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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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Shinyletsbebadguys · 20/10/2019 12:35

Poltergeist but to be fair that wasn't my dp but my dsis who thought it would be hilarious (I think I was 5 maybe?)

It backfired though we lived in Texas and the house style was a bungalow with really long corridors , when df unknowingly stood at the end of the hall in the bathroom door back lit by the bathroom light I screamed bloody murder. (I actually can't remember what scene that was as I've never seen it since but apparently it was a famous one??)

Is there a phrase like I'm coming in the film? Because my df said something like "Shiny dont panic I'm coming"...it apparently set me off and I ran hell for leather and hid. Took dp an hour to get me out from a cupboard.

Dp were highly confused and eventually I was talked down when dsis admitted she had shown me the film and frogmarched to said cupboard to admit it was all make believe.

Took a good 20 minutes for that to work on me as I wasn't falling for that ...no fear ...how did I know she wasn't possessed.

Even with her being the golden child she got grounded for ever practically for that stunt.

They still glare at her now if it's brought up and I'm 40 Grin

In fairness after a lifetime of her being the perfect one its quite fun to watch (i suspect they still remember being sleep deprived as I woke up with nightmares for a week after wards )

She also showed me Howard the duck at 11 which freaked me out (seriously giant damn talking duck!!)

JorahsMistress · 20/10/2019 12:36

When about 11/12, so bout 30 years ago, i was round a friends house and her parents were out we were trying to decide what video to watch, found one labelled animal farm so put it on, it was NOT a cute cartoon film about farm animals.....

theWarOnPeace · 20/10/2019 12:44

My dad used to get dodgy pirate videos from some kind of equally dodgy bloke. “Here, kids - there’s a new one for ya, Predator”!

By about 6-7 I had watched things like Predator, The Terminator, Poltergeist, Jaws, even The Exorcist. Nobody gave a shit! Those films gave me loads of irrational fears, there’s no way I would let my 9 year old watch any of them.

CileyMayRhinovirus · 20/10/2019 12:53

I talked my parents into letting me host a horror movie sleepover with all the scariest films we'd heard of. I still get flashbacks and feel anxious now.

"But muuum 18s now are not really 18s and everybody at schools watched them loads of times" said 14 year old me. Ruining my life, casually, and honing my skills to convince her to let us have booze at my next birthday party.

My siblings weren't allowed anything past a PG after that, until my brother swindled her in much the same way about x box games.

Kallyderon · 20/10/2019 12:58

@Saucytomato I think your ventriloquist dummy film is Magic. Anthony Hopkins being a total creepy bugger.

I watched it as a child too, certainly before I was 10. Also Jaws - we went to the cinema to see it as a wholesome family outing - everyone did. We were 8 and 10.

Also before age 10: all the disaster movies, towering inferno etc, a few of the hammers, along with everyone else at school, we were all full of talk about the one where blood came out of the taps. Lots of violent westerns, these were on on a Saturday afternoon ffs. Like a pp, piranha and other creature films, alligator? I think was another one. They were mostly daft though.

Although my dad did point out to me, as I was rationalising that I'd probably never be shredded alive like your woman in piranha because they have to be able to scent blood, that most people have a cut somewhere on their body most of the time, so actually if I ever found myself near a crowd of savage piranhas then savage death would surely follow. Cheers dad.

Tales of the unexpected as well, although I guess that's quite tame and mostly I found it confusing. Also the Sweeney, you slaaaaag.

user1471592953 · 20/10/2019 13:00

I saw the original Piranha when I was about 7. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards.

Kallyderon · 20/10/2019 13:12

I thought it was really frightening too! And developed an admittedly short term fear of grazes and paper cuts, just in case the piranhas came and got me.

Magic:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0077889/

FionaOgre · 20/10/2019 13:22

Rita, Sue and Bob too.

30+ years on and it's still shocking!
A classic shit movie but I'd still watch it again 😂Grin

BirthdayCakes · 20/10/2019 13:22

I saw Platoon when I was about 8 - something in me died..

Kallyderon · 20/10/2019 13:25

Rita sue and Bob too is very good I think. Wasn't she just a teenager when she wrote it?

randomchap · 20/10/2019 13:29

Plague Dogs. Cartoon by the same author as Watership Down.

It's an attack on animal testing and how humans mistreat animals. The ending is one of the most bleak I've seen.

It's a brilliant film, but not for children.

Still traumatised now

QuizzlyBear · 20/10/2019 17:43

My DM let me watch Barberella at age 6. Dolls have given me the heebie jeebies ever since! 😱

Stravapalava · 20/10/2019 17:53

I accidentally let DD1 watch Grease when she was about 6/7. Didn't remember how sexual it was!

lolaflores · 20/10/2019 17:57

Jaws did a total job on me. It really did. The severe leg floating out of the ships hull? I was 8. No way we should have been taken to it. I had my eyes shut most of the way

saveforthat · 20/10/2019 17:59

I went to the cinema to see the Exorcist when I was 15 (always looked much older). We had been reading the book on a geography field trip. My friend was so traumatised after the film she could not go home and had to sleep at my house. There were catholic protesters outside the cinema. I did not watch the film again until I was 45!

iklboo · 20/10/2019 18:08

I watched American Werewolf In London on my own when I was about 12. I then had to go and walk to meet my nana from bingo - late evening but summer so not quite dark.

I had to walk through an underpass to get there. I think I sprinted through it.

bobstersmum · 20/10/2019 18:10

Mine let me watch poltergeist, I must've been 6 or 7! My eldest is 6 now and there is absolutely no way on earth I'd even let him see a clip of it!

Amummyatlast · 20/10/2019 18:16

Poltergeist for me too. I’m not sure at what age. The spoof version in a Family Guy episode came on the other night and I had to turn over. Even as an adult it terrifies me.

Pixilicious · 20/10/2019 18:26

Porkys

dustybluebell · 20/10/2019 18:37

Mine let me watch 'The Evil Dead' and 'An American Werewolf in London' I had nightmares for weeks after and had to sleep in their room, as couldn't get the images out of my head when I went to bed. Also children of the corn, the fog, and hammer house of horror films. I've never forgotten it, but one of them showed a man cutting up a body into pieces and wrapping the parts into brown paper tied with string, and putting them in a chest freezer. (Haven't been able.to find it) But having said all that,I think that its instilled my love of horror movies now.

Veda33 · 20/10/2019 18:39

@Crunched same here! I am still freaked out by ‘Don’t Look Now’ all these years later. I’m 35 now, must have been younger than 10 when my mum allowed me to see it. She had no concept of censorship and watched all the 80s horror films in front of us. I detest horror films now, and haven’t watched any as an adult.

Seaandsand83 · 20/10/2019 18:45

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was played on repeat at my house as a child. I must have only been 6 or 7!!!

dustybluebell · 20/10/2019 18:46

Yes to Salems lot too. When the boys hovering at the window trying to get in. Bloody creepy even today. I slept with a crucifix under my pillow that night in case.

Karwomannghia · 20/10/2019 18:47

Poltergeist here too aged 8. I was utterly terrified. Too scared to move. Even at my age I knew it was wrong to encourage me to watch it. One of my stepdad’s hilarious ideas where dm didn’t intervene.

RingPiece · 20/10/2019 18:53

Salem's lot- the TV series. I must've been 7. I'll never forget the boy vampire hovering and scratching at the window. Also 70's horrors such as the hills have eyes, Texas chainsaw massacre, the exorcist, evil dead, etc when I was a little older, maybe 9/10. I'd raise an eyebrow if I heard of similarly young children watching them today, but my whole family loved horror films and I was used to it. I absolutely loved being scared as a child. Though, I do remember my friend's mum being a little cross when her daughter said she'd watched the shining at mine. My mum lent her the video as a sorry.