So I watched a lot of movies as a kid that generally weren't meant for kids. Most of that was on my own or with my uncle. Stuff like Under Siege, Apocalypse Now, Deer Hunter and of course JCVD movies. As well as a lot of others on HBO and the like on my own. Oh and Cinemax, good old Skinemax. But twice my mom rented a movie for me that was wildly inappropriate for my age, both around when I was 11.
The first was a movie called The Butcher Boy.
The local library didn't have covers for their movies, just black cases with black and white title stickers, so she thought it was just some nice Irish film about some little boy who worked in a butcher shop back in the 60s. Yeah not so much. Spoilers abound.
Here I was an 11 years old, home alone sick from school, watching a movie about some poor, horribly mistreated and disturbed young boy. His mom commits suicide, he's molested by a priest, his alcoholic father is abusive and useless and eventually dies, he's leaves his rotting corpse in their flat and talks to him, ohh and there's this mean lady in town who he hates and eventually murders and cuts into pieces and smears her blood all over the walls writing out PIG at which point he's arrested, put into a mental ward and you see him decades later a grown man now barely intelligible as he sees visions of the Virgin Mary. It's actually a pretty good movie all told, but I had a fever and was 11. Just a bit too much to handle at that moment.
Now that was the first time. The second time was a movie I can't for the life of me remember the name of, partly because I never saw the whole thing. This time my mother again rented a movie from the library for myself and one of my best friends. It was again an Irish or English coming of age film about young boys back in the post war years I think. At one point in the film the boys are trying to make some money and ask the local doctor if they can do anything. He tells them to change the coal or something in his furnace in the basement, but to enter from the outside door or window and to not go into his house under any circumstances.
They follow his instructions but while they're there cleaning out the furnace and refilling it with the coal or whatever the doctors wife comes down to the basement and she's looks crazy and in just a night gown. She then proceeds to offer herself up to this group of like 10-12 year old boys who quickly leave. That's not the end though, they forgot something or I don't remember what, but they had to return to the basement and when they enter they find the Doctor's wife hanging from the ceiling, killed herself because these little boys wouldn't have sex with her.
At that point my mother saw what was going on and made me and my friend go play outside and she reviewed the movie and realized it was totally not something we should be watching. I've never been able to find that movie or remember its name.
Years later I watched Mulholland Drive with my parents and older sister and her best friend in high school. That was awkward as fuck.
So GAF what movies did your parents let you watch alone or without supervision that they really shouldn't have?
The first was a movie called The Butcher Boy.
The local library didn't have covers for their movies, just black cases with black and white title stickers, so she thought it was just some nice Irish film about some little boy who worked in a butcher shop back in the 60s. Yeah not so much. Spoilers abound.
Here I was an 11 years old, home alone sick from school, watching a movie about some poor, horribly mistreated and disturbed young boy. His mom commits suicide, he's molested by a priest, his alcoholic father is abusive and useless and eventually dies, he's leaves his rotting corpse in their flat and talks to him, ohh and there's this mean lady in town who he hates and eventually murders and cuts into pieces and smears her blood all over the walls writing out PIG at which point he's arrested, put into a mental ward and you see him decades later a grown man now barely intelligible as he sees visions of the Virgin Mary. It's actually a pretty good movie all told, but I had a fever and was 11. Just a bit too much to handle at that moment.
Now that was the first time. The second time was a movie I can't for the life of me remember the name of, partly because I never saw the whole thing. This time my mother again rented a movie from the library for myself and one of my best friends. It was again an Irish or English coming of age film about young boys back in the post war years I think. At one point in the film the boys are trying to make some money and ask the local doctor if they can do anything. He tells them to change the coal or something in his furnace in the basement, but to enter from the outside door or window and to not go into his house under any circumstances.
They follow his instructions but while they're there cleaning out the furnace and refilling it with the coal or whatever the doctors wife comes down to the basement and she's looks crazy and in just a night gown. She then proceeds to offer herself up to this group of like 10-12 year old boys who quickly leave. That's not the end though, they forgot something or I don't remember what, but they had to return to the basement and when they enter they find the Doctor's wife hanging from the ceiling, killed herself because these little boys wouldn't have sex with her.
At that point my mother saw what was going on and made me and my friend go play outside and she reviewed the movie and realized it was totally not something we should be watching. I've never been able to find that movie or remember its name.
Years later I watched Mulholland Drive with my parents and older sister and her best friend in high school. That was awkward as fuck.
So GAF what movies did your parents let you watch alone or without supervision that they really shouldn't have?
