The very first English horror movie I remember is Evil dead and the absolute hype surrounding it. There were stories of people dying of heart attacks after watching that movie. We borrowed a deck player to watch the movie. I don’t remember much but I remember a girl pulled by the vines and someone’s feet with cracks on the sole. What is your first horror movie that you remember?
I would have been watching a selection of the old Universal flicks from the '30s - Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy etc - on TV from a fairly early age, growing up in the '70. I really don’t know when or exactly what would have been my first though. These would have been joined by some of the Hammer and Amicus productions a little later.
I do recall staying up alone - at an age when staying up alone was just about allowed, but still a novelty for me - to watch what was perhaps the UK TV premier of The Omen (1976) on a crackly black and white set in a dark room and being blown away by it. I became obsessed with the whole biblical Revelations mythos side of it for quite some time after. It certainly had me reading more of the bible than endless Sunday school ever had.