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

Kater said:
Oh, forgot to mention Princess Mononoke.

Watership Down, The Last Unicorn and Princess Mononoke are all fantastic films, they really challenge a young mind. I loved that. And they didn't shy away from showing you violent acts, which was nice. I felt like I was not treated like a child by these films but like any adult person.



Haha oh wow.

Sorry, didn't look at the dates before posting. :s
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How do you manage to end up in a year-old thread?
 
We essentially watched whatever we wanted, like Robocop and revenge films but also a whole lot of 80's/90's horror films. (Cronenberg, for example)
 
I was like 6/7 when I saw bits of class of 1984.
In the movie a teacher (Perry king of Riptide fame) has to fight punk students trying to kill him for reasons.

Just search for the movie on YouTube (full movie is there in several versions). The scene around 1h22' was stuck in my head for years.
 
It was Nightmare on Elm Street, I think... my Grandparents bought the stock of a video store that was shutting down (but they didn't buy the games ;( could have had Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, and EarthBound,judging by the plastic cases they had), and with that came the original Nightmare on Elm Street films, which I watched and enjoyed. I wanna say I was in my preteens. Another movie was Braindead (Dead Alive), which I saw a little bit later because of my sister. Before that, my sister brought me to Forrest Gump when I was seven, which I was enamored in. It was not a terribly violent movie, but it did have the war scene and there were scenes of individual violence, like Jenny's current beau smacking her.
 
Back in 1987, Robocop was some real shit. They don't make 'R' rated movies like that anymore.

edit:year old thread whoops
 
Dawn of the Dead (1976 ver) on Halloween at a midnight showing. I was 10 my brother took me. Blew me away!
 
Either toxic avenger or nightmare on elm street.

I specifically remember the scene in toxic avenger where they run that kid over on his bike, and he doesn't die and then they back up on him.

Elm street became literall nightmare fuel for me. I was like 5 and someone would write stuff on my mirror like I'm gonna get you!

I'd wake up and try to read it slowly cause I was like 5, and after 10 mins of trying to read it I'd finally figure out what it said and it would scare the shit outta me.

Shit was scary still don't know who it was.
 
Robocop: Murphy's brutal death!

Alien: Rape-like scene with excruciating scream!

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: human-puppet walking and drug up finger syringes!

Exorcist: everything......Dayum!
 
Texas chainsaw massacre.
My dad was right should not have watched it.... Had nightmares.

Another good one The Ring i was scared of video tapes and TV's for a long while.

The most violent one would be Rambo i guess but that was not scary at all.
 
DeSo said:
I remember seeing this movie about some futuristic prison where they implanted explosives or something in their gut and if they tried to escape their stomach explodes. Wish I knew what that film was called, was pretty fucked up.
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Probably "Fortress", starring Christopher Lambert. It's rubbish, but entertaining (unlike "Fortress 2", which is just rubbish).

I didn't see much adult material until I was past the relevant age certificate level, but I do remember the public information film "Apaches" being played in primary school; it's effectively a short and nasty slasher based around kids having fatal accidents on a farm, directed by John Mackenzie (who three years later would make "The Long Good Friday"). It had a bit of an effect.
 
Define kid.

Child's play when 7

Terminator 2 when 11

Predator when 9 or 10

Scarface when 15

Also watched war movies and stuff.
 
There was some vhs tape with real life accidents and gore. I was scared to walk down steps after that. The thing is, it was at school, some crazy student had it and played it during a class that had a substitute teacher.

I remember the brain of a person being removed from their skull by doctor looking people. It took so much to get it out there. So many ways that it's attached to the skull.

A baby had a accident with a fork and it went through it's eye socket.

A man jumped from the top of a building and the remains was shown in that video.

A body ran over by cars on the highway was put to the side of the road and it was filmed and added to that video.

Worst thing I've ever watched.
 
After we got a vcr when i was 6 (so about 86) i watched a lot of martial arts movies and a fair few horror movies but western action was not high on the list of my priorities.

My choice was at the video store was usually something with either ninjas monks, zombies, and spaceships.

Probably ones that stand out are evil dead, nightmare on elm street, return of the living dead and the Cannon ninja movies on repeat.
 
RoboCop, absolutely.

The ning-ning-ning-ning-NING *BLAM* where Murphy gets his hand shot off is incredibly brutal (the whole scene is really), plus the ED-209 malfunction.
 
For me it was Con Air, I was nine and that was in retrospect, a film that left a lasting deep impact on how I became desensitized to violence.
 
I saw part of Commando as a child because my dad was watching it on HBO or Prism or whatever. It was the opening where the guy gets killed by the garbage men. That scene stuck in my head for years until like 7 or 8 years ago when I rediscovered the movie and saw the scene and was like "Oh, THAT'S where it's from!"
 
Robocop was the scariest shit ever. Also that scene in Fatal Attraction (I think that's the name) where the woman goes with an ice picker to the dude's face really gave me the worst nightmares as a kid.
 
Probably The Shadow. Only movie I recall off the top of my head that featured blood.

So many Robocop kids. I didn't see it until about a year and a half ago.
 
I saw the movie Turkey Shoot when I was in early primary school. It features extreme violence and sadism.

Most of the film is set in a concentration camp. There is one scene where they "play ball" they chain a kid to a plastic sphere full of leaking petrol. They push him around the yard and then they set fire to the petrol and and it crosses the ground to where the kid is chained to the ball and sets him on fire killing him.
 
Arny and Stallone provided a lot of violent entertainment for us "90's kids" whose parents weren't particularly strict about what we watched.

I mean, I said "fuck" for the first time when I was five years old because I watched The Terminator and quoted the line "fuck you, asshole." That's all it was.

And, with movies like RoboCop? At such a young age I was exposed to the sheer brutality of the scene where Murphy gets blown apart by shotguns. It had a lot of visual impact and was quite memorable. But, thankfully it didn't really mess me up. It DID, however, instill a standard of violence in movies that's tough to match these days.

As for Totall Recall, it wasn't the violence that I remember, but the triple titties. Lol.
 
Alien, I suppose. Maybe Predator, or Predator 2.

I saw those around 7 or 8. Honestly, none of them bothered me a bit. I wanted to see them, even, as I had those awesome toys that were out at the time.

Batman (1989) actually scared the hell out of me. Probably my earliest nightmare was of the Joker laughing at me, his face rotting and caving in until purple and green worms slithered out (this was at like age 6).

Now, I almost saw the Thing around that age too, but mom intervened there. Thankfully.

edit: Oh yes, Terminator too.
 
The internet didn't exist in a practical sense when I was a kid, so I was limited to whatever was on cable or available at Blockbuster video. However, my dad never really cared about violence/R-rated films. Robocop, Predator, Aliens, Terminator, etc were all films I saw at some point between 6-10.
 
RaySpencer said:
Candyman when I was like 8... my brother told me it was about a guy who sold candy.


I had to pee with the door open for like 3 months, incase that muthafucka burst through my mirror.

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Movie terrified me too man. I remember starting to watch it with like 6 friends. By the end there were only two of use left watching. We were probably around 10 or so at the time.
 
Like a lot of people here, Robocop. I had a habit as a kid to just "nope" out of things that freaked me out too much rather than continue watching and get nightmares, so my parents pretty much let me watch anything knowing if it got too much for me I'd stop watching it myself. The only movie they tried to shield me from was Saving Private Ryan, apparently because they thought it was too realistic, rather than obviously fictional stuff like Robocop/Elm Street/etc.
 
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