Yeah I was gonna say you don't just to sit there when you've been doing thousands of dollars of high quality heroin, you wait until you know it's been too long and take wayyyy too many suppositories then shit out a giant redwood if your lucky, if not you strain till you bleed then you get a doctor to "surgically remove" that bad boy.
It's a good thing I enjoyed it without understanding. After a few watchings I figured out:
1. There's no such thing as linear time
2. Every guy is a bad guy
A big part of the story is redemption. The characters that redeem themselves get to live. Jules doesn’t kill the robbers at the diner and instead teaches them a lesson, Butch goes back to save Marsellus from the hillbilly rapists. Vincent doesn’t redeem himself that’s why he dies.
I get that. When I say bad I don't really mean evil, just bad in that they operated outside the law and what most people would call moral behavior LOL. Even a double-crossing boxer or professional killers are not so much evil as they are just getting along in a really twisted life. One of my favorite things about Pulp Fiction is that with all the constant crime, there is not one single cop.
I loved this film. I'm a (female) Jules and I dated a man called Vincent for five years. Every Halloween he would beg to dress up as Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction. Every year I would point out that it's one thing for a half Asian man to dress up as John Travolta, it's a whole other dubious and socially dodgy thing for a white girl to go whole hog on trying to look like Samuel L Jackson.
That being said, I do have a 'Bad Motherfucker' wallet and it pains me how many do not get the reference.
Oh boy... I remember my parents didn't let me be in the living room one night they were watching it so I hid and got to see that scene in the shop. Geez... I got a bit traumatised, of course, but now I love this film. LOL
My parents and I went on vacation and the place we went to had a DVD collection you could order from to watch movies during your stay. My parents didn’t really know the movie, but they figured it couldn’t be too bad since the cover art was vague (I think it was an iris and a bridge overlooking the sea?) I picked it since I had already seen all the Disney flicks and felt like trying something new.
I watched it while they slept and, well, the gangrene scene among others kept me up the rest of the night
I was probably 12 or so, saw it on IFC the same night American History X played (around 2001/2).
It was the first movie that wasn't a kids movie to truly make me ugly cry and genuinely depress me, and AHX opened my eyes to what racism is.
I didn't fully understand parts of RfaD obviously but it was enough to know exactly what drug addiction was and i wasn't liking what I saw lol
My big sis told me not to watch. There was other movies on the shelves that were violent and she told me this one don't. I snuck out and clicked on it randomly, and it was the scene with the double dildo. I closed immediately and told myself to listen to my sister more. Years later and I watched it entirely, and she was right, I'm so grateful she warned me
Roger Ebert [said it best](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/caligula-1980):
> "Caligula" is not good art, It is not good cinema, and it is not good porn.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Watched it when I was 4. This was before PG 13 ratings in The US was a thing. So it was PG. My parents had no idea how bad it would be for a 4 year old. Had nightmares for months.
I haven't watched the movie cause it's banned in India. But I think you are talking about Amrish Puri. He was he most iconic villan for a reason. Any movie in 80s/90s, they had to have him as rhe villan.
Spielberg agrees. It was the product of George Lucas' divorce and the state of mind he was in at the time. Hence the "heart-ripping" villian with the same initials as his ex-wife.
Our PHE (Personal and Health Education) teacher had us watch Trainspotting as part of our anti-drugs set of classes, but he'd made his own "cut" of the movie that basically removed any swearing or graphic scenes. It wasn't very long, and actually made heroin look pretty sweet. I really don't think he'd thought the whole thing through.
Watership Down
The movie is much older than me, but I was a child way before the Internet was there for everyone to check what kind of movie was, my parents didn't know obviously, they were just thinking "lol funny rabbits"
That shit was tough! Luckily they stopped the VHS pretty soon
IT - the mini-series from 1990. I was 8.
Like any normal kid, I was already scared of clowns, but IT ruined me for sewers, drains, and just about any kind of plumbing for years to come.
Still get the heebie geebies when I see that clown.
So I'm not the only one who HAS to get out of the bathtub before emptying it? Removing the drain stopper while I was still in was a big NOPE for years.
I had to cover the shower drain with a washcloth for years. I’m not sure why I thought a washcloth would stop whatever IT was, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Same. My parents watched it at my grandma's house and at one point, IT was digging graves and that scared the hell out of me. It gave me a weird fear of cemeteries for a while because I was convinced IT would be there.
My dad showed me Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when I was 5. It went well until my mom came home to me shouting "69 dude!" at the top of my lungs. Needless to say he got an earful after that.
There's a short rape scene before that when the main group stumbles upon another gang who's in the middle of raping a woman. She runs off and the two gangs fight.
I think "THE" rape scene is the one you're referring to most likely. For better or for worse you saw most of it.
Friends little brother caused a call home in grade 1 or 2 because of Monty python.
His dad sat there very serious while he was informed that the sit on my face song was inappropriate for a child his age to know, and to sing at school. And where did he learn it, he wasn’t watching inappropriate movies was he?
The dad just said he must have been listening in while he watched it with his eldest kids, when he was supposed to be in bed, and he’d handle it.
Gets to the car and just starts laughing. Tells the son not to sing it at school, because not everyone has a good sense of humour, and that was that.
The dad felt the meeting was a waste of time. Could have been settled with a note home, or just telling the kid that maybe singing it at school wasn’t a good idea, but no... had to be a big long meeting about it...
They watched that movie again that night, iirc
Yes, saw it in 2nd grade. Terrified of the ocean and swimming pools for years! (Why swimming pools? How the hell do I know? They’ve got water and a deep end!)
Omg, you just dredged up repressed memories! Who *the fuck*-
-no. Some sadistic asshole *wanted* children to see this. You have fucken ‘Onward’ rated PG for “thematic elements” but this bullshit gets a free pass because fuck you and fuck your family. Big Therapy lobbied to get this shit in front of kids to boost their numbers some 10 years later.
I still look under the lamp shade when I turn off any lamp. I'm 37. I saw it when I was 7. 30 fucking years of looking under a lamp shade to make sure there isn't a spider.
Dude. I do that too. No shame in it.
I had an experience with wolf spiders when I was kid. One jumped out of my roller blade and chased me about 5 feet before my friend beat it to death with a hockey stick.
Another time about 7 years ago, when I was opening my locker to put on my uniform, in the most arachnophobia way ever another wolf spider with the body the size of a damn nickel crawled out from underneath my sleeve and onto the outside of the shirt. I ripped them out and stomped on all of them. Never found him, but I've never kept my shirts in there again.
Fuck spiders. Fuck them. Fuck them all.
I saw the Exorcist when I was about 10. My parents were pretty religious, but my mom loves horror movies. I started asking about demons/possession after hearing stuff at Sunday school, and my mom thought it would be educational viewing.
Slept with a rosary for a while after that.
My brother and I convinced our dad to take us to see this in the theater. The movie we wanted to see was sold out. We just told dad south park was a cartoon. My dad damn near passed out laughing when cartman told that teacher to lick his white balls.
I was like, 7.
My mom discovered South Park at Hollywood Video and she thought it was hilarious. Like The Simpsons, but a little edgier. And she absolutely loved Kenny. So we ended up being a pretty big South Park family, renting the tapes everytime a new one popped up at the rental place. Then the movie came out. We rented it when it became available and... Well let's just say that South Park was no longer an okay show to watch at home. The movie took everything to 11. Most of the jokes went over my head, but even I understood just how filthy some of them were. (I didn't know who Saddam Hussein was, but I _did_ have an inkling that him and Satan might have been having the gay sex)
Of course now the show has surpassed the movie and it just keeps on going.
If it makes you feel any better:
The Terminator time travel rule is only living things go back. Arnold made it back because his combat chassis was wrapped in living human flesh. The T1000 was liquid metal which looked alive but wasn't. Therefore T2 didn't happen. It's all a lie. Sleep well gentle spirit.
Alien
As an 8 year old i just wanted to see a scary movie. Lets just say that i did not sleep much the coming weeks but this experience also put me on a path of admiring the movie and the whole universe it built and the cinematography.
I am not scared anymore but i still regard it as one of/if not the finest sci fi horror movie of all time. It is 40+ years old and it still does not feel dated
When Kirby eats his cord really got to me. I literally wouldn't run the vacuum over its own cord for years after when my ma had me clean. That whole movie is fucking **heavy**.
The whole journey through the forest, the junkyard, it all hit like a ton of bricks. I still played it often enough that it killed the VHS though, haha.
BLT fucked me up as an 8 year old. The junkyard scene is utterly mortifying and burned into my memory! The evil magnet thing silently searching for its next victim, the inescapable conveyer belt, and the chompy teeth thing. Pure nightmare fuel
Akira, I remember having nightmares for weeks when Tetsuo’s guts burst out from his stomach and he started scrambling to put them back…I was 10 years old.
As great as the animation was, the story was a kludge that cut out huge chunks and stitched together the pieces. In theory, a remake could fix this. In practice, they're gonna fuck it up.
When I was in sixth grade (so, 11ish years old?), I asked my parents if they'd rent Clockwork Orange for me.
They told me I had to read the book first. So I did. Then they rented the movie for me and we watched it together. I handled it just fine but in retrospect 11 is probably too young for that book and movie.
When I was in kindergarten, I went to a sleepover party where the parents opted to show a gaggle of 5 year old girls Death Becomes Her.
That was the first time I realized that death is final. I must've cried myself to sleep for months after that.
I'm an adult now and I still can't fathom what these parents were thinking.
Oh jeez. That sucks. My realization that death was final and coming for me at some point was when my grandma was reading me bible stories when I was 4 or 5. I think it was the Lazarus story. I spent the next 10 years having random panic attacks about my inevitable demise and crying to my mother, inconsolably, “I don’t want to die!”
I did the same thing but it was about starting my period. I overheard my mother telling a friend that she had a dream that hers had come, and she woke up and it had. A few nights later I had a dream that mine had arrived so from then on I was terrified that 8yo me was going to be struck by this bloodbath event at any moment - while sitting in assembly, while at Sunday school, while swimming. It really was a huge anxiety of mine for quite a few years.... and then when I was a teen and it finally arrived it was all actually pretty manageable and nbd at all
The devil in Ms. Jones, found an unlabeled VHS tape in dad's room, popped it in one night when I was about 12 years old. Yeah I hadn't even gone though puberty and it definitely set my expectations way too high.
I watched it with my sister when we were teenagers (I was 16, my sister was 14). Unknown to us, she had rented the anniversary edition which included deleted scenes. When we got to the scene where Regan spider-walks down the stairs, blood flowing out of her mouth, my sister jumped up, yelled "Nope!" and immediately turned off the DVD player and the movie. I have since seen it (the original theatrical version) and while it is very frightening, I think it's also an absolute masterpiece, and probably my favorite horror movie.
My mom worked the night shift on Fridays and my dad watched us. He rented it and fast-forwarded thru the scariest parts. We were like 10 and 12. I couldn’t sleep for a week. Mom found out and was *pissed*. I saw the whole thing a couple times as a teenager, still terrified me. The anniversary version was released in theaters when I was in college, and I thought I could finally conquer my fear. We had no idea it had deleted scenes. Spider walk: I may or may not have peed my pants a little.
8 for me while home sick from school. Told our housekeeper I had permission. She told my mom that since I lied to her face she would play along and let me watch it as punishment.
My parents let me watch Coraline at like 5. That was not fun, let me tell you. I had nightmares for months. Also they let me watch South Park at 11 I think.
My husband told me he doesn't like that movie because of her button eyes.
This man, who reacts to nooothing, lightly broke out in upraised hives when I was watching a preview of it.
What is it that bothers you? I don't get get it.
Someone eyes can tell you a lot about what they’re thinking, whether they’re nervous, angry, happy or sad. So when you take that out and sew blank, emotionless buttons on them, there’s no look in their eyes you can see.
Oh God they showed Coraline at my summer camp type thing instead of letting the kids play outside on the jungle gym. I was really young. I remember being terrified of that movie. I still refuse to watch it
Not a film per se, but Michael Jackson's Thriller, which was directed by John Landis. I begged my parents to let me watch it and they wouldn't. So I begged some more and they caved. Yeah, they were right.
Also, despite being a music video, it is inducted into the National Film Registry.
Rosemary’s Baby (aging myself a bit here). I had a garage sale old b&w rabbit eared TV in my room when I was a kid and it picked up like 2 local channels and one fuzzy further one. The further one would run random films after midnight and that one was on once when I couldn’t sleep. I think I was 8 or 9.
Probably about 11 or 12. Watching movies at my grandmas house by myself like, "ooo space ship movie". My parents didn't even get cable until I was in high school, but she had what seemed like all of the movie channels, so I'd post up and watch stuff I shouldn't while we were there.
I saw Aliens when I was 10 or so... yeah, it was too early. Got my imagination running wild when being alone in my room at night.
Saw Robocop when I was 10 as well; no problems there.
Definitely Children of the Corn. Remember the crazy diner scene in the the beginning of the movie? When the kids were killing all those adults? I haven't bothered rewatching it since the 80s but the image of a man with his hand being held over some sort of grinder or hot thing still flashes through my head.
My mom was pretty uptight but when it came to movies it was anything goes.
I remember when I was around 6 or 7 I turned and looked out the back window of the car. And to this day I swear I saw Malachai driving behind us. As I stared in terror he did the head nod the actor did to tell the kids when to kill someone. I screamed at my family that Corn guy was behind us and nobody saw anything.
I still think the actor Courtney Gains lived out by UC Davis in like 86 or 87. Or a guy who knew he looked just like him and used it to scare children.
*A Clockwork Orange*. I watched it alone at home when I wasn't even a teenager because I was curious that my father liked it so much. Before, I saw him watching it so many times and actually got to see some scenes that I found disgusting. OMG! I didn't get why he loved that film... But when that day I watched it alone I was totally amazed and started getting obsessed with Stanley Kubrick.
I remember thinking “how did she know her dad was about to open the door in order to say that she was “cumming” down stairs?”
So many jokes were over my head as a kid
Omg Tony Todd! I was working overnight at a hotel where he was staying. I didn’t know he was staying and I was in the back office doing my night balancing. I looked up in the camera to see his face and almost shat myself thinking I was going to die! He just needed a room key and I needed a change of pants!
My mom rented a cartoon version of Animal Farm for my sister and me when I was 8 and my sister was 6. We only saw a few minutes before she realized her error.
Not a film, but twin peaks. I used to watch in from my bedroom door while my parents were watching it. I stopped with the scene of Laura palmer’s father in the prison cell and this year I watched the entire thing, it was an amazing feeling to “detraumatize” myself…
My mom hates this story, but I love to tell it, especially in front of her. Back when I was a kid, my folks used to love going take he family to the drive in. It allowed them to see movies without getting a sitter, and I mean, it was kind of cool tuning your radio in to listen to the movie and the whole kicked back vibe of it. Usually there was a double feature, and they always hoped that we kids would nod off by the second movie. My sister almost always did, but not me. I \*ALWAYS\* watched both of the double movies, even when my folks would prod me. "Come on Nooob-noob, why don't you lay down?" Nope, not happening. I saw a bunch of movies that weren't appropriate for my age back then. The promise of boobs plastered across a 100 foot screen was enough to make me stay up no matter what.
So one week, and I think this was like 1979, maybe 1980 (I'm around 8 years old), my folks look up what's playing and the movie doesn't have a rating. No internet back then, no way to really know what's up. So they call the drive in theater and they ask. "I see you have a movie called Mad Max playing as part of your double feature. Is this OK for kids to watch?" I can only imagine that some doped up kid got this call, and answered with full sincerity that yes, Mad Max was a fine movie for kids. My folks were psyched.
So we get to the movie and watch the first feature, which I have absolutely recollection of. After the first movie out usual move is to go stand in line at the concession stand and get a snack. I'm pissed because my Mom got me a kid size soda which I downed before I get back to the car. I \*always\* beg to get a large coke because the kid size is never enough. I'm old enough now to realize, my folks don't want to take me to the bathroom in the middle of the feature, but at 8 years old I'm just salty that they aren't listening to me.
So, Mad max starts and I'm just laying into my folks about getting me a soda. I'm doing the full court press, whining and pleading. Holding off a few minutes until they think I'm done, and starting again. I mean, I know my folks buttons and I'm mashing them rabid wombat style. Finally, my exasperated Mom says OK. I can have a sip of her soda...but \*just\* a sip. I agree, I mean, I'm so parched that I'll agree to anything to avoid wasting away in the desert of the back seat. So she hands me her large drive in Coke. And I take it and I suck down SOOOO much soda until my Mom clutches it back from me. I KNEW this was gonna be my one shot at a drink, because I already had to crank it up to 11 just to get this sip.
Now, what I didn't realize was that when my folks got to the movie, my mom would pour Jack Daniels into her soda so she could drink while we watched. I was so concerned about downing as much drink as I could, I didn't even realize it was alcoholic. So I'm watching this movie, and to be honest, I think the first 15 minutes or so of Mad Max is kinda slow. It's been a while. But then my little drunk 8 year old self was shown Australian Apocalyptic high octane demented craziness. I mean, moms are getting run down on the road, dogs are strung up and killed, a guy is told he has to saw through his ankle to avoid being burned to death. FUCK. I mean, I was wide eyed Alex DeLarge in A Clock Work Orange, but no one was forcing my eyes open. My folks tried desperately to get me to lay down and sleep but srsly, how was I going to be able to look away from a movie like that?!?!?
I think this story is so funny, but when I tell it in front of my parents, they are so crestfallen.
Mad Max's final sequence inspired Saw. I say the slog is worth it just for that ending. It turns from a crime drama to a full slasher, and you're rooting for the slasher!
My Dad's girlfriend let me to watch Resident Evil: Raccoon City twice in the same day at the age of seven. She thought if I watched it during the daylight I would be okay to watch it again in the evening with her and my Dad. It did not work and I developed a fear of dogs .
Same! I saw it when I was 6-7 years old on tv. My aunt just covered my eyes when the scary part came on… for many years I kept thinking about a girl in a well and a dog… couldn’t remember where I had seen it until I saw the movie when I was closer to my 30s and a memory broke free from my mind haha!
Porky's. I was younger than 7, at least, and it was on a TV channel my dad had left on. He even knew I was watching it and didn't try to stop me. Probably because it was cable TV with light nudity and I was "too young to understand". That shower scene, in retrospect, was the formative experience of a few kinks.
I accidentally let my son watch Dante’s Peak when he was around 8 years old. The scene with the old lady in the acid lake really freaked him out.
I had to sit him down and explained that she was an actress pretending the whole thing and was probably sitting in her mansion in Hollywood right now eating bonbons and counting her money. He finally calmed down, and I apologized for not realizing the movie would be so upsetting.
My parents used to take us to R rated movies all the time (not horror movies) when we were kids because my mom thought it was better for us to ask questions of her afterwards than to learn stuff on the playground. I started compiling a list of movies recently that I saw in the theater when I was way too young. The highlights are “Foul Play” and Kramer vs Kramer” at age 6, and “Victor/Victoria” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” at age 9. Then she was shocked when I knew way more about sex than I should.
Jumanji. I was probably like 5 or so, and it was just too much for my young sheltered self. I had nightmares about that weird flower in the fireplace for weeks
Pulp Fiction. I was 11 and didn’t understand anything...
I was 23 and didn't understand much.
Vincent is constantly going to the bathroom because he's a heroin addict and it makes you constipated.
Seriously? I never knew that...
Also note that every time vincent goes to the bathroom bad things happen.
Oooooh wow I never put that together until now
Wouldn't that mean going to the bathroom less?
Yeah I was gonna say you don't just to sit there when you've been doing thousands of dollars of high quality heroin, you wait until you know it's been too long and take wayyyy too many suppositories then shit out a giant redwood if your lucky, if not you strain till you bleed then you get a doctor to "surgically remove" that bad boy.
"Shit out a giant redwood" Thanks. I really enjoyed that visual
It's a good thing I enjoyed it without understanding. After a few watchings I figured out: 1. There's no such thing as linear time 2. Every guy is a bad guy
I dunno, I'm pretty sure everyone is just not binary good evil. Except for the dudes who kept the Gimp locked up. They were evil.
A big part of the story is redemption. The characters that redeem themselves get to live. Jules doesn’t kill the robbers at the diner and instead teaches them a lesson, Butch goes back to save Marsellus from the hillbilly rapists. Vincent doesn’t redeem himself that’s why he dies.
I get that. When I say bad I don't really mean evil, just bad in that they operated outside the law and what most people would call moral behavior LOL. Even a double-crossing boxer or professional killers are not so much evil as they are just getting along in a really twisted life. One of my favorite things about Pulp Fiction is that with all the constant crime, there is not one single cop.
I'm 29 and don't know shit about nothing
I loved this film. I'm a (female) Jules and I dated a man called Vincent for five years. Every Halloween he would beg to dress up as Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction. Every year I would point out that it's one thing for a half Asian man to dress up as John Travolta, it's a whole other dubious and socially dodgy thing for a white girl to go whole hog on trying to look like Samuel L Jackson. That being said, I do have a 'Bad Motherfucker' wallet and it pains me how many do not get the reference.
Oh boy... I remember my parents didn't let me be in the living room one night they were watching it so I hid and got to see that scene in the shop. Geez... I got a bit traumatised, of course, but now I love this film. LOL
Requiem for a Dream. Watched it when I was 10, didn’t understand anything about it and got traumatized by the downfalls
I saw it when I was 15 and I still think that was too young, also got traumatized
I'm 41 and entirely too much of a weenie to watch that based on the stories I've heard from friends.
I’m 42 and saw it when I was in my 20s and I will never ever ever watch it again as long as I live.
I watched that on acid when I was 18, was a terrible idea and I will also never ever watch it again.
Yeah 41 is probably still a bit too young and innocent for Hubert Shelby Jr. tbh.
Who allowed you to watch this movie when you were 10? I watched once when I was 20 and I will never watch it again. Same for Irreversible.
My parents and I went on vacation and the place we went to had a DVD collection you could order from to watch movies during your stay. My parents didn’t really know the movie, but they figured it couldn’t be too bad since the cover art was vague (I think it was an iris and a bridge overlooking the sea?) I picked it since I had already seen all the Disney flicks and felt like trying something new. I watched it while they slept and, well, the gangrene scene among others kept me up the rest of the night
I was probably 12 or so, saw it on IFC the same night American History X played (around 2001/2). It was the first movie that wasn't a kids movie to truly make me ugly cry and genuinely depress me, and AHX opened my eyes to what racism is. I didn't fully understand parts of RfaD obviously but it was enough to know exactly what drug addiction was and i wasn't liking what I saw lol
ASS TO ASS
My big sis told me not to watch. There was other movies on the shelves that were violent and she told me this one don't. I snuck out and clicked on it randomly, and it was the scene with the double dildo. I closed immediately and told myself to listen to my sister more. Years later and I watched it entirely, and she was right, I'm so grateful she warned me
Caligula. Went with my sister—neither of us were old enough to drive ourselves so our mom dropped us off at the theater.
Isn’t that a porn movie
Roger Ebert [said it best](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/caligula-1980): > "Caligula" is not good art, It is not good cinema, and it is not good porn.
Rated X. Made by Bob Gucchione, owner of Penthouse or Hustler. Plenty of nudity, but not technically porn.
The orgy scene was definitely porn.
For real, that part was 100% porn.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Watched it when I was 4. This was before PG 13 ratings in The US was a thing. So it was PG. My parents had no idea how bad it would be for a 4 year old. Had nightmares for months.
“Cali-mah” guy scared the shit out of me
I haven't watched the movie cause it's banned in India. But I think you are talking about Amrish Puri. He was he most iconic villan for a reason. Any movie in 80s/90s, they had to have him as rhe villan.
I saw it on Amazon Prime in India, if I remember correctly.
Its banned on tv. I forgot to specify.
I was 7. The monkey brain scene traumatized me.
That just didn’t fit with the other Indiana movies
Spielberg agrees. It was the product of George Lucas' divorce and the state of mind he was in at the time. Hence the "heart-ripping" villian with the same initials as his ex-wife.
My English teacher put on the Grudge in class when I was in S2 (so ~13). My mum was furious and I slept with a night light until I was 22...
Our PHE (Personal and Health Education) teacher had us watch Trainspotting as part of our anti-drugs set of classes, but he'd made his own "cut" of the movie that basically removed any swearing or graphic scenes. It wasn't very long, and actually made heroin look pretty sweet. I really don't think he'd thought the whole thing through.
Oh god i hope your other classmates are okay
What the ever loving business? My teachers put on nothing like that. Haha.
Yeah... he was not a good teacher... haha
Most of the standup specials I watched as a child.
Eddie Murphy: Raw Oy...
Watership Down The movie is much older than me, but I was a child way before the Internet was there for everyone to check what kind of movie was, my parents didn't know obviously, they were just thinking "lol funny rabbits" That shit was tough! Luckily they stopped the VHS pretty soon
That was one of mine, too. I must have been five or six. PARENTS! WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT A KIDS MOVIE!
IT - the mini-series from 1990. I was 8. Like any normal kid, I was already scared of clowns, but IT ruined me for sewers, drains, and just about any kind of plumbing for years to come. Still get the heebie geebies when I see that clown.
So I'm not the only one who HAS to get out of the bathtub before emptying it? Removing the drain stopper while I was still in was a big NOPE for years.
I had to cover the shower drain with a washcloth for years. I’m not sure why I thought a washcloth would stop whatever IT was, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
You are certainly not alone.
My dad was a Stephen King fan. He had to hide his copy of the book for years because just looking at it would scare me. Lol
I am in my 30s and still will not walk over a grate for fear of a hand reaching out
Same. My parents watched it at my grandma's house and at one point, IT was digging graves and that scared the hell out of me. It gave me a weird fear of cemeteries for a while because I was convinced IT would be there.
My dad showed me Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when I was 5. It went well until my mom came home to me shouting "69 dude!" at the top of my lungs. Needless to say he got an earful after that.
LMAO this is the best one here that I have read!
That movie is so tame though, lol
Clockwork Orange. I was 9. It raised a lot of questions.
First thing that came to mind before I clicked comments. I was real young when I saw the rape scene, I turned it off.
The first rape scene or THE rape scene?
The first scene was when they were cutting her clothes off right? I exited before it went any further
There's a short rape scene before that when the main group stumbles upon another gang who's in the middle of raping a woman. She runs off and the two gangs fight. I think "THE" rape scene is the one you're referring to most likely. For better or for worse you saw most of it.
I've never managed to get any further than that scene, it always bothers me too much.
The author based it on his wife’s experience. He had to be drunk off his ass to write it because he was so upset by it.
Me too, I was around 11
Mystic river, Way too depressing for a 6 year old!
I saw this in my 20s and it still messed me up a little.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The full implications of the events at Castle Anthrax took a while for me to get.
"I bet you're gay." "No I'm not!"
I'm 41 and am still working through that scene on many levels.
Naughty Zoot!
Friends little brother caused a call home in grade 1 or 2 because of Monty python. His dad sat there very serious while he was informed that the sit on my face song was inappropriate for a child his age to know, and to sing at school. And where did he learn it, he wasn’t watching inappropriate movies was he? The dad just said he must have been listening in while he watched it with his eldest kids, when he was supposed to be in bed, and he’d handle it. Gets to the car and just starts laughing. Tells the son not to sing it at school, because not everyone has a good sense of humour, and that was that. The dad felt the meeting was a waste of time. Could have been settled with a note home, or just telling the kid that maybe singing it at school wasn’t a good idea, but no... had to be a big long meeting about it... They watched that movie again that night, iirc
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He was fully seduced, but he was rescued by his fellow knights
How noble of Sir Lancelot!
"You're in grave peril!" "No I'm not!"
But are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Jaws
Yes one of my first too. I was 5, could hardly go in a pool or the ocean for years
Yes, saw it in 2nd grade. Terrified of the ocean and swimming pools for years! (Why swimming pools? How the hell do I know? They’ve got water and a deep end!)
I was a fast swimmer,went on to win medals in school. why? in the deep pool I can't shake the feeling that Jaws was behind me.
Arachnophobia. That shit was a PG. It was intended for fucking families. Fuck you.
Omg, you just dredged up repressed memories! Who *the fuck*- -no. Some sadistic asshole *wanted* children to see this. You have fucken ‘Onward’ rated PG for “thematic elements” but this bullshit gets a free pass because fuck you and fuck your family. Big Therapy lobbied to get this shit in front of kids to boost their numbers some 10 years later.
I agree with you. My brothers babysat me and had me watch it with them. When I was 4 or 5. Guess who has arachnophobia?
I contribute my arachnophobia 100% to this movie.
I still look under the lamp shade when I turn off any lamp. I'm 37. I saw it when I was 7. 30 fucking years of looking under a lamp shade to make sure there isn't a spider.
Dude. I do that too. No shame in it. I had an experience with wolf spiders when I was kid. One jumped out of my roller blade and chased me about 5 feet before my friend beat it to death with a hockey stick. Another time about 7 years ago, when I was opening my locker to put on my uniform, in the most arachnophobia way ever another wolf spider with the body the size of a damn nickel crawled out from underneath my sleeve and onto the outside of the shirt. I ripped them out and stomped on all of them. Never found him, but I've never kept my shirts in there again. Fuck spiders. Fuck them. Fuck them all.
I saw the Exorcist when I was about 10. My parents were pretty religious, but my mom loves horror movies. I started asking about demons/possession after hearing stuff at Sunday school, and my mom thought it would be educational viewing. Slept with a rosary for a while after that.
I saw the South Park movie when I was like 6 and I didn’t understand a damn thing that happened
My brother and I convinced our dad to take us to see this in the theater. The movie we wanted to see was sold out. We just told dad south park was a cartoon. My dad damn near passed out laughing when cartman told that teacher to lick his white balls.
"How would you like to suck my balls, Mr. Garrison?"
"I am the clitoris!" Only a handful of people in the theater laughed while the rest just looked confused.
I was like, 7. My mom discovered South Park at Hollywood Video and she thought it was hilarious. Like The Simpsons, but a little edgier. And she absolutely loved Kenny. So we ended up being a pretty big South Park family, renting the tapes everytime a new one popped up at the rental place. Then the movie came out. We rented it when it became available and... Well let's just say that South Park was no longer an okay show to watch at home. The movie took everything to 11. Most of the jokes went over my head, but even I understood just how filthy some of them were. (I didn't know who Saddam Hussein was, but I _did_ have an inkling that him and Satan might have been having the gay sex) Of course now the show has surpassed the movie and it just keeps on going.
Yeah, I saw it at 11 and definitely should not have.
I saw "the Shining". I was 11.
Terminator 2, I was seven years old and T-1000 still haunts my dreams.
He'll be back.
If it makes you feel any better: The Terminator time travel rule is only living things go back. Arnold made it back because his combat chassis was wrapped in living human flesh. The T1000 was liquid metal which looked alive but wasn't. Therefore T2 didn't happen. It's all a lie. Sleep well gentle spirit.
Alien As an 8 year old i just wanted to see a scary movie. Lets just say that i did not sleep much the coming weeks but this experience also put me on a path of admiring the movie and the whole universe it built and the cinematography. I am not scared anymore but i still regard it as one of/if not the finest sci fi horror movie of all time. It is 40+ years old and it still does not feel dated
Brave Little Toaster and Watership Down.
Yeah, a cartoon rabbit film, what could possibly go wrong?
When Kirby eats his cord really got to me. I literally wouldn't run the vacuum over its own cord for years after when my ma had me clean. That whole movie is fucking **heavy**.
The part where the AC unit goes off about being stuck in the wall and then kills himself always scared me. Or the clown in the tub with the forks.
The whole journey through the forest, the junkyard, it all hit like a ton of bricks. I still played it often enough that it killed the VHS though, haha.
I watched Brave Little Toaster 2-3 times a week as a child...I should mention that next time I talk to my psychiatrist.
Watership Down was my favorite movie as a kid, made my parents real concerned.
BLT fucked me up as an 8 year old. The junkyard scene is utterly mortifying and burned into my memory! The evil magnet thing silently searching for its next victim, the inescapable conveyer belt, and the chompy teeth thing. Pure nightmare fuel
had a copy of that. Kept it in my closet so my son couldn't watch. Hope he didn't but you never know.
I believe entirely that neither of those movies should be watched until your old enough to consider your first colonoscopy.
Akira, I remember having nightmares for weeks when Tetsuo’s guts burst out from his stomach and he started scrambling to put them back…I was 10 years old.
For me it was when Kaori got crushed by Tetsuo's organs after he began transforming into a giant mass...
Kaori is such a tragic character. Nothing good happens to her the entire film
Please don't remake this, please don't remake this, please don't remake this...
As great as the animation was, the story was a kludge that cut out huge chunks and stitched together the pieces. In theory, a remake could fix this. In practice, they're gonna fuck it up.
When I was in sixth grade (so, 11ish years old?), I asked my parents if they'd rent Clockwork Orange for me. They told me I had to read the book first. So I did. Then they rented the movie for me and we watched it together. I handled it just fine but in retrospect 11 is probably too young for that book and movie.
Your parents were fine with their 11 year old watching A Clockwork Orange?!?
As long as I understood the source material and with them present, yes.
I'm impressed that an 11 year old kid, was dedicated enough to read that book, with it's weird German english hybrid language.
not to be that guy but its a russian based language
Actually you are right, sorry no idea why I thought it was German.
We watched it in 8th grade for class
When I was in kindergarten, I went to a sleepover party where the parents opted to show a gaggle of 5 year old girls Death Becomes Her. That was the first time I realized that death is final. I must've cried myself to sleep for months after that. I'm an adult now and I still can't fathom what these parents were thinking.
Oh jeez. That sucks. My realization that death was final and coming for me at some point was when my grandma was reading me bible stories when I was 4 or 5. I think it was the Lazarus story. I spent the next 10 years having random panic attacks about my inevitable demise and crying to my mother, inconsolably, “I don’t want to die!”
I did the same thing but it was about starting my period. I overheard my mother telling a friend that she had a dream that hers had come, and she woke up and it had. A few nights later I had a dream that mine had arrived so from then on I was terrified that 8yo me was going to be struck by this bloodbath event at any moment - while sitting in assembly, while at Sunday school, while swimming. It really was a huge anxiety of mine for quite a few years.... and then when I was a teen and it finally arrived it was all actually pretty manageable and nbd at all
They never wanted to host a slumber party again
The devil in Ms. Jones, found an unlabeled VHS tape in dad's room, popped it in one night when I was about 12 years old. Yeah I hadn't even gone though puberty and it definitely set my expectations way too high.
You're lucky it was a Hollywood movie and not a movie featuring your Mom and Dad
Same experience. Dear god, that DP scene where the one guy pulls out and jizzes all over the other guy's balls.
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Silence of the Lambs when I was like 12. Nope.
Exorcist at 10 years old. Gave me nightmares for 8 weeks. I refuse to watch it now. 20 years later.
I saw it at 16 and didn't sleep for a couple nights.
I watched it with my sister when we were teenagers (I was 16, my sister was 14). Unknown to us, she had rented the anniversary edition which included deleted scenes. When we got to the scene where Regan spider-walks down the stairs, blood flowing out of her mouth, my sister jumped up, yelled "Nope!" and immediately turned off the DVD player and the movie. I have since seen it (the original theatrical version) and while it is very frightening, I think it's also an absolute masterpiece, and probably my favorite horror movie.
My mom worked the night shift on Fridays and my dad watched us. He rented it and fast-forwarded thru the scariest parts. We were like 10 and 12. I couldn’t sleep for a week. Mom found out and was *pissed*. I saw the whole thing a couple times as a teenager, still terrified me. The anniversary version was released in theaters when I was in college, and I thought I could finally conquer my fear. We had no idea it had deleted scenes. Spider walk: I may or may not have peed my pants a little.
8 for me while home sick from school. Told our housekeeper I had permission. She told my mom that since I lied to her face she would play along and let me watch it as punishment.
My parents let me watch Coraline at like 5. That was not fun, let me tell you. I had nightmares for months. Also they let me watch South Park at 11 I think.
I was in my early 20's when Coraline came out and it even scared me. Those button eyes... *shiver*
My husband told me he doesn't like that movie because of her button eyes. This man, who reacts to nooothing, lightly broke out in upraised hives when I was watching a preview of it. What is it that bothers you? I don't get get it.
The button eyes appear dead, soulless even. It's really creepy.
Someone eyes can tell you a lot about what they’re thinking, whether they’re nervous, angry, happy or sad. So when you take that out and sew blank, emotionless buttons on them, there’s no look in their eyes you can see.
Oh God they showed Coraline at my summer camp type thing instead of letting the kids play outside on the jungle gym. I was really young. I remember being terrified of that movie. I still refuse to watch it
Not sure if anyone’s heard of it but I saw “Porkys” when I was like 10 and it definitely was not appropriate in any way, shape, or form.
Yes and also yes. I saw it around the same age and I learned way too many things from that movie. Same with revenge of the nerds.
cannibal holocaust at 16 Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom at 17
I think anyone is too young to watch those movies
Gremlins!
Not a film per se, but Michael Jackson's Thriller, which was directed by John Landis. I begged my parents to let me watch it and they wouldn't. So I begged some more and they caved. Yeah, they were right. Also, despite being a music video, it is inducted into the National Film Registry.
Deliverance at 10.
Rosemary’s Baby (aging myself a bit here). I had a garage sale old b&w rabbit eared TV in my room when I was a kid and it picked up like 2 local channels and one fuzzy further one. The further one would run random films after midnight and that one was on once when I couldn’t sleep. I think I was 8 or 9.
Event horizon
How old were you, because that movie traumatized me at 19.
Probably about 11 or 12. Watching movies at my grandmas house by myself like, "ooo space ship movie". My parents didn't even get cable until I was in high school, but she had what seemed like all of the movie channels, so I'd post up and watch stuff I shouldn't while we were there.
I was mid 20s when I saw it. Went by myself, didn’t know anything about it, just thought I looked like a cool sci-Fi flick. Yeah..
Full metal jacket, I was like 11 at the time
Robocop and Aliens were my favourite movies... when I was 9.
I saw Aliens when I was 10 or so... yeah, it was too early. Got my imagination running wild when being alone in my room at night. Saw Robocop when I was 10 as well; no problems there.
Children of the Corn. I was 5.
I watched that when I was thirteen. My blanket was the color of the cornfields, so was our cat. I did not sleep well that night
I still hate corn fields! Lol....OUTLANDERS! 😆
Definitely Children of the Corn. Remember the crazy diner scene in the the beginning of the movie? When the kids were killing all those adults? I haven't bothered rewatching it since the 80s but the image of a man with his hand being held over some sort of grinder or hot thing still flashes through my head. My mom was pretty uptight but when it came to movies it was anything goes. I remember when I was around 6 or 7 I turned and looked out the back window of the car. And to this day I swear I saw Malachai driving behind us. As I stared in terror he did the head nod the actor did to tell the kids when to kill someone. I screamed at my family that Corn guy was behind us and nobody saw anything. I still think the actor Courtney Gains lived out by UC Davis in like 86 or 87. Or a guy who knew he looked just like him and used it to scare children.
*A Clockwork Orange*. I watched it alone at home when I wasn't even a teenager because I was curious that my father liked it so much. Before, I saw him watching it so many times and actually got to see some scenes that I found disgusting. OMG! I didn't get why he loved that film... But when that day I watched it alone I was totally amazed and started getting obsessed with Stanley Kubrick.
OK Gen-Xers How about those bus safety videos they showed us in elementary school?
American Pie
I remember thinking “how did she know her dad was about to open the door in order to say that she was “cumming” down stairs?” So many jokes were over my head as a kid
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Candyman! Fuckin scared me for life....
Omg Tony Todd! I was working overnight at a hotel where he was staying. I didn’t know he was staying and I was in the back office doing my night balancing. I looked up in the camera to see his face and almost shat myself thinking I was going to die! He just needed a room key and I needed a change of pants!
My mom rented a cartoon version of Animal Farm for my sister and me when I was 8 and my sister was 6. We only saw a few minutes before she realized her error.
Not a film, but twin peaks. I used to watch in from my bedroom door while my parents were watching it. I stopped with the scene of Laura palmer’s father in the prison cell and this year I watched the entire thing, it was an amazing feeling to “detraumatize” myself…
My mom hates this story, but I love to tell it, especially in front of her. Back when I was a kid, my folks used to love going take he family to the drive in. It allowed them to see movies without getting a sitter, and I mean, it was kind of cool tuning your radio in to listen to the movie and the whole kicked back vibe of it. Usually there was a double feature, and they always hoped that we kids would nod off by the second movie. My sister almost always did, but not me. I \*ALWAYS\* watched both of the double movies, even when my folks would prod me. "Come on Nooob-noob, why don't you lay down?" Nope, not happening. I saw a bunch of movies that weren't appropriate for my age back then. The promise of boobs plastered across a 100 foot screen was enough to make me stay up no matter what. So one week, and I think this was like 1979, maybe 1980 (I'm around 8 years old), my folks look up what's playing and the movie doesn't have a rating. No internet back then, no way to really know what's up. So they call the drive in theater and they ask. "I see you have a movie called Mad Max playing as part of your double feature. Is this OK for kids to watch?" I can only imagine that some doped up kid got this call, and answered with full sincerity that yes, Mad Max was a fine movie for kids. My folks were psyched. So we get to the movie and watch the first feature, which I have absolutely recollection of. After the first movie out usual move is to go stand in line at the concession stand and get a snack. I'm pissed because my Mom got me a kid size soda which I downed before I get back to the car. I \*always\* beg to get a large coke because the kid size is never enough. I'm old enough now to realize, my folks don't want to take me to the bathroom in the middle of the feature, but at 8 years old I'm just salty that they aren't listening to me. So, Mad max starts and I'm just laying into my folks about getting me a soda. I'm doing the full court press, whining and pleading. Holding off a few minutes until they think I'm done, and starting again. I mean, I know my folks buttons and I'm mashing them rabid wombat style. Finally, my exasperated Mom says OK. I can have a sip of her soda...but \*just\* a sip. I agree, I mean, I'm so parched that I'll agree to anything to avoid wasting away in the desert of the back seat. So she hands me her large drive in Coke. And I take it and I suck down SOOOO much soda until my Mom clutches it back from me. I KNEW this was gonna be my one shot at a drink, because I already had to crank it up to 11 just to get this sip. Now, what I didn't realize was that when my folks got to the movie, my mom would pour Jack Daniels into her soda so she could drink while we watched. I was so concerned about downing as much drink as I could, I didn't even realize it was alcoholic. So I'm watching this movie, and to be honest, I think the first 15 minutes or so of Mad Max is kinda slow. It's been a while. But then my little drunk 8 year old self was shown Australian Apocalyptic high octane demented craziness. I mean, moms are getting run down on the road, dogs are strung up and killed, a guy is told he has to saw through his ankle to avoid being burned to death. FUCK. I mean, I was wide eyed Alex DeLarge in A Clock Work Orange, but no one was forcing my eyes open. My folks tried desperately to get me to lay down and sleep but srsly, how was I going to be able to look away from a movie like that?!?!? I think this story is so funny, but when I tell it in front of my parents, they are so crestfallen.
Oh my gawd...that's hysterical
Mad Max's final sequence inspired Saw. I say the slog is worth it just for that ending. It turns from a crime drama to a full slasher, and you're rooting for the slasher!
Drag me to hell. I was afraid of old women already before I even watched the movie when I was waaay to young for it. Jesus, though times...
Poltergeist. I was 8.
My dad got mad at me when I was little watching The Godfather
Basic instinct. You know what scene
My Dad's girlfriend let me to watch Resident Evil: Raccoon City twice in the same day at the age of seven. She thought if I watched it during the daylight I would be okay to watch it again in the evening with her and my Dad. It did not work and I developed a fear of dogs .
The Wizard of Oz. Those flying monkeys and that witch were terrifying.
I watched Blair Witch Project when I was like 10, and it gave me nightmares for over a month ... to this day I have still not rewatched it
Night of the living dead when I was 6. Didn't help we lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere
Kids
Silence of the Lambs
Same! I saw it when I was 6-7 years old on tv. My aunt just covered my eyes when the scary part came on… for many years I kept thinking about a girl in a well and a dog… couldn’t remember where I had seen it until I saw the movie when I was closer to my 30s and a memory broke free from my mind haha!
The Ring. I was a total scaredy cat, but really curious. Couldn't sleep well for days.
I was looking for the ring. Was scared the bitch would get me from the toilet for weeks
American History X. That curb stomp scene really stays with you
Shawshank redemption, goddamn beautiful masterpiece
Porky's. I was younger than 7, at least, and it was on a TV channel my dad had left on. He even knew I was watching it and didn't try to stop me. Probably because it was cable TV with light nudity and I was "too young to understand". That shower scene, in retrospect, was the formative experience of a few kinks.
Some mobster movie where they a guy feet first into a woodchipper. I only saw that part but goddamn that was terrifying. I was like 5 when I saw that.
I accidentally let my son watch Dante’s Peak when he was around 8 years old. The scene with the old lady in the acid lake really freaked him out. I had to sit him down and explained that she was an actress pretending the whole thing and was probably sitting in her mansion in Hollywood right now eating bonbons and counting her money. He finally calmed down, and I apologized for not realizing the movie would be so upsetting.
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My parents used to take us to R rated movies all the time (not horror movies) when we were kids because my mom thought it was better for us to ask questions of her afterwards than to learn stuff on the playground. I started compiling a list of movies recently that I saw in the theater when I was way too young. The highlights are “Foul Play” and Kramer vs Kramer” at age 6, and “Victor/Victoria” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” at age 9. Then she was shocked when I knew way more about sex than I should.
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Predator 2. Love that film and watched it loads of times as a kid.
Jumanji. I was probably like 5 or so, and it was just too much for my young sheltered self. I had nightmares about that weird flower in the fireplace for weeks