I remember also getting some bags of microwave popcorn, and SIX different flavors of sour Bubble Tape gum! (Green apple, blue raspberry, and watermelon flavors, two of each if I recall correctly…) I remember once we brought the DVDs home, I wanted to just jump right into the water to see if I could swim. Obviously, with my curiosity piqued, that was the other DVD that we rented. I even remember owning a copy of the companion magazine before I had even seen the movie.Ĭouldn’t afford a Fangoria subscription, but this’ll do It was being advertised as a major event crossover film, which at the time, was a huge deal since we hadn’t had any shared universe franchises yet. Then all the advertising for it started to dominate the culture for a time. My first notice of it was seeing the poster at the theater.

In the summer of 2003, it was nearly impossible to avoid any sort of marketing for Freddy vs. We grabbed a copy of Underworld, but there was another title that just kept drawing my eye… We went to Blockbuster Video to take advantage of the Rent One, Get One sale. Once I decided that I was fine with horror movies as long as they were only “vampires”, I was obviously interested in the first Underworld movie. Much more horrifying is the fact that he kept the TV on his fucking LAP!Ģ004 ends up being an important year in terms of my development as a horror enthusiast. Same goes for the fact that I never finished watching Jaws the moment that the child gets eaten in the first act. I think the moment that I first said “Nope!” was when baby-faced Johnny Depp got sucked into the bed. I had seen clips of straight-up horror films appear on television, particularly A Nightmare on Elm Street, but I was too freaked out by the images to ever truly finish watching it.

At that point, I had decided that if it was a vampire movie, I was probably going to be fine with horror.īut I still was too afraid to dip my toe in slasher films, until the winter of 2004… Again, I was looking at it more from the perspective of an action movie, with the vampire stuff being secondary. I had seen Predator and Alien, but for some reason, I had always associated those more with sci-fi than flat out horror, although in retrospect, how could I ever think Alien wasn’t horror? But my first hybrid into it was actually watching Blade II. But I still hadn’t made that step into horror…Ī lot of people might’ve made the transition this way as well, but I was slowly segueing into horror more than I realized.

Alien, Predator, The Matrix, Mad Max, Robocop, etc. Once I started watching R-rated films, a whole new door of cinema had opened up to me, and I was being exposed to stuff that I had never thought I would be interested in.

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