Did your parents ever make you watch anything inappropriate for your age?

[faithfulbird20]

Not porn obviously. But anything like horror movies or anything else?

Yes their fights.

They were quite strict about TV/movies/ magazines though so obviously had the wrong priorities.

So many. Pulp fiction aged under 10, and The Cement Garden not long after. Highly inappropriate.

My DC know they have to ask if they even want to watch a PG now.

We were allows to watch Monty Python 'The meaning of life' at 8/9. Tbh, it was quite educational and it sorted my sense of humour out for life.

Pretty woman...I was 11, my sister was 6

I was never made to watch anything appropriate; but I was allowed to watch scary movies as a kid and I think The Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man might have been a bit strong for a six year old.

By mistake The Omen aged 6. Properly scary.

No. If anything it went the other way and we weren't allowed to watch stuff our friends were, Better in general that way round I think. You can always catch up on something later but you can't unsee things.

'Make' me, no. But they were relaxed about it and there was no silly 'you're 14, you can't watch a 15-rated film' pettiness like some of my friends had to deal with. It worked well and I don't remember ever feeling disturbed by anything I watched, even when I was a few years younger than the recommended age. (And it would have been a few years - I'm not saying it's okay for primary age children to be watching gory horror movies or anything)

Not parents but at school!

I was year 9 so age 13. We had a treat movie day at the end of term and the teacher put on The Amytville Horror!!!! I had nightmares for weeks.

We weren't "made" to but we were allowed to watch things we weren't supposed to. During the holidays we were allowed to stay up late and watched things that were on TV after 9pm. We were also allowed to watch 15/18 cert. videos that our parents had rented (not all, horror and action movies were allowed, violence and lots of sex not allowed).

Make you watch?

Yep. Me and my sister weren't 'made' to, we just weren't told to fuck off out the front room either! Watched absolutely loads of gory, sinister horrors by age 10.

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Not parents but at school!

I was year 9 so age 13. We had a treat movie day at the end of term and the teacher put on The Amytville Horror!!!! I had nightmares for weeks.

Yes our primary school put on the Indiana Jones film with the heart scene. I’m 46 and I still remember the general horror and crying.

Not made to, but I can't believe I was watching Bond films ( from the 1969s and 1970s). It's not just the rampant sexism but also the casual and quite extreme violence that shocks me now. I was watching those movies before I was even 10 years old.

Yes, horror films and such. I was afraid of sleeping in the dark for a long time. I didn’t allow my own children to though.

I think we watched slightly inappropriate 12 or 15s like Pretty Woman and Dirty Dancing and they didn’t object. They never actively put on anything inappropriate, certainly not horror movies or anything where you’d see graphic sex or violence, but it was the 90s. Parenting was more relaxed and there was less content aimed at kids.

I didn’t really understand about the sex in those movies until I was an older teenager anyway! I think in Pretty Woman I just thought Edward was paying Vivienne to be his girlfriend and hang out with him. More problematic from a feminist viewpoint than anything else.

No, but can you believe that my school youth club (remember those?) thought it acceptable to screen Halloween and Friday 13th on Thursday movie night? I came home in such a state.

Like a PP, when I hit about 12 I was allowed to watch what I wanted. My DDad introduced me to so many fantastic 80s comedies. National lampoons, Porkys, Airplane, Police Academy, Blues Brothers. All around 12-14, nothing felt 'too much' and they're such fond memories of sitting with my dear old dad

Threads.
Fucking cheery bunch the Nuns at school though not parents.
Was punted as factual too.

My mother used to keep me up and make me sit with her while she watched horrors. She was too scared to watch alone, but loved them. She would try to cover my eyes, but I was too curious for that and would just watch through her fingers.

I love horrors myself now, but unfortunately don't find any scary anymore.

Yes my dad locked my sister and I aged 10 and 9 in the living room to watch Friday the 13th. He was a sadist though. It’s not normal to do something like that.

My parents and friends of theirs, one of whom, being Czech Jewish, had with his family been in concentration camps, went with me and my siblings and the other family's sons to see a film on the relief of Auschwitz. I guess they thought it would be instructive for us all. I was the youngest at about 11, the eldest about 14.

It was as nightmarish and hellish as you would imagine, no prior context given, none of us asked if we were ok after. Just them animatedly discussing what they had seen.

It haunted me, haunted my dreams. I even wondered if this was happening in the world somewhere at the time.

I still don't understand to this day why they ever that doing this was a good idea. Even Joe's sons who had some knowledge of his and his family's experience were completely freaked out. I think it was woeful patenting.

This sounds really bad, but I shared a bedroom with my sister when I was 15/16. She was 5/6 at the time. I thought she was asleep so I put IT on the tv. I didn’t realise she was awake and watched the whole film with me. No nightmares after

It was quite normal for various friends dodgy parents to allow horror films. This is probably why I would have nightmares and my dcs have never had one.

Gimmie gimme gimme and Kevin with my dad when I was 7