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[RoyaleDuke]

My uncle actually showed me both The Thing and Alien one right after the other when I was 3, mostly because I was incredibly intelligent when I was that age to the point that he treated me more as an adult.

This had multiple good and bad points, he was a fairly unstable individual who had been in and out of mental asylums most of his life but he was a good man.

Anyway, both of those movies pretty much scared the absolute shit out of me because they reminded me so much of things from my night terrors.

That said, amazing films and they are two of my most favorite films of all time.

 

[TheProdigal]

Basic instinct in the theatre when I was 8 or 9. Covered my eyes during sex scenes but I still peaked.

 

[Kiarushka]

Hellraiser II when I was 2 because my aunt was watching it.

For the longest time I got random flashbacks of a really bloody face with nails being hammered to his head. Then I finally watched it again years later.

 

[Letterbomb]

The Jerk, Steve Martin

 

[DonasaurusRex]

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

....ill never find the perfect .gif to explain my reaction to reading this lol

 

[Sectorseven]

....ill never find the perfect .gif to explain my reaction to reading this lol

 

[FairyD]

Predator. Scared the shit out of 6 year old me.

 

[Afro]

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

this is a legendary post.

 

[Mohonky]

Wtf, the pan flutes part totally cracked me up. Sorry about that.

Pan flutes got me too. Wtf?

Literally laughing out on my backyard porch.

 

[Magnet_Man]

Turtles 3 and Felix the Cat.

 

[How About No]

Basic instinct in the theatre when I was 8 or 9. Covered my eyes during sex scenes but I still peaked.

/notsureiftypo]

 

[Mohonky]

Turtles 3 and Felix the Cat.

Felix the Cat? You dont mean Fritz the Cat?

 

[milquetoast]

No that wasn't it. The movie I saw didn't have a story, was like a very perverted documentary and full on X rated.

Shocking Asia 1 or 2, can't remember.

they were always in the horror section along with those Faces Of Death movies and Mondo Africa

 

[frontovik]

I forget the exact age, but I was between 7 and 12 when I saw the following films:

First that comes to mind: Alien (the facehugger and chestburster scene gave me nightmares)
Aliens
Predator and Predator 2
Starship Troopers (mobile infantry getting torn up by Bugs)
Saving Private Ryan (Mellish's death)
Child's Play
Species (the pool scene)
The Fly (the arm wrestling scene)
The Mummy (Imhotep's forced burial)

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

They were showing Robocop on TV and then the Operation scene came, I hid under my blanket shivering.

 

[uniform]

A babysitter older than my parent let a group of us kids watch Friday the 13th pt 4 on VHS. I was definitely nervous about the summer camp I had to go to later that year. What surprised me is how many other kids had seen the movies.

 

[Crayolan]

Exorcist 1 & 2 scared the shit out of me when I was like 7 or 8.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

I'm pretty sure i saw all the movies once i hit 5 years old in terms of violence.

Terminator
The robocops
Basically all the governator movies lol
Aliens
Nightmare on elm street
IT

Etc etc etc

They would make me leave because of a sexy scene though haha

 

[jbug617]

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

 

[Otakumegane]

Princess mononoke when I was 9.

Scared the living crap outta me. Love it now though.

 

[MonkeyKing]

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!

....and after Select, there was Z channel

Yes as a kid I watched The Exorcist via ON TV. At the time I thought it was funny, due to the profanity. Watched it again as an adult and was like....WTF?! How did they get away with filming that?

 

[UrbanRats]

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

Tough act to follow.
--
Personally i've seen some pretty crude movies as a kid (like most in my circle, honestly, maybe a little bit more because my parents were more permissive than most) but i regret none of it, infact, some of those movies are still among my favorites and i cherish those experiences.

Profondo Rosso experienced for the first time at, like, 6 or 7 was much better than experienced in my 20s or later, for me.
Then again, i can't make a real objective comparison.

 

[daxy]

The Fly.

Like what the fuck.

 

[smurfx]

Killer Clowns from Outer Space fucked me up as a kid.
It's the dumbest thing ever watching it now, I don't know what I was afraid of.

it was one of my fav movies as a kid.

 

[entremet]

Robocop 1.

Murphy's death scene was brutal and messed me up for years.

 

[Chichikov]

Watership Down - hey it's cute rabbits, what can possibly go wrong.
They probably shouldn't have let my brother sneak me into Alien, but they didn't allowed it per se.

 

[milquetoast]

Watership Down - hey it's cute rabbits, what can possibly go wrong.
They probably shouldn't have let my brother sneak me into Alien, but they didn't allowed it per se.

That reminds me of seeing the Plague Dogs on TV late one night when I was 10. Talk about fucked up.. that opening scene.. that part where they were in the incinerator and that scientist was about to turn it on.. i was way too young to handle these feelings

 

[OuterLimits]

When I was 7 my Dad let me watch Children of the Corn with him. I had nightmares for a couple days. LOL. My parents were complete opposites. My Dad would let me watch anything when my Mom wasn't around. She would pretty much only allow G rated movies when I was a young kid.

 

[bobawesome]

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

This is the second post of yours I've shared with friends in a span of a few weeks. Keep up the quality entertainment.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Exorcist around 5.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Mom let me see The Evil Dead when I was about 9 or 10. Tree rape scene in particular scared the shit out of me.

 

[R-User!]

IT

What's wrong with IT?!

 

[chessnut]

There's Something about Mary when I was 9 or 10 years old. I didn't get that hair gel scene until years later. Glad they did though, laughed my ass off

 

[Aiustis]

Movies I saw in theaters:
Species when I was 6 or 7
American History X when I was 10

Movies at home:
Robocop
The Crying Game
Castle Freak (really scarred me)
Last House on the Left
Texas Chainsaw Massacre


I think those were the worse.

Also used to watch OZ as a kid.

I wasn't really censored. If my older sister was present, we usually weren't allowed to watch scary stuff because she was afraid of everything.

 

[A More Normal Bird]

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.

Pet Cemetery for me too. I think I somehow missed bits of it because I don't remember being very scared traumatised, but I'm pretty sure I was like 5 years old when I watched it.

 

[Messofanego]

WHOOMP THERE IT IS!

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

 

[kess]

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

 

[TAJ]

Creepshow when I was 6.

Ah, we're the same age. I saw that. I also went to a drive-in double-feature of An American Werewolf in London and the remake of Cat People that year. My sister was there too and she was 4. She threw up during the Nazi werewolf scene.
I definitely saw Halloween II in a theater the year before, and some extremely R-rated comedies in the couple years before that.

 

[Harshak]

Aliens when I was around 5. Goddamn facechugger locked in with Ripley and Newt scene, didnt exactly help me sleep the following weeks...

Love that movie to death nowadays.

 

[Transhuman]

Alien when I was 6, and Blair Witch Project when I was 9, and X-files. God, the X-Files theme used to scare the shit out of me. Every night when my mum watched it I'd turn my back away from the window and pull the covers over my head when I slept because I figured if the aliens were watching me through the window maybe they wouldn't see me. It might have worked for all I know.

 

[bebop242]

As a father of a 10 year old boy, I'm glad to see that he hasn't seen any of the movies listed so far. The only movie that scared him was Spirited Away when he was 7 or 8.

For me, my parents didn't let me watch any of that either but I saw nightmare on elm street at a friend's house around age 11 and that scared the crap out of me.

 

[Gorger]

My parents were weird hippies. They filmed my conception- they had calculated when my Mom was most fertile and then had unprotected sex.

I found this out when I was a kid, when I first asked my parents the whole 'where do babies come from' question. They told me how sex worked, and explained that they had filmed it.

I thought that was weird, but didn't think much of it. Then when I turned 15 and started dating, my parents sat me down and had a conversation about sex. They gave me all the usual warnings, but then also told me that I should strive to find someone to 'make love' to. Then they showed me the video....

It was fairly tame actually, standard missionary position and it was kinda grainy being that it was on VHS. No sound either, but my Dad had scored it with some weird fucking pan flutes. Can't say that it's really fucked me up, but I have NO idea why they thought it was a good idea to show it to me.

 

[thesuperfunk]

Watership Down
Arachnophobia
IT

 

[Transhuman]

As a father of a 10 year old boy, I'm glad to see that he hasn't seen any of the movies listed so far. The only movie that scared him was Spirited Away when he was 7 or 8.

For me, my parents didn't let me watch any of that either but I saw nightmare on elm street at a friend's house around age 11 and that scared the crap out of me.

Was it the beginning when the parents turn into pigs or the part where No-Face becomes a monster that scared him? I can see either of those being pretty scary.

 

[Messofanego]

As a father of a 10 year old boy, I'm glad to see that he hasn't seen any of the movies listed so far. The only movie that scared him was Spirited Away when he was 7 or 8.

For me, my parents didn't let me watch any of that either but I saw nightmare on elm street at a friend's house around age 11 and that scared the crap out of me.

My kid cousins with ages at 7-11years wanted us to put on Spirited Away, and they weren't phased by that pig scene. But man, it's quite disconcerting. In a good way, as many fantasy tales can be.

 

[Turnstyle]

My parents let me stay up late and watch Aliens on TV when I was about 10. It terrified me (but I loved it anyway).

I remember going to a kids party when I was about 8. We played pass the parcel, ate jelly and ice cream, and then...one of the parents stuck on a VHS of Troll. What the hell was that about?

 

[pillowtalk]

Those wheelers from Return to Oz. Holy shit.

 

[Nemesis121]

My parents were super strict. My uncle however watched me and my brother one night...
Terminator 2 was on the tv.

.

Same boat, but my dumb ass uncle allowed us to watch the exorcist, when her head made the 360 i wanted to pee myself i was 8 years old lol..

 

[TOM f'N CRUISE]

THIS... fuckin THIS. idk how old i was but i remember i was in elementary school. i was having nightmares for who knows how long..

 

[Darkangel2001]

Thanks to my brother, I watched Jaws when I was 6. It took me several years to finally beeing able to go into swimming pools again. Don't even mention the ocean. Sharks everywhere man...

Edit: 6 year olds watching jaws seems to be a thing.