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

[faithfulbird20]

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

@megletthesecond I remember my dad pulling me out of bed one night to watch the Life of Brian. He said I would thank him for it, and I did, like you it sorted out my sense of humour for life!

Yes, I remember watching things like Jaws, Alien and Poltergeist before the age of 5 (I knew I was younger than 5 as we moved then and I remember watching those films in our old house). I used to have horrendous nightmares and was terrible for sleepwalking constantly. I wouldn’t say I was made to watch them but parents made no effort to stop us watching them. I remember my dad saying he recorded a cartoon for us to watch only to find it was an awful 18 x rated anime (obviously, since it was shown at midnight!).

Yes.
My mum once rented a horror film (I think the exorcist) inappropriate in itself but 🤷‍♀️
However, I don't know if the shop had put the video in the wrong box or my mum had picked up the wrong film or what but it was porn.

When the film started my mum made a sound I've never heard a person make before or since, leapt across the living room like lightening and got the tape out of the player.

My uncle used to give me old horror movies on video, I couldn't get enough, I think that's where my love of all things spooky comes from.
My parents love crime dramas and I didn't like them one bit. They were always depressingly sad stories about some nutter breaking in to kill/steal a child or something and the police being bloody useless 90% of the time. Too realistic and miserable.

Not my parents, but I do remember a teenaged babysitter on holiday putting on some sort of horror movie for me when I was about ten. I don't know what movie it was, but it involved a man's small pet dogs being pureed in a food blender and force-fed to him, presumably to make him disclose the code to his safe or something. I wouldn't want to watch something like that even as an adult and I can't imagine why this babysitter made me watch it as a child.

I didn't tell my parents because I knew they'd be very upset that this had happened.

Wasn't 'made' to, but I asked (begged actually!) if I could watch Halloween at age 8, Mother gave in, I loved it.
Been a horror fan ever since.

My mum used to let me watch those hallmark type made for TV shitfests with her. Sometimes Farrah Fawcett was adopting piglets to cheer up her machinery-mangled boyfriend, sometimes she was murdering her kids in the back of a car. There was even a charming film about a father sodomising his daughter in the bathroom when she misbehaved... like fuck would my kid be watching any of that stuff.

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad..."

My otherwise strict mum was so blasé about age restrictions. I watched Rocky Horror Picture Show aged 10 - there's an oral sex scene amongst the general sexual vibe! It did pass over my head and I was more interested in the music tbf.

If I was off sick she would put whichever horror film she'd recorded on. Usually 70s stuff but always scarred the living shit out of me. I don't watch horror films now, never have, because they traumatised me (these weren't slasher films, more suspenseful and anxiety inducing). My younger brother otoh, loves horror films now.

She banned us from watching Grange Hill when they were doing the Just Say No campaign. Bit backwards.

I had older brothers and sisters, so used to watch scary movies that weren't suitable- Nightmare on Elm street etc. When I was 7-8. Had lots of nightmares.

Also on TV they weren't too bothered about violence, or bad language so movies like Robocop, and terminator were fine, but sex and nudity wasnt allowed. So watched loads of violent movies at a young.

Salem's Lot when I was about 9. My aunt had just got a video player, one of the first to do so, so we all went round to watch 2 films she'd picked from the carousel in the off licence she worked in. The kids were terrified so parents switched it off and put a funny movie on to lighten the mood....Airplane

I'm sure my aunt never read the blurbs

My Dad did use to switch radio channels when Another Brick in the Wall came on though

Our household was adult centric so anything that was on tv was aimed at the adults. If we wanted to watch it we could, if not then we could go sit in another room/go to bed. This was late 70s and 80s in the UK, parents didn't bother much with age restrictions on tv. At least mine didn't 🤷🏻‍♀️

My dad made us watch jaws when I was about 7/8. I say “made” me but I suspect it was on and I wanted to watch it, he just didn’t stop me! I watched with my dc (12, 12 and 10) a few months ago and apart from us all jumping at the floating head scene they loved it! I think kids are a bit de-sensitived as I wasn’t much younger and it scarred me for life! I wouldn’t let them watch and actual horrors though. My oldest ds is now 13 and loves all things creepy, I can’t wait until he’s 15 so we can watch proper scary films! My mum was weird in what she let us watch, we weren’t allowed to watch hocus pocus but we were allowed to watch “pretty woman” and “step mom”!

@LocutusOfBorg

Our household was adult centric so anything that was on tv was aimed at the adults. If we wanted to watch it we could, if not then we could go sit in another room/go to bed. This was late 70s and 80s in the UK, parents didn't bother much with age restrictions on tv. At least mine didn't 🤷🏻‍♀️

This was mine too, to some extent. My parents - mostly my dad - rarely watched anything we'd find entertaining. Just the news, when it came on. At the time, TV programs didn't come on till 4pm, so we were lucky to watch anything child-friendly till early teens i think.

Hammer House of Horror films. Not made to watch it, but they were on when I was a child in the 70s. They were scary! I don't like horror films.

I lived in a country where x-rated movies were banned, but you could drive across the border to a place where they were actively encouraged. My parents had some friends that they were always trying to impress, and one day we all went for a day trip to this place ...the other family suggested we all go and watch 'a Movie'.

And so off we all went (I was 14 but could pass for older) to watch this truly vile movie . It was excruciating and I spent the majority of the movie trying to stare at my feet in the darkness.

Bizarrely, my mother was a real prude so I've no idea why she thought that was appropriate. It was never spoken of again (but some of the images still refuse to leave my brain)...

I had Hammer House of Horror in mind. Still remember it from a family friend's house. We watched it along with The House that bled to death. On the same day! No one could go to the bathroom or do anything alone for a while after that day.

Funny I was discussing this with my oldest yesterday.

I've just realised The House that bled to death is one of the episodes (Episode 5) of Hammer House of Horror. Never looked them up till now.

We've always called them two separate films, rather than a series. That's how I remember them. So I guess we watched two episodes that day. I don't remember the title of the other episode.

Not me - but my mother did once proudly tell me that she had recorded Trainspotting for my DS who was about ten at the time. TBF she had assumed it was about ... well ... trainspotting (DS was keen on trains) and was rather indignant when I put her right. "Well, why is it called that then?"

I let my children watch many 12/15 shows/films. I don't think I'm going to traumatise them

Yes but nothing like horror films etc.