Scream for 12/13 year olds?

[Acunningruse]

Been put under serious pressure to let DS and friends watch this on Halloween- the fact that DS was scared watching ET a couple of years ago doesn’t seem to have deterred him 🙈🤣
before I text the other mums to ask, am I insane for even considering it? It is rated 18 but Im not sure it would be rated the same if made today.
AIBU to consider letting them watch it?

This. There's some tense scenes in Scream 2, in the car especially, but they really are more slapstick than scary. They are perfect for most 12/13 year olds.

I might with my own children but wouldn’t with other peoples, and wouldn’t want my kids watching it without me. Depends on the sensibilities of the child a lot.

Absolutely not appropriate to show this to other people's children. It's completely different to watching it with your own child.

Also pretty shitty to try and put the onus on other parents, rather than being a grown up and saying no to your child.

I wouldn't want my child to go at all, film or no film.

Hahaha, probably not indeed!

Genuinely shocked with some of these answers, I wouldn't have thought twice about letting a 12 year old watch Scream, wouldn't cross my mind to ask the parents either- I hate horror/gory films but I wouldn't say any of the screams are scary.
I'd definitely watched all the screams at pretty much every sleepover around this time of year from 11, it was the thing to watch in October!

Must say I pretty much agree with this.

When my kids had sleepovers they all bundled in the living room with free access to the tv, so who knows what they watched.