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

[Thetruth02]

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?

Wicked City. Its Japanese anime and has a lady demon who has teeth in her lady parts and turns into a spider spinning her silk thread out of the same lady parts. Actually a really good film.

All of the James Bond films. I still haven't let my son watch any of them, despite him being nearly 11 and i knew them all verbatim but his age

Threads
When the Wind Blows
The China Syndrome
Silkwood

all left me paranoid about the future.

Ooo threads was amazing. I also loved Arthur C Clarke's mysterious world.

My and my brother had much older step siblings - one ran a video rental store so we had access to dozens of 18 videos (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Childs Play etc) in the back room of his shop without anyone knowing. Another stepbrother was one of the first to own a VHS video recorder (the height of posh in about 1980) and he recorded all kinds of things from the TV - Threads, MJs Thriller, Poltergeist and so on. He eventually donated the recorder to us, along with all his videos which me and my brother watched alone without any intervention from our very strict stepfather, who didn't understand such new fangled things.

I can honestly say the only things that traumatised me were Threads and Friday 13th. Everything else we just watched impassively. These days it takes a lot to proper scare me!

I remember the Monkey’s Paw from when I was pretty young. I think we may have watched it in Year 6. It used to freak meat out!
Was never a fan of horror. Think I watched Psycho w my mum when I was 16 and I was so scared after the shower scene my mum
Gave me a brandy!!

Blue Velvet, the Shining, and the bunny boiler one I can't remember the name of. Traumatised for life!

Exorcist at 10/11 years old. I had already read the book

Fatal Attraction is the bunny boiler, it was my first 18th at the cinema

My mum used to keep me up late with her when I was about nine or ten to watch all sorts: Halloween, Dual (great film), The Shining, Straw Dogs... They’re great films and I wasn’t scared, but that may have been more luck than judgement!

Carry on films.
My mum was very strict about most of our TV watching - things like Grange Hill and Byker Grove were banned. However Carry on films with all their smut were not!?!
Dr Who was allowed and I found most of the villains terrifying.
I did see Terminator 2 at a friend's house aged 11 or 12. Gave me nightmares for months but I didn't dare tell anyone.

I grew uo watching everything. Hellraiser, Candy Man, Basic Instinct, Evil Dead etc. I had older siblings so whatever they were watching, i watched too. Did me no harm and i dont scare easily. I do look back sometimes and thing what the fuck haha. I w9uldnt allow my child to watch those films until he was atleast 13.

I also remember my mother kept me home from school when i was in year 5 because she wanted to get the nits out of my hair. I hated the tooth comb so i i asked her to rent nighmare on elm street and a little mermaid from the video shop so i has something good to watch while she put the nit lotion on my hair. Yes, i was a strange kid.

By the age of 13 my mum made me watch every 18 rated horror film because she was sad my step dad had left her. Made me sleep in her bed so she wasn't alone. Fucked my childhood right up.

@Thetruth02 I loved the film Wish You Were Here, when I was fifteen, especially the psychiatrist scene, where he's trying to make her say rude words. Here is that scene, pure writing genius! Notice also how the psychiatrist is smoking throughout the meeting.

As for wtf films: not a film, but the comic opera Candide. My parents were obsessed with it, and were always playing it on a tape in the car, and there was a scene near the beginning where no details were spared. (WARNING: not very nice, and I couldn't understand why this opera was meant to be funny!)

Narrator (in a comic matter-of-fact voice): "The village had been burned, in accordance with the laws of war. Old men shattered by bullets watched as women died with their throats slit; babies had bleeding breasts. Young girls with their bellies torn out, having satisfied the needs of several war heroes. (Music rises to dramatic climax) Others, so badly burned they begged for their lives to be brought to an end." That last line once made me cry. I also didn't understand the "satisfied the needs of war heroes" until much later.

I also watched some Carry On films aged nine or ten, but I was so behind my peers on all things "naughty" that a lot of the sexual humour went straight over my head.

I had watched all the 'old' and new. Including hostel. I think there were a few. The saw movies. Night mare on elm Street etc. Some really gruesome ones including rape and bloody murder, ghosts and just general gore I wouldn't watch now and I'm 27 now

@Veda33 I will never buy my DC red coats because of my trauma

@crunched haha I don’t blame you! Red coats still creep me out too. The film is the epitome of creepy.