My mom took me too see alien 3 in the theater when I was 9. I didn't sleep well that night lol. I don't even know why she took me, I didn't even know what it was. She didn't really ever stop me from seeing movies, expect for Interview with a Vampire. She wouldn't let me watch that, and I have no idea why lol.
Movies your parents shouldn't have let you watch
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Well it's really subjective.
I remember there were 2 kids (sons of my parents' friends) that came over once (i was around 12, they were around that age, too) and were absolutely scared shitless by the idea of playing Resident Evil 3 (as i was suggesting games to play to pass time).
And i remember at the time being like "what the shit?".. didn't say anything of course, didn't wanna mortify them or anything, but i really couldn't fathom how they could find RE3 seriously scary.
Silent Hill would've gave them an heart attack, most likely.
My condolences.
Both the pigs part and No-Face in general
CadetMahoney
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Isn't it illegal for parents to try and get their child to watch films over the child's age range in the UK and almost every other country?
America doing things better for a few things.
America doing things better for a few things.
abstract alien
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*knock at the door*
"Who's there?"
*from outside the door* It's Debbie!
*opens the door and it's a Klown* Debbie! Debbie!
It was a very long time before I answered another door. Scene messed me up.
? Maybe stuff like porn.
I doubt it's illegal if your parents make you watch Robocop.
Brerlappin
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I couldnt even pick one. My folks let me watch so many horror films or messed up films as a kid it was ridiculous. Probably the worst was 'When the wind blows' at age 5 or 6 i guess. Other notable movies like the shining, the lost boys, the gate, so many horror films at such a young age. Its why pretty much no horror film is capable of scaring me nowadays
CadetMahoney
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I mean taking a child to the cinema.
Post of the year.
Snkfanatic
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My parents had my Brother and I watch that movie that came out in the 80s about a nuke going off belive it was called Day After. It horrified me...
PoweredBySoy
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I'm surprised, and not at the same time, that pretty much everyone's posts are about horror movies.
Not more serious drama stuff like "I saw Sophie's Choice" or Kids or something like that. Though Elephant Man and Eraserhead are definitely good ones.
I remember seeing Full Metal Jacket really young, like 9 or so and that was pretty heavy. But another movie I saw around that same time was Heaven & Earth. Talk about some depressing, super emotional shit for a kid to handle.
Not more serious drama stuff like "I saw Sophie's Choice" or Kids or something like that. Though Elephant Man and Eraserhead are definitely good ones.
I remember seeing Full Metal Jacket really young, like 9 or so and that was pretty heavy. But another movie I saw around that same time was Heaven & Earth. Talk about some depressing, super emotional shit for a kid to handle.
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Rocky Horror. I was eight. Also, very confused.
I first watched that when I was 22 and I was still confused as all fuck.
Then I watched it again and now it's one of my favorite musicals ever.
Anyway, I was very disturbed by movies like Secret Of Nimh and Death Becomes Her. Watched Nimh back when I was 5 or 6. It definitely isn't really a children's movie in my opinion, no matter if it's an animated flick or not.
Death Becomes Her fucked me up on another level.
The scene where
Bruce Willis' character kills Meryl Streep's character by pushing her down the stairs didn't affect me that much. But when after that he gets on the phone and Meryl Streep gets up and stumbles towards Bruce Willis with her head turned 180° I lost my fucking shit.
I was like 9 years old when I saw that. Turned my TV off and tried to sleep but couldn't.
I watched it a few years later and laughed at that scene (because hey, it IS funny) but I didn't know it was supposed to be funny when I was 9. It was just downright creepy. Turning off the TV right before the funnies happened was a very bad idea in hindsight.
Also one time Suburban Commando (that bad flick with Hulk Hogan) was supposed to be shown on TV.
Instead and without any warning they showed a movie (don't remember the title) about some guy who is cheating on his fat wife with someone else and in order to get her out of his life she fucks her until she gets a heart attack or something like that?
It was really, REALLY weird. Never felt so dirty watching anything on TV ever.
Took me and my siblings WAY too long to realise that Hulk Hogan will not appear in this movie.
Mind you that this movie featured much sex (mostly out of camera or covered in blankets, EXCEPT for the "fuck the wife to death scene", which only was out of focus in the background while you could see the other woman in the foreground).
This was shown at 8:15 pm. On Free-TV.
Mexen
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You lie! LOL
Red Mage
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Watership Down.
For those who don't know what it is, it's an animated cartoon about rabbits, death, and nightmares. It's what you'd get if Kubrick wanted to make a film to show how much he hated children. It's based off of a book, and the nutter who wrote it also wrote one (which has a film) about dogs that escape from a research facility and are hunted until they drown in an attempt to avoid capture. To be fair, there's no reason to think it wouldn't be appropriate from children until you started watching it.
For those who don't know what it is, it's an animated cartoon about rabbits, death, and nightmares. It's what you'd get if Kubrick wanted to make a film to show how much he hated children. It's based off of a book, and the nutter who wrote it also wrote one (which has a film) about dogs that escape from a research facility and are hunted until they drown in an attempt to avoid capture. To be fair, there's no reason to think it wouldn't be appropriate from children until you started watching it.
Mexen
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This.
You have a lot of weird stories.
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Death Wish 2. Uncut. Nuff said.
JumpJeff84
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Yeah that's a messed up movie for kids. My brain couldn't handle it.
L4DANathan
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It's kinda funny to me, reading this thread. I had seen pretty much every decent or good horror movie by the time I was 8, and I guess I got so desensitized to it and enjoyed the "thrill" of being scared that I think any negative effects kinda got cancelled out. Killer Clowns from Outer Space and IT did, however, leave me with a fear of clowns. Not a particularly strong one, but certainly an aversion.
NealMcCauley
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Bunch of early James Cameron stuff. There's a picture in my pre-school yearbook of me dressed as the Terminator. There were also the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard movies. Horror was a strict no-no unless it was on TV and edited.
GKSilKamina
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Came to thread specifically for this movie. Did not leave disappointed.
Seriously, my parents pretty much took me to every movie since I was "too young to really understand what's going on anyway". It usually went okay because I either got bored and took a nap or just enjoyed all the pretty colors on the screen. Fire in the Sky, though? Stayed awake for the whole thing, and left the theater extremely scared and confused.
Even now just thinking about the movie gives me the creeps.
This one. I love the movie now but jesus fucking christ it scared me back then. Although it didn't make me afraid of clowns, only bloodsucking alien clowns.
80s/early 90s horror movies in particular still have this strange allure for me because the kids next door (who are now my step-siblings) were super into movies that I was almost too scared to watch. But I liked staying up late watching with them and learned to love that kind of movie. Although I didn't get out unscathed - I remember there was one zombie in Return of the Living Dead 3 that was kind of half melted with his head stuck sideways, that fucker gave me nightmares. Then years later when I ran into Bandersnatches in Resident Evil Code Veronica I noticed they looked almost exactly like that zombie and I freaked out a bit.
Anyways, aside from that I watched a lot of violent action movies with my dad, the part where Murphy gets shot to bits in Robocop was the only really awful thing that stuck with me. I loved watching Die Hard and other shit like that with him.
On the subject of 'It', I never watched it as a kid but I read the book. Parents left it lying around, maybe they shouldn't have.
huh? What was wrong with that movie? I loved it as a kid but all I remember about it was cute robots.
huh? What was wrong with that movie? I loved it as a kid but all I remember about it was cute robots.
PfantzyPantz
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Dat invisible groping scene...I can't imagine what was going through the mind of my 11 year old self
Wow, this is one of the first movie memories I have, I was like 6 or something. My dad was watching it while we were on vacation at a hotel, and it was super weird to me.
My mom pretty much only watches horror movies plus her telenovelas, so I grew up with alot of horror. All the Chucky movies up to the girl doll one, and those Puppet Master movies, It, the usual.
My favorites were Pumpkinhead and Jack Frost though.
I also saw the likes of Robocop, Starship Troopers, and Evil Dead as a young'un. Good times.
My mom pretty much let me watch anything barring nudity, and my dad didn't care. So we had lots of family nights watching movies akin to those
I oft had nightmares and was scared of porcelain dolls (who isn't though), but I'm glad I watched em.
My parents must have been pretty laid back. I can't remember many films that they didn't let us watch when we were kids, that would be on berfore 10 o clock anyway. Predator,terminator,halloween,the omen, etc. My mom watched a lot of them with us. Most of my friends were the same. I can't see any reason why these would be damaging films for kids. Theres nothing wrong with being scared shitless at 7 or 8. I thought it was great fun
TrAcEr_x90
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Only child raised by a single mom. She was super strict outside the household but inside I was King. Watched any and every movie I could. Almost bedtime and Hellraiser comes on TV. Shit, I'm staying up and watching this badboy............. Nightmares for a week straight.....
Toreal
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Robocop - The killing of Murphy and the guy melting from the acid bath
Nightmare on Elm street 3 - That puppeteer scene where Freddy uses some guys muscle and nerves as strings to move him around
Chucky- That god damn doll. I used to hate walking paste my sisters room at night, which was full of dolls
Poltergeist - This one is kinda funny because it was more the look of Zelda Rubinstein that freaked me out than the scary parts on the movie
Nightmare on Elm street 3 - That puppeteer scene where Freddy uses some guys muscle and nerves as strings to move him around
Chucky- That god damn doll. I used to hate walking paste my sisters room at night, which was full of dolls
Poltergeist - This one is kinda funny because it was more the look of Zelda Rubinstein that freaked me out than the scary parts on the movie
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So much this.
Holy shit you beautiful man, it's even on youtube.
Here's the scene with the women smoking with their vaginas. Obviously NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MhthuPlw4&t=1h04m25s
Not as crazy as I remember, but that old man as a baby scene is still fucked up.
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Watership Down when I was nine or ten.
It's a cartoon with bunnies and - oh.
It's a cartoon with bunnies and - oh.
My dad used to put movies on, usually horror ones and let me decide if i wanted to watch them or not, usually they'd get to a particular scary part and i'd leg it to bed
Beetlejuice scared me when i was about 5 or 6
I think the film was called warlock which was on when i was about 7 i suppose and there was a scene where the warlock dude chopped off someones finger, that fucked me up a bit.
I saw nightmare on Elmstreet 2 when i was 6 and remember not being too bothered by it.
I remember my dad showing me the part of ed209 in robocop and not being too bothered, and yet skeletons, aliens and other creatures did used to bother me a great deal. It wasn't violence that bothered me, apart from that warlock scene.
Beetlejuice scared me when i was about 5 or 6
I think the film was called warlock which was on when i was about 7 i suppose and there was a scene where the warlock dude chopped off someones finger, that fucked me up a bit.
I saw nightmare on Elmstreet 2 when i was 6 and remember not being too bothered by it.
I remember my dad showing me the part of ed209 in robocop and not being too bothered, and yet skeletons, aliens and other creatures did used to bother me a great deal. It wasn't violence that bothered me, apart from that warlock scene.
Fucking Moomins.
I'd imagine not a lot of people here know it but damn if it isn't the best kids' show there is. And absolutely terrifying at times.
My mom didn't let me watch horror movies or anything. I think the worst was seeing the Bone Collector maybe a few years too soon. Also some movie where a boy is run over by a truck and they tried to revive him somehow. Pet Sematary, according to Google. I actually didn't see the whole movie. I got too scared, covered my eyes and I guess my imagination took over because I still saw some crazy shit. After that I was convinced for years that I can see through my hands with my eyes closed in the right circumstances (i.e. not wanting to see).
Wouldn't have missed it for the world though.
Ok, it's not a movie.
My mom didn't let me watch horror movies or anything. I think the worst was seeing the Bone Collector maybe a few years too soon. Also some movie where a boy is run over by a truck and they tried to revive him somehow. Pet Sematary, according to Google. I actually didn't see the whole movie. I got too scared, covered my eyes and I guess my imagination took over because I still saw some crazy shit. After that I was convinced for years that I can see through my hands with my eyes closed in the right circumstances (i.e. not wanting to see).
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I talked my Mom into renting me "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors," because I thought what I saw of the first was cool. A friend put it on while he went for supper.
I slept in my parents' room for a year, and had nightmares. I was maybe 8 or 9.
I used to get nightmares of E.T. chasing me around our dining room in the pitch black.
I used to watch a lot of rated-R movies as a kid, though. The only ones that I was ever told to turn off or not watch were From Dusk 'Till Dawn (that opening scene killed it for me) and Casino.
My Grandpa used to rent me anything I wanted, and my Mom would sometimes too.
I slept in my parents' room for a year, and had nightmares. I was maybe 8 or 9.
I used to get nightmares of E.T. chasing me around our dining room in the pitch black.
I used to watch a lot of rated-R movies as a kid, though. The only ones that I was ever told to turn off or not watch were From Dusk 'Till Dawn (that opening scene killed it for me) and Casino.
My Grandpa used to rent me anything I wanted, and my Mom would sometimes too.
I saw Robocop 1 and 2, Die Hard, Aliens, Childs Play, and I think Arachnophobia all at pretty young ages. Honestly, Arachnophobia is the only one that's had a lasting impact on me. I was too young to understand half of what's going on in the other movies (more mature things), and with the violence I had a generally good perception of "this shit isn't real" at a young age.
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My dad let me and my brother watch Twin Peaks with him when it was first aired. We were pretty young and had no idea what was going on, but we liked the visuals and some of the characters were funny. I decided to watch it years later just to find out what it was really about. I was still just as perplexed as I was back then.
We also watched Robocop, Predator and Nightmare on Elm Street as very young kids. I dont know why my parents thought it was a good idea.
When I was still with my ex, we went to her sisters house who had a 7 year old at the time. After a while she put her to bed and we started watching House of 1000 Corpses. The kid wouldnt stay in bed and begged to be allowed to stay up. So she let her come in and watch it. She made it all the way to the face wearing scene before running out crying. The mother just said thatll teach her. Yeah, she wasnt such a good mum.
We also watched Robocop, Predator and Nightmare on Elm Street as very young kids. I dont know why my parents thought it was a good idea.
When I was still with my ex, we went to her sisters house who had a 7 year old at the time. After a while she put her to bed and we started watching House of 1000 Corpses. The kid wouldnt stay in bed and begged to be allowed to stay up. So she let her come in and watch it. She made it all the way to the face wearing scene before running out crying. The mother just said thatll teach her. Yeah, she wasnt such a good mum.
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