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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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BanginHeadache · 20/10/2019 09:11

I remember watching Halloween when I was really young, it has scarred me for life I cant even bear to hear the theme tune to it now!! Same with The Sixth Sense and even now all my family take the piss whispering 'I see dead people' to me.

I also remember being allowed to watch Bad Girls tv series and can remember the episode where Shel bottles Fenner with a broken glass, I must have been about 8!! Oh and Footballers Wives!

YouTheCat · 20/10/2019 09:23

There was no censorship in our house. I had friends who weren't allowed to watch Grange Hill, which is just a bit mad really.

smurfy19 · 20/10/2019 09:31

I watched horror movies from a very young age. At Nursery we were asked what our favourite thing to watch on TV was and my reply at 3 years old was Chucky (child’s play) WTF why wasn’t social work involved 😂😂 I loved horrors as a child and clearly remember watching these at sleepovers during primary school! There didn’t seem to be any rules on what we watched.
Changed days my kids are probably over protected when it comes to what they watch.

RosemarysBush · 20/10/2019 09:31

My mum was really strict about what I watched (eg only allowed BBC children’s tv, not ITV for some reason). But always had Twin Peaks on when I came back from Guides on a Friday (aged 11). Terrified me. I was hungry and they did the supermarket shop that evening so I used to stand in the kitchen snacking, but could still hear everything weird going on. I’m surprised I didn’t develop an eating disorder tbh.

bunnybird · 20/10/2019 09:58

Ali G - 6

IamPickleRick · 20/10/2019 10:25

turnthebiglightoff I loved when the wind blows. I even got the comic from the library Grin love a bit of dystopian film/literature!

When we were 8 I rented Misery off the video man three weeks on the trot! And I got beetlejuice on video as a gift one Christmas because I’d worn out the tape off the telly Grin

Literally anything, you name it, we watched it. I said the same to my mum recently when we were discussing why she’d never seen beauty and the beast. We didn’t watch kids films mum, that why!

tequilasunrises · 20/10/2019 10:33

I came on here to say Watership Down Grin

My Nan put it on for us when we were staying with her one weekend and I remember crying my eyes out!

Proseccoinamug · 20/10/2019 10:53

Silence of the Lambs!!

But yes, I was more traumatised by Watership Down!

Nutjobby · 20/10/2019 11:00

Betty Blue, aged maybe 11. About one third of the film is full frontal nudity which my DM had somehow forgotten was there. Confused

Blahdyblahblahblah · 20/10/2019 11:04

Watership down affected me the most, definitely. I haven’t let my kids watch that but they have seen Poltergeist 😂
My DD is 11 and loves a good horror.

Breastfeedingworries · 20/10/2019 11:10

I watched eyes wide shut with Tom cruise when I was 11, also rented blade....

My parents just let us choose films, I wouldn’t let my dd watch them!

SweatyUnderboob · 20/10/2019 11:11

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

VirtualHamster · 20/10/2019 11:19

Jaws is actually a PG

I remember watching Sleeping with the enemy, IT, child's play, misery at various sleepovers age 11/12. Don't recall anyone's parents having an issue.

Whitelisbon · 20/10/2019 11:23

We watched child's play at primary school, on the last day of term.

There was little censorship at our house either. My dad took me to see hellraiser 3 at the pictures, and I would have been 12/13, I'd seen the other 2 before that and had been desperate to go for ages!

But, I wasn't allowed to watch home and away. Neighbours was fine, but home and away was obviously a hotbed of sex and drugs. Little did they know, I watched it at a friends house every weekend (her dad taped it for us all week).

My parents seemed to not be aware of age ratings etc, my dad was buying me drinks in pubs when I was 13 ish, and always had alcohol in the house I could help myself to. But heaven forbid I get on a bus to the next town, or go to the roller disco. (Not still bitter at all, honest Grin)

Snipples · 20/10/2019 11:26

I remember in school once we had to write about a recent film we had watched and most kids put "Beethoven" or "flipper" or whatever. And 8year old me wrote "the hand that rocked the cradle".

I put my hand up to ask how to spell "assaulted" and the teacher said - oh that sounds like a very grown up film, does your mummy know you watched that? Me - yes she watched it with me.

Oops.

SignedUpJust4This · 20/10/2019 11:34

The original robocop was one of my favourite films as a child. I think i was about 5 when my parents let me watvh that lovely scene where the bad guys keep shooting the arms and legs off a cop. And IT. My room was decorated in clowns.

MitziK · 20/10/2019 11:37

Allowed: Benny Hill, Carry On Films, racist sitcoms, Black & White Minstrel Show, Kenny Everett Show, Hammer House of Horror films from age 9, Halloween Movies, shit films based upon Stephen King books, Orca, Jaws, Piranha, other low budget monster movies, usually involving murderous spiders, toads or other creepy crawlies, all documentaries, wildlife programmes, post 9pm cop dramas (usually involving at least one pair of exposed tits during a police raid each week or somebody blowing their brains out with a sawn off), war films.

Not Allowed: The Young Ones, anything about nuclear war, Watership Down.

Watched anyway: Blackadder, Red Dwarf.

Gilbert82 · 20/10/2019 11:40

Not much censorship in our house either!
Grease, Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman were my favourites (I got them on video for Christmas around age 8/9!).
Childs Play. Silence of the Lambs, Robo Cop, Terminator etc.
But I think the worst were The Colour Purple and Flowers in the Attic!

contentedsoul · 20/10/2019 11:46

American Werewolf In London
I was about 7/8 and at the time we lived in a huge old dilapidated house...whats worse is my bedroom was in the attic!
I used to walk up the stairs and climb into bed with my eyes shut!! terrifying is not the word!! The window in the attic (wasn't a velux - just a fucking window) had no curtains or blinds!1 The moon would scare me senseless

HavelockVetinari · 20/10/2019 11:58

Jurassic Park aged 9. Towering Inferno aged 7! Hmm

ChanklyBore · 20/10/2019 12:09

Jim’ll fix it.

sorrythisusernameisinuse · 20/10/2019 12:10

Kevin and Perry. I used to watch it all the time when I was 7/8!

SchrodingersMeowth · 20/10/2019 12:16

@Snipples I absolutely loved The Hand That Rocked The Cradle. No idea why but I was about the same age as you.

Red Dwarf is also still a firm favourite.

Auntmnrain · 20/10/2019 12:21

Strip tease with Demi Moore in and i was obsessed with dirty dancing. I asked for an outfit like the one out of strip tease for Christmas i was 6 Shock

Orangecake123 · 20/10/2019 12:29

My dad let me watch SAW with him when I was maybe 10.
I was watching CSI at 11 too.