Inappropriate movies you watched as a child

[MozzchopsThirty]

Following on from another thread, my parents literally let me watch anything!
Yes the 80s were different times, and I don't think any of it did me any harm but not sure I'd be letting my dcs watch any of these under the age of 12
(Some of them I was under 10 as my parents were still together)

Little Darlings ( I loved this film)
Grease
Nightmare on elm street
Poltergeist
Over the edge

What films were you watching as a child which would horrify people today

My very strict uncle used to get videos for us to watch down the market. There were some good, dodgy, films we watched together

He thought Carrie was a good choice for us to watch when I was 10 (think he saw Prom). Near the end we both realised this wasn’t a good choice. What made it worse, in his effort to stop the video, he fast forwarded the film to the end rather than stopping it

We kept to cartoons after that

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Silence of the Lambs

I was honestly about 10, definitely at primary

Nightmare on Elm Street, around the same age

Also used to read some highly questionable 'literature' I. E. Jackie Collins at age 10

@MozzchopsThirty

Following on from another thread, my parents literally let me watch anything! Yes the 80s were different times, and I don't think any of it did me any harm but not sure I'd be letting my dcs watch any of these under the age of 12 (Some of them I was under 10 as my parents were still together)

Little Darlings ( I loved this film)
Grease
Nightmare on elm street
Poltergeist
Over the edge

What films were you watching as a child which would horrify people today

Why is Grease inappropriate? I went to the cinema to see it twice when it came out. I was 5. Loved it 😊

Poltergeist
Evil dead
The Entity
Omen
The birds
Amytiville horror house
Carrie
The hand - Micheal Caine scared the shit out me
Chucky
Psycho

Sounds appalling now and I'd never let my kids watch these, back then it was kind of normal though.

Rita, sue and Bob too. 🤔

Gosh, I watched all those and more.
The Young Ones
Benny Hill
Carry On
Bottom
Black Adder
The twilight zone
Any film with murderous psychos, ghosts, ghouls, sexual innuendos in it, I’ve seen it as a kid.
I laughed when dh told me he wasn’t allowed to watch Kenny Everett as a kid.
It’s not turned me into a psycho. I’ve never so much as had points on my driving licence in 25 years I’m such a goody two shoes.

Grease, I let my DD's watch it too young I suspect!

What is worse is from about 12 we got into 18's at the cinema

The exorcist
Texas chainsaw massacre
The entity
Clockwork orange

And many more!

What's wrong with Rocky horror? I took my DD's to the stage show when they were at primary school, they thought the men in women's underwear was hilarious (men in the audience!)

I can't believe I am confessing this. The Wizard of Oz. Thinking about those flying monkeys still makes my heart race.

I am just not good with scary movies.

Watership Down
An Officer and a Gentleman
Shag
Silence of the Lambs
Grease
The Terminator

@doadeer

Pretty Woman - I thought the condoms were lolly pops when she has all those coloured ones 🙈

Snap! I watched it for the first time at about 9. It took me years to realise they were condoms.

Watched Rocky Horror fairly young. Also grew up with Dirty Dancing, Grease, Jaws and Terminator 2.

DS1 is 9 now. I can't imagine showing him these movies

There was also a movie about a cruise ship hijacking that my parents once watched when I was sleeping on one of our sofas as I was poorly that night. They didn't realise I'd woken up. The sight of a man in a wheelchair being executed and then thrown overboard has never left me. I googled it a few years ago and it turns out that it was a true story, and the bit I saw actually happened, which made me feel even worse.

Oh yes! An Officer and a Gentleman. I knew that film inside out by the time I was 10 as it was my mum's favourite.

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I can't believe I am confessing this. The Wizard of Oz. Thinking about those flying monkeys still makes my heart race.

I am just not good with scary movies.

I raise you Return to Oz and those horrifying Wheelers. I'm 38 and refuse to watch it now. Nightmares for weeks

My dad hated my mum and I think he showed us films because he knew my mother didn't want us watching them.
Screamers, alien, critters, wolf, American werewolf, etc etc all when I was at primary school.
To be honest I was definitely scared by some, but then a few of them are still my favourite films. I remember a friends mum going ballistic because we'd let her watch Jaws.
I'm pretty careful about what my own children watch but having said that my 3 year olds favourite film is the Meg, all 4 of my kids have seen Jaws (man I love the Jaws films) but only because I know when to tell them not to look. I watched Underwater with my 10 year old yesterday which is a 15, but I've watched it several times so again I just told him not to look when there was violence/blood etc.
Just out of interest, the monsters under the bed film, was there sort of punk rock type monster bloke and the access to some kind of underworld city was under the kids bed?

Just had a Google, the one I was thinking of is called Little Monsters from 1989

I went to see 'The Damned' with older friends at the cinema in the early 70s when I was about 14. There was no age check at all. I remember barely a thing about it, other than the frisson of gaining admittance to the cinema, but apparently it was considered to be quite a shocking film, in its time. Probably viewed as quite tame, now!

At a sleepover when I was about 13 they put Candyman on. I did not - and still do not - like horror films, or films that are in anyway scary. I studied the walls, carpet, furniture and anything to avoid looking at the screen, but I couldn't not hear it, so was scared of saying pretty much anything more than twice for a good year afterwards. I am aware of how ridiculous that reaction seems.

Does anyone remember Creepshow (I think that's what it was called or something like that?!)
If I remember correctly it was a series of short horror films and I remember watching those and being terrified in the late 80s.

We used to borrow all sorts from the video shop when very clearly very very underage. Nightmare on Elm Street, Chucky, Rita Sue and Bob too, Jaws, Pretty Woman, Top Gun ...

Sorry. Not Top Gun. That was a PG wasn't it.

Porkies 😱

I was 11 and my parents left in the video cabinet with strict instructions not to watch it.

My that was an education!

Watership down looking back as an adult but as a kid i never found it that bad
Apparently my friends mum took me to see fox and hounds when i was 4 or so and i shouted out no don't so it at the fox shooting / hunting scenes