Page 4 | To ask what horror films you would let your 11 to 13 year olds watch?

SistemaAddict · 2020-10-27T09:37:56+00:00

And possibly their younger siblings? Poltergeist Nightmare on elm street The Omen Anabelle That kind of thing?

Bagelsandbrie · 27/10/2020 10:49

@Whatwouldscullydo yes that’s absolutely it.

Lots of the more modern ones are far too sexual compared to the older ones. You could argue any violence is as bad as sex in that sense but the violence was / is often obviously fake / overdone. Most of the 80s and 90s horrors were clearly aimed at teenagers.

flaviaritt · 27/10/2020 10:50

You'd be sodding insane to let them watch things like Gaspar Noe's Love - which has an 18 certificate and features long sequences and uncensored shots of penetrative sex shot from angles that leave it obvious that nothing has been faked - but I don't think it would be illegal.

Not under laws relating to film rentals (18 certs are for the proprietor to worry about, not people in their homes, as you say), but under CP laws, yes, it would.

Marcipex · 27/10/2020 10:50

None.

Whatwouldscullydo · 27/10/2020 10:56

My fave film as a kid was the thing. I think I was probably about 13. My parents had given up at that point

I remember them when I was about 10/11 I think refusing to let me watch the post 9pm showing of top gun.

My dad had a habit of falling asleep on the sofa though so I saw loads of films that way. Some of the amitivilles ,.poltergeist and one called pulse.always remember the race car bed scene....

I was really able though to understand it wasn't real. I read books about vampires and murders and some quite adult themes.

I remember thinking Ripley was awesome. A.much better role model than some of the other female characters in other movies where their sole aim.was to bang the lead guy . But I was also into x files er dark skies etc as a teen...

CherryCocktails · 27/10/2020 10:58

When I was a kid I used to watch films like Childs play, Halloween, Candyman, Nightmare on elm street etc. I can't watch horrors now. It's not good for kids to watch anything like that for a reason..

LittleGwyneth · 27/10/2020 11:04

How about a few episodes of Buffy?

The Woman in Black is a 12, but it's the most frightening thing I've ever watched in my life, and I used to be obsessed with scary films.

formerbabe · 27/10/2020 11:05

Oh gosh, this reminds me of my own childhood. Normal, loving family, no abuse. Yet, I remember my normally sensible sane mother putting on a video for us to watch...Pretty Woman! We were 6 and 11 years old They also employed a nanny to look after us who let us watch gremlins...I was petrified and convinced they were under my bed.

BiBabbles · 27/10/2020 11:07

I'm not sure the divide is only between knowing it's real/not real. I think another part of it is having the choice to leave and feeling comfortable doing so. Scary things feel safer when you can leave, that's why a big premise in many horror movies is taking that away (or them just being really foolish and refusing to do so).

Many younger kids won't feel safe to do that even with the choice, just the idea of upsetting their parent is offputting enough & for some that's for good reason. This is true even with some younger teens -- and as this includes an 11 year old and younger siblings, those horror movies aimed at teens still aren't aimed at them. With the father's attitude, I'd be concerned how much choice the kids had in this.

I'm not a stickler for the ratings system - especially with older movies that were never rerated as that system changed - and it will come in large part to a child's personality, but with all the options out there, I don't get a parent showing an 18 movie to a child who is 8 as the OP describes -- and in this cause I think the father is doing it to be "cool" by treating the kids as older than they are and because he knows it upsets the OP, rather than sharing a love of horror films in a considered way.

Whatwouldscullydo · 27/10/2020 11:14

Oh gosh, this reminds me of my own childhood. Normal, loving family, no abuse. Yet, I remember my normally sensible sane mother putting on a video for us to watch...Pretty Woman! We were 6 and 11 years oldThey also employed a nanny to look after us who let us watch gremlins...I was petrified and convinced they were under my bed

Ha gremlins is a childhood tradition...

Yes I think parents forget that kids pick up on some things more than others.

My parents would refuse to let me watch say a pre warned episode of casualty probably cos it was particularly gory but then three men a baby/little lady where the whole thing is about how many women one of the characters has slept with and a messed up drug deal

I mean ....

Whatwouldscullydo · 27/10/2020 11:19

Sorry I wasn't laughing at you
Just u reminded me of gremlins i remember how my brother ajs I watched one at my cousins house a neighbours house...all the kids in the street did...gremlins was definitely one alot of the lods at primary had all watched

formerbabe · 27/10/2020 11:25

@Whatwouldscullydo

Sorry I wasn't laughing at you Just u reminded me of gremlins i remember how my brother ajs I watched one at my cousins house a neighbours house...all the kids in the street did...gremlins was definitely one alot of the lods at primary had all watched

To be fair I was an absolute wimp!! I remember Edward Scissorhands being released...I was absolutely petrified of that too! None of the other kids I knew found it scary.

I was also the only kid in my primary class who was allowed to watch Eastenders...

Elderflower14 · 27/10/2020 11:28

For some unfathomable reason The Woman In Black is a PG!! Not a clue why! I wouldn't let my child of that age watch it!

Mytimetokillandmaim · 27/10/2020 11:30

I watched all those things op. I was 10 when scream came out. I laughed all the way through.

Mum put The exorcist and The Birds on for me and my friends when we were 12/13. Again we laughed so hard. No harm done.
No nightmares or behavioural issues afterwards and none of us went on to become psychopaths. 🤣

TheSandman · 27/10/2020 11:31

@flaviaritt

You'd be sodding insane to let them watch things like Gaspar Noe's Love - which has an 18 certificate and features long sequences and uncensored shots of penetrative sex shot from angles that leave it obvious that nothing has been faked - but I don't think it would be illegal.

Not under laws relating to film rentals (18 certs are for the proprietor to worry about, not people in their homes, as you say), but under CP laws, yes, it would.

I'm happy to be corrected / informed. But it must be hell trying to define what and where the line is drawn. (Glad I don't have to do it for anyone but my own kids.)

How Noe's films get an 18 and not a R18 is baffling. Boring bloody films too.

TheSandman · 27/10/2020 11:33

@Elderflower14

For some unfathomable reason The Woman In Black is a PG!! Not a clue why! I wouldn't let my child of that age watch it!

No, it's a 15

www.bbfc.co.uk/search/releases/The%2BWoman%2BIn%2BBlack

GrouchyKiwi · 27/10/2020 11:36

I watched Halloween aged 12 at a friend's house. I had nightmares for YEARS afterwards. Granted, I'm a fairly wimpy person, but it was horrible.

FoldenHoard · 27/10/2020 11:37

“Laughed so hard”

Ooh, EdgeLord.

Betty94 · 27/10/2020 11:41

Bit of a different take here - my mum always let me watch scary things from a young age and it didn't bother me, I was never scared of anything because I knew it was pretend - obviously not all kids are the same and to be fair movies this day and age are much more morbid and vivid so may be different to the most haunted episodes I watched at 6

Mytimetokillandmaim · 27/10/2020 11:43

What the hell is an edgelord? 🤣

Elderflower14 · 27/10/2020 11:43

WIB was a PG before I'm sure!

CounsellorTroi · 27/10/2020 11:46

It was extremely common in the 80s and even 90s for kids to watch horrors etc. I used to go to sleepovers at about 11/12/13 and it would be a treat for all of us to sit and watch a 15 or 18.

This makes me extremely glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. How easy would it have been for a sensitive child to ask to be excused without being laughed at their friends?

Heathercob · 27/10/2020 11:46

Maybe, "The Sixth Sense" and "The Others"? Spooky, but not massively scary.

Elderflower14 · 27/10/2020 11:46

It was a 12A

CounsellorTroi · 27/10/2020 11:47

@Mytimetokillandmaim

What the hell is an edgelord? 🤣

Here you go, from Urban Dictionary

edgelord
A poster on an Internet forum, (particularly 4chan) who expresses opinions which are either strongly nihilistic, ("life has no meaning," or Tyler Durden's special snowflake speech from the film Fight Club being probably the two main examples) or contain references to Hitler, Nazism, fascism, or other taboo topics which are deliberately intended to shock or offend readers.

The term "edgelord," is a noun, which came from the previous adjective, "edgy," which described the above behaviour.

TheFuckingDogs · 27/10/2020 11:50

I’m fairly relaxed with action/adventure films but horror definitely not. When I was a kid someone’s parents let us watch nightmare on elm street - it messed me up for years