to say "no" to my 13 year old going to see "Drag Me To Hell"...

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... at half term. Some of her friends are going, and she could easily pass for 15, but I just don't think it's at all appropriate. I don't think I'm being unreasonable, but I thought I'd just check because you never know!

having seen the trailer the other day.. i wouldnt allow a 15yo to go see it.

find the trailer online and take a look yourself.

OK - now AIBU to be really depressed at the thought of children of this age liking horror films/fiction and consuming a lot of them?

Or am I a boring old fart?

Bloody hell i'm 40 and i wouldnt want to see it, but then again i'm a big girls blouse

I watched the trailer on U tube and that was more than enough for me!

the only info I could find said it 'contained strong horror and violence'.

It doesn't sound remotely appropriate to me and I don't think younger children should be let in without i.d. - surely just cos she looks fifteen they won't let her in?

I think it's usually 'don't ask don't tell" at our cinema.

I don't think she really wants to go actually and would be secretly grateful if I put my foot down so she can tell her friends it's my fault!

on the odeon website it says 'if you liked SpiderMan and the Evil Dead' you will like this

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ah, bless she wants you to say no

How about Night at the Museum 2 - sounds much more suitable

Well you know your DD and should decide accordingly. Kids who like horror films/fiction and consume a lot of them would be OK with it by the sound of it, kids who know nothing or next to nothing about horror conventions should probably steer clear.
WRT to the actual certification: well those should be treated as guidelines only.

Seeker: Yes. Most of the people who like horror films and fiction are actually nicer people than those with mainstream tastes anyway.

" Seeker: Yes. Most of the people who like horror films and fiction are actually nicer people than those with mainstream tastes anyway."

What a bizarre comment! What do you mean?

Well I was being slightly flippant (who moi?) but I have generally found that people who are keen on horror films, fantasy fiction etc are more sensitive, imaginative and interesting than the sort of people who dislike horror without knowing much about it.

Oh well, I'll just have to reconcile myself to my dd being insensitive, unimaginative and dull, then!

Sounds awful, whats it about?

YANBU

I never let my kids go to any 15 or over if they were not old enough. Took my darling girl out for her 12th birthday and she and the other girls were all trying for 'scarey movie 3' and I wouldnt have any of it. They went to Peter Pan and loved it!

My DS1 moans at me but I will not give in. There is enough nastiness and violence on our doorstep without seeing it on a 50 foot screen in Dolby vision.

But I am a grumpy witch woman.

No, yanbu. There is no way I would let dd watch crap like that. I am pretty strict about her not watching horror/violent films. She went to a sleepover once where one of the kids had a Saw III DVD, thankfully most of the girls there were wimps sensible and refused to watch it.

Seeker - think your dd is very smart, she obviously doesn't really want to see it, so you can play the part of the big bad mother and refuse to let her go, therefore she can save face in front of her friends (the games we play!).

Certainly do not consider myself to be dull and unimaginative to dislike films like this, on the contrary I think the fact that I do have a high level of imagination and sensitivity causes them to scare the hell out of me! Anyway I would prefer to be considered dull as opposed to stupid in letting a 13 year old watch inappropriate films.

Lol, I remember pleading with my mum to let me see Crocodile Dundee with my friends and she almost didn't let me go even though I was weeks away from being old enough, and all my friends were 15 already. The only remotely offensive thing in was when he opens a cold can of food and says "You can eat it, but it tastes like shit"!

I don't think graphic horror is appropriate for young teens, and it depresses me to think that some of them might already be sufficiently accustomed to it to be connosseurs of the genre...sorry Solidgold!