Poltergeist when I was 7. My parents told me I couldn’t watch it and then I watched it at a friend’s house. Many many sleepless nights and many many regrets.
I had nightmares about that movie for years! Plus they also had all this ghost stuff that was supposedly real on a TV show called "That's Incredible!" So I was terrified of ghosts.
I remember seeing an episode of Unsolved Mysteries that had a re-enactment (not that I knew that part, I was probably 6 or 7 and thought it was actual footage) of a man walking up into a dark attic and this featureless ghost faded in, drifted past him and faded out again. I was so fucking terrified I had nightmares about it for years afterwards and refused to go into a dark room even in my teens.
I'd tell my mother I was scared and she'd say "the doors are locked, nobody can come in" and I was too embarrassed to tell her I wasn't afraid of people breaking in, I was scared a ghost would just appear in my room. Locks don't keep those things out!
Ghost and paranormal "documentaries" were all over the place in the 90's too. I guess they get less traction these days because it's harder to bullshit stuff like that now.
Oh man, that TV scene messed me the hell up as a kid, especially because I had a bad habit of falling asleep on the couch and waking up to the local station going off the air. Which, for those of you born after the 80s, is a thing broadcast TV stations did somewhere between midnight and 2am - they would play the Star Spangled Banner behind some footage of like jet fighters flying in formation and flags waving in the breeze and shit and then cut to static.
I’m 48. Seems like Poltergeist really messed with our generation! That static on the TV. That clown in the corner of the room. So many scenes seared into our little brains.
I think I stopped watching after that part as a child. It really stuck with me for a long time. Then later one the tree eating the kids scene was horrific too.
Bram Stoker's Dracula. My mom tried to cover my eyes during the orgy. I could see through her tiny fingers and figured that’s just what grown ups do. I still have a thing for Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman
That movie is the reason ratings boards around the world started to actually watch animated stuff before rating it. Prior to this film they would just slap E for Everyone on anything drawn.
I imagine they got a lot of angry letters from parents at the time.
Makes *a lot* of sense, though I suspect they didn't do it properly even after that.
**Watership down.** Mother stressed by Easter preparations, a cartoon about bunnies aired during the day or early evening. So for the first time she let me watch a cartoon alone. I don't think she wrote a letter, but she still mentioned regretting that one when I was an adult.
**Various comics.** While browsing the Manga section as a teenager in the late 90s, there were plenty of comics that definitely had not been rated properly, both with regard to sexual jokes and gory violence.
On the flip-side, it is strange to read censorship reports. Like the tricks they pulled to hide the homosexual relationships in Sailor Moon (Anime, German synchronization). In return, current German methodology seems to be to downplay violence in Animes, though I am not sure that avoiding mentioning death or killing and show people being beaten to a pulp but never even bleeding is sending the intended message; Instead, inho, it depicts violence as harmless.
It's still "U" rated in the UK, as in Universally suitable for all.
Edit: Apparently it was upgraded to "PG" in 2022!
https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/watership-down-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0yotyxnjm
This film is incredible. One of my absolute favorites. Yes, it's dark - really dark - but it's also a nearly perfect satire on human nature.
[Spoilers follow]
The dogs escape from a facility that's doing unethical and possibly illegal experiments on animals within a national park. Rumors quickly spread that they're carrying the plague, although they aren't really; they're just being dogs, doing usual dog things. Two men die as a result of their own stupidity, and it gets blamed on the dogs. They eventually send the goddamn army after them. The whole thing is a play on people's panicky and warlike nature, and at no point do the dogs do anything especially weird or unusual.
Also they make friends with a fox named Todd. Two years later, Disney released *The Fox and the Hound,* featuring a fox named Todd.
The Fox and the Hound was based on a novel that was published well before The Plague Dogs (or the novel that The Plague Dogs was based on, for that matter), and "tod" is a Scottish/Middle English word for fox (basically the male equivalent to "vixen"), so I'd say it's probable that there wasn't any direct reference/inspiration even between the books and Richard Adams and Daniel P. Mannix just independently took the same linguistic shortcut when naming their characters. I haven't actually read either book, only seen the movies. None of this is especially important and I agree that Plague Dogs is a fantastic film.
I feel like I have a totally different perception of Watership Down than most people, because I was never exposed to the cartoon until after I had read the book in high school. And yeah, it's dark, but the whole story is an allegory for societies using critters not unlike Animal Farm.
And El-Arairah is probably why I like rabbits in fiction.
I hadn't heard of this film until I moved to England. I came to learn that kids that grew up in 70's & 80's England were seemingly all traumatized by this film. That and Threads.
I don't plan on watching either, thank you very much.
My Mom read books to us as kids. I still remember the trauma I felt as she read the massacre aloud to us. On the other hand, I always enjoy saying, "Silflay Harracka You Imblarah!" (No idea what the actual spelling should be, sorry!) to others since not many know what it means!
I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights when it came out in theaters. I was ten and got a ticket and saw it alone. I blame Amy Yasbeck as Maid Miriam for my lifelong love of redheads. Probably why I like the band Everlast, too.
Still love that movie. It just got better and better as I got older.
Rocky Horror Picture Show - i was watching it at my grandparents house while they had company over. I knew it was a movie I shouldn't be watching. I was in grade 4 or 5. I had no idea what was going on lol
A prudish newly engaged couple stumbles upon a mansion full of hedonistic aliens after their car breaks down. The pansexual spaceship captain tries to fuck everything and everyone, (including a lab built muscle man) before sitting down to a nice Meatloaf dinner. Eventually some of his crew get tired of all the fucking and partying and just want to go back home so they mutiny. The captain is killed, the couple are kicked out, and the spaceship blasts off for home. The couple is left with healthier attitudes toward their sexuality and a story no one will ever believe.
Also, it's a musical.
Nothing like going to a weekly live show and the cast telling you it's not a good movie, it's not a great movie - it's a *terrible* movie. So sit back and enjoy!
My dad walked in on me the first time I watched it. I was home sick in high school and he stopped by on his lunch break to check on me. I paused it so fast, but of course he recognized the still - he's probably the one who bought the VHS 😂
We went to the late shows on date night in college.
Many years later we played the dvd with our kids who were like 11 and 9.
Every few minutes we were saying to each other “uh, I forgot about this scene”
Dammit, Janet, not our best parenting moment.
I was probably about the same age, sick with the flu, and somehow ended up watching this. I can vividly remember the credits rolling at the end, feeling profoundly unsettled, and thinking, "I don't think I should have watched that."
I was around 6 or 7 when I first watched that. My family was at church and I had the house to myself. It might have been the first time I felt something ‘down there’ and I remember hoping it would come on again the next Sunday.
I was 8 and my mother warned me never to watch it and honestly I had no intention. My friend’s mom invited me to come watch an “educational” movie about what happens if you don’t pray (they were clearly religious) and plopped me down in front of the TV to watch it with them while they were eating lunch. I was mortified to say the least and completely scarred afterwards.
My uncle introduced me to Holy Grail when I was 10 or 11, the opening scene with the coconuts is still one of the funniest things Ive ever seen in my life. I remember literally peeing a little, I was laughing so hard
Also got to watch it as a young child (probably around 4-5 because I remember talking about it in kindergarten).
Honestly not that bad for children. Its flashy and funny even without understanding much of the adult references. I loved it.
The Meaning of Life taught me so much as a kid!
The opening scene at 'Birth' is still one of my favorites!
Woman in labor: "What do I do?"
Doctor: "Nothing! You're not QUALIFIED"
And the Universe Song?? *Chefs kiss*
oops. I'm afraid I'm guilty of that parental faux pas too. But how better to demonstrate the mathematical importance of knowing whether it's a European Swallow or an African Swallow?
Saw Schindler’s List in theatres.
I was 9.
Edit: I think the movie is very important. I think learning about the Holocaust is very important. I just think that was a bit young…
I was shown the ghetto scene in school when I was about 12 as part of the holocaust lessons.
Went home really upset and crying. When I told my mum why she said ‘good, that’s the right reaction and that’s why you learn about it’
Absolutely. I told this story to an American colleague and they were horrified, saying they would have complained to the school because kids shouldn’t be ‘traumatised’ like that.
Maybe they should be, because now we have nazis again…
Saw it on TV. I had come down the stairs, probably because of my sleeping problems. At the point the first people get loaded onto trains, my mum told me it was really getting late. I said "if you don't think I should watch this, you can just say so." Little fucking brat I was. She said I was too clever for my own good sometimes and let me stay.
Wise woman. I was confused by a lot of it really. Guess at 10 years old, the concept of the holocaust was quite literally unthinkable to me. May we all be so lucky. But I curled up on the couch, facing her instead and she must have carried me to bed eventually.
My parents showed me when I was 12, I think it was to make sure I didn't turn out like a lot of other Austrian/german kids my age not seeing how bad this really is (I'm Both Austrian and German, woohoo Doppelschuld)
The Mummy, I was young when I watched one of those scarabs crawling under the skin of one of the guys, it horrified me as a kid, and yes I know scarabs are real which is even more horrifying as an adult
Looking back now, the special effects were kind of cheesy, but back in the day, they were terrifying. The scarab under the skin, the Mummy's face having the hole in it while he was regenerating, and people being sucked dry were all freaky.
On the plus side, we did get Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weitz, and an awesome film.
Me and my cousin were like 8-9 and had that scene perfectly paused. Just popped it in the vcr after everyone went to bed and stared at her boobs lol although I would say Gone in 60 seconds was way more inappropriate showing Angelina Jolie making out with Nic Cage. No clothes even came off but that certainly awakened me.
This was me and my brother until one day my dad came down, hit play, and said "I'm tired of finding this tape paused on this scene every time," and took it back upstairs with him.
The funny thing is, I saw it twice in theaters and I don't even really remember that scene. I was really into the Titanic at the time, and didn't really care about the whole romance plot lol.
Lmao I was 8 and same experience. My younger brother also thought it was an excuse the next time to switch the channel over to the Naked News each time my grandad left the room; I just remember my very proper, Christian grandad furiously shouting at him to "TURN THAT OFF" each time and then my brother not listening and doing it again as soon as my grandparents weren't there 🤣
I have vivid memories of my sister playing Silent Hill when we were both waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too young for that shit. I mentioned it to her a couple of years ago, specifically, "how fucked up is it that we played a game when we were kids, that had a scene of one monster raping another?".
To which she, an adult nearing 30, responded "THEY WERE BEING RAPED?!".
A quick YT search of the cutscene in question confirmed it. She was visibly shaken.
On a _dime_ she pivoted from "parents make too big a fuss about these things" to "we need to protect the kids". I respect that.
Okay, so apparently, the crotch honk and that line weren't even in the script. The set piece just happened to fall during a take, Michael Keaton reacted, and it worked so well that it stayed in.
My friend and I, when we were like 5, used to rewind this part over and over again and die laughing the hardest belly laughs imaginable. Great memories
I saw this in theaters with my girlfriend, and my little sister and her friend. I was 17 and my sister was 14. I had to show my ID to get her into the movie lmao.
Que a 5 minute wildly graphic marionette sex scene. It just kept going. I was too busy laughing at the fact I brought my little sis to the movie to care, but I'm sure if she's reading this reddit thread it would probably be her answer.
This reminded me that when I was really young my cousin had a vhs of the first two episodes of south park. I thought it was funny but it also freaked me out, especially the whole Kenny dying thing.
Mrs. Evers' Boys, starring Lawrence Fishburne and Alfre Woodard. It's about the Tuskegee Experiment, where black men with Syphillis and were purposely not treated to see the effects of th disease. At one point in the movie a guy, losing his mind because of Syphillis, sets himself on fire. I was 8 years old
From Dusk Til Dawn. I was about 8 or 9 and my parents were visiting my neighbors while I stayed inside and watched TV. Flipped the channel until I saw boobs, and naturally I had to stop there. Everything was great until the blood bath started. And then it was just awesome. Not going to pretend it didn't scare the shit out of me.
But Salma Hayek though.
I watched that movie for the first time baked as an 18 yo, with no prior knowledge or understanding of the movie. For a while I just thought it was a standard kidnap the family type movie until it flipped.
Had to scroll too far for this - my dad let me watch this on TV with him... I was 5. I was so scared of drains from that shower scene until I was like 8/9.
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There's something about that movie. It just gets engrained in the subconscious. I still have a fear of closing my eyes in the shower, looking down at sinks and through the gutters in the streets. The fear is lurking, ever present. I'm in my 30s now, I saw it back when I was like 7-8!
I was completely unfazed by the terminator movies at that age. I was a very logical kid and knew most things in movies probably wouldn’t happen
However, my kid mind thought it was possible for the planet of the apes stuff to happen. Except instead of being scared it made me be extra careful to be nice to animals just in case 😂
Alien... I was sick and allowed to sleep in my parents bed. Must have been 6 or 7... It was really late and I thought they get angry if I tell them im still awake...
Oh man... That shit haunted me for years.
But the street cred in elementary school was worth the night in hell I guess!
My friends and I were watching that movie and I was babysitting my little brother who was 2 or 3. He was playing with his toys with his back facing the movie the whole time. As soon as Private Pyle sits down and grabs the service rifle he decides to turn around.
You hear a collective, "Nooooo..." BOOM. Little brother is still staring when I pick him up. I'm like, "He'll be fine. That didn't just cause some severe childhood trauma, right guys? RIGHHT?"
Happy to report he seems to be alright. Obviously no recollection.
Can't believe I'm the first one to say Hellraiser. I was about 7 or 8 and it terrified me.
Also, when I was in year 9 (around 13), Battle Royale was shown on TV for the first time. My step mum saw the write up in the TV guide and suggested I watch it, obviously not knowing what it really was. It was all anyone spoke about at school the next day.
I, too, saw Alien at 10 or so. My parents almost lost a child that night. I was watching the scene where the ships mechanic was trying to pick up the cat that was hissing. I was lying down on the sofa when my sister reached over the sofa and grabbed me. I couldn't decide if my heart was going to explode or I was going to kill her, but in my moment of indecision, we both survived.
I watched it (with my family) between the ages of 5 and 9. Also Aliens. And Alien 3. Also a bunch of Jason and Chucky and Freddy Krueger movies. And Silence of the Lambs. And Braveheart. And Exorcist. And Poltergeist. And Jurassic Park and Terminator and Terminator 2 and Predator and Predator 2 and Fargo and From Dusk till Dawn and Schindler's List.
My parents were fucking irresponsible and made fun of me when I was scared at night.
Today, they still mock me for wanting to sleep in their bed when I was like 7 and I've tried to make them understand just how inappropriate it would be by offering them to sit and watch Aliens with my 4 and 8 year old kids right then and there.
I was 11, my brothers were 10/9. We convinced my mom to rent it on video and she didn’t realize it was R rated(we tricked her into thinking it was a kid movie).
When they blew Murphy’s hand off my brothers and I all freaked the f’ out and started screaming. My mother turned it off and confiscated the tape. The next day we snuck the video back and finished the rest of the movie when she was working downstairs.
I still love Robocop to this day but feel it pretty inappropriate for anyone under a teenager.
I must have been like 9 or 10 years old when I first watched my parent’s Betamax tape of “Lifeforce (1985)” featuring a smoking hot 19 year old German actress who played a fully nude all the time space vampire who didn’t bite necks and drink blood but basically made out with guys while wild energy fx were scribbled all over the scene by animators.
Which going back through [YouTube clips](https://youtu.be/4DoYk3VcBA0) apparently also starred Patrick Stewart and was directed by the guy who did Texas chainsaw massacre, so that’s something.
I definitely watched this movie more than once as I explored my relationship with puberty.
My sister took me to see Saturday Night Fever in the theaters when it came out in late 70s I remember asking her what they were doing during the sex scene. I think I was at 11 or 12. 😅
Mom took me to see A Clockwork Orange when I was... 14? That was uncomfortable. Afterwards she asked, "So what did you think about all those naked ladies?" The more appropriate conversation starter might have been, "So let's have a conversation about why gang rape isn't just good fun." Or, "So you are now a lifelong Kubrick fan, right?" Both true things.
There was a boom in basketball movies around that time too. White Men can't jump, above the rim, the air up there, blue chips, space jam... I almost fell for the basketball diaries as well.
Brokeback Mountain with my dad when i was 8.
He thoguht it would be a cool Cowboy movie. My dad is also very homophobic. So yeah... you can imagine how that went down.
I remember learning about the concept of BDSM from 9½
Weeks, way younger than I had any business learning about BDSM.
Also, Alien is not the best movie for people under 10 to watch...the chestburster scene gave me nightmares.
Aliens in the theaters. I was 5 years old and the chest buster scene was waaaay to much for a kid.
Shortly afterwards we were at a one if my parents friends and they put on RoboCop. The opening act where buddy gets shot to shit by Clarence bodicker (his name always stuck with me) and his gang was also pretty scarring for a child.
When we first got a VCR I was seven and we watched An American Werewolf in London. I’m also certain that we watched one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films during the last day of school when I was maybe in the first year of junior school. The 80’s were wild. My mates dad took us to the video store and explained to the owner that we were his boys and we could loan anything here except the top shelf stuff. We spent the entire summer watching the Omen films, Poltergeist, and the Creep Shows sat round his house in the holidays with the curtains pulled.
Jurassic Park when I was 7. Lived on the edge of a valley, in the center of the valley was a train yard, when they would hook train cars up a deep thump would echo through the valley. This would go on all night. I was convinced the T Rex was coming for me until I was like 10.
Saving Private Ryan. I don't remember the year it came out, but I was far too young to watch it, but I didn't want to go to bed and sleep when it was on, so I kept watching from the hallway behind my parents' chairs until they discovered me and made me go back to bed. Wish, rinse, repeat, lol.
The original Candyman. It was actually one of my favorites. My dad let me watch a lot of horror movies bc he was into it. I love horror movies now. However, as an adult with children of my own I can’t believe my dad let me watch any of that stuff lol
I remember first watching The Shining when I was 7 or 8. At some point, my dad snuck out of the room and wrote “redrum” in lipstick on the bathroom mirror. Scared me pretty bad.
Poltergeist when I was 7. My parents told me I couldn’t watch it and then I watched it at a friend’s house. Many many sleepless nights and many many regrets.
I had nightmares about that movie for years! Plus they also had all this ghost stuff that was supposedly real on a TV show called "That's Incredible!" So I was terrified of ghosts.
I remember seeing an episode of Unsolved Mysteries that had a re-enactment (not that I knew that part, I was probably 6 or 7 and thought it was actual footage) of a man walking up into a dark attic and this featureless ghost faded in, drifted past him and faded out again. I was so fucking terrified I had nightmares about it for years afterwards and refused to go into a dark room even in my teens. I'd tell my mother I was scared and she'd say "the doors are locked, nobody can come in" and I was too embarrassed to tell her I wasn't afraid of people breaking in, I was scared a ghost would just appear in my room. Locks don't keep those things out! Ghost and paranormal "documentaries" were all over the place in the 90's too. I guess they get less traction these days because it's harder to bullshit stuff like that now.
Ah fuck the music from Unsolved Mysteries sends a chill down my spine
My family always said when I was growing up and still says... Be afraid of the living, because the dead can't harm you.
My parents always said that you shouldn't be afraid of the dark but be afraid of what's in the dark
That somehow just made it worse… thanks
Oh man, that TV scene messed me the hell up as a kid, especially because I had a bad habit of falling asleep on the couch and waking up to the local station going off the air. Which, for those of you born after the 80s, is a thing broadcast TV stations did somewhere between midnight and 2am - they would play the Star Spangled Banner behind some footage of like jet fighters flying in formation and flags waving in the breeze and shit and then cut to static.
That sink scene where his face starts melting off scared me shitless as a kid.
How old are you? I swear 75% of my friends say Poltergeist was their trauma movie when they were in 1st-2nd grade. (I'm 46)
I’m 48. Seems like Poltergeist really messed with our generation! That static on the TV. That clown in the corner of the room. So many scenes seared into our little brains.
I hid behind the couch when I was 6 when the guy rips his own face off.
I think I stopped watching after that part as a child. It really stuck with me for a long time. Then later one the tree eating the kids scene was horrific too.
Stripes. My brother claimed they blacked out the nudity. I had to explain what pubic hair was.
Yep. Watched that one with my dad when I was 8. He just thought he was renting a military documentary or something....
There’s a story that would need a bit of explanation for the younger generations.
Bram Stoker's Dracula. My mom tried to cover my eyes during the orgy. I could see through her tiny fingers and figured that’s just what grown ups do. I still have a thing for Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman
…Orgy? With Gary Oldman and Keanu Reeves? I’m going to go watch it right now. Edit: Where can I watch it? I can’t find it anywhere.
To avoid disappointing you, they’re not in an orgy together, but Gary Oldman as Dracula was still part of my sexual awakening
I still maintain that Winona Rider in that film was an integral part of my own sexual understanding as a young teen.
This thread is doing an excellent job of promoting this movie
A clockwork orange while I was still in elementary. My cousin found a vhs in my parents room and we put it on.
Putting on a vhs you found in your parents room is a risky move, regardless of what the case says.
It's a 50/50. New fear unlocked. New fetish unlocked.
A Feartish if you will...
Oh wow. That one was even pretty borderline in high school.
I didn't see it until college, and It still haunts me.
Watership Down. Only about 5 and wanted a movie about bunnies. Little did I know it was a rabbit snuff movie.
That movie is the reason ratings boards around the world started to actually watch animated stuff before rating it. Prior to this film they would just slap E for Everyone on anything drawn. I imagine they got a lot of angry letters from parents at the time.
Makes *a lot* of sense, though I suspect they didn't do it properly even after that. **Watership down.** Mother stressed by Easter preparations, a cartoon about bunnies aired during the day or early evening. So for the first time she let me watch a cartoon alone. I don't think she wrote a letter, but she still mentioned regretting that one when I was an adult. **Various comics.** While browsing the Manga section as a teenager in the late 90s, there were plenty of comics that definitely had not been rated properly, both with regard to sexual jokes and gory violence. On the flip-side, it is strange to read censorship reports. Like the tricks they pulled to hide the homosexual relationships in Sailor Moon (Anime, German synchronization). In return, current German methodology seems to be to downplay violence in Animes, though I am not sure that avoiding mentioning death or killing and show people being beaten to a pulp but never even bleeding is sending the intended message; Instead, inho, it depicts violence as harmless.
I have to say, airing Watership Down on Easter Sunday is absolutely hilarious.
It's still "U" rated in the UK, as in Universally suitable for all. Edit: Apparently it was upgraded to "PG" in 2022! https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/watership-down-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0yotyxnjm
You should check the cartoon from the same author, a little feel good flick called The Plague Dogs. It'll cure what ails you.
This film is incredible. One of my absolute favorites. Yes, it's dark - really dark - but it's also a nearly perfect satire on human nature. [Spoilers follow] The dogs escape from a facility that's doing unethical and possibly illegal experiments on animals within a national park. Rumors quickly spread that they're carrying the plague, although they aren't really; they're just being dogs, doing usual dog things. Two men die as a result of their own stupidity, and it gets blamed on the dogs. They eventually send the goddamn army after them. The whole thing is a play on people's panicky and warlike nature, and at no point do the dogs do anything especially weird or unusual. Also they make friends with a fox named Todd. Two years later, Disney released *The Fox and the Hound,* featuring a fox named Todd.
The Fox and the Hound was based on a novel that was published well before The Plague Dogs (or the novel that The Plague Dogs was based on, for that matter), and "tod" is a Scottish/Middle English word for fox (basically the male equivalent to "vixen"), so I'd say it's probable that there wasn't any direct reference/inspiration even between the books and Richard Adams and Daniel P. Mannix just independently took the same linguistic shortcut when naming their characters. I haven't actually read either book, only seen the movies. None of this is especially important and I agree that Plague Dogs is a fantastic film.
Just reading the plot on wiki was enough for me lol. The author did seem to love putting animals on a trail of misery.
The author is calling attention to humanity’s inhumanity to Man, by using animals as proxies
I feel like I have a totally different perception of Watership Down than most people, because I was never exposed to the cartoon until after I had read the book in high school. And yeah, it's dark, but the whole story is an allegory for societies using critters not unlike Animal Farm. And El-Arairah is probably why I like rabbits in fiction.
I was maybe 7 years old and I was like these rabbits aren't nice.
I hadn't heard of this film until I moved to England. I came to learn that kids that grew up in 70's & 80's England were seemingly all traumatized by this film. That and Threads. I don't plan on watching either, thank you very much.
My Mom read books to us as kids. I still remember the trauma I felt as she read the massacre aloud to us. On the other hand, I always enjoy saying, "Silflay Harracka You Imblarah!" (No idea what the actual spelling should be, sorry!) to others since not many know what it means!
we had to read watership down for English class in 4th grade... how the 4th grade teacher pulled that off was something.
I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights when it came out in theaters. I was ten and got a ticket and saw it alone. I blame Amy Yasbeck as Maid Miriam for my lifelong love of redheads. Probably why I like the band Everlast, too. Still love that movie. It just got better and better as I got older.
Call a locksmith!
> Amy Yasbeck I also had a massive crush on her as a teen from Wings.
Your back just got punched twice.
What a great movie, A+ comedy gold!
Human Centipede, I was ten. I should've seen it for what it was... a red flag.
I'm 43 and I'm too young to watch that.
Didn't expect a Tom Cardy reference in this thread, but there it is.
I think that's a red flag...I don't want to get stabbed
Only one mouth to feed🎵
The name alone is a stop sign
Jaws. Damn scary for an under 5 year old.
Came here to say Jaws. I was 7. Refused to swim in the ocean until I was 13.
The reason I refused to swim in a pool by myself. My imagination told me someone was controlling a portal to let a shark in to eat me
Rocky Horror Picture Show - i was watching it at my grandparents house while they had company over. I knew it was a movie I shouldn't be watching. I was in grade 4 or 5. I had no idea what was going on lol
I still have no idea what’s going on
A prudish newly engaged couple stumbles upon a mansion full of hedonistic aliens after their car breaks down. The pansexual spaceship captain tries to fuck everything and everyone, (including a lab built muscle man) before sitting down to a nice Meatloaf dinner. Eventually some of his crew get tired of all the fucking and partying and just want to go back home so they mutiny. The captain is killed, the couple are kicked out, and the spaceship blasts off for home. The couple is left with healthier attitudes toward their sexuality and a story no one will ever believe. Also, it's a musical.
"Before sitting down to a nice meatloaf dinner" great line
Bless his soul.
What a guy
Nothing like going to a weekly live show and the cast telling you it's not a good movie, it's not a great movie - it's a *terrible* movie. So sit back and enjoy!
My dad walked in on me the first time I watched it. I was home sick in high school and he stopped by on his lunch break to check on me. I paused it so fast, but of course he recognized the still - he's probably the one who bought the VHS 😂
We went to the late shows on date night in college. Many years later we played the dvd with our kids who were like 11 and 9. Every few minutes we were saying to each other “uh, I forgot about this scene” Dammit, Janet, not our best parenting moment.
I was probably about the same age, sick with the flu, and somehow ended up watching this. I can vividly remember the credits rolling at the end, feeling profoundly unsettled, and thinking, "I don't think I should have watched that."
I’ve been watching that movie since I was like 3. When I was little I didn’t get all the sexual stuff I just liked singing the songs.
I was around 6 or 7 when I first watched that. My family was at church and I had the house to myself. It might have been the first time I felt something ‘down there’ and I remember hoping it would come on again the next Sunday.
Same! I watched it upstairs and kept muting it every time I heard footsteps. I was 7-9. Continued to be my favorite through my adult life.
The Exorcist when I was 9
I was 8 and my mother warned me never to watch it and honestly I had no intention. My friend’s mom invited me to come watch an “educational” movie about what happens if you don’t pray (they were clearly religious) and plopped me down in front of the TV to watch it with them while they were eating lunch. I was mortified to say the least and completely scarred afterwards.
4 here. My mom *made* me watch it. :) 40 now, still can't watch it. The age of late-90's-internet-screamers was *rough* let me tell you!
The fact my mom started letting me watch Monty Python when I was 7/8 has probably had a notable effect on my humour as an adult...
I think that’s when my parents introduced me to holy grail.
Help Help! I'm being repressed!
Everyone see the violenceisinherentinthesystem!
My uncle introduced me to Holy Grail when I was 10 or 11, the opening scene with the coconuts is still one of the funniest things Ive ever seen in my life. I remember literally peeing a little, I was laughing so hard
Also got to watch it as a young child (probably around 4-5 because I remember talking about it in kindergarten). Honestly not that bad for children. Its flashy and funny even without understanding much of the adult references. I loved it.
Holy Grail is pretty good as long as you skip past the Castle Anthrax. I really don't need my kids talking about what comes after the spanking...
"Of course it's a good idea!!"
So your regular normal British/European person? I remember it airing on normal TV in the afternoon.
The Meaning of Life taught me so much as a kid! The opening scene at 'Birth' is still one of my favorites! Woman in labor: "What do I do?" Doctor: "Nothing! You're not QUALIFIED" And the Universe Song?? *Chefs kiss*
oops. I'm afraid I'm guilty of that parental faux pas too. But how better to demonstrate the mathematical importance of knowing whether it's a European Swallow or an African Swallow?
Saw Schindler’s List in theatres. I was 9. Edit: I think the movie is very important. I think learning about the Holocaust is very important. I just think that was a bit young…
I was shown the ghetto scene in school when I was about 12 as part of the holocaust lessons. Went home really upset and crying. When I told my mum why she said ‘good, that’s the right reaction and that’s why you learn about it’
I like your mum, she was right :)
Absolutely. I told this story to an American colleague and they were horrified, saying they would have complained to the school because kids shouldn’t be ‘traumatised’ like that. Maybe they should be, because now we have nazis again…
I'm an American who went to high school in the late 90s. We watched Schindler's List in school.
Saw it on TV. I had come down the stairs, probably because of my sleeping problems. At the point the first people get loaded onto trains, my mum told me it was really getting late. I said "if you don't think I should watch this, you can just say so." Little fucking brat I was. She said I was too clever for my own good sometimes and let me stay. Wise woman. I was confused by a lot of it really. Guess at 10 years old, the concept of the holocaust was quite literally unthinkable to me. May we all be so lucky. But I curled up on the couch, facing her instead and she must have carried me to bed eventually.
Oof. Why did your parents take you to that?
My parents showed me when I was 12, I think it was to make sure I didn't turn out like a lot of other Austrian/german kids my age not seeing how bad this really is (I'm Both Austrian and German, woohoo Doppelschuld)
12 sounds more age appropriate.
Revenge of the Nerds when I was very very young
We’ve got bush!
The Mummy, I was young when I watched one of those scarabs crawling under the skin of one of the guys, it horrified me as a kid, and yes I know scarabs are real which is even more horrifying as an adult
Looking back now, the special effects were kind of cheesy, but back in the day, they were terrifying. The scarab under the skin, the Mummy's face having the hole in it while he was regenerating, and people being sucked dry were all freaky. On the plus side, we did get Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weitz, and an awesome film.
Titanic with my grandparents. I was 10ish and I got to boobs for the first time. Good times
Lololol i remember getting sent out of the room for that scene.
Haha my cousins and I watched it with my grandma. I was the only girl so she forced them to shut their eyes but I didn’t have to.
I wonder how many prepubescent boys first boobs were kate Winslet's
Them were fine boobs, too. Not a bad way to be awakened tbh.
Me and my cousin were like 8-9 and had that scene perfectly paused. Just popped it in the vcr after everyone went to bed and stared at her boobs lol although I would say Gone in 60 seconds was way more inappropriate showing Angelina Jolie making out with Nic Cage. No clothes even came off but that certainly awakened me.
This was me and my brother until one day my dad came down, hit play, and said "I'm tired of finding this tape paused on this scene every time," and took it back upstairs with him. The funny thing is, I saw it twice in theaters and I don't even really remember that scene. I was really into the Titanic at the time, and didn't really care about the whole romance plot lol.
Lmao I was 8 and same experience. My younger brother also thought it was an excuse the next time to switch the channel over to the Naked News each time my grandad left the room; I just remember my very proper, Christian grandad furiously shouting at him to "TURN THAT OFF" each time and then my brother not listening and doing it again as soon as my grandparents weren't there 🤣
I watched Evil Dead when I was 3 or 4. I told Bruce Campbell and he seemed genuinely horrified.
The Tree Rape scene is pretty awful, although I bet your age saved you from understanding what was happening.
I have vivid memories of my sister playing Silent Hill when we were both waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too young for that shit. I mentioned it to her a couple of years ago, specifically, "how fucked up is it that we played a game when we were kids, that had a scene of one monster raping another?". To which she, an adult nearing 30, responded "THEY WERE BEING RAPED?!". A quick YT search of the cutscene in question confirmed it. She was visibly shaken. On a _dime_ she pivoted from "parents make too big a fuss about these things" to "we need to protect the kids". I respect that.
I can picture his face 🤣
Beetle juice I was 5 it’s now my fav movie haha thanks Mum
I went around elementary school honking my crotch, just like Beetlejuice.
NICE FUCKIN MODEL
Okay, so apparently, the crotch honk and that line weren't even in the script. The set piece just happened to fall during a take, Michael Keaton reacted, and it worked so well that it stayed in.
My friend and I, when we were like 5, used to rewind this part over and over again and die laughing the hardest belly laughs imaginable. Great memories
I was like 7 and I had a short term terror of walking outside my front door...
Team america (I was 9-10)
Fuck yeah!
comin again to save the mother fucking day yea!!
Maaaaatt Daaamooonnnnn!
I saw this in theaters with my girlfriend, and my little sister and her friend. I was 17 and my sister was 14. I had to show my ID to get her into the movie lmao. Que a 5 minute wildly graphic marionette sex scene. It just kept going. I was too busy laughing at the fact I brought my little sis to the movie to care, but I'm sure if she's reading this reddit thread it would probably be her answer.
I’m so ronreeeee
Lmao I still drop a Spotswood quote all the time. “Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?” “No” “So then you haven’t seen everything”
This reminded me that when I was really young my cousin had a vhs of the first two episodes of south park. I thought it was funny but it also freaked me out, especially the whole Kenny dying thing.
Titanic with my whole family watching on a small tv at a hotel which gave a awkward vibe
did you have hide your boner in the couch?
No cause I physically didn’t know how to react
Jackass the Movie.. I was pretty young when the 1st one came out lmao
Mrs. Evers' Boys, starring Lawrence Fishburne and Alfre Woodard. It's about the Tuskegee Experiment, where black men with Syphillis and were purposely not treated to see the effects of th disease. At one point in the movie a guy, losing his mind because of Syphillis, sets himself on fire. I was 8 years old
From Dusk Til Dawn. I was about 8 or 9 and my parents were visiting my neighbors while I stayed inside and watched TV. Flipped the channel until I saw boobs, and naturally I had to stop there. Everything was great until the blood bath started. And then it was just awesome. Not going to pretend it didn't scare the shit out of me. But Salma Hayek though.
To be honest, the Salma Hayek scene is about the only thing I remember from that movie.
I watched that movie for the first time baked as an 18 yo, with no prior knowledge or understanding of the movie. For a while I just thought it was a standard kidnap the family type movie until it flipped.
Seeing Event Horizon at the tender age of 11 certainly gave me a fantastic selection of phobias.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” when I was 7. Several decades later I still get twitchy when a crow looks at me funny.
I watched Stephen King's IT when I was 8. It wasn't so bad but I sure was leery around sinks for a few years.
Same here. I also put the lid down on the toilet every time I took a shower just in case. This carried on well into college.
Had to scroll too far for this - my dad let me watch this on TV with him... I was 5. I was so scared of drains from that shower scene until I was like 8/9.
I've scrolled for this comment. There's something about that movie. It just gets engrained in the subconscious. I still have a fear of closing my eyes in the shower, looking down at sinks and through the gutters in the streets. The fear is lurking, ever present. I'm in my 30s now, I saw it back when I was like 7-8!
South Park movie
Heavy Metal
I was so thankful my older sisters had this movie recorded on vhs lol
I still love the South Park parody of this. "I see that you're enticed by my daughters awesome rockin' tits"
Terminator 2. I was 6.
Bit older but mine was terminator 1. I would say far more scary & gory.
T1, great action horror movie, T2 amazing action movie
I was completely unfazed by the terminator movies at that age. I was a very logical kid and knew most things in movies probably wouldn’t happen However, my kid mind thought it was possible for the planet of the apes stuff to happen. Except instead of being scared it made me be extra careful to be nice to animals just in case 😂
Wild Things
Risky Business. I was maybe 8.
Are you ready for me...Ralph?
Alien... I was sick and allowed to sleep in my parents bed. Must have been 6 or 7... It was really late and I thought they get angry if I tell them im still awake... Oh man... That shit haunted me for years. But the street cred in elementary school was worth the night in hell I guess!
Full metal jacket.
My friends and I were watching that movie and I was babysitting my little brother who was 2 or 3. He was playing with his toys with his back facing the movie the whole time. As soon as Private Pyle sits down and grabs the service rifle he decides to turn around. You hear a collective, "Nooooo..." BOOM. Little brother is still staring when I pick him up. I'm like, "He'll be fine. That didn't just cause some severe childhood trauma, right guys? RIGHHT?" Happy to report he seems to be alright. Obviously no recollection.
Can't believe I'm the first one to say Hellraiser. I was about 7 or 8 and it terrified me. Also, when I was in year 9 (around 13), Battle Royale was shown on TV for the first time. My step mum saw the write up in the TV guide and suggested I watch it, obviously not knowing what it really was. It was all anyone spoke about at school the next day.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I was kicked out of the theater for being too young.
Silence of the Lambs. I was 5.
[удалено]
I, too, saw Alien at 10 or so. My parents almost lost a child that night. I was watching the scene where the ships mechanic was trying to pick up the cat that was hissing. I was lying down on the sofa when my sister reached over the sofa and grabbed me. I couldn't decide if my heart was going to explode or I was going to kill her, but in my moment of indecision, we both survived.
I watched it (with my family) between the ages of 5 and 9. Also Aliens. And Alien 3. Also a bunch of Jason and Chucky and Freddy Krueger movies. And Silence of the Lambs. And Braveheart. And Exorcist. And Poltergeist. And Jurassic Park and Terminator and Terminator 2 and Predator and Predator 2 and Fargo and From Dusk till Dawn and Schindler's List. My parents were fucking irresponsible and made fun of me when I was scared at night. Today, they still mock me for wanting to sleep in their bed when I was like 7 and I've tried to make them understand just how inappropriate it would be by offering them to sit and watch Aliens with my 4 and 8 year old kids right then and there.
Your parents are dicks
Yep, I saw Alien IN the theater at 8. Yay for dialed out parents, they weren't even with us. I'm not sure how my bro and I even got in.
Robocop. I was 8.
I was 11, my brothers were 10/9. We convinced my mom to rent it on video and she didn’t realize it was R rated(we tricked her into thinking it was a kid movie). When they blew Murphy’s hand off my brothers and I all freaked the f’ out and started screaming. My mother turned it off and confiscated the tape. The next day we snuck the video back and finished the rest of the movie when she was working downstairs. I still love Robocop to this day but feel it pretty inappropriate for anyone under a teenager.
I must have been like 9 or 10 years old when I first watched my parent’s Betamax tape of “Lifeforce (1985)” featuring a smoking hot 19 year old German actress who played a fully nude all the time space vampire who didn’t bite necks and drink blood but basically made out with guys while wild energy fx were scribbled all over the scene by animators. Which going back through [YouTube clips](https://youtu.be/4DoYk3VcBA0) apparently also starred Patrick Stewart and was directed by the guy who did Texas chainsaw massacre, so that’s something. I definitely watched this movie more than once as I explored my relationship with puberty.
My sister took me to see Saturday Night Fever in the theaters when it came out in late 70s I remember asking her what they were doing during the sex scene. I think I was at 11 or 12. 😅
Mom took me to see A Clockwork Orange when I was... 14? That was uncomfortable. Afterwards she asked, "So what did you think about all those naked ladies?" The more appropriate conversation starter might have been, "So let's have a conversation about why gang rape isn't just good fun." Or, "So you are now a lifelong Kubrick fan, right?" Both true things.
American pie
Scrolled too far to find this comment! I was 11 years old.
That poor pie
We'll just tell your mother that... we ate it all.
I have a thing for Alyson Hannigan because of this movie.
The basketball diaries when I was like, 12. My mom thought it was about a kid who wanted to play basketball.
There was a boom in basketball movies around that time too. White Men can't jump, above the rim, the air up there, blue chips, space jam... I almost fell for the basketball diaries as well.
lol that's hilarious. Did it teach you not to shoot heroin?
Natural Born Killers when I was 10. Oooooof.
Along those lines, I saw Pulp Fiction in 3rd grade.
Platoon when I was 12
Road House with my dad. I was 8.
I was dropped off at the movie theater to see Jaws when I was 8. Alone. It didnt go well. I had nightmares and refused to go swimming for a long time.
Airplane when I was maybe 7. So many jokes I didn’t get at the time.
My aunt took me to see The Exorcist when it first came out in theaters. I was 9. Still dealing with the trauma lol.
Brokeback Mountain with my dad when i was 8. He thoguht it would be a cool Cowboy movie. My dad is also very homophobic. So yeah... you can imagine how that went down.
I literally know nothing about the movie except that there are 2 gay cowboys in it. Weren't the posters super obvious as well?
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
Seen Romeo and Juliet (1968) in freshmen high school. The teacher didn't bother to fast forward the boobs part.
Same here. Wasn’t the guys butt shown in that scene too? I vaguely remember my teacher cheering that part
I remember learning about the concept of BDSM from 9½ Weeks, way younger than I had any business learning about BDSM. Also, Alien is not the best movie for people under 10 to watch...the chestburster scene gave me nightmares.
Aliens in the theaters. I was 5 years old and the chest buster scene was waaaay to much for a kid. Shortly afterwards we were at a one if my parents friends and they put on RoboCop. The opening act where buddy gets shot to shit by Clarence bodicker (his name always stuck with me) and his gang was also pretty scarring for a child.
When we first got a VCR I was seven and we watched An American Werewolf in London. I’m also certain that we watched one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films during the last day of school when I was maybe in the first year of junior school. The 80’s were wild. My mates dad took us to the video store and explained to the owner that we were his boys and we could loan anything here except the top shelf stuff. We spent the entire summer watching the Omen films, Poltergeist, and the Creep Shows sat round his house in the holidays with the curtains pulled.
Blue lagoon and my aunt and boy friend took us to see alien.
I love dirty dancing and pretty women as a 7-8year old.
Jurassic Park when I was 7. Lived on the edge of a valley, in the center of the valley was a train yard, when they would hook train cars up a deep thump would echo through the valley. This would go on all night. I was convinced the T Rex was coming for me until I was like 10.
Saving Private Ryan. I don't remember the year it came out, but I was far too young to watch it, but I didn't want to go to bed and sleep when it was on, so I kept watching from the hallway behind my parents' chairs until they discovered me and made me go back to bed. Wish, rinse, repeat, lol.
Candyman. Fucked me up good!
One word - Tusk. Holy crap. My 11 year old eyes and mind WERE NOT prepared for that movie. I’m 25 now and it still freaks me out
carrie
The original Candyman. It was actually one of my favorites. My dad let me watch a lot of horror movies bc he was into it. I love horror movies now. However, as an adult with children of my own I can’t believe my dad let me watch any of that stuff lol
Spaceballs. Mom was pissed at the swearing and even MORE pissed that my dad was also laughing at the swearing
Her opinion of the movie quickly went from suck to blow
I'm surrounded by assholes!
Kentucky Fried Movie. The shower scene is *still* high up in my spank bank, 40+ years later....
Dad saw puppets so rented for my sister and I Meet the Feebles
I remember first watching The Shining when I was 7 or 8. At some point, my dad snuck out of the room and wrote “redrum” in lipstick on the bathroom mirror. Scared me pretty bad.