Movies your parents shouldn't have let you watch
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My parents let me watch Threads as a kid. I hesitate to watch that even as an adult.
Also Sybil. The enema scene left a permanent negative impression.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Ur lucky I didn't post her real form, its scares the shit out of me when I was 7 and it still does
"Grannnndma" lol witches brings dat nostalgia
Winterfang
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I watched Species way too young.
thesoapster
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When I was nine or so...The Ghost and the Darkness. Fucking nightmares about lions and shit.
...OK never mind I got off easy...
...OK never mind I got off easy...
Yep, same here. Even worse, I owned this
What the hell were they thinking? It went straight to the bottom of the toy box and never came out again.
bobawesome
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Candyman
I'm not sure how it would hold up for me now but it terrified me when I was 9.
I'm not sure how it would hold up for me now but it terrified me when I was 9.
TouchMyBox
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My parents let me see Star Wars and now I'm a nerd because of it.
The Albatross
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I was the youngest of three, six years younger than my older sister, and so I watched basically everything that they watched. I remember watching Unsolved Mysteries when I was like 5 and it basically terrified me... But now I'm not really afraid of anything so maybe that was smart?
Definitely shouldn't have watched the Amittyville Horror movies when I was like 8... Those were pretty fucked up. I was also terrified of Cujo and Pet Cemetary, must have seen them at a similar age. My 12, 13 year old sister was really into horror movies as a teenager and so I'd watch all of them with her. Kujo, however you spell it, made me really sad.
Definitely shouldn't have watched the Amittyville Horror movies when I was like 8... Those were pretty fucked up. I was also terrified of Cujo and Pet Cemetary, must have seen them at a similar age. My 12, 13 year old sister was really into horror movies as a teenager and so I'd watch all of them with her. Kujo, however you spell it, made me really sad.
Winterfang
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Yep, same here. Even worse, I owned this
What the hell were they thinking? It went straight to the bottom of the toy box and never came out again.
Oh God, my sister used to have this hideous doll. It wasn't ugly but you know how little girls are, ruining the hair, scribbling on the face, taking the clothes. I used to have nightmares all the time about her.
bobawesome
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High-five for traumatizing childhood!
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Cobra staring Sylvester Stalone. I was five or six at the time.
Whoomp there it is.
How About No
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Alien and Aliens on VHS when I was four.
I wonder what my reaction to the chestburster scene was...
I wonder what my reaction to the chestburster scene was...
This thread just made me realize that my parents let me watch movies that I would never let my kids watch at that young age:
Terminator, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Gate, Hellraiser, Just One of the Guys, Creepshow, Poltergeist, Die Hard, Meatballs, Porky's, Aliens, and lots more.
I saw tons of murder and boobs, I guess.
Terminator, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Gate, Hellraiser, Just One of the Guys, Creepshow, Poltergeist, Die Hard, Meatballs, Porky's, Aliens, and lots more.
I saw tons of murder and boobs, I guess.
Hah I remember watching this all the time as a kid. Used to air on HBO all the time
Ur lucky I didn't post her real form, its scares the shit out of me when I was 7 and it still does
Rushersauce
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I saw Phantasm 3 when I was 9 and it scared the shit out of me.
UltraGunner
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Robocop ruined me for life.
The Albatross
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This is hilarious and would probably put your parents in prison, today.
MonkeyKing
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Before there was cable, there was "ON TV". At 8pm, the local UHF channel would scramble and if you had the decoder box, you could watch that evenings programming. So it was one evening that I watched a film called Midnight Express.
A couple of hours later, I knew more about drug smuggling and Turkish prisons than any eight year old boy should ever know.....
A couple of hours later, I knew more about drug smuggling and Turkish prisons than any eight year old boy should ever know.....
-tetsuo-
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This is the best thing I have ever read.
Broder Salsa
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I remember going to watch many horror movies and such with my dad as a kid, and him at times having to convince the cinema workers that I could handle it. I could, for the most part, but fucking hell IT was too much for me at the time.
uncredited male
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I kept sneaking out of my bedroom to try and watch that but they wouldn't let me. Seeing it later I think they made the right call.
(I though about posting the spiderhead gif here but I didn't want to freak someone out.)
Big Chungus
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My father once asked me what movie to buy on his way home. I told him what about that Robin Williams film featuring these green blobby things... I couldn't remember the name and told him it sounded like blubber or blobber or something similar.
He came home with a movie called The Blob. I watched it at night with my sisters... That shit DID NOT feature Robin Williams and I was 9 yo
He came home with a movie called The Blob. I watched it at night with my sisters... That shit DID NOT feature Robin Williams and I was 9 yo
Loved the film actually more than Flubber which I saw later
Darren870
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Yep. This so much. I was 4 or 5 when I saw it. My mom says I never watched it, but I remember sitting on the couch with them and peeping through the blanket.
Someone from my dads office bought me a My Buddy Doll. I screamed with horror when I came home with my friend finding it sitting in my room. We popped open the window, took out the screen and threw it out onto the driveway. Then we went downstairs and buried it behind a rock.
My mom told my dad to take it away and toss it. My dad brought it back to his office to either return it or give it back to the person. Not sure why because it was pretty dirty and probably ruined. Anyways, one day I came to visit my dad at work and there it was sitting in his office on the couch. I cried and cried and cried. He didn't get around to getting rid of it and it sat there. I hated that thing. So yea mom...never saw that movie, huh?
Funnily, I was telling this story to my gf the other day. We had just watched The Conjuring and were talking about which movie scared us the most. I said Childs Play simply because of the impact it had on me as a kid. Plus being terrified of that doll. Five minutes later Child Play came on TV. Haha what a strange coincidence!
But yea, my parents were never strict with movies and I would watch everything they did. I think it was just the fact there was a doll that really bothered me, otherwise I would have forgotten about it.
FUCK THIS MOVIE.
I had an irrational fear of terrifyingly creepy aliens taking me in the night for years after watching this as a kid. So many nightmares.
Yep. Nightmares. I remember crying from being so freaked out while watching this with my parents on VHS when I was like 5 or 6. I'd close my eyes and just see her face.
Ur lucky I didn't post her real form, its scares the shit out of me when I was 7 and it still does
Wow, my parents had ON TV and later Select TV. ha. I remember them watching The Exorcist on On with our neighbors, but they made us kids stay upstairs, thank goodness!
Born in '84, I was allowed to watch pretty much anything. One of the first movies I remember seeing in a theater is Total Recall when I was 6. Vaguely remember my mom renting Silence of the Lambs and watching it with her. Use to watch Tales from the Crypt and Poltergeist on cable a lot. Went to the movies with my sister once, she was supposed to take us to see something like The Sandlot but took me to Candyman instead. None of these movies seemed to have an effect on me.
Beerman462
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I was probably like 7 when I saw Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
ZackieChan
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Conan the Barbarian.
But Dat story about the hippie parents tho...
But Dat story about the hippie parents tho...
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