Me too when I was young. Then, when I was a teenager, there was a show out of Pittsburgh, PA called Chiller Theater with Chilly Billy Cardille that would start showing horror and science fiction movies starting at around 11:30 on Saturday nights. After watching some of these B movies at that age, they did not scare me at all and some were down right funny. Except there was one that was an Italian movie called Black Sunday that I could never watch the whole way through.
My first science fiction movie that I had ever seen was First Man in Space. My mom was pissed because my cousin was babysitting me and only told her that she was taking me to the movies and not what the movie was. I had nightmares for days. Despite the nightmares, that started my love for science fiction movies.