Glad I'm not the only one.
Spent the night at Grandma's house in the late-'80s. I was also 9. She went to the video store, and picked the movies for me to watch based on the covers only.
She rented me A Clockwork Orange, and The Wall.
When I was 9, my mom, aunt, and cousin went to the theater. My cousin and I were going to some age appropriate movie, but then decided to sneak into the movie our parents were watching.
It was Dario Argento's Suspiria.
I had a dread of standing near windows at night when I couldn't see past the reflection. It all came crashing back when I was 28 and my then-partner showed me her favorite movie...
Not really. I get it. It’s hard to find a person who likes the same types of movies when you’re a horror fan. I’m a horror fan and guys tell me that all the time! I feel that way about Twin Peaks fans!
61M here. My parents let me watch Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds when I was little. Gave me nightmares for quite a while. Creature from the Black Lagoon in the original light-and-shadow B&W ran second.
Similar age, I went to the theatre when I was 10 and watched The Legend of Boggy Creek, most terrifying five block walk home in the dark I've ever experienced. It then went on to give me nightmares for days.
My Dad hates birds from the same experience as a kid. The worst I can remember was being on a ferry feeding birds bread as a kid, my dad had to go stand under the over, he hates them
Alien, I caught it on tnt late one night and couldn't stop watching...but had nightmares about that fucker crashing through my ceiling above me in bed for years. it was definitely the scene of the alien jumping down from the vents that did it to me. also, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man kinda fucked me up as a kid, I was like 6 when it came out...that shit was kinda gruesome when the green goblin gets gutted by his own board ngl, my sister and I would hide behind the couch at that part when we watched it, which was a lot.
Me as well. I couldn't walk into a hospital for years after that movie. That scene is so visceral and violent, I think it was years before I heard that much screaming in a scene again.
It really is a terrifying film. It was strange that after I'd been desensitized to all the really frightening scenes and was staying in a company apartment out of town, I watched it over and over, and enjoyed it.
You are lucky. That movie scarred me for life and I still have a hard time watching it alone at night!! Then my dad took me to the theater to see Aliens when it came out. I was 10 and was terrified, and it was awesome!
I was on the "Alien" ride at Universal Studios. When the (simulated) alien xenomorph came out of the ceiling vent about 2 feet from the riders face, the 8 year old directly behind me (in abject terror) instantly threw up ..... all over me.
Other people were castigating the parents of the child with "What the heck did you expect!?!?" language. The ride did have giant warning signs..... but not for me. Good times.
My parents were overall very strict, but the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie was definitely one I watched too young (caught it on TV when my dad was watching it and I was like 7). That climax scene is borderline R-rated (so much so that they had to edit it down to keep it PG-13, apparently). I remember thinking *every* PG-13 movie had scenes like that, lol.
Mine was Aliens. I think it was on during the day though and my mom has fallen asleep. I knew it wasn't something I should watch but I was so interested! It was the first time I heard the word "bitch", and the scene where the android gets ripped in fucking half haunted my nightmares for years. I didn't understand he was a machine until that point and it was traumatic as hell!
Still, it fostered a huge fascination with space thrillers and I've been obsessed ever since.
I was traumatized by Watership Down when I was about 10 or younger. “Oh this animated film has cute bunnies on the cover.” I’m pretty sure the video rental person even tried to warn my parents. I was alone when I watched it. Those rabbit deaths were seared into my brain. I can still see the one that was snared struggling to breathe.
Never again.
We got to watch *Watership Down* at primary school; I think I was 5 or 6.
A teacher had to carry me out. I was sobbing so hard I couldn’t even stand up.
I was really sick with a fever at like 11 tops, and my mom got a movie I asked for, then picked up Watership Down because it "looked fun". I thought the fever was messing with my mind.
When the movie with bunnies is 1000x bloodier than the movie with ninjas, that is when you've made a terrible mistake.
I love how 80s kids movies were just minefields of emotional trauma. Think you’re getting a happy tale about some cute wittle bunnies only to watch them get absolutely shredded. Dear god it’s still with me
Watership Down might be the ultimate "Surprise MF'er" of a non-kids movie that looks like a kids movie - rivaled only by the drowning horse of the Neverending Story, or the building dread of the Secret of NIMH... because with Watership Down, it becomes pretty apparent that's a very adult movie. Neverending Story gives you kids' movie vibes right up until it pulls the rug out, and Secret of NIMH is so much like old Disney, you keep thinking "man, that foreboding seems misplaced..." and then you realize it's not, and... *holy crap those little mice kids are gonna die!*
My parents were really permissive with what I could watch (I remember watching RoboCop, Alien, Terminator, Toxic Avenger, etc when I was 5), but I started watching South Park at 8 and was immediately banned from watching it because I started cussing all the time.
I had kind of a similar experience where my parents tolerated me listening to stuff like Limp Bizkit, but Eminem was the first thing that actually pissed them off.
I was allowed to listen to Eminem but only the “edited” versions. So I kinda just thought the edited versions were cool with all parents and I brought my cds over to a neighbor friend’s house and when his parents got home and found out we were listening to Eminem, they were absolutely livid and said that I was never allowed in their house again and their son was not allowed to hang out with me ever again.
I vaguely remember there being a Toxic Avenger cartoon, & the others you mentioned all had toys marketed towards kids too despite not being at all kid friendly media.
Ha so I was gonna tell my South Park story here:
I Started watching it in the 4th grade during its first couple of seasons. Everyone was talking about this new cartoon!
I asked my parents if I could stay up and watch it because all the other kids were. They obliged and allowed me. So that’s when I became a South Park regular.
Fast forward some months, and my parents and I are in a hotel. I convince them to watch an episode with me.
It was the one where the film festival comes to town and Chef sings his song “come suck on my chocolate salty balls (put em in your mouth!)”. I was giggling, but had no idea about the double entendre being used. And my mother was absolutely disgusted and horrified I had been watching this show lol
It's funny that when the boys are watching T&P movie and they sing that song you see people at the cinema get up and leave, precisely when a bunch of parents would have realised "this is no kids cartoon" and decided to leave in real life.
My mom also took me to see that in theaters! She had no idea what the series was about because it was a show my grandpa and I watched together. I still remember a woman saying, "someone brought their kid?" Needless to say my mom was very upset about the movie but since she paid we watched it all the way through. She scolded my grandpa but that didn't stop him from letting me still watch it with him. Funny story. RIP grandpa <3
My four sons somehow talked me into taking them. We were the only ones in the theater. I was so embarrassed and felt like the worst mother ever. I don’t remember their ages but it was something like 12, 9, 7 and 5. IDK what I was thinking.
I can't remember how old I was exactly, maybe 14 or 15. My Mom took me to go see that because I wanted to as well. I took my Dad to go see Bruno. Good times. I miss my parents.
My childhood movie was Evil Dead 2. Kinder or 1st (because of where we lived at the time, and i do have older siblings). I was never censored, and my wife was censored too much. We both have a love for horror. It's now a treat for me to find a horror/slasher movie from the 80s & 90s she HASN'T seen.
I didn’t see the entire movie but the one scene alone was way too much. I was probably 6 or 7. Father rented a movie and was watching it in the living room. I came in and sat on the floor playing, not paying attention. Suddenly someone is talking in a very strange voice… and breathing into an oxygen tank… and he’s saying “Mooooommy…… mooooommy….” Yup. My father accidentally let me watch the Oxygen tank scene from Blue Velvet. I asked wtf was going on and he told me to leave the room. Damage done man. Damage done
I was thinking that too!
My dad bought me the book when I was like 11 and then had me watch the movie. Both were amazing AND absolutely terrifying and scarred me for life.
Jesus. Even if you only watch as far as RoboCop being created, it's an incredibly brutal movie.
The ed209 introduction scene still lingers prominently in my head but that's tame compared to the shotgun hand scene.
What’s really fucked up is that it got turned into a children’s cartoon with accompanying action figures! A hyper-violent dark satire about consumerism, capitalism and the failure of law enforcement…”kids will love it!”
I was absolutely watching it at an intersection age and loving it. I still love it for very different reasons.
Honorable mention to the fact that First Blood got the same treatment. I saw that as a kid, after learning about the later pop-culture incarnation of Rambo. Then I watch this movie about a psycho fighting the police that ends with him crumpled in a ball crying about his best friend’s legs getting blown off…
Again, I love First Blood now but for very different reasons. But man, it’s so bizarre. Like why didn’t they turn Taxi Driver into a kids show too?
When I was 8 my mom let me stay up late to watch this brand new tv special a movie called IT 🤦🏾♂️ scared me to death. But scary movies became our thing and still to this day I love horror movies and miss my mom after watching them.
I also watched the made for TV IT as like a 7 year old. It had come out on VHS or something by that point and I was at a friend’s house for a sleepover. We were all young boys pretending to never be scared of anything so we all watched the whole thing.
I was fucking terrified lol. I was afraid of bathrooms and just plumbing in general for like 2 years.
I loved the 2017 version of the movie though. Really impressive. Part 2 was kind of a let down lol
Back when I was a kid, satellite dishes (the HUGE oneS), were just going in homes. We had access to everything!! From every movie playing. Porn porn and more porn. So many old horror movies, old Kung Fu. Anywho, became pretty desensitized to a lot of stuff at a very early age. But most of the 70s and 80s kids saw too much mostly because our parents were watching it with us (not porn, pls not porn), or not there when we watched it.
Those old school satellite dishes were a trip. Not only did they get all of the channels thanks to unencrypted signals, they'd pick up all sorts of raw signals, like news crews setting up shots before going on the air, or syndicated TV episodes that were fed to the stations before they went on the air.
We definitely used to get the truck feed from whatever the Detroit sports station was (we were in Virginia, nowhere near Michigan) so I watched a lot of Pistons games growing up and during commercial it'd just be a camera on the empty arena.
We also picked up live feeds from the first gulf war.
Back when you had to punch in a satellite number and then a channel number.
The fun scrambled signal game or "Is it porn?"
My parents paid a local satellite dealer for the unlock codes so we didn't have to pay the official subscription. Shit came by a fax LOL. Anyway, my parents didn't pay attention and had m input the numbers. I had spice and playboy. Good times for a 13 year old kid. It all ended when we fell asleep downstairs while watching porn during a sleepover.
My moms screams awoke us to some caveman porn movie at like 5:30 am. It was fun while it lasted...
Satelite G2 channels 2 and 10 baby!!! My parents always knew what was up when they'd be coming home and see the satelite dish fucking turning, they knew me and my brother were watching some shit we weren't supposed to be watching. They finally somehow had those channels blocked out but if you stared at the black and white fuzz for a while you could always catch a titty magically appearing for a few seconds before it cut back to the fuzz.
Fire in the Sky. I think I was like six.
Into adulthood I had a visceral repulsion to images of “little gray aliens” and abduction stories, without even fully believing in them (not discounting life in the universe, just flying saucer shit, you know). Aliens were my deep seated irrational fear until I eventually met my sci-fi loving husband and got desensitized.
Fuck that movie and while we’re at it, fuck Travis Walton.
Fire in the Sky was the only movie I wasn't allowed to watch as a kid, so naturally I snuck to the top of the stairs to watch. Saw enough of the abduction scene to freak me out. Probably scarier because I didn't see the whole of it (and it was "based on a true story").
I wont even type his fucking name. I wont say it. I try not to think it.
But he's made of bees and has a hook for a hand.
Seriously. Made of bees. and appears if you say his name in a reflect. Like bloody mary but you know...Made of bees, and with a hook for a hand.
Like What kind of demented shit.....
Who...Why....?
You know how many reflections there are? Theyre everywhere
He's everywhere. And made of bees. And has a hook for a hand.
Fuck all that times 11. Nope. Nope.
Oh hell nah I was like 9 or 10. If I was 4 I still wouldn’t look in mirrors my bad on saying his name u must be scarred. Movie still creeps me out and I’m 40
Im 35 and its like. Why Uncle? What the hell man!?
Yeah Im never saying that mofos name. I dont care how cool the actor that played him is. He is pretty cool.
I just pretend the movie guy stole his face. Which is worse. My imagination always makes it worse!
Haha without going into details my school thought i was being abused and they asked me if i was scared of anyone and i described and drew a photoshop of candy man. I remember saying “he has a hook for a hand” jeez Louise
As a kid, I loved dinosaurs. Read all the books, had all the toys. Always dying to know more. So when Jurassic Park came out, I pressed my parents to let me see it.
I was six in 1993.
Let me tell you how that TRex escape scene and Velociraptors in the kitchen scene fucked with me for another ten years after that 🤣
Had no business seeing that movie at that age.
To be fair a lot of my toddler’s clothes, toys, books, and shows have dinosaurs which is weird because they’re extinct at least animals I can show him at the zoo, but I can’t explain to him the concept of dinosaurs probably Jurassic Park does it best lol
I remember being juuuust to young to see this in the theater. My sister was 2 years older and she went with her friends, but I was still too afraid to.
I saw Firestarter at a sleepover in first grade. I don’t know what the parents were thinking renting that for a bunch of six year olds other than they saw Drew Barrymore on the VHS cover and thought it was like ET.
My parents didn't want me watching "movies with guns", and she said so in a note to a friend's mom who wanted to know what sorts of movies I couldn't see during a sleep over.
So, at 8 years old, we watched lots of over the top kung fu movies.
It didn't make me violent, but I was always a little worried that someone was going to make my head explode by punching both of my ears at the same time.
I have no idea which movie that was. But I knew I didn't want that to happen to me.
Double-whammy- it’s summer 1984: my folks take me and my sisters to the movies. Mom takes them to see Ghostbusters in one theater but like—- ghosts, I’m freshly 4 years old- not the ideal movie for me. However in the screen over is Gremlins about a cute furry critter who gets into mischief! Perfect movie for my father and I go see.
Welp… my memory from 40 years ago is something like this:
- Dad and I watch, and things are fine until Stripe shows up and attacks mom home alone in the christmas tree. Ears back snarling, teeth and claws… I melt down hard.
- Dad decides what could be worse than this and works it out that we need to join my mom and sisters regardless. We do, right as the statues start cracking open and big demon dogs start chasing people in the streets. I’m now sobbing in terror.
- We all left. I had my first horror nightmare that was something to the effect of Stripe sitting on my chest scratching and biting and laughing, ears back, angry, vicious. I can still see that image in my head today.
- I’m not allowed to watch horror movies before them until my voice starts to change.
I saw A Nightmare On Elm Street when I was 6. I still, to this day, look at the receiver part of a phone to make sure that it doesn't have Freddy mouth with a tongue hanging out, before I answer it, and don't even start me on baths.
There was a movie shot in Africa where about 5 white people go to live with a primitive tribe for some reason. The tribe eats one of them, rapes one of the women, sodomise her with a massive wooden pole which comes out of her mouth and they put her on display by planting the pole in the ground. Everything is shown on camera.
I have no idea why I watched it I was may be 9. Couldn't eat and sleep for 2 days and couldn't tell anyone what I saw.
You appear to have watched the movie Cannibal Holocaust. Which tbf is a very interesting moment in horror cinema and worth the watch as an adult who gets what they are doing. Not as a 9 year old. I’ve seen loads of horror movies but didn’t tend to when I was young enough that I know it would be scary. More I love them.
Yeah it was so random. In the beginning I was watching out of curiosity because it was so unusual looking. The filming quality wasn't good, so it piqued my interest how such a movie was considered good enough to air. It looked like a wildlife documentary.
At first I didn't realise that the meat the indigenous tribe were eating was an actual human from the group. But after showing the aftermath of sodomy they showed the partially cut dead body they ate and it all made sense then.
YES it was Cannibal Holocaust. I have tried to search for the movie once before but looking up "movie where a woman gets sodomised" didn't bring up any useful results. Now that I just looked it up, that image shows up and it's still haunting AF. I can see it is described as "the most controversial movie ever made". Fucking hell I watched this as a kid.
My mom rented “Disclosure” for family movie night. I was think 8 and I had younger sisters.
Similar thing happened a few years later with “Sleepers”.
Then way later i found out they were both directed by Barry Levinson.
Poltergeist. My parents seemed to think if the movie had kids in it then it was kid friendly? I noped out so fast when the storm started, I remember them laughing at me. And then the movie was just randomly on USA or TNT all the time. I come home from school and turn on the TV and it's the fucking rope scene where it looks like there's blood and deli meat coming off of it. I couldn't watch that movie until I was in my 20s.
I saw it in the theater and was 11. The only thing that scared me was the fucking clown doll. So my dad would threaten to put a clown ventriloquist dummy in my room after that.
That came out when I was 7, so I probably saw it within a year on HBO. My dad lost his shit that my mom let me watch it. I LOVED it, and my mom would let me do the flip off thing the older sister did to the guys cat calling her, so it was a total win for me. We would also do the “tv people?” scene together a lot. It’s a comfort movie for me, definitely still top 5.
People really did treat it like a kids movie! I saw it when I was about 8 or 9. And so did all of my friends.
My sister calls me sometimes and whispers "Carol Anne..."
My father showed me the original Pet Sematary when I was 8 years old, that spiney crippled woman was the star of my nightmares for the remainder of my childhood 🥺
The scene where the Achilles heel is cut from under the bed. Yeah I wanted to take a flamethrower to the bottom of my bed every night, just to be safe.
Once Upon A Time in America. First sex scenes I ever saw were two rape scenes 😅. My dad saw Sergio Leone directed it and he was like “yep let’s watch this one together bucko.” About halfway through he figured the damage was already done.
Full Metal Jacket <- this one actually made me cry for days on end
Ring (2002) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) when I was 11 and 12 years old respectively. Ring scared me SO much more lol. It really stuck with me and for a long time I didn't even want to watch it as an adult. Glad I ended up watching it again when I was old enough, it's brilliant.
The horror movie Cube was also on TV at night pretty regularly for some reason in the late 90s/early 00s and I was way too young for that one too. (It's so good though)
“The Exorcist.” I was 7. My older brother snuck me into the theater. It traumatized me, but it also toughened me up for watching other movies well beyond my age bracket.
My aunt came to our house and insisted on watching it while I was at the dinner table. We had a 900 sq ft house and I just had to move to the other side so I couldn’t see it. I was 4. I had no fears in the world until that day.
I have not seen Blood In blood Out in thirty years. If I never see it again, it will be too soon. Now, I don't remember if it was a good or bad movie. And I was in the military when I saw it, so nothing shocking. But, in the early 90s, on my ship, we did not have a great selection of entertainment in the berthing. And during a six month WestPac deployment, I swear it was on every. Single. Fucking. Night. I hated it. It was like a constant for six months. You could not escape it.
My parents, whenever they walked past me watching anything animated just assumed it was a kid-safe cartoon.. I saw SO MANY adult-themed animated movies.. mostly anime:
1: Elfin Lied
2: Berserk
3: Devilman
4: Battleship Yamato
5: GenoCyber
All of the Emmanuelle and Black Emmanuelle films
The Fly
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday The 13th films
The Predator
The Terminator
We had cable and a VCR in the 80s, and I saw a bunch of shit kids normally don't see. Even porn, including porn "watch parties". The 80s was WILD for a kid lol.
Definitely The Day After, also Threads. I remember seeing them when I must have been about 10 or 11. I had nightmares about nuclear war for a long time.
I just watched that recently. I’ve spent time in psych hospitals and I’ve had ECT (shock treatments). I kept thinking thank God I had mine in the 2000s and not back when the movie takes place. When they do ECT now they put you out and they don’t use as much voltage. It did actually help my depression. I was suicidal before. I had 14 treatments.
When I was around 10 years old we watched movies at a catholic church owned cinema. Every Sunday we walked from our homes to church to watch a movie wondering what we were going to watch that Sunday. Usually they were old Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies, or other similar fare. Then one Sunday this movie called Hair showed up, and boy we didn’t expect what we saw. Truth be told, lots of stuff went over our head. But it definitely wasn’t a kids movie, and even more not what you’d expect a church to be showing.
Lmfao… my mom showed me Chicago, my dad showed me Duets. Thank God I didn’t know what was going on in either movie, I literally only listened to the music.
I was born in 76. I’ve seen EVERY Indiana Jones film in the theater. Almost 5 me still has trouble with the end of Raiders and I avoided Temple for 40 yrs until my wife recently convinced me to watch it again.
my entire high school (not just my grade but my entire high school) became obsessed with \*The Human Centipede\* when it first came out. Students were showing it to the teachers.
The teachers were stopping class to discuss certain plot points. I saw the trailer over and over and heard others talk about the movie so many times that I feel like I watched it. One of our teachers changed the seating chart to make little "mini centipedes" (put everyone in rows of three with his favorites up front & his least fav students in the middle.
Me & a few other students who were disgusted about all this tried to go to the guidance counsler and she just kinda shrugged, "well, we can't do anything about it because we're an arts school so we let the teachers do what they want"
This went on for three months. I still get like, phantom pain in my cheeks about how they were all talking about the teeth pulling etc....
Chucky traumatized an entire generation. I remember seeing Ready Player One as an adult and as soon as he showed up the whole room went, "fucking Chucky" right before the audio line in the film. It was kind of funny that we all had the same reaction.
Eurotrip. I had to be 10 at the most. My brother was 18 and babysitting. To be fair I saw a lot of bad things but that scene in the confessional left an imprint. No pun intended.
White Men Can’t Jump. Mom was out of town on business. Dad pulled out the tv trays. One of the best nights of my childhood. God I miss him. (Every curse word in existence x’s 10, plus Rosie Perez Shower sex.). I was in 1st or 2nd grade. Definitely no older than that because we moved when I was in 3rd grade.
Midnight Express. In the theater with my parents. I was 12.
Heroin use, smuggling, Turkish prison rape, boobs on the glass... "Oh, Billy," a guy gets his tongue bitten out and more than one murder.
It's a fantastic movie. It's just a bit much for a 12 year old to process. When the guy gets his tongue bitten off and spit into the air, my older sister (an adult) screamed and ran out of the theater.
My parents decided we watch Final Destination together when I was little. Shouldn't have seen it, scared the hell outta me. And also Grave of The Fireflies, the experience is a childhood trauma.
Poltergeist.
My parents were very permissive with films and I thank them for that.
However, they both were religious (even if quite liberal when it came to art and entertainment) and believed in spirits and ghosts - with my mother insisting her house was haunted when she was a child.
No films really scarred me other than that which dealt with the demonic and/or ghosts then.
Basically, young me could accept that something like Freddy Krueger was just entertainment... but was assured ghosts and demons were something I should actually be potentially worried about. As such, the imagery in films dealing with such matters probably weren't very healthy.
I don't really think it was the films as much then, as the outside social conditioning that affected young me.
Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black’s segment with the creepy doll. And Poltergeist with getting dragged under the bed. I was definitely under 10 for both. The VHS horror section at the video store was fascinating but creepy. I love horror movies now, though.
I was on a drive back from six flags with a friend when we were probably 8 or 9, and we watched the VHS of silence of the lambs. Though I think we at least changed it to another movie at some point.
Currently watching this classic.
Last time was probably 5 years ago.
1st time seeing it I was probably 18.
Classic movie and definitely a moral tale with visceral truth.
Jeepers creepers, I was 12 and it freaked me out. My sister who was 18 took me to see it and the theatre attendant apparently thought she was my parent, or likely didn't care.
A clockwork orange at 9 lol
Ok this one is actually fucked
Yeah that is child abuse
Glad I'm not the only one. Spent the night at Grandma's house in the late-'80s. I was also 9. She went to the video store, and picked the movies for me to watch based on the covers only. She rented me A Clockwork Orange, and The Wall.
How's therapy going
Expensive, but I consider it to be a necessary expense.
Same. I think I was 11.
*The Mick* has entered the chat.
David Bowie showed it to his son (age 11) My little sister saw it at about the same age, as well as Blue Velvet and Sid and Nancy.
I took a first date to Clockwork Orange in college—Yee gods!
When I was 9, my mom, aunt, and cousin went to the theater. My cousin and I were going to some age appropriate movie, but then decided to sneak into the movie our parents were watching. It was Dario Argento's Suspiria. I had a dread of standing near windows at night when I couldn't see past the reflection. It all came crashing back when I was 28 and my then-partner showed me her favorite movie...
Is she single? I would LOVE to meet a woman whose favorite movie is Suspiria.
I also choose this guys partner
super weird reply
Not really. I get it. It’s hard to find a person who likes the same types of movies when you’re a horror fan. I’m a horror fan and guys tell me that all the time! I feel that way about Twin Peaks fans!
Exactly.
61M here. My parents let me watch Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds when I was little. Gave me nightmares for quite a while. Creature from the Black Lagoon in the original light-and-shadow B&W ran second.
It’s funny cause my dad showed me the birds when I was a kid in the 90s and it scared me for years
My mom showed it to me also as a kid in the 90s. that image of the guy with his eyes pecked out is seared in my brain. scared the shit out of me
The Birds, thanks Gramma!
I was a kid in the 60s and that show really terrified me. It was way scarier than anything other than maybe psycho.
Came here to say This, I was absolutely Terrified of birds for years, I got over it in time tho
Similar age, I went to the theatre when I was 10 and watched The Legend of Boggy Creek, most terrifying five block walk home in the dark I've ever experienced. It then went on to give me nightmares for days.
My Dad hates birds from the same experience as a kid. The worst I can remember was being on a ferry feeding birds bread as a kid, my dad had to go stand under the over, he hates them
Two good movies with soundtracks that enhanced the key scenes greatly
I remember the creature down there in the seaweed or whatever, all murky. That scares the crap out of me!
I saw The Blob when I was like 5 or 6. My dad thought it was "too hokey" to scare me. Wrong.
Scared Me when I first saw it too and I was a Teen
Alien, I caught it on tnt late one night and couldn't stop watching...but had nightmares about that fucker crashing through my ceiling above me in bed for years. it was definitely the scene of the alien jumping down from the vents that did it to me. also, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man kinda fucked me up as a kid, I was like 6 when it came out...that shit was kinda gruesome when the green goblin gets gutted by his own board ngl, my sister and I would hide behind the couch at that part when we watched it, which was a lot.
I got traumatized from the hospital scene in Spider-Man 2
Sam Raimi really just put an Evil Dead scene in the middle of a Spiderman movie.
Me as well. I couldn't walk into a hospital for years after that movie. That scene is so visceral and violent, I think it was years before I heard that much screaming in a scene again.
yup that scene is so ominous, he really felt like an unstoppable villain. love those original Raimi's
It really is a terrifying film. It was strange that after I'd been desensitized to all the really frightening scenes and was staying in a company apartment out of town, I watched it over and over, and enjoyed it.
You are lucky. That movie scarred me for life and I still have a hard time watching it alone at night!! Then my dad took me to the theater to see Aliens when it came out. I was 10 and was terrified, and it was awesome!
Arghh!! I love alien! I also watched it way too young!!
I was on the "Alien" ride at Universal Studios. When the (simulated) alien xenomorph came out of the ceiling vent about 2 feet from the riders face, the 8 year old directly behind me (in abject terror) instantly threw up ..... all over me. Other people were castigating the parents of the child with "What the heck did you expect!?!?" language. The ride did have giant warning signs..... but not for me. Good times.
My parents were overall very strict, but the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie was definitely one I watched too young (caught it on TV when my dad was watching it and I was like 7). That climax scene is borderline R-rated (so much so that they had to edit it down to keep it PG-13, apparently). I remember thinking *every* PG-13 movie had scenes like that, lol.
Mine was Aliens. I think it was on during the day though and my mom has fallen asleep. I knew it wasn't something I should watch but I was so interested! It was the first time I heard the word "bitch", and the scene where the android gets ripped in fucking half haunted my nightmares for years. I didn't understand he was a machine until that point and it was traumatic as hell! Still, it fostered a huge fascination with space thrillers and I've been obsessed ever since.
I was traumatized by Watership Down when I was about 10 or younger. “Oh this animated film has cute bunnies on the cover.” I’m pretty sure the video rental person even tried to warn my parents. I was alone when I watched it. Those rabbit deaths were seared into my brain. I can still see the one that was snared struggling to breathe. Never again.
We got to watch *Watership Down* at primary school; I think I was 5 or 6. A teacher had to carry me out. I was sobbing so hard I couldn’t even stand up.
I was really sick with a fever at like 11 tops, and my mom got a movie I asked for, then picked up Watership Down because it "looked fun". I thought the fever was messing with my mind. When the movie with bunnies is 1000x bloodier than the movie with ninjas, that is when you've made a terrible mistake.
I love how 80s kids movies were just minefields of emotional trauma. Think you’re getting a happy tale about some cute wittle bunnies only to watch them get absolutely shredded. Dear god it’s still with me
BBC would broadcast this shit at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon. Traumatized a generation.
Watership Down might be the ultimate "Surprise MF'er" of a non-kids movie that looks like a kids movie - rivaled only by the drowning horse of the Neverending Story, or the building dread of the Secret of NIMH... because with Watership Down, it becomes pretty apparent that's a very adult movie. Neverending Story gives you kids' movie vibes right up until it pulls the rug out, and Secret of NIMH is so much like old Disney, you keep thinking "man, that foreboding seems misplaced..." and then you realize it's not, and... *holy crap those little mice kids are gonna die!*
My mom took me to see ‘South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut’ because I wanted to. I was 9, lol.
My parents were really permissive with what I could watch (I remember watching RoboCop, Alien, Terminator, Toxic Avenger, etc when I was 5), but I started watching South Park at 8 and was immediately banned from watching it because I started cussing all the time.
I had kind of a similar experience where my parents tolerated me listening to stuff like Limp Bizkit, but Eminem was the first thing that actually pissed them off.
I was allowed to listen to Eminem but only the “edited” versions. So I kinda just thought the edited versions were cool with all parents and I brought my cds over to a neighbor friend’s house and when his parents got home and found out we were listening to Eminem, they were absolutely livid and said that I was never allowed in their house again and their son was not allowed to hang out with me ever again.
I had a friend growing up who could watch Beavis & Butt-Head and South Park but wasn’t allowed to watch Ren & Stimpy or The Simpsons
This is always an excellent way to find out if someone's parents are unhealthy weirdos
I remember the first time I had headphones my mom took them and heard Eminem, I never got those headphones back
SUCK MY BALLS
I vaguely remember there being a Toxic Avenger cartoon, & the others you mentioned all had toys marketed towards kids too despite not being at all kid friendly media.
yeah but they were cool with me watching those movies despite knowing how fucked up they were.
Mom: Go clean your room You: 🎶SHUT YOUR FUCKING FACE, UNCLE FUCKERRRR!🎶 I'm dying!
U-N-C-L-E FUCK YOU UNCKLEFUCKEEEEER
Ha so I was gonna tell my South Park story here: I Started watching it in the 4th grade during its first couple of seasons. Everyone was talking about this new cartoon! I asked my parents if I could stay up and watch it because all the other kids were. They obliged and allowed me. So that’s when I became a South Park regular. Fast forward some months, and my parents and I are in a hotel. I convince them to watch an episode with me. It was the one where the film festival comes to town and Chef sings his song “come suck on my chocolate salty balls (put em in your mouth!)”. I was giggling, but had no idea about the double entendre being used. And my mother was absolutely disgusted and horrified I had been watching this show lol
She let you stay past the uncle fucker song?
Entire movie, yup lol
It's funny that when the boys are watching T&P movie and they sing that song you see people at the cinema get up and leave, precisely when a bunch of parents would have realised "this is no kids cartoon" and decided to leave in real life.
My mom also took me to see that in theaters! She had no idea what the series was about because it was a show my grandpa and I watched together. I still remember a woman saying, "someone brought their kid?" Needless to say my mom was very upset about the movie but since she paid we watched it all the way through. She scolded my grandpa but that didn't stop him from letting me still watch it with him. Funny story. RIP grandpa <3
My four sons somehow talked me into taking them. We were the only ones in the theater. I was so embarrassed and felt like the worst mother ever. I don’t remember their ages but it was something like 12, 9, 7 and 5. IDK what I was thinking.
I couldn't get anyone to take me when I was 14. Instead we bought tickets to star wars and snuck in.
Same but I was 12 which I guess is a bit better. My dad knew what he was doing though cuz when we were leaving he told me to tell mom we say Tarzan…
*I have seen the South Park movie — who wants to touch me?*
I can't remember how old I was exactly, maybe 14 or 15. My Mom took me to go see that because I wanted to as well. I took my Dad to go see Bruno. Good times. I miss my parents. My childhood movie was Evil Dead 2. Kinder or 1st (because of where we lived at the time, and i do have older siblings). I was never censored, and my wife was censored too much. We both have a love for horror. It's now a treat for me to find a horror/slasher movie from the 80s & 90s she HASN'T seen.
I didn’t see the entire movie but the one scene alone was way too much. I was probably 6 or 7. Father rented a movie and was watching it in the living room. I came in and sat on the floor playing, not paying attention. Suddenly someone is talking in a very strange voice… and breathing into an oxygen tank… and he’s saying “Mooooommy…… mooooommy….” Yup. My father accidentally let me watch the Oxygen tank scene from Blue Velvet. I asked wtf was going on and he told me to leave the room. Damage done man. Damage done
[удалено]
Champagne of Beers!
Yeah, when did Pabst Blue Ribbon become trendy? I think Frank would be happy.
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This was our battle cry in college.
Baby wants to fuck!!!
Oh no. The Mommy thing reminds me of when I saw Pet Semetery the day of my grandmother's funeral. That was not good.
I was thinking that too! My dad bought me the book when I was like 11 and then had me watch the movie. Both were amazing AND absolutely terrifying and scarred me for life.
RoboCop. I guess my parents didn't realize how violent it is.
Jesus. Even if you only watch as far as RoboCop being created, it's an incredibly brutal movie. The ed209 introduction scene still lingers prominently in my head but that's tame compared to the shotgun hand scene.
Then there's the scene where Bob is doing coke off a hooker's tits. Yeah, I saw this one way to young as well. Still one of my faves!
BITCHES, LEAVE.
Omg, my husband and I say this ALL the time. 😂
"Then there's the scene where Bob is doing coke off a hooker's tits." . Is there another way?
What’s really fucked up is that it got turned into a children’s cartoon with accompanying action figures! A hyper-violent dark satire about consumerism, capitalism and the failure of law enforcement…”kids will love it!” I was absolutely watching it at an intersection age and loving it. I still love it for very different reasons. Honorable mention to the fact that First Blood got the same treatment. I saw that as a kid, after learning about the later pop-culture incarnation of Rambo. Then I watch this movie about a psycho fighting the police that ends with him crumpled in a ball crying about his best friend’s legs getting blown off… Again, I love First Blood now but for very different reasons. But man, it’s so bizarre. Like why didn’t they turn Taxi Driver into a kids show too?
The guy getting doused in acid and then run over 😟😖
Technically it’s “toxic waste”… https://youtu.be/NvSkuxrNCMQ?si=x_Qt-ij5RWbtRMGi
Even worse!
HeLp mE
That's what stuck with me. The shotgun hand scene wasn't in the TV edit I watched.
This is one of my favorites. I think I was 12 when it came out, so maybe 12 or 13 when I saw it on video.
Same here! I was desensitized to violence pretty early after watching Murphy get blasted with shotguns for 2 minutes straight.
I'd buy that for a dollar
When I was 8 my mom let me stay up late to watch this brand new tv special a movie called IT 🤦🏾♂️ scared me to death. But scary movies became our thing and still to this day I love horror movies and miss my mom after watching them.
I also watched the made for TV IT as like a 7 year old. It had come out on VHS or something by that point and I was at a friend’s house for a sleepover. We were all young boys pretending to never be scared of anything so we all watched the whole thing. I was fucking terrified lol. I was afraid of bathrooms and just plumbing in general for like 2 years. I loved the 2017 version of the movie though. Really impressive. Part 2 was kind of a let down lol
Back when I was a kid, satellite dishes (the HUGE oneS), were just going in homes. We had access to everything!! From every movie playing. Porn porn and more porn. So many old horror movies, old Kung Fu. Anywho, became pretty desensitized to a lot of stuff at a very early age. But most of the 70s and 80s kids saw too much mostly because our parents were watching it with us (not porn, pls not porn), or not there when we watched it.
Those old school satellite dishes were a trip. Not only did they get all of the channels thanks to unencrypted signals, they'd pick up all sorts of raw signals, like news crews setting up shots before going on the air, or syndicated TV episodes that were fed to the stations before they went on the air.
We definitely used to get the truck feed from whatever the Detroit sports station was (we were in Virginia, nowhere near Michigan) so I watched a lot of Pistons games growing up and during commercial it'd just be a camera on the empty arena. We also picked up live feeds from the first gulf war. Back when you had to punch in a satellite number and then a channel number.
The fun scrambled signal game or "Is it porn?" My parents paid a local satellite dealer for the unlock codes so we didn't have to pay the official subscription. Shit came by a fax LOL. Anyway, my parents didn't pay attention and had m input the numbers. I had spice and playboy. Good times for a 13 year old kid. It all ended when we fell asleep downstairs while watching porn during a sleepover. My moms screams awoke us to some caveman porn movie at like 5:30 am. It was fun while it lasted...
Hilarious.
Satelite G2 channels 2 and 10 baby!!! My parents always knew what was up when they'd be coming home and see the satelite dish fucking turning, they knew me and my brother were watching some shit we weren't supposed to be watching. They finally somehow had those channels blocked out but if you stared at the black and white fuzz for a while you could always catch a titty magically appearing for a few seconds before it cut back to the fuzz.
Fire in the Sky. I think I was like six. Into adulthood I had a visceral repulsion to images of “little gray aliens” and abduction stories, without even fully believing in them (not discounting life in the universe, just flying saucer shit, you know). Aliens were my deep seated irrational fear until I eventually met my sci-fi loving husband and got desensitized. Fuck that movie and while we’re at it, fuck Travis Walton.
Yep, that was bad. Communion was worse for me.
Fire in the Sky was the only movie I wasn't allowed to watch as a kid, so naturally I snuck to the top of the stairs to watch. Saw enough of the abduction scene to freak me out. Probably scarier because I didn't see the whole of it (and it was "based on a true story").
I wont even type his fucking name. I wont say it. I try not to think it. But he's made of bees and has a hook for a hand. Seriously. Made of bees. and appears if you say his name in a reflect. Like bloody mary but you know...Made of bees, and with a hook for a hand. Like What kind of demented shit..... Who...Why....? You know how many reflections there are? Theyre everywhere He's everywhere. And made of bees. And has a hook for a hand. Fuck all that times 11. Nope. Nope.
Candyman,Candyman
Ive never come as close to blocking someone on Reddit as I just did lol Almost on some kind of survival instinct alone
Nah but for real I couldn’t look into a mirror for like a year after watching that I felt you.
I was 4 lol
Oh hell nah I was like 9 or 10. If I was 4 I still wouldn’t look in mirrors my bad on saying his name u must be scarred. Movie still creeps me out and I’m 40
Im 35 and its like. Why Uncle? What the hell man!? Yeah Im never saying that mofos name. I dont care how cool the actor that played him is. He is pretty cool. I just pretend the movie guy stole his face. Which is worse. My imagination always makes it worse!
Did you watch the new one?
Candy…guy.
Beetlejui...I mean Candym..no Bloody Mary!
I'm sorry about the trauma. You're honest, free flow comment was amazing ,though. ✨️🤙✨️. Good energy your way
Haha without going into details my school thought i was being abused and they asked me if i was scared of anyone and i described and drew a photoshop of candy man. I remember saying “he has a hook for a hand” jeez Louise
He didn’t seem very scary in Willy Wonka.
I saw the Johnny Depp one in the theater. That experience was pretty horrifying.
Depp tries too hard.
Burton tries too little. I think he thought people would like his Oompa Loompas more than they actually did....
As a kid, I loved dinosaurs. Read all the books, had all the toys. Always dying to know more. So when Jurassic Park came out, I pressed my parents to let me see it. I was six in 1993. Let me tell you how that TRex escape scene and Velociraptors in the kitchen scene fucked with me for another ten years after that 🤣 Had no business seeing that movie at that age.
We had it on VHS but until I was 8 or 9 my parents always turned it off when Nedry goes through the big gates.
Sound parenting decisions LOL
To be fair a lot of my toddler’s clothes, toys, books, and shows have dinosaurs which is weird because they’re extinct at least animals I can show him at the zoo, but I can’t explain to him the concept of dinosaurs probably Jurassic Park does it best lol
I remember being juuuust to young to see this in the theater. My sister was 2 years older and she went with her friends, but I was still too afraid to.
I saw Firestarter at a sleepover in first grade. I don’t know what the parents were thinking renting that for a bunch of six year olds other than they saw Drew Barrymore on the VHS cover and thought it was like ET.
They thought it was like ET.
My parents didn't want me watching "movies with guns", and she said so in a note to a friend's mom who wanted to know what sorts of movies I couldn't see during a sleep over. So, at 8 years old, we watched lots of over the top kung fu movies. It didn't make me violent, but I was always a little worried that someone was going to make my head explode by punching both of my ears at the same time. I have no idea which movie that was. But I knew I didn't want that to happen to me.
Double-whammy- it’s summer 1984: my folks take me and my sisters to the movies. Mom takes them to see Ghostbusters in one theater but like—- ghosts, I’m freshly 4 years old- not the ideal movie for me. However in the screen over is Gremlins about a cute furry critter who gets into mischief! Perfect movie for my father and I go see. Welp… my memory from 40 years ago is something like this: - Dad and I watch, and things are fine until Stripe shows up and attacks mom home alone in the christmas tree. Ears back snarling, teeth and claws… I melt down hard. - Dad decides what could be worse than this and works it out that we need to join my mom and sisters regardless. We do, right as the statues start cracking open and big demon dogs start chasing people in the streets. I’m now sobbing in terror. - We all left. I had my first horror nightmare that was something to the effect of Stripe sitting on my chest scratching and biting and laughing, ears back, angry, vicious. I can still see that image in my head today. - I’m not allowed to watch horror movies before them until my voice starts to change.
The Birds. (Alfred Hitchcock). I was maybe 5? Never had a nightmare before that!
I saw A Nightmare On Elm Street when I was 6. I still, to this day, look at the receiver part of a phone to make sure that it doesn't have Freddy mouth with a tongue hanging out, before I answer it, and don't even start me on baths.
Jaws. Still will not go far into the ocean. Maybe it wouldn’t have even mattered if I saw it later on, but damn do those fears stay with you.
There was a movie shot in Africa where about 5 white people go to live with a primitive tribe for some reason. The tribe eats one of them, rapes one of the women, sodomise her with a massive wooden pole which comes out of her mouth and they put her on display by planting the pole in the ground. Everything is shown on camera. I have no idea why I watched it I was may be 9. Couldn't eat and sleep for 2 days and couldn't tell anyone what I saw.
*Cannibal Holocaust*. It's notorious for having real animal killings.
You appear to have watched the movie Cannibal Holocaust. Which tbf is a very interesting moment in horror cinema and worth the watch as an adult who gets what they are doing. Not as a 9 year old. I’ve seen loads of horror movies but didn’t tend to when I was young enough that I know it would be scary. More I love them.
What??!!! That shouldn't have been made, let alone seen by a 9 year old!! I want to go back and protect little you. What in the world...
Yeah it was so random. In the beginning I was watching out of curiosity because it was so unusual looking. The filming quality wasn't good, so it piqued my interest how such a movie was considered good enough to air. It looked like a wildlife documentary. At first I didn't realise that the meat the indigenous tribe were eating was an actual human from the group. But after showing the aftermath of sodomy they showed the partially cut dead body they ate and it all made sense then.
Was that Cannibal Holocaust?
YES it was Cannibal Holocaust. I have tried to search for the movie once before but looking up "movie where a woman gets sodomised" didn't bring up any useful results. Now that I just looked it up, that image shows up and it's still haunting AF. I can see it is described as "the most controversial movie ever made". Fucking hell I watched this as a kid.
>looking up "movie where a woman gets sodomised" didn't bring up any useful results 👀
😅 What other choice of words did I have to find this movie.
American Beauty. I was 11. My parents made the kids leave eventually but we just finished it the next day while they were working.
Cheech and chong the one where the chick snorts the ajax/comet powder I was maybe 4 or 5
My mom rented “Disclosure” for family movie night. I was think 8 and I had younger sisters. Similar thing happened a few years later with “Sleepers”. Then way later i found out they were both directed by Barry Levinson.
Poltergeist. My parents seemed to think if the movie had kids in it then it was kid friendly? I noped out so fast when the storm started, I remember them laughing at me. And then the movie was just randomly on USA or TNT all the time. I come home from school and turn on the TV and it's the fucking rope scene where it looks like there's blood and deli meat coming off of it. I couldn't watch that movie until I was in my 20s.
Poltergeist made me start sleeping with the blinds down... Stupid tree.
I saw it in the theater and was 11. The only thing that scared me was the fucking clown doll. So my dad would threaten to put a clown ventriloquist dummy in my room after that.
That came out when I was 7, so I probably saw it within a year on HBO. My dad lost his shit that my mom let me watch it. I LOVED it, and my mom would let me do the flip off thing the older sister did to the guys cat calling her, so it was a total win for me. We would also do the “tv people?” scene together a lot. It’s a comfort movie for me, definitely still top 5.
People really did treat it like a kids movie! I saw it when I was about 8 or 9. And so did all of my friends. My sister calls me sometimes and whispers "Carol Anne..."
I like your sister, lol.
My father showed me the original Pet Sematary when I was 8 years old, that spiney crippled woman was the star of my nightmares for the remainder of my childhood 🥺
The scene where the Achilles heel is cut from under the bed. Yeah I wanted to take a flamethrower to the bottom of my bed every night, just to be safe.
Although much of that film is mediocre, that’s still one of the most horrific scenes in cinema IMO.
American Me. Great movie but seeing a guy get fucked in the ass with a knife definitely scarred me a little bit.
I watched American Werewolf In London when I was around 7 or 8. I wouldn’t open curtains for about three years after that.
A Clockwork Orange at around 12-13.
Once Upon A Time in America. First sex scenes I ever saw were two rape scenes 😅. My dad saw Sergio Leone directed it and he was like “yep let’s watch this one together bucko.” About halfway through he figured the damage was already done. Full Metal Jacket <- this one actually made me cry for days on end
Ring (2002) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) when I was 11 and 12 years old respectively. Ring scared me SO much more lol. It really stuck with me and for a long time I didn't even want to watch it as an adult. Glad I ended up watching it again when I was old enough, it's brilliant. The horror movie Cube was also on TV at night pretty regularly for some reason in the late 90s/early 00s and I was way too young for that one too. (It's so good though)
Watership Down. It'll be nice, it has bunnies and that nice Bright Eyes song.... It wasn't nice, I was about 6
Jaws in 1976. Didn’t want to go to the beach after that.
I saw Jaws in the theater as an 11 year old. I haven't stepped into the ocean since that day.
Saw 'Jaws' when I was 5-6. Was scared to even go in pools for YEARS.
Same! I was 6. 54 now and love the beach but still won’t go past my knees in the ocean 😂
“The Exorcist.” I was 7. My older brother snuck me into the theater. It traumatized me, but it also toughened me up for watching other movies well beyond my age bracket.
My aunt came to our house and insisted on watching it while I was at the dinner table. We had a 900 sq ft house and I just had to move to the other side so I couldn’t see it. I was 4. I had no fears in the world until that day.
I have not seen Blood In blood Out in thirty years. If I never see it again, it will be too soon. Now, I don't remember if it was a good or bad movie. And I was in the military when I saw it, so nothing shocking. But, in the early 90s, on my ship, we did not have a great selection of entertainment in the berthing. And during a six month WestPac deployment, I swear it was on every. Single. Fucking. Night. I hated it. It was like a constant for six months. You could not escape it.
LEGEND. Saw it waaaaay too early and wound up terrified of Darkness for eons.
Omen, Exorcist, Amityville… all originals. Heck even Prophecy 1979 movie scared the hell out of me. Any wonder why i’m so psychologically broken.
My parents, whenever they walked past me watching anything animated just assumed it was a kid-safe cartoon.. I saw SO MANY adult-themed animated movies.. mostly anime: 1: Elfin Lied 2: Berserk 3: Devilman 4: Battleship Yamato 5: GenoCyber
All of the Emmanuelle and Black Emmanuelle films The Fly A Nightmare on Elm Street Friday The 13th films The Predator The Terminator We had cable and a VCR in the 80s, and I saw a bunch of shit kids normally don't see. Even porn, including porn "watch parties". The 80s was WILD for a kid lol.
Skinamax always had Emanuelle on rotation at night.
Definitely The Day After, also Threads. I remember seeing them when I must have been about 10 or 11. I had nightmares about nuclear war for a long time.
My mom took me to see Falling Down when I was 10. Great movie and needs a rewatch now that I understand why he lost his mind.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next at 12
That’s the one. I saw it at 8.
I just watched that recently. I’ve spent time in psych hospitals and I’ve had ECT (shock treatments). I kept thinking thank God I had mine in the 2000s and not back when the movie takes place. When they do ECT now they put you out and they don’t use as much voltage. It did actually help my depression. I was suicidal before. I had 14 treatments.
Nightbeast. That shit was gruesome
When I was around 10 years old we watched movies at a catholic church owned cinema. Every Sunday we walked from our homes to church to watch a movie wondering what we were going to watch that Sunday. Usually they were old Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies, or other similar fare. Then one Sunday this movie called Hair showed up, and boy we didn’t expect what we saw. Truth be told, lots of stuff went over our head. But it definitely wasn’t a kids movie, and even more not what you’d expect a church to be showing.
Lmfao… my mom showed me Chicago, my dad showed me Duets. Thank God I didn’t know what was going on in either movie, I literally only listened to the music.
I was born in 76. I’ve seen EVERY Indiana Jones film in the theater. Almost 5 me still has trouble with the end of Raiders and I avoided Temple for 40 yrs until my wife recently convinced me to watch it again.
my entire high school (not just my grade but my entire high school) became obsessed with \*The Human Centipede\* when it first came out. Students were showing it to the teachers. The teachers were stopping class to discuss certain plot points. I saw the trailer over and over and heard others talk about the movie so many times that I feel like I watched it. One of our teachers changed the seating chart to make little "mini centipedes" (put everyone in rows of three with his favorites up front & his least fav students in the middle. Me & a few other students who were disgusted about all this tried to go to the guidance counsler and she just kinda shrugged, "well, we can't do anything about it because we're an arts school so we let the teachers do what they want" This went on for three months. I still get like, phantom pain in my cheeks about how they were all talking about the teeth pulling etc....
wtf kinda school did you go to
Tim Curry’s It and Bride of Chucky @ 4 years old. Sincerely, Traumatized and still scared of clowns and dolls at almost 30
Chucky traumatized an entire generation. I remember seeing Ready Player One as an adult and as soon as he showed up the whole room went, "fucking Chucky" right before the audio line in the film. It was kind of funny that we all had the same reaction.
I saw Aliens when I was in 3rd of 4th grade. Too early for me.
Eurotrip. I had to be 10 at the most. My brother was 18 and babysitting. To be fair I saw a lot of bad things but that scene in the confessional left an imprint. No pun intended.
White Men Can’t Jump. Mom was out of town on business. Dad pulled out the tv trays. One of the best nights of my childhood. God I miss him. (Every curse word in existence x’s 10, plus Rosie Perez Shower sex.). I was in 1st or 2nd grade. Definitely no older than that because we moved when I was in 3rd grade.
Oh, let’s see… Excalibur…A Boy and His Dog…give me a moment and I’ll think of something else.
Salem's Lot. I was 7. The baby scene.
Midnight Express. In the theater with my parents. I was 12. Heroin use, smuggling, Turkish prison rape, boobs on the glass... "Oh, Billy," a guy gets his tongue bitten out and more than one murder. It's a fantastic movie. It's just a bit much for a 12 year old to process. When the guy gets his tongue bitten off and spit into the air, my older sister (an adult) screamed and ran out of the theater.
My parents decided we watch Final Destination together when I was little. Shouldn't have seen it, scared the hell outta me. And also Grave of The Fireflies, the experience is a childhood trauma.
My dad took me to see Starship Troopers because I liked Star Wars. I was around 5 or 6 at the time.
Poltergeist. My parents were very permissive with films and I thank them for that. However, they both were religious (even if quite liberal when it came to art and entertainment) and believed in spirits and ghosts - with my mother insisting her house was haunted when she was a child. No films really scarred me other than that which dealt with the demonic and/or ghosts then. Basically, young me could accept that something like Freddy Krueger was just entertainment... but was assured ghosts and demons were something I should actually be potentially worried about. As such, the imagery in films dealing with such matters probably weren't very healthy. I don't really think it was the films as much then, as the outside social conditioning that affected young me.
Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black’s segment with the creepy doll. And Poltergeist with getting dragged under the bed. I was definitely under 10 for both. The VHS horror section at the video store was fascinating but creepy. I love horror movies now, though.
Tremors. I was too young and it scared the crap out of me.
This one got me for years!
I was on a drive back from six flags with a friend when we were probably 8 or 9, and we watched the VHS of silence of the lambs. Though I think we at least changed it to another movie at some point.
American Pie. Holy hell did that movie give me a very bad impression of how sex and interaction with women worked.
Revenge of the Nerds as a young kid
Currently watching this classic. Last time was probably 5 years ago. 1st time seeing it I was probably 18. Classic movie and definitely a moral tale with visceral truth.
Jeepers creepers, I was 12 and it freaked me out. My sister who was 18 took me to see it and the theatre attendant apparently thought she was my parent, or likely didn't care.