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Poppetts1234 · 2021-10-02T16:51:41+00:00

I know a mum that allows her 9 year old to watch this. I’m really interested to see how many parents are ok with this? AIBU to be a bit shocked about this? Yes I should mind my own business but I’d be really interested to hear others opinions

Lucked · 02/10/2021 18:28

I remember watching the original Alien when I was about 6 😀 we had a pirated copy, my mum was just a bit oblivious and I was not easily spooked or scared.

Bagelsandbrie · 02/10/2021 18:28

I think people need to have watched this before saying they let their kids watch horror stuff so it’s fine. It really isn’t. We let Ds aged 9 watch all sorts of stuff that other people would be horrified by - the old Friday 13ths, the Babysitter (horror on Netflix), poltergeist, etc etc all fairly standard horror stuff that many people would be by but dh and I are horror nuts and he’s grown up with us talking about these things and is very aware they aren’t real. He’s only ever watched stuff with us and knows he can turn it off. Nothing has ever bothered him. Squid Games is more violent than any of those things. You have people being stapled into coffins whilst they’re still alive, people being battered to death with a bottle, organs being cut out of bodies, people being smashed to death on the floor. It’s just really explicit violence. Totally unsuitable for anyone under 15/16 really.

lawofdistraction · 02/10/2021 18:32

Surprised at those who've let their 12 or 14 yos watch it even. Did you watch it first?! Gore aside, what about things like references to women being gang raped as their organs were harvested?!

Loved Squid Games and I'm pretty relaxed about things but think it's only suitable for over 18s.

2reefsin30knots · 02/10/2021 18:33

I was standing at my whiteboard in school (writing, so at the front facing away from the class). I paused for a second- thinking- and into the silence one of my Year 5s interjected 'green light'.

It would have been pretty funny if I hadn't been so horrified he'd watched it.

5thnonblonde · 02/10/2021 18:34

Certainly not and I’m pretty chill about watching itv crime dramas etc with DD7 about (it’s mainly dialogue/court scenes she’s not gonna pay attention to). This is not only extremely regular graphic violence but it’s very watchable to a child- bright colours, cheery graphics etc.

Just found they do a ‘bleeped’ series of Taskmaster which I’m excited to show her! Had shown tightly cropped clips of previous series- Mel Gedroic’s luxury sandwich is a big hit!

AliceMcK · 02/10/2021 18:35

I was sceptical when someone asked on fb about letting a 13yo watch it and I’m not usually uptight about age limits in things. No way would my 9yo be allowed to watch it. I really enjoyed it, very up my street and I know my 9yo has very similar tastes but she’s not old enough for the graphic content or the sex scene.

At 9 I probably would have watched it, but that was the early 80s and poltergeist was by favourite movie when I was 6. A whole different world back then.

Clocktopus · 02/10/2021 18:35

You have people being stapled into coffins whilst they’re still alive, people being battered to death with a bottle, organs being cut out of bodies, people being smashed to death on the floor

The coffin being nail-gunned shut is split second, you see a pile of coffins (shaped like bow-wrapped gift boxes) and a hand peeks out the slightly ajar lid with someone groaning, a worker slides it closed and nail-guns it shut. It's on screen for all of two seconds. The riot scene was rough and bloody, yes. The organs being removed, aside from it being in a basement, was not that much more bloody than a medical drama and again the focus was on the people rather than the organs. The open body was just there in the scene, you see some organs being put into bags for transplant, but it's not a close up tour of the inside of a body. The bodies smashed on the floor was really graphic. Most of the deaths happen by gunshot though and overall its no worse than a lot of other shows and films out there.

Bagelsandbrie · 02/10/2021 18:36

@Clocktopus

You have people being stapled into coffins whilst they’re still alive, people being battered to death with a bottle, organs being cut out of bodies, people being smashed to death on the floor

The coffin being nail-gunned shut is split second, you see a pile of coffins (shaped like bow-wrapped gift boxes) and a hand peeks out the slightly ajar lid with someone groaning, a worker slides it closed and nail-guns it shut. It's on screen for all of two seconds. The riot scene was rough and bloody, yes. The organs being removed, aside from it being in a basement, was not that much more bloody than a medical drama and again the focus was on the people rather than the organs. The open body was just there in the scene, you see some organs being put into bags for transplant, but it's not a close up tour of the inside of a body. The bodies smashed on the floor was really graphic. Most of the deaths happen by gunshot though and overall its no worse than a lot of other shows and films out there.

Oh well that’s ok then.

Clocktopus · 02/10/2021 18:37

Surprised at those who've let their 12 or 14 yos watch it even

My 12yo was in the room when I watched the first episode, he was reading and wasn't at all bothered, he didn't pay it much attention. I watched the rest when they were in bed or at school.

Clocktopus · 02/10/2021 18:38

I didn't say it was okay or that it's not brutal, I was saying that it's not quite as horrific as you were making out. It's graphic, that's on the warning at the start of each episode, but it's no worse than other shows out there.

Coronawireless · 02/10/2021 18:41

DD9 is enjoying squid games. I watch it with her and fast forward bits. That was the deal. I fast forward anything to do with sex and any scene where a man hits a woman. Also most of the organ harvesting scenes. She knows not to mention it at school!
Not that proud really. I might have steered her to something else had I watched some of the later episodes but she was hooked by episode 1.

PippaOwl · 02/10/2021 18:42

My 14.5 year old watched it and enjoyed it but I wouldn't let a child much younger than him watch it

Coronawireless · 02/10/2021 18:42

On the plus side we have discussed organ harvesting, organ selling, North Korea and the fact that some people are so poor and desperate they will do anything for money.

PippaOwl · 02/10/2021 18:43

@lawofdistraction I'm fine with my nearly 15 year old watching it. I watched it first. We've chatted about it and he knows it's not real ..

Icouldbehappy · 02/10/2021 18:43

I watched it with my 13 year old. I’d have let him watch it with my at the age of 9 tbh.
We’ve been watching The Shining together since he was about 6 and Jaws from the age of 2. We love watching films together.
He’s perfectly well-adjusted and highly empathetic.

Icouldbehappy · 02/10/2021 18:44

*me

lawofdistraction · 02/10/2021 18:44

Coronawireless I can't tell if you're joking or not

PippaOwl · 02/10/2021 18:44

@Coronawireless yeah that's bonkers. Their brains just aren't able to process this stuff properly at the age of 9. Aren't you aware of this?

Coronawireless · 02/10/2021 18:49

[quote PippaOwl]@Coronawireless yeah that's bonkers. Their brains just aren't able to process this stuff properly at the age of 9. Aren't you aware of this? [/quote]
Can you back up this statement with medical evidence?

Coronawireless · 02/10/2021 18:51

I accept though that most 9 year olds would not be ok with it. But she is and knows it’s not real. It is quite slapstick and tongue in cheek violence. There are other less violent but more “real” films I would not let her watch.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 02/10/2021 18:53

@lawofdistraction

Surprised at those who've let their 12 or 14 yos watch it even. Did you watch it first?! Gore aside, what about things like references to women being gang raped as their organs were harvested?!

Loved Squid Games and I'm pretty relaxed about things but think it's only suitable for over 18s.

I think the official rating is 15, not 18.

LumpyandBumps · 02/10/2021 18:54

I have recently started watching this with my 17 YO, and we both find it disturbing, although also compelling viewing.
I wouldn’t have wanted her to watch it much younger.
I can remember her being really upset when she saw the human centipede at a sleepover a few years ago.

lawofdistraction · 02/10/2021 18:54

Slapstick for 9yos is cartoon characters slipping on banana skins, not real people having their throats cut. If you're for real you should feel utterly ashamed of yourself!

HungryHippo11 · 02/10/2021 18:56

@LumpyandBumps

I have recently started watching this with my 17 YO, and we both find it disturbing, although also compelling viewing. I wouldn’t have wanted her to watch it much younger. I can remember her being really upset when she saw the human centipede at a sleepover a few years ago.

I would be livid if someone showed my child, of any age, a film like that

Shannith · 02/10/2021 18:57

DD 10 would be scarred by it. I'm relaxedish about age things but I don't want her to have nightmares. And she would - some of the scenes are just the type of thing that would replay over and over in the middle of the night.

I'd love her to watch (and read) hunger games and especially stranger things but I don't want to traumatise her. It's not the themes that bother me - agree that it can prompt interesting discussions - but the inevitable midnight terrors.