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RoboCop 2 the dismemberment scene or Ninja scroll. I regard both as classics but I'm sure I watched those movies far too early. XD

Edit: oh man RoboCop got almost everyone in this thread. It kinda funny and a weird coincidence.

 

[ratcliffja]

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

Yeah I far that in first or second grade. It was basically marketed to kids.

 

[jetjevons]

You know what? Probably Raiders of the Lost Ark. Or Jaws. Both PG rated movies!! I also remember Fist of the North Star just shocking me as far as "cartoons" go.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Terminator, Aliens, Predator - all of them gave me nightmares.

 

[GunnerZ]

A Serbian Film. 😨😨

 

[Hazelhurst]

This is the one that stands out to me as a kid. Saw it when I was 10 or 11.

I can more appreciate this as an adult. The movie is badass.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Robocop? Hellraiser?

 

[jstripes]

I'm probably the 8th person to say it, but:

Watership Down

My parents probably thought it was a movie about cute bunnies on an adventure.

 

[Berserking Guts]

Dead Alive, Hellraiser, Alien, Predator, Robocop, Terminator. I watched all those movies when I was in the single digits.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

I never saw anything violent until one day I was at my friends house and he put on Night of the Living Dead. Shit fucked me up.

 

[CharminUltra]

Cronenberg's The Fly.

I was 5 or 6.

 

[Indelible]

Robocop and The Fly, the gore effects in both movies were top notch.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Akira, must have been 7 or 8.

 

[Pyccko]

I saw A Clockwork Orange and The Shining both when I was 5. No nightmares, but more the sexual stuff just really weirded me out.

 

[Steamlord]

I have a vague memory of flipping channels and stumbling across Re-Animator's infamous severed head cunnilingus scene. Didn't even know what the hell it was until I watched the whole thing years later.

 

[theignoramus]

Saving Private Ryan the year after it came out. I was 11.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

Robocop 1.

 

[autumnleaf]

Yep, Robocop. Really wish I hadn't seen it (the Murphy death scene....).

 

[Zimbardo]

The Evil Dead.

 

[Bulk_Rate]

Excalibur in the theater at age ten... My mom was awesome. After that, Robocop 1 for sure.

 

[EdwardTeach]

Reservoir dogs when I was 11, don't remember being very shocked by it at that age.

Definitely the scariest film I saw when I was young was jaws. Jaws + various bonds meant I used to be scared of shame in the swimming pool! I am still really scared of sharks.

 

[theignoramus]

Like many North American parents, mine had no issue with me watching films with extreme violence (like the Matrix) it was sexually graphic scenes they had issues with. They would rather I see a mans head blown off than bare breasts.

 

[partyphone]

I saw robocop 2 in theaters when I was 8. I thought it was rad.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Hellraiser or Faces of Death
Kind of fucked up we could rent VHSs like that as kids
Seeing certain scènes from less violent Movies like Xtro and Deliverance left me shocked. My dad thought it would be fun for me to watch those movies

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I saw Dead Alive/Braindead when I was 11-12.

 

[nekkid]

Alien?

Alien.

 

[Do Better]

Robocop, I guess. Nothing really stands out in my memory.

The Fly remake was just gross as fuck. There are scenes in it that I don't want to remember.

 

[commedieu]

Cobra. :/

 

[orioto]

Dance with wolves, fuck that movie

 

[Mahonay]

Predator 2. Easily.

 

[MIMIC]

Child's Play 2

 

[Almighty]

Saving Private Ryan.

My parents tried to shield us from violent movies growing up, but for my dad some war movies were the exception.

 

[hermit7]

Maybe not the most violent, but I remember watching American History X when I was in second grade (8 or so)

Man the curb stomp in that movie is still quite vivid in my mind whenever I think of that movie. I have seen it since and while it is less gruesome than had remembered it still is one of the most memorable movie scenes for me personally.

 

[NekoFever]

Another one for Robocop. I was way into it from the toys and cartoon, and my dad didn't care about violent movies, so I'm sure I'd seen it before I was 10.

Also saw stuff like Predator, Terminator, Nightmare on Elm Street. There was always someone with an older brother or someone who we could steal the VHS from for the duration of a sleepover.

 

[ldcommando]

Robocop
Also die hard

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Probably Robocop as well when I was six. What happened to Murphy didn't bother me so much but post toxic waste Emil haunted my dreams.

 

[Violence Jack]

Dad took me to see Hellraiser in theaters when I was six or seven. Scarred me, but it was a great time.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Parents didn't let me watch anything R-rated unless it was "historical" so mine was Braveheart and Schindler's List. The throat cutting in the former really disturbed me as I recall, was probably around 10 or 11 when I saw that, probably first depiction of extreme violence/gore I'd seen in live action.

Prior to that it was animated fare like Ninja Scroll (that intro with Rock Man blew me away) and Akira. Friend's mom let him watch most anime that wasn't straight up hentai so got to see a lot that way. Gelatinous Tetsuo at the end freaked me the hell out and prob did some damage, especially the part when Kaori gets crushed and that pocket of fat gets filled with her blood. That was a little extreme for me at the time

 

[Aiustis]

I was allowed to watch everything so I watched all the violent movies one could imagine.

Robocop really stood out to me though.

 

[Anteater]

probably Alien, first film I recall watching when I was a kid in the theater

 

[SapientWolf]

We had to watch Holocaust footage in school. You can't unsee that stuff.

 

[zoukka]

I watched them all in secret, Evil Dead, I spit on your grave, Bad Taste, Robocop, Texas chainsaw massacre, Freddie etc, all the classics.

My grandfathers place was near a house where these creepy old brothers used to live. They had a huge collection of movies on betamax tapes and VHS and I went there every time I visited my grandparents to loan some movies, then I watched them alone in the guest cabin on a black & white TV like this:

I was scared shitless watching those movies in the dark, in the middle of the forest alone in the guest cabin, I was 7 when I started to see these movies... probably why I'm so fucked up now

 

[DrunkShogun]

Robocop. I had to start shaving and paying the bill after that film. Think I was 6 and Murphy saying goodbye wasn't a easy ride.

 

[Sesuadra]

Bloodsport I think.

 

[Plasma]

I think it might have been Robocop though I have no idea when I first watched it.

 

[nkarafo]

Another victim of Robocop here.

I wanted to see cool robots and shit.

I got a guy being tortured and mutilated, a guy becoming a bloody bullet sponge by a terrifying robot (i guess it counts as a cool robot), a car hitting a melting guy making him explode and other beautiful scenery.

 

[FStop7]

Robocop!

Sudden Impact and Magnum Force (Dirty Harry)

The Godfather

 

[Syringe]

Came here to write Robocop, seemes I'm not the onlye one though. Still... Robocop!

 

[SoulUnison]

OP nailed it for me.

I was like 10 and I had my hands over my eyes 80% of the film.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

First time I saw The Terminator is scared the hell out of me.