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[Loxley]

Robocop, when I was about eight years old. Rented it at the video store without any clue as to what it was about aside from a robot cop. Either my dad was completely oblivious to what it was or thought I was old enough for it. I think I managed to muscle my way through it, but man the over-the-top violence disturbed the shit out of me. Murphy's execution, the guy getting shot in the dick, the other dude being turned into swiss cheese by ED-209, and the henchman at the end being melted by that toxic waste or whatever.

I didn't actually sit down and watch the movie again until I was maybe 21, at which point I fully appreciated it for what it was and found the whole thing to be hilarious. That first time through though...yeesh.

*edit - Ha, I see I'm far from the only one. You probably could have set up a support group for kids who were traumatized by Robocop.

 

[May16]

I know I saw Robocop, but I don't remember anything about it. So I guess that's technically my answer? Or maybe Rambo. Whichever one I saw first.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

My parents specifically forbade me from watching R-rated movies as a kid. I saw Robocop for the first time back in April. I didn't see the Terminator movies or The Matrix until a few years ago.

I will have to go with another movie mentioned in this thread: Saving Private Ryan, which was waived because it was World War II.

 

[Daingurse]

As a really young kid, probably either John Carpenter's The Thing or Robocop.

 

[Schrade]

Scarface. Snuck into the theater from another movie we paid for. (We were early teens)

I came out of that movie with my legs shaking.

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Robocop is the correct answer.

That movie came out over 15 years before I was born and I only just recently saw it, in college. Those old 80s movies have really got those leaded gasoline levels of violence, that's for sure!

 

[FStop7]

Robocop. The scene where they killed Murphy was BRUTAL. Really messed with me as a 10 year old.

 

[Dicer]

Robocop...

 

[RustyNails]

I know I saw Robocop, but I don't remember anything about it. So I guess that's technically my answer? Or maybe Rambo. Whichever one I saw first.

Ha, Rambo: First Blood wasn't violent at all, despite the popular meme.

 

[888]

Robocop when I was about 5. Had all the toys and everything. My grandmother didn't care what I watched when I was with her.

 

[alfredofroylan]

Robocop, First Blood, Scarface, almost every single Charles Bronson movie and this beauty:

 

[GamerJM]

Probably Spider-Man 2 or something. I wasn't usually allowed to watch PG-13 movies until I was actually like 13, and I wasn't allowed to watch R-rated movies until I was around 17.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

While generally just as violent as your average summer blockbuster, that one scene in Demolition Man where Simon Phoenix is holding the eyeball up impaled on the pen is probably the most gruesome scene I saw as a kid.

Starship Troopers is certainly "violent" but almost in a comical way

 

[ShironRedshift]

No clue. Even as a kid, I was always the odd kid out who had no interest in violent movies so I can't recall if I ever actually did watch anything particularly violent when I was a kid. Don't know why--they just had no appeal to me and horror/violence/gore all just don't do anything for me even now. Nothing against them; just not my thing.

 

[ZeroCDR]

Dawn of the Dead (1978), I was about 6 or 7 at the time, not sure why my dad thought it would be suitable to rent for the family to watch, he had even seen it before!

Anyway I ended up loving it, but the gore gave me nightmares for months. After that, I ended up buying my own VHS copy and after many repeated viewings, it became my favorite movie.

 

[Mighty Chin]

Texas Chainsaw or Evil Dead

 

[jerry1594]

Probably saving private ryan or starship troopers. I vaguely remember seeing some of robocop but I don't think my mom let me watch it. Full metal jacket has its moments but there's only like three or so super graphic parts.

 

[Tcab96]

Blade.

 

[fritolay]

pulp fiction

 

[kamakazi5]

Probably Nightmare on Elm Street or Starship Troopers. Freddy still freaks me out but Starship Troopers was awesome, I keep meaning to re-watch it on Netflix.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Dead Alive (Braindead) in like 6th grade if that counts. I don't know if I'd call it violent though. It's just a splatter gorefest. I thought it was funny more than violent.

 

[davepoobond]

probably Total Recall

 

[jerry1594]

I think most disgusting movie I saw was The Fly. My parents were pretty strict about me seeing or hearing violent anything but my dad was a ok with putting that on.

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

The first R-rated movie I saw was Boyz N the Hood when I was maybe 14 or 15.

First graphic murder I'd ever seen in a movie. First naked woman I'd ever seen in a movie. Yes, I had seen porn magazines before then, but this was the first time I'd seen nudity on-screen.

Great film too. Still among my favorites.

 

[Dark Ninja]

Ninja Scroll. Then I watched a bunch of other Anime that came out in the 90's that is just as if not more violent.

 

[dietdracula]

I watched a lot of Terminator 2 as a young child. For some reason my parents were okay with it even though I was like six years old.

 

[Red Mage]

Watership Down.

I had to turn it off because it was too scary for me.

I watched the whole thing, but I was terrified of rabbits as a kid.

 

[JDMC13]

Dad made me watch Silence of the Lambs the day before I started kindergarten. He said it would prepare me for the world. I was terrified to go to school the next day.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Starship Troopers? Whaaaat? Best movie of all time.

Return of the living dead. My neighbor was like "wanna watch a scary movie?" Im like "sure."

Shit fucked me up.

 

[darkwing-buck]

Starship Troopers? Whaaaat? Best movie of all time.

Return of the living dead. My neighbor was like "wanna watch a scary movie?" Im like "sure."

Shit fucked me up.

That was one of the first movies that I saw that had a really depressing ending lol

 

[Dead]

Peter Jackson's Brain Dead (Dead Alive)

I think I was like 10

Probably the goriest movie ever made

 

[……forgetit]

I watched a certain horror movie on my fifth birthday, fucked me up for life and I still can't look at the monster from it. Someone shoved a model of it in my face once and I feinted.

 

[The Main Event]

Robocop, Predator, Commando...

 

[bengraven]

NBK

 

[Dragun619]

Kill Bill

I think I was 4th grade when I saw that shit. That movie shook the shit out of me, with all the blood and gore. lol,

But yea, I enjoyed the movie in the end, haha

Ninja Scroll. Then I watched a bunch of other Anime that came out in the 90's that is just as if not more violent.

Now, around the same time frame, this movie, was just bad. The whole beginning intro, was not my cup of tea at all. I'm not even sure why my dad even borrowed that shit.

I literally told my brother, to lets just go, and play outside, because that shit hit me for some reason.

 

[Daingurse]

Think I saw Starship Troopers when I was 7 or 8 on VHS at home. Watching the co-ed shower scene with my mom, was a really fucking awkward moment hahahaha. Giant bugs ripping people apart tho, no problem.

 

[Gen X]

Earliest violent movie I remember seeing was the original Mad Max. Although the movie came out in 1979 I first saw it in 1982 when I was 10 at a friends place. His parents were having a party and they rented Mad Max to entertain the kids in the back room.

After that it was the original Terminator at the movies when I was 12. The late 80's were all about more violence, more guns, more gore.

 

[boredofcanada]

Robocop by a mile. And me and my grandparents loved it. I can't believe they allowed me to watch it. Not just violent, it also had hookers and blow.

 

[Gr1mLock]

I don't know. All of them?

 

[VARIA]

ROBOCOP. The scene where he gets shot a million times. Nightmare fuel.

Yeah, and that acid drenched thug getting run over was traumatizing.

I still loved the film and would watch it repeatedly, I would just fast forward the disturbing parts. To this day, still one of my favorites.

 

[KAP151]

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Robocop. Definitely.

 

[Strangelove77]

Robocop and Ninja Scroll.

 

[Noaloha]

I watched Scum when I was only 8 or 9 or something stupid and it really stuck with me in a thoroughly unpleasant way.

 

[inm8num2]

Maybe RoboCop. That's the only one that sticks out of the deluge of mostly JCVD and Arnold movies.

 

[RaySpencer]

Candyman when I was like 8... my brother told me it was about a guy who sold candy.


I had to pee with the door open for like 3 months, incase that muthafucka burst through my mirror.

 

[ElTopo]

I was a rabid horror fan since the age of six. So, probably... Peter Jackson's Dead/Alive AKA Braindead when I was 9.

 

[Harken Raiser]

Either Robocop or Starship troopers, but I'm not sure which one I saw first (probably Robocop, because that one fucked me up, while Starship Troopers didn't leave me mentally scarred).

 

[alexandros]

I was super young when I saw Robocop. It was wildly more violent than anything I had seen in my life.

Yup. Murphy's death scene gave me nightmares for quite some time.

 

[Beach]

Nice call on Starship Troopers. I don't know if it was the "first" gory movie I saw but it definitely had left an impact on me as a kid. That brain sucking scene have me nightmares for a while