something. I’ll have to look it up.

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By *aurean_IV25Woman
4 weeks ago

dundee

"Poltergeist, I was about 9. I was so terrified I didn't sleep for weeks. For years I was terrified whenever the tele would go snowy. Ifkyk!

Mrs x"

Same here!

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By *entish_HeathenMan
4 weeks ago

Chatham

A film called Squirm sometime in the 80s. I had nightmares about it for months afterwards. Big time horror fan now though.

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By *ertcamembertMan
4 weeks ago

Reading area

The Blood Beast Terror when I was about 12

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
4 weeks ago

little house on the praire

"Cannibal Holocaust I was about 12. Think it got banned

I don't know this one. Will ha e to look it up. "
part of it is on youtube

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By *irm40Man
4 weeks ago

Birmingham

7 nightmare on elm street 1 me and my cousin found my uncle and aunts copy waited for them to go to bed and snuck down to watch it

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By *ife NinjaMan
4 weeks ago

Dunfermline

The 1979 general election result 😱🥷🤓

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By *eardedguy83Man
4 weeks ago

Worcestershire

Probably the Hammer horror films in the late 60’s

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By *zeroMan
4 weeks ago

Glasgow

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By *zeroMan
4 weeks ago

Glasgow

A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was around 7. My dad had left the video tape in and it freaked me out when I first watched it.

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By *exyScientistsCouple
4 weeks ago

Castlebar

Saw one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films at a sleepover with a group of friends age 13 maybe?

Haven't watched one since 😱

Can't bear horror 😳

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By *exyScientistsCouple
4 weeks ago

Castlebar

Although my wedding video has some pretty scary parts that have me hiding behind a cushion 😬

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By *elly and daveCouple
4 weeks ago

gateshead

"Salem's lot, I think I must have been about 6/7. jeez, I wasn't right for a while 🤣"

My brother and I ran upstairs and jumped into bed,to hide under the covers.

Then my dad came upstairs and started scratching on the door,like Danny Gluck did on the window in it.

We knew who it was,but it still frightened us half to death...lol

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By *veragecouple2000Couple
4 weeks ago

South Wales

I’m not sure but the first one I remember scaring me is Salems Lot when I was way too young to watch it! 😄

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By *es not the MessiahMan
4 weeks ago

3rd rock from the sun

A human arm hanging from a tree branch outside my house ages 12

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By *ooleyMan
4 weeks ago

preston

I watched "The Thing" & "Salem's Lot" one afternoon. A double bill in front of the telly with my mate. Terrified me.

E.T. also gave me nightmares for years for some reason. Not horror, I guess but something very spooky about E.T. - is it old, is it young?

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By *ooleyMan
4 weeks ago

preston

I must have been about 11 or 12. Far too young.

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By *_D1998Man
4 weeks ago

tamworth

Seed of chucky and I was of the age you shouldn't watch it

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By *rSuave88Man
4 weeks ago

Mirfield

It's been mentioned already but the original IT is the one that caused me multiple nightmares as a child. Can't remember if it was the first horror I saw but it is the one that has left a lasting impression 🎈

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By *he OpalsnakeMan
4 weeks ago

Thirsk

Had a babysitter that would watch 80s slashers like Halloween and nightmare on elm St from about 6 years old. They never really bothered me. However in the early 90s there was a TV adaptation of Tommyknockers and that gave me a pretty irrational fear of porcelain dolls for years!!

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
4 weeks ago

Norwich

Does Jaws count?

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By *ikolai97Man
4 weeks ago

Stockport

Proper was the original Japanese Ringu and I was like 9, had nightmares for years

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By *ariaxxxxWoman
4 weeks ago

London

I was around 10 I think & I don't know the name of it but there was a hand crawling up the outside of a building & it totally freaked me out 😱😱😱😱🤭

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By *hePervertedPlumberMan
4 weeks ago

Edinburgh

The exorcist. I was about 9 or 10. Laughed at bits while watching it like when she crab crawls down the stairs or when she pishes the carpet. Thought it didn't bother me until it was bed time and I had to switch the light off. Never slept for a fortnight

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By *awtybikerMan
4 weeks ago

Barnoldswick

Does Jaws count? Think it was the first film my parents let me stay up later to watch.

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By *olyGlamorousWoman
4 weeks ago

Altrincham

The two faces of evil at 11 and it still haunts me now!

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By *ch16Man
4 weeks ago

West hull

Can't remember what it was called but it scared the shit out of me around the age of 10

All I remember of it was about 2 sisters, one sane the other..well not lol, she kept on killing her sisters friends/work mates and at the end she sat all the dead bodies around a table as she lured her sister into the house...also there was a scene where a doberman ripped the throat out of one poor dear....gave me nightmares for months lol

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By *ooleyMan
4 weeks ago

preston

HELL yes. That head bobbing out from under the boat. I always know it's coming, but can never quite remember when. Gets me every time.

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By *ools1964Man
4 weeks ago

Swadlincote

Fist I recall is the creature from the black lagoon, not sure about my age but I'd say 10ish

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By *ister_EMan
4 weeks ago

Hayling Island

Jaws when I was about 5 or 6

Took me many years to master my fear of swimming at night!

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bristol

Hmmm jeez tough one...

Not quite a horror film, but The Witches 1990 scared the absolute shit out of me.

I would've been around 6/7

Was terrified of old ladies for years afterwards 🤣

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"The two faces of evil at 11 and it still haunts me now! "

Now this was nasty!

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By *aramel.desires OP Man
4 weeks ago

Laleham

"Does Jaws count? Think it was the first film my parents let me stay up later to watch. "

Absolutely.

The music is amazing on a decent system.

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