To say my 14 year old daughter can't watch ;

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It by Stephen king it's a 15 and whilst I don't have a problem with her watching some 15 and 18 certificates this film is just a no no to me,I can't watch it myself she's not happy.

You are the parent - do what you feel is right.

No. YANBU.

Is your DD likely to be freaked out by it is the question. I was reading Stephen King and James Herbert at 14/15 and was a real horror fan, but it's not to everyones taste.

I can't watch High School Musical, but I'd still let me DD watch it

It bloody terrified me but I am a wuss with clowns

Any reason why she wants to watch it, has a freind seen it? Its not gory or too much bad language iirc, justt really bloody scary..."they all float down here"

BTW YANBU, you are the parent.

zigzag its more to do with the one and only time my idiot brother looked after my eldest when she was 3 he bloody showed her it and she even now at 18 is freaked out by it, I've read horror all my life but can't watch stephen king.

Looking for me Daisy??

I think I agree with daisy (you big girls blouse lol) it's a psychological horror, and pretty tame by todays standards. It's not like she's asking to see 'Saw', which even I as a total film nut don't want to watch again...revolting

I love Tim Curry

lol at HSM. I'd watched all sort of unsuitable things at that age - never did me any harm. These days I can't watch horror films at all! I think when you are a teenager there is the full sense of unreality about it but when you are a grown up you think about it all too much.

Say Halloween for example. I watched that at about 13 with a group of friends. We all screamed at the appropriate moments then forgot all about it. These days the thought of deranged people coming to my house to kill the babysitter would put the fear of god up me!

Why did I look at that pic???

zigzag I love horror and so does she just have a real problem with psychological horror Saw doesn't bother me.

I prefer this Tim Curry.
I think YANBU but clowns scare the bejesus out of me.

I've just looked up when 'It' was written, it's 23 years old! Fk that makes me feel ancient

I recon Tim Curry in Legend was pretty good

I watched first time when I was 10. YABU, and so was my mum, so I had to watch it in secret.

I really don't like clowns - or any stephen king really. do you think she would be scared by it?

If she has asked to watch it I would take the matter of fact approach and say she can watch it, at home, but not to whinge if she has nightmares . I find self-regulation then cuts in with my teens [cue evil cackle]. what you DON"T want is for her to decide that the way to get her way is to deceive you and do/watch these things at friends houses. That way you will have no dialogue, no trust and no control.

it has the silliest ending in any sk film. they all beat up a spider type thing

stoopied film, only 15 year olds can truely appreciate it

She sent me a text telling me her and her friend were going to watch it on saturday night she spends every saturday night there has done since about 5 and I said no. But she has now sent another one to say they watched it on the internet so it obviously doesn't bother her but she'd better not bring the DVD here.She knows I'm quite relaxed with most things we have a great mother daughter relationship nowadays.

are you serious?
omg

Aw it's much less scary than the book! Tim Curry's positively cuddly in it.

(& I'm a horror fan AND wuss - just had to wait 3 days to start new S King novel because dh was away...)

Sorry, but since when is a great mother/daughter relationship where she texts you, you say no, she does it anyway and you're relaxed about it?

She is 14, you are letting her watch 15certs and 18 certs at times.

FFS, why do you think we have a Board of Classification?

Think you need to seriously look at actions and consequences, right now looks like she's the one running the show...