What was the most violent movie you watched as a kid?

We had no restrictions growing up. As long as my son can handle it (no nightmares, no being afraid of the dark), he'll have no restrictions either. I saw Aliens in the theater when I was 7. We would find the most fucked up covers in the horror movie section of the video store and have our parents rent them for us. That's how I saw Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 for the first time.
 
RoboCop. It just released on VHS rental, and my parents wouldn't let me see it. I watched it at a classmates house, whose dad had rented it.
 
Glad to see Robocop is a first for a few people. I remember being 5 at a mates; the scene where Murphy gets blown to bits is pretty eye opening.
 
Aquavelvaman said:
I was super young when I saw Robocop. It was wildly more violent than anything I had seen in my life.
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Same. Was Robocop in theaters when I was 5.

The funny thing is that the violence didn't impact me then. It was on rewatch as an adult that I realized how violent the movie was.
 
True Lies was my first r rated film I saw in theaters. My buddy conned his Turkish dad who didn't speak very good English into taking us while I was spending the night.

That was pretty violent and fun.
 
Total Recall or Predator. The next two would be Starship Troopers and Robocop, but I didn't see those till I was about 10.

Paul Verhoven movies are a rite of passage apparently.
 
Tough to remember, but there weren't a whole lot of movies my parents didn't let me watch. We didn't go to the theaters a whole lot, but maybe once every few months. Most of what I watched was when we rented VHS tapes. Nightmare on Elm St., Friday the 13th, whatever, I watched it.

Not a violent movie, but I do vaguely remember throwing a fit when I found out my dad had taken my older brother and sister out to see Top Gun in the theater and didn't take me. (I was either 4 or 5, depending on exactly when during that spring/summer they went to see it.)
 
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In theaters.

I was five.

But most R-rated horror and action movies from the 80s and 90s really.
 
My mom left my my dad in charge of my 6 year old brother's birthday party to go get the cake. When she came back 20 minutes later all of the kids were lined up on the couch with my dad watching the scene in Mad Max where Max is telling the guy that it is quicker to hacksaw his own hand off than to cut through the handcuffs. My dad truly didn't give a fuck. I saw so many violent, fucked up movies when I was little. Oddly, the movie that disturbed me the most was Jim Henson's the Dark Crystal. I was plagued with nightmares all through my childhood where I would be at the deathbed of the Emperor and would have to fight the other Skeksis hand to hand.
 
I think it was The Howling. My uncles used to watch and swap the banned video nasties of the day around the family, to me they seemed spookier, nastier and scarier in awful cam quality. I'd watch them regardless whether I was allowed to or not.
 
Cannibal holocaust

Saw other movies as well like robocop and such but this one was a found footage movie so it was more real.
 
The one that really comes to mind is Romero's Dawn of the Dead when I was eleven or so. Even though I had already seen many 'hard' R action and horror flicks well before that time, DotD was probably the most shockingly violent movie to me for a long time, and especially at that time in '84 or so. Those first scenes of the apartment building are stll some intense shit to me.
 
This thread is reminding me how fucked up the 80's were and what the hell were our parents doing letting us watch these things
 
Friday the 13th series. When I was about 8, I was a big horror fan. I would sneak watch slasher films without my parents knowing.
 
Apathy said:
This thread is reminding me how fucked up the 80's were and what the hell were our parents doing letting us watch these things
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My mother was into that stuff and because theater moviegoing was really inexpensive in the '70s and '80s, it was an easy thing to take your children to if you weren't one of those uptight 'moral majority' types. Home video and cable was certainly magical for sex and violence back then. I do recall the 'underground' daring of watching the Faces of Death videos...haha. Silly shit, for sure.
 
robocop

I actually saw in theaters with my dad. I was like 5 years old.

Fucking loved it.

Funnily enough, the scene in Robocop 2 where they take him apart disturbed the fuck out of me (probably because it seemed more like slow torture and he's conscious throughout it all), while the scene where he's riddled with bullets and has his hand blown off in Robocop 1 didn't bother me at all.
 
anotherVegan said:
Robocop. A friend of mine had some of the toys. Looking back, I wouldn't want to watch it now, and never show my kids ever.
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The original robocop is actually pretty awesome and has some great themes in it, and the trimmings are pretty funny social commentary. Plus the premise is pretty dark - they basically enslave the guy.

The sequels are pretty much mindless action flicks, and the reboot is absolute fucking garbage
 
Krejlooc said:
lmfao, this is an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

"Dammit, he should have just left the bronx!"
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Not to be a nitpicky know-it-all, but I'm pretty sure Escape 2000 is actually the sequel to Bronx Warriors. I forced myself to watch the original once. It's actually worse. Still, you can never get enough Trash.
 
Gonna echo Starship troopers cause that one i was old enough to remember the violence and the fact that it was kinda inappropiate for my age (tho i watched it on the cinema with my old man who is a sci-fi nut), i know i had seen robocop before but was too young to remember it.

Lautaro said:
Robocop 1 and 2, Total Recall, you know, the classics.
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Oh man i remember when i saw Total Recall as a kid with my somewhat very religious aunt (but at the same time kind of chill, she was weird in that regard) and when the 3 boobed chick showed up and was gonna remove her top she was like "cover your eyes little one" and then she started laughing incredibly hard and went "never mind! quick, you gotta see this!" she thought her having 3 boobs was hilarious, and so did i.

Fond memories.
 
First violent movie that left an impact was Spl...Platoon
The scene when they raided a village was forever carved in my mind. I was under 10 when I first saw the movie.

Robocop was violent but in a non-realistic and entertaining way. But Platoon's realistic circumstances violence was very tense.
 
I'm not even sure. A lot of movies that were PG-13 back when I was a kid would be hard R's now. And I saw so many (parents typically weren't worked up about violent media like they were in the early 2000's).

I guess it's Robocop, Diehard, or the Conan movies. They were all pretty excessive in violence and the portrayal of violent acts, and I was age six - eight when I saw them (can't recall exact age).
 
Krejlooc said:
robocop

I actually saw in theaters with my dad. I was like 5 years old.

Fucking loved it.

Funnily enough, the scene in Robocop 2 where they take him apart disturbed the fuck out of me (probably because it seemed more like slow torture and he's conscious throughout it all), while the scene where he's riddled with bullets and has his hand blown off in Robocop 1 didn't bother me at all.
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Have you seen the remake? There is a brief scene in there dealing which his anatomy that was legitimately difficult for me to watch.
 
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