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Hello, Top Horror Movie Clubbers! I’m Curt from Groovy Age of Horror, and Rachel has kindly invited me to talk here about what first interested me in horror. That’s too hard to say, since I literally can’t remember a time when I was not interested in horror. Some of my earliest memories are of watching Groovie Goolies cartoons (that must have been during the 1975 rebroadcast), and I even had the toys.
But since this is a horror movie blog, here’s a memory that’s more on-topic. For the first seven years of my life, my family lived in Johnstown, Ohio. We got the Columbus 
newspaper, and I guess Columbus was big enough even way back then to have so many movie theaters that it took several pages to print all of their advertisements. In our household, these were simply known as the “movie pages” and I was forbidden to look at them almost from the instant I discovered them. The reason? My saucer-eyed interest in the horror movie ads.
I’m sure there were some real hum-dingers that would have been totally inappropriate for a child of my age, especially since that was the early ’70s, but let’s just say my mom snatching them away with a horrified look on her face did nothing to diminish my curiosity about them.
My interest got sparked by TV showings of old horror movies - mostly 1950’s era giant insect stuff. I loved that stuff.
crwm - the giant insect stuff is so naive as apposed to what we watch now :-).
I got into it as a challenge - to see if I could deal with the fear once the movie was off and I was alone..