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To ask for the most wtf films your parents let you watch

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:24

So inspired by the fact that “Wish you were here” is now on amazon. Watched it the other day and clearly remember it being on tv and everyone in my class shouting “up yer bum” for a week. I reckon we were around 8 years old!

Watched it today and am shocked that not only did my parents let me watch it, but seemingly so did lots of others.

I also remember going to sleepovers and watching things like nightmare on elm street etc at a pretty young age.

What can’t you believe your parents let you watch?

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Osirus · 19/10/2019 23:25

Child’s Play. I was about 8 I think. Definitely younger than 10.

Osirus · 19/10/2019 23:26

And Poltergeist. I can’t even watch that now!

TildaTurnip · 19/10/2019 23:26

Oh my gosh, I rarely meet anyone who has watched that film. When I do, I end up quoting loads of the lines from it.

Anyway...Rita, Sue and Bob too!

WelliAmNot · 19/10/2019 23:27

Not my parents but close friend at the times parents let us watch “Teeth”... We were about 12/13 at the time.Hmm

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:28

Haha yep watched child’s play. Mum was strangely against poltergeist (and I never saw the exorcist until I was about 20).

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Darksideofthemoon19 · 19/10/2019 23:28

I watched poltergeist most mornings before school at primary age.

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:30

Oh and as a kid pretty woman and ghost were my favourites... I do remember my mum speaking to someone once about the pottery scene and saying “she just sees clay” which is pretty much spot on.

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ViciousJackdaw · 19/10/2019 23:30

Yes Osirus, Child's Play was the talk of my primary school too. I can also remember being allowed to remain in the living room when things like Carrie, Rita, Sue and Bob Too and The Singing Detective were on telly.

Vehivle · 19/10/2019 23:30

Jaws when I was 6. Jurassic park when I was 8. 6th sense when I was 12! That last one really fucked me up! So desperate not to sleep alone- I cried and begged my brother to let me sleep on his bedroom floor Confused

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:31

@TildaTurnip I actually only watched that recently / love all the actors in it... lol other than my primary school class who all seemed to see it, no ones ever seen wish you were here either

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Love51 · 19/10/2019 23:31

Mine were generally strict, but my dad saw fit to get us up to watch Tommy when it was on TV. Highly out of character for the most straight laced man I've ever met. The music is amazing, some of the visuals terrified me. I think I was 9 ish.

Vehivle · 19/10/2019 23:31

*I should have put "approx" before all those ages. I cant remember the exact ages - just that I was much too young for all of it!

100PercentThatBitch · 19/10/2019 23:31

Pretty Woman. Aged 8 Hmm

ViciousJackdaw · 19/10/2019 23:31

Tilda 'An e-what-tion?

Chillyourbeans · 19/10/2019 23:31

Poltergeist here too. Must have been about 8 and was already scared of clowns, ghosts and well everything really so that was a grand parenting choice Hmm

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:32

Oh and this one is obscure, but remember playing “small sacrifices” with friends at school... it was a tv dramatising of a woman who had killed her own children Shock

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AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 19/10/2019 23:32

Like OP, Wish You Were Here. I do like that film though. (Hope your finger stinks Grin)

Also Dirty Dancing, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Educating Rita, the Robert Englund horror version of Phantom of the Opera, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, all those old horror films of the 80s. Nothing was censored in our house, TV or books. Also allowed to drink - can't remember an age where I wanted alcohol and was refused. I am similarly laid back as a parent but DS is not really a fan of horror films, and was scared by Harry Potter as a child.

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:34

I must point out that my parents are lovely - they just didn’t sensor tv!!

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AlliKaneErikson · 19/10/2019 23:34

I seem to remember a few rather graphic scenes in the Fame movie- I think I was about 7 when I saw it! My Mum clearly didn’t realise there was more to it than a bit of singing and dancing!

64sNewName · 19/10/2019 23:34

I also remember being in the room when The Singing Detective was on!

My parents just use to bring me along to the cinema with my crayons etc., and assume I wouldn’t pay attention to boring old grown-up films. In this manner I somehow saw Stripes, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy when I was seven or eight.

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:35

Oh and I loved Madonna - so got “in bed with Madonna” on video I think for my 10th birthday

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TheToldYouSoDance · 19/10/2019 23:35

Hammer house of horror films - must’ve been 8 or 9.

SchrodingersMeowth · 19/10/2019 23:36

Oh I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently.

Currently watching South Park, that was one (and I’m actually quite shocked about it)

All of the usual horror movies, childs play, IT, Misery, Rose Red, Thinner, Pet Cemetery, The Shining, the outer limits tv show, Creepshow, Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm St, Poltergeist etc.

I really loved horror as a kid.

Even the late night Disney show Dinosaurs can be a bit adult themed! I loved that too but now gasp at some of the jokes “Howard Hand Up Me” being a news presenter on it. Grin

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Thetruth02 · 19/10/2019 23:37

Actually I also remember my friends dad giving me a book about Jack the Ripper aged about maybe 7. I loved it - spoke to mum about it recently and she said she was furious and thought it was bloody weird that he gave it to me, but I seemed to like it so felt she couldn’t say anything

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AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 19/10/2019 23:38

Almost forgot - I used to stay with my nan every weekend until I was about 15 and moved in permanently, on a Friday night we would go up to bed with a flask of tea, pack of biscuits and snuggle up in her double bed in front of Tales of the Unexpected and Tales from the Crypt. I think I was about 6 or 7 when this started, because my parents had moved into the new house and I was living with my nan then too.