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

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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?

pretty woman, grease, dirty dancing and look whos talking - my childhood faves i still remember that every single time i watched look whos talking too, when john Travolta was late home and kirstie alleys brother was there with the workmate and they were saying oh i wonder where he is and the brother replied "probably getting laid" i'd ask my mum what they'd said because i could not make it out but was sure he hadnt said late properly and it didnt make sense haaa.. my poor mum never did answer me!

I was born in 81, jaws was my fav film when I started primary school. I had dirty dancing on video when I was 7. Had seen all the nightmare on elm street type films, Psycho, Birds, Poltergeist, IT, Etc by the time I started high school and watched crimewatch very week with my Nan.

No one joined the dots in that this may have been why I a) had so many nightmares b) could not sleep with the light off c) could not sleep without the duvet over my head. (I can now lol).

I still love a good horror film, but feel they are weak now.

I watched 9 1/2 Weeks with my mother in my early teens 😱

Another who watched poltergeist. I remember jumping a mile when the hand came out of the telly

Blazing Saddles and The Producers, and all of the Carry On Films

The Birds aged 10 - terrifying - been scared of anything with wings ever since 😳

As pp said - I Claudius - wtf 😵 Bouquet of Barbed Wire was very "close to the bone" too - a lot of sex scenes - 70s TV was totally insane 🤯

Tommy. When the beans start coming out of the tv, when Tina Turner injects Roger Daltry in an iron maiden, when they all visit the church of Marilyn Monroe...

That’s not the worst, just the weirdest. Nothing was off limits, we watched everything. Jacobs ladder scared me the most I think.

I thought you were talking about the travel show, ' wish you were here ' OP. I was wondering what poor old Judith Chalmers had done wrong 😅
My mum used to let me watch a series with her on a Saturday night called Thriller ( not the MJ thing ) I used to be scared to death with all the murders etc.
I think it came on at 9 in the evening and lasted an hour. I used to be scared to death going to bed after.
Way to go mother dearest! 🤔

Oh and any horror film that she happened to be watching. I remember one, I can't remember it's name, but it was about a ventriloquist dummy that came to life and started murdering everyone. Not Chucky, way before his time.
Good going mother! 🙄

This dates me a bit: "On the Waterfront" which was broadcast with a warning. Also "Psycho".

Great film @echt
Mmmm. Young Marlon Brando 😛

I was mad about James Cagney as a kid and loved watching his films.
My mother used to let me too!
Every time a film of his was on the TV, my dad used to joke ' your boyfriend is on the TV Saucy ' 😅

Great film @echt Mmmm.Young Marlon Brando

Tell me about it. Years later I got double bubble teaching it as a set text.:o

There was no filter in our house. Apart from my parents being foreign, not sure they understood or cared tbh. It was very lax.
I used to watch the Young ones, Benny Hill, we were up late most nights and watched horror films too. We used to tape the Twilight Zone and watch it the next day.
Nightmare on Elm street, jaws (at a young age), alligator or was it crocodile at the age of 8. Some really scary films.
I was surprised when mil said dh wasn’t allowed to watch Kenny Everett ‘in the best possible taste’.

Kenny Everett was brilliant 👍 I loved watching him as a kid.
Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt had me in stitches.

One of my favourite films ages 7-8 was the colour purple. I recently watched it again and was absolutely horrified that my mum let me watch it. Luckily it seems I didn't understand the majority of it.
Another one was IT, scared the life out of me!

My parents didn't really sensor too much (apart from really obviously inappropriate stuff) but the one I always remember as weird is me and my cousin who were only primary school age used to stay at my nans on a Saturday, she would have videos for us to watch 'keeping up appearances' 'bed knobs and broomsticks' that sort of stuff but then I remember her once putting on 'flowers in the attic' for us, didn't understand it at the time but felt incredibly depressed after watching it 😂

Barbarella when I was 8 or 9. My mum chose films with a female character for me to "identify with". And yes, she had seen it before.

I watched horror films with my mum from about 8. She caught me watching the black and white House on Haunted Hill at about 6, I had crept downstairs and hidden behind the sofa as she watched. She thought I would be scared but I loved it. I liked all the creepy ghost ones though, we did watch Freddy when I was about 13.

I think the one that comes to mind is when I was 13 and bored and she said i could watch a video. She was chatting to friends in the living room. I picked Rocky Horror Picture Show. She didn't realise it was in there until she saw the empty case later that evening. I thought it was brilliant, still love it now. She was mortified.

Rocky Horror Picture Show from about 6. And I bloody loved it (and still do). I'm sure there were many questions raised when in wanted to dress up as all the characters at the school disco.

When the Wind Blows. I was about 7. I genuinely had nuclear war nightmares for years after that. My dad thought it was "educational"

I saw Zulu at the cinema with my parents when I was 5 or 6 I think.

Also remember Hammer House of Horror on Saturday nights when I was a little older, but no more than 9 or 10. I found some of those truly terrifying and can still remember some of the images 40+ years later.

Can’t imagine what my parents were thinking!

I watched everything.
Hammer house ,Jaws, Poltergist, Amityville.Also my childhood reading was James Herbert,Steven King and Flowers in the attic handed to me after my mum read them.Wierdly the only thing I wasn't allowed to watch was Tiswas because it encouraged bad behaviour!

Dirty Dancing, I must have been watching that from about 6 years old, daily, I remember rewatching when I was older and suddenly understanding what all the Penny caffuffle was about ha.

No censorship in my parents house when I was growing up. At 8 or 9 my favourite TV programme was Manhunt. Nor in mine, when my DCs were growing up. Though they still take the piss out of me about ‘the secretary’ which was recommended by a friend who likes arthouse films. I probably should have read the blurb before watching it with them.