And now it's so ubiquitous-it's everywhere. And if you could believe it, at that time, that mask wasn't so prevalent. But again, obsessed with it, trying to find the mask and the costume.
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This was the first horror movie I'd seen in the theater. I remember that night so vividly: that opening scene when the killer starts talking about Michael Myers and Jason. So I went with my cousin and my mom and dad. ” Read more: Even Jason Vorhees knows how important facemasks are in new PSA
When I heard that, I was like, “Get me to the theater tonight. I was with my cousin and my parents, and there was a buzz going around on the beach during the day that this movie Scream came out, and someone said it was scarier than Halloween. Immediately, it reminded me of all these movies that I was watching on VHS at the time. But in a fun way.Īnd then in the late winter of 1996, I became aware that this movie called Scream was coming out. You know, watching it late at night on a vacation-just like really good memories of being scared. Every night, we'd go to Blockbuster, and we would rent to a new Friday The 13th or a new Halloween or a new Nightmare On Elm Street, and that started to solidify my love for the genre even more. It became a ritual for my cousin and I when we would go to Florida for winter break. So what was the next step? What were the next movies that you were watching after Halloween ? That makes logical sense in the mind of a kid, for sure. If I was Michael Myers, then you couldn't get me, maybe. I think that was maybe subconsciously a coping mechanism. Even before Halloween, like a few days before. I started to dress like him every Halloween, walking around the neighborhood. My mom would take me to all these different costume stores to find the right mask. I would obsess over getting the costume the right Michael Myers mask. And it definitely scared me to the sense where I would be sleeping at night, and I would call out for my mom and dad to come check on me because I thought Michael Myers was in my closet or something. And I became obsessed with the boogeyman. That faceless white mask, sort of the simplicity of that film and just not really knowing what is this entity that's following around Laurie Strode and these other high school girls. I was probably 7 or 8 years old, and it really disturbed me. Was that the one that really landed for you? Were you hooked? You said your first exposure to horror was John Carpenter's Halloween, which, my God, what a great first entry into the horror-movie genre. And that definitely reflects in everything that I do with the band. So my taste now is really a strong combination of horror and comedy. It's funny: I'm pretty loyal to all those movies that I used to love back in the day. My tastes have obviously expanded over the years. But at that time period when I was getting into horror, I was probably really into comedies like Police Academy and those kind of movies that were a little bit silly, like slapstick stuff. I've always been a fan of just film in general. I don't really have too much memory of the stuff that I like pre-horror. What kind of shows or movies were you watching before you got interested in horror? For whatever reason, I was like, “I've got to see this.” After a little bit of convincing, my mom rented it for me. And the blade sort of morphed into the other parts of the pumpkin. There's something about the simplicity of just the black cover of the pumpkin with the butcher knife through it. I always ended up in the section that said “Horror.” The cover art that drew me in the most, at least at first, was John Carpenter's Halloween.
And to kill time while she was shopping, I would always go and peruse the different aisles of the video store. It was actually one that was attached to a grocery store. I had been going to a video store with my mom for years. Read more: 10 horror movies so scary, people thought they were real Do you remember the first time you saw a horror movie?
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