If you watch a horror flick at too young an age, are you scarred for life? It's a good question and one I have some personal insight on.
Here's a question. Should the title say Scarred For Life or should it have been Scared For Life? I know more than a couple people that won't have anything to do with clowns. Perhaps they watched a certain horror flick at too young an age?
My First Horror Film? The Shining!
That old Stephen King masterpiece is the one that got me and I saw it at way too young of an age. I actually didn't watch the whole movie, but only caught bits and pieces as my parents kept shooing me away.
Needless to say, I caught enough to get the jist of the story. Not seeing the whole thing probably made it worse as it allowed my imagination to run wild. It wasn't until years later that I got to celebrate the brilliance of Danny and his snow-laden victory in the maze.
Incidentally, I never had an urge to sleep in my parent's bed after that 1st partial viewing of The Shining.
I Dropped The Doritos With My Eldest Son
It's a case of 20/20 hindsight that tells me allowing my son to watch The Thing at a young age probably wasn't one of my better fatherly decisions.
Devin still talks about it to this day quite a few years later. I remember the night about 9 years back when my wife and I were separated. I had the kids that night and somehow the movie came on.
Ok it was me. I admit, I put it on and wasn't making good life decisions in general at the time. Little Devin talked his way through the entire movie, asking questions every 10 - 20 seconds.
I honestly don't know how we made it through the entire film. We did and Devin now loves horror films and stories. So does his younger brother Logan.
Whether the kids were scarred by the movies is unlikely in my opinion. Things changed dramatically in my life and marriage shortly after that time. The kids have had a safe and nurturing environment to grow up in, which I think, makes all the difference.
Now We Can't Pass Up A Quality Horror Film
Our family definitely loves a good scary movie. It's funny with my wife though. She can't stand too much gore. Violence in itself doesn't always bother her but if it's especially gruesome she can't watch it.
She does the shining.
It's not surprising, really, coming from a woman who can't stand eating cooked fish but loves sushi. ???
It's all those little quirks that make us all unique I suppose.
Put on Annabelle, The Conjuring, or a movie like The Nun and my wife is fully entranced. It's that psychological mind twisting horror she enjoys, and I do too.
How Old Were You? What Horror Flick Was It?
Much thanks to @gooddream who inspired the idea for this post. He reminded me of the movie Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid in one of his recent publications. A movie, he said, scared the @#$& out of him when he was young.
So what scary flick scarred you for life? Let me hear about it in the comments.....
If you are brave enough to answer, mwuhahaha!!
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I watched the original version of Steven King's IT back when I was about 12, and the scene where the photo album oozes blood was goddamn terrifying for me at that time!
It's hard for me to believe I never saw the original It but I don't remember any of the movie. I did watch the remake and I really had trouble watching the first scene. Maybe cause I knew what was coming?
Idk but Stephen King scares the crap out of all of us I think. He knows how to find our deepest fears somehow.
He's a weird creepy dude and it is fantastic haha. No worries on the late reply, it's all good!
Sorry for the lag too. I didn't see your comment until just now. 😁
lol, we were just talking about this and I like to think that our convo might have been some of the inspiration for you writing this. My first horror movie wasn't a horror movie at all but it certainly had some scary elements to them. It was The Dark Crystal and I was probably around 5 or 6 years old. I don't remember exactly. Later at a too young age I saw bits and pieces of Nightmare on Elm Street and at night I really regretted that decision.
What about the prophecy? I loved this scene. Who did her voice?
And Elm Street. Elm is the main street (as it probably is in many cities) running through Carlsbad where I grew up. That didn't help matters after watching Freddy do his work. 🤣
And yes, I couldn't think of what to write after I got home from work, until I thought of our conversation. 👍
It is true not seeing the movie till end actually make things worse.
For me it wasn't a horror movie but rather a silly Indian show Alif Laila (American horror stories kinda stuff) and I think I was 9. The worst part it was on TV at night.
I couldn't sleep for day or two.
Haha and now when I look back and see it was just bad sound effects and makeup.
Peace
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That's a funny part of it you bring up. None of these movies are that scary for me anymore. Watching a WWII documentary is the kind of stuff that scares me more these days. Or thinking that certain political stances in our country could become law. That's the stuff that scares me now. Of course, having kids feeds those flames of fear. I wonder how the world will be when it's their turn to be adults. Thanks for stopping by. 👍
Hahah this is a good one. I think I was like 9 or 10 and the horror movie was called Puppet Master. It was about puppets that come alive and kill people. The one that scared me the most was called tunneler I think. Brings back memories! I had to sleep in my parents bed with my dad who snores like a damn Mack truck lol
Haha a Mack? That's funny. I remember The Puppet Master. You could probably find it on Tubi. 👍👍😁
I loved your post, my first horror movie was the exorcist, I was 9 or 10 years old, I panicked for years, my second movie was The Grudge 2004, the horror genre is my favorite, I have seen so many movies that it is difficult to feel fear
Thank you for the kind remark. I know what you mean. It's tough outside of the jump scares for a movie to scare me anymore. I was young as well when I saw the Excorsist and it scared the snot out of me.
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