UMA'ers under 40.

[horror1o1]

true dat. .

i have no idea what im gonna do usually.. till i do it    LOL

Sounds like you understand my pain.lol!

[missdead13]

Sounds like you understand my pain.lol!

I understand the " sickness " ... hahahaha..

we are all afflicted here.  dont worry

[horror1o1]

I understand the " sickness " ... hahahaha..

we are all afflicted here.  dont worry

lol! Very true.

[Universal_Adam]

I recently turned 29 and I have been a Universal Monsters fan since I was very young.

[robodog]

The vampires in Twilight aren't really vampires at all. They're sparkling fairies that masquerade as vampires in order to make themselves look cooler.

I'm 35. I've loved monsters, robots, aliens and creatures since I was a kid. I haven't really seen many of the Universal horror films since they don't seem to air them all that often, but I loved the few I have seen. Despite growing up in the era of the slasher flick I much prefer things like Creature From The Black Lagoon over Freddy, Jason and Michael. I do watch and enjoy slasher flicks but I'm not really what you'd call a fan of them. I'd buy Universal monsters merchandise ( Especially the Creech, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein ) but I can't see myself buying stuff with Freddy or Jason. They aren't nearly as likeable as the Universal crew.
I didn't start out as a horror fan. I didn't see my first horror flick until I was in my late teens ( Pumpkinhead if you're curious ). The movie that started my love of aliens and monsters wasn't horror at all. It was ET. Before that I didn't think much of aliens, monsters, robots or anything like that. Seeing ET when I was six changed something in me. I fell in love with fantasy creatures then which evolved into a love for special effects ( animatronics, puppetry and costuming mostly. I have no interest in CGI though I realize it's a neccessary evil in some cases ) and monster toys. My Aunt Dodie is also partially to blame. She's the one who showed me the movie Gremlins ( another big influence ) and gifted me with a plush My Pet Monster on the Christmas of 86. Still my favorite toy of all time. I dragged that thing everywhere. He wasn't just a toy, he was a friend. Most of my best childhood memories revolve around that toyline.
I despise horror fans who look down on the Universal monsters just as I despise gamers who look down on the atari 2600. I firmly believe that if you're a fan of anything you need to respect what came before. You have to respect the history of your fandom.  Just because the Universal movies didn't have state of the art special effects doesn't mean they aren't good movies in their own right. Hell in some ways they're better than a lot of modern horror because they didn't have things like fancy CGI effects to hide behind. They had to rely more on story and plot.

[Dr Spankenstein]

I just turned 29.  When I was a kid, I got really big into hard rock and heavy metal, and the next natural progression was horror movies.  I never grow up watching the old Unverisal Monster films.  Instead, my "universal monsters movies" were films like Re-Animator, Dawn of the Dead, Zombies, etc...After I watched all of the classic 70s and 80s splatter flicks, I started to watch the more extreme torture porn type movies and got bored with those really quick.  It was only recently that I decided to go back to the roots and start watching the original horror films, and that's how I became a fan of the Universal Monster films.  It's kind of the same with music; kids grow up listening to bands like Metallica and Slayer and eventually they go back to the roots and discover bands like Sabbath, Zeppelin, the Stones, etc...