Inappropriate movies you watched as a child

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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

Me and my brother used to watch an anerican werewolf in london a lot when we were young
I think my parents thought as werewolfs aren't real !!
I also watched grease and dirty dancing etc but would let younger ones of mine watch now as i don't think most things are that obvious if they don't understand and if they do then they obviously know anyway
I think as children we see things very different than an adult
But recently watched weird science again!, and the ages wtf !

Bentoforthehorde that's the one it was really weird!! The creepshow is another one I was allowed to watch it gave me nightmares!

I watched the first Scream movie at my 9th birthday sleepover. My parents weren’t strict but the other kids parents were not best pleased!

My dad let me watch silence of the lambs and goodfellas with him at a fairly young age.

I saw Terminator and American Werewolf in London when I was 10, both at friends houses when older siblings were supposed to looking after us. The older brother who showed us Terminator got a proper bollocking from his mum when she got home and found my friend and me crouched behind the sofa, sobbing. I probably saw other horror films at around the same age, but those two really messed with my head and upset and scared me for ages after.

I also watched Pretty Woman before I really understood what a prostitute was. I thought Richard Gere’s character was just being nice and helping Vivienne because she was so pretty.

Two films that haunted me were The Island of Dr Moreau (1996 version) , and The Fear (1995). They absolutely terrified me, still do. I have always had nightmares and been scared of the dark, so I don't know what my parents were thinking allowing us to watch films like that. Were film classifications less of a big deal in the 90s?

I wasn't allowed to watch 'It' at my grandparents at the age of 6 but my 8,9 and 11 year old cousins were fine to crack on with it

in the 80s i could pretty much watch what i wanted regardless of the ages, which was well weird considering my mum was a bit over protective in every other way

Loads... child's play was a favourite 😂 loads of horrors, scream, pet cemetery, x files...

Catherine Cookson dramas (remember robson green burning in the gambling man-I was 8).

Jurassic park at the cinema age 5 (although my 3 year old is dinosaur mad and loves it ).

We used to watch mainly horror films at sleepovers from age 11 onwards. They were probably (slightly) vetted by the adults and I’m sure we didn’t watch the worst ones on the market.
I remember my parents recording Jagged Edge for me and my brother to watch when it came on telly ‘because it’s a really good film’. I think I was 8? I remember thinking about the knife attack scene a lot.
I also used to watch the Jaws films with my brother aged 6ish onwards. They terrified me! I love Jaws 1 now though. It’s like a comfort blanket to me I still get terrified swimming off the coast of Suffolk though...

Not on the same league as some of these, but I put The Wolves of Whilloby Chase on for my daughter just after her 6th birthday. She was petrified .

I've always been fine with horrors so wasn't really fussed watching them when I was younger, but I vividly remember my parents taking me to the cinema to see arachnophobia when I was 7. Still petrified of spiders!

Maybe Blazing Saddles. The humour is at the level of a child. But it is just SO outrageous & un-PC nowadays. SpaceBalls, too.

For me it was Poltergeist, Salem's Lot and the Hammer House of Horror series.

Actual porn when I was maybe 7. The video was called Alice in wonderland and I was with older cousins who were 2-3 yers older, but we thought it would be the disney version.

The first Saw movie when I was 11. I was scared to go to sleep.CSI series too at that age.

My mum took me and my younger sister to watch Grease at the cinema, I was about 9 and my sister would've been 5. I loved it! But a lot of it went over my head.

Lots of horror films when we first got a video player and my older brothers visited the video shop.
Halloween, slatted wardrobes still make me uneasy
Amityville Horror, freaks me if I wake up in the night and the digital clock shows 3.15.

Lots of others, can't watch anything with a psychopath or ghost in it.

Bambi 😁

I saw Gremlins, Jaws, Alien and Nightmare on Elm Street pretty young, courtesy of my Mum's younger cousin who used to babysit me. As a young teen in the mid 90s my best friend and I were obsessed with horror movies and watched pretty much everything we could get our hands on - either recorded from my bedroom TV or her older brother would rent them for us - so we watched everything from IT, Child's Play, Carrie, Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, The Shining, Fright Night, Poltergeist, Children of the Corn, Hellraiser and Candyman to The Exorcist and all of the Amityville movies. We were also completely obsessed with The X Files, ah them were the days

Porkies ??! Anyone remember the Porkies films , real trashy teenage high school sexual crap , peepholes in the ladies shower style . Really stupid films , I think I was about 12 when I watched them ?!!!

@MrsRusselBrand yep remember Porkies

@Coronacockup I remember one Creepshow episode where this man was growing plants all over him, it was awful and terrified me !

Night mare on elm street and the Entity when I was around ten.

Black Christmas (traumatised!)
The amityville horror

My friend Emma's mum used to tape films off the TV (at night) and Emma and I would go through the tapes and watch some very random stuff. I remember us both weeping through the funeral scene in Imitation of Life.

The only one that troubled me was the film Sybil, about the girl with multiple personalities. It showed her mother tying her to a table and giving her an enema (I think) and then trapping her in a grain silo (I think). We would have been about 6 or 7 watching this.

Oh and of course Watership Down.

Oh look, a nice cartoon about bunnies. WTF!?

Watership Down - age 5 -terrifying