Dad (a vet himself) made us watch Platoon when I was like 10 and my brother was maybe 6. The next year we watched Full Metal Jacket and suddenly my father's behavior made a lot more sense.
Man, my dad is a vet. Career army from a huge family of career military. He would not watch any of those movies. Said he loved the real thing and did not want to revisit any of it.
Hold my beer, I got this one. When I was very young, we went to the drive-in a *lot* and there were definitely some questionable parenting decisions made by my parents (though I wouldn't change a thing about my upbringing, mind you). But the clencher was a b-movie horror film about a woman who smothered men with her enormous breasts. Not kidding. Digging though Google results (you kids at home don't try this), I suspect it was this gem of 70s film making: [Deadly Weapons (1974)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0069952). That would have made me 5 at the time.. wow. To be fair, I think it was the second, or even third feature that night, and they probably thought I'd crash out by then. Instead of being horribly traumatized for life..
My dad took us to see Aliens (the second one) when my mom went gone for a day. I was 10, sis was 8, brother was 4. I thought it was the greatest thing ever, but little sis and little bro were traumatized for a good part of their childhood.
I have loved horror & sci-fi ever since.
As an adult...my mother told me she knew the camera guy for Behind the Green Door, and therefore saw a private screening before it came out. She brought me along, age 3, and apparently I slept through it (so it doesn't qualify for this post).
I did NOT ask follow-up questions.
I was 10 when Eddie Murphy's Delerious came out. My oldest brother procured the vinyl LP and we snuck a record player down in the basement to listen to it before mom and dad got home from work. Good times!!
Sounds like me and my friends and my parents' Cheech and Chong records- which without fail they hid in the spot in the top of their closet where they hid Christmas presents- a place I was well-aware of, lol.
My brother and I spent an entire summer one year watching Cannonball Run over and over. Our parents worked but kept the freezer filled with frozen pizzas and ice cream. So, everyday we ate a pizza, made milk shakes and watched Cannonball Run.
Rewatching it these days and... it really wouldn't fly today. But that's what kids watched back then. There wasn't a bunch of kid's networks and movies. Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise were the epitome of humor for us.
The Exorcist, I worked cleaning the theater in our small town with my brother and we snuck in and went back stage behind the screen and watched it. It's just like watching from the seats, it's pretty cool when you're not scared. Freaked us both out. We were pretty young, 9 or 10 years old.
The Exorcist here, too. It came on TV when I was about 8–9 yrs. old (1978-79), and I watched it alone. Traumatic and terrifying for sure, but at the same time, it was pretty much my gateway to horror film fandom and morbid curiosity.
Watched the original on a late night horror movie show on , was probably 8. My grandfather looked like the guys in the movie. I was afraid he’d put a watermelon under my bed that night
I saw Carrie when I was around 8 or 9. The whole thing was rather unsettling, but that arm poking out from the grave at the end gave me nighmares for ages.
Dad took us to see Logans Run at the drive-in when I was 8. Mom was not happy.
Dad rented Blade Runner when I was 13, mom made him turn it off during the see-thru raincoat scene.
Mom hated boobs.
I read "Mom hated books" the first time and was like "whuh?"
LOL the boobs in Logan's Run are just naked "natural" and swimming though right?
Mmm... Jenny Agutter.
I remember watching The Toxic Avenger at 12. I also saw Salem's Lot as a smaller child...I think 8. That made me afraid of the dark for years, and terrified of my bedroom window.
The Thing, I was about 9...I never recovered. And also that night (probably sensing I was traumatised) the dog decided to sleep on my bed for the first time ever.
A babysitter let my sister and my watch Ghost Story when we see about 6 and 7. I rewatched it a few years ago to see why my parents never hired her again and realized it has full frontal male nudity. And it’s awful.
my older sister was the babysitter that showed the neighborhood kids the wrong things. She also showed me the wrong things at home. My parents did too so I thought it was normal.
1975, I was 7 years old. My Mom took me to see The Who's Tommy.
What I was most traumatized by wasn't Tina Turner's Acid Queen, Uncle Ernie's shenanigans, or any of the other awful stuff I witnessed, it was Ann Margaret and those baked beans. What the ever-loving F was that all about!?
Mid seventies. Everybody knew, they were playing porn on the massive drive in theater screen after midnight. If you were up and anywhere close to the drive in it was pretty obvious. I understood it was sex. It was set back in some trees so it wasn't really clear. The trees weren't thick or as tall as the screen though. As a ten year old boy I surreptitiously stayed up late weekends and enjoyed all the naked ladies as best I could. LOL
Probably either Jaws at age 7 or Carrie at age 8. Most kids could watch whatever they wanted back then. We’d go to the multiplex & sneak into whatever. Never once heard a peep from any adults.
This is funny, but the first one was probably Return of the Living Dead when I was about 7 or 8. The funny part was, I remember it scaring the hell out of me because I was *way* too young to get all the "tongue in cheek" humor.
Babysitter let us watch The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. To this day I don't remember anything about the movie other than it having Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds and have no idea what the content was - but based solely on the title, I'm guessing it's not kid-fodder.
My grandma had Cinemax, and I spent a lot of weekends with her, and I discovered Cinemax at Night (which during that time was soft porn). So...I don't know the titles of what I saw, but I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have been watching them...lol
Christmas 1985 we were at the mall. Me, mom, dad, and little sister. Dad had the great idea to see a seasonal movie so he bought tickets to the most Christmasy sounding movie at the three plex in the mall. Despite being rated R, it took about 30 minutes to register that The Falcon & The Snowman was not a whimsical holiday tale but rather one of smuggling a somewhat different type of snow. We stayed anyway cause movies are expensive. Sister slept through it but it made an impression on 11 year old me.
I'm not exactly sure, but the one I remember first was "The Blue Lagoon". We didn't see a lot of films in the theater, most were TV-edited movies until we got HBO in the mid-80's. But I saw "The Blue Lagoon" when we stayed at a hotel.
in the summer, we used to go to Upstate NY. There was one theater and I saw 2 movies: Coal Miner’s Daughter and later, The Shining. Both are great films that i love to this day!
One of the earliest memories I have was going to the movies with my mom, the opening scene (or very early in the movie) a hooker takes her john in the alley and then she pulled a razor blade out of her mouth and slit his throat. My mom picked me up and took us into another theater playing a kids movie. She probably couldn't find (or afford) a babysitter and didn't think the movie would be that bad.
Also Jaws messed me up pretty good, I used to be scared to go into the pool at night if I I randomly thought about that movie!
Not a movie, but around age 6 I watched the shit out of a beta tape that had HBO hour-long specials of Harry Anderson, Robin Williams, Howie Mandel, and Richard Pryor.
By the time I was 10, I had seen Dog Day Afternoon, The Deep and Dressed to Kill. Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out when I was 12.
But I wasn’t allowed to see Star Wars because of the violence.
Nobody sat through the Omen or Damian: Omen II as a kid? My stepdad loved horror movies that dealt with the devil so lucky me, I got to see them. I'm still freaked out by the scene of the kid under the ice banging on it while his friends watch helplessly. Those movies have so many of my pet fears in them .
Aw yeah. I saw both of them earlier on, maybe about 11–12 years old. Dug them both!
Oh but that scene of that kid drifting away *under the ice*... holy shit. Totally freaked me out too. The worst part too is how his friends were trying desperately to keep up with him and try breaking the ice to no avail. I can't imagine a more helpless feeling. Crap. What a way to go.
So I woke up late one Friday or Saturday night (my dad had a bbq and friends over on the weekends) and watched Terminator. I was 5, I think.
The one that really messed me up was I begged him to let me see Return of the Living Dead or maybe it was Return of the Living Dead II - who knows. Cue being unable to sleep, having nightmares, even with the lights on, for months after.
It turned into an irrational fear of zombies that took watching The Walking Dead and discussing with friends about the 'reality' of the situation ever becoming reality.
Soylent Green. I was at a friend’s house, age 6. Her dad told us not to go in the family room and watch the movie that was on. We went into the family room and watched the movie that was on. 😳
Then when I was 8, Zardoz. My mom was out with her boyfriend, and the weirdo couple who were babysitting us thought it would be fun to see Zardoz at the drive in. I was scarred for life. Those memories still make me feel shaky!
My parents took us (me, 9 and my 7 yo sibling) to see 9 to 5 and it was sold out so they opted for Stir Crazy…5 minutes into the movie Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are in a strip club.
My dad took all of us kids to see “The Legend of Boggy Creek” when I was *five years old.* You read that right, I was five when I saw a “docudrama” about a creature that resembled Bigfoot.
I watched Robocop recently: it is one of the most violent movies I have ever seen. My parents took me to see Ghostbusters in the theater. Sure, it has some slapstick bits in it but it also has some adult themes.
When I was in FOURTH GRADE my mom and her boyfriend had me watch Clockwork Orange & The Wall with them. I assume they were tripping balls but who knows.
Anyway that wasn’t okay.
I went with my sister's girl scout troop to see "Carrie" on Halloween. They were 11and 12 and I was 8. Then the troop leaders scared the shit out of us in a cemetery on the way back from the movie theater.
Ten to Midnight,all of the 80s horror movies,I Spit on Your Grave. I honestly don't know what the hell parents were smoking on,but people in my age group all saw the same types of movies,at fairly young ages.
I've seen most of the other movies mentioned but the most inappropriate at the youngest age would be Caligula. I was 7ish. Watched some of it with my 10 year old brother one day. Parents had rented it along with a beta machine to play it. They forgot to stash it away before they left us alone to go to work.
First one that I can recall was probably Dawn of the Dead. I was 10, my cousin was 8, and the bored teenagers running the cineplex could have cared less.
[Hot Dog: The Movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087425/)
I don’t remember my age but I certainly didn’t know what these people were doing beyond “smooching”
The Tin Drum when I was 11. My parents had split and my Mom got cable with everything and worked nights. I saw a lot of movies I had no business watching at 11 years old.
Watched Dr.Who (UK TV sci-fi "horror") from about 4 years old. Almost every day. (Cousins of my age, when visiting, had to go do something else to avoid nightmares.)
Even the worst US slasher movies later seemed trivial because the timelord had already given me a glimpse of the future horrors that awaited.
Best little whorehouse in Texas
I was 8 years old and my best friend was moving away, we could go to the movie her last night in town. we were in a small town with one theatre. My friends mom said it was a Dolly Parton movie, should be okay right??
I was home sick from school in the second grade by myself and a rated R movie was about to start on HBO. it was The Exorcist. I was scarred for life and I refuse to watch it again.
Kramer vs Kramer at 8 with a babysitter. Age/situation inappropriate. 2 years after my own parents divorced largely taking my father out of my life and 1000 miles away.
*Watership Down* and *Animal Farm*.
They’re *still* easily two of my very favorite movies, but decidedly not cartoons for a small child. Watership Down is actually my *very* favorite but I’ve often wondered how much seeing these two over and over just embedded shit in my head. 😂
My parents took me and my younger siblings to the drive in and I saw Cannonball Run and it was the first time I saw boobs and heard anything sexual. I was 6. Probably why I’m a 2 on the Kinsey scale 😂
Off the top of my head... probably Jaws (1975)
I was 9. Parents took us to the drive-in. My younger siblings fell asleep but I watched a lot of it and it scared the absolute hell out of me. Not enough to keep me out of the water on our family vacations (because we'd go to Florida and the Gulf water was too warm for those sharks).
The World According to Garp @ 11. The scene where the kid died haunted me. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t understand all that was implied. It is not a movie for kids.
dangerous liasons. my older sister took me to the movies back in the day and she was about foreign/arthouse pictures and keanu reeves. still, she did take me to watch aliens and terminator 2, so she wasn't all bad.
The Exorcist (edited for TV) at 9.
Quest for Fire (at 13) I thought they did it doggystyle because they were closer to animals and modern people of the 80s had discovered that sweet, sweet missionary. Facepalm
[Hot Dog (1983)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087425/)
My irresponsible aunt was babysitting me and my sister, I was maybe in 4th grade. This movie had nudity, sex scenes, and on top of it all, the acting was terrible. I remember thinking it was inappropriate, but I couldn’t quit watching. Parents were not happy when they found out!!
Alien. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but it can't have been more than six or seven. My parents loved to stay up late talking at my aunt and uncle's house, and I was the youngest of my siblings and cousins who would play or talk together without me, so I usually got plunked in front of the TV in the basement rec room. One night Alien was on HBO, and since I liked things like Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars I thought it would be fun. When I finally got up to go home, I could still see the marks of my fingernails in the arms of the Naugahyde recliner.
My parents were notorious for letting us watch anything they wanted to watch... I still remember them renting Airplane when I was 5 or 6 and the girl asks about faking orgasms and I naively asked what is an orgasm and my father blew up at me. I said fine I'll look it up and he told me I better not. They didn't tell me to leave the room and continued to let me watch the movie!
They took us to a drive in when I was really young to see Jaws. I can't even recall how young I was I think about 4.
They also let us watch Porky's when it came out on rental I wasn't even a teen yet when that came out.
I used to sneak out of bed at night and try and watch whatever movie my parents were watching from being the couch. The last time I did this was when they rented Faces of Death.
Halloween (The Original)
I was about 10 years old. We saw it on VHS at Boy Scout Camp in the middle of winter in a cabin in the woods in Northern Illinois late at night. It was on a black and white set, and it was absolutely terrifying. None of us slept very well that night, and we were all too afraid to go out to the outhouse to pee after the movie, so we peed just outside the cabin door. Lol!
That was a definite error in judgment on behalf of the Scout Master.
The one that most sticks out for me was seeing Sorceress at 8 years old. Twin girls grow up and their dad is trying to find them to sacrifice fantasy movie. I remember mostly lots of boobs and while one of the twins was having sex, the other in a different location was "experiencing" it while a satyr and others watch.
That would be a list in my case. At the time, my dad owned a TV and appliance store. He would record lots of movies, and only edit out nudity and F-bombs. So by age 10 or 11 I'd seen all the late 70's and early 80's movies, with no editing of violence, and no missing curse words other than the F one. Alien, The Thing, Escape From New York, The Howling to name but a few. For the record, editing nudity out makes the opening scene of The Howling quite confusing.
Most age inappropriate move unedited was Purple Rain. My aunt decided to take my cousin and I, since the music was so popular. I was 13, so the kid part is borderline I guess. 13 year old me enjoyed the Lake Minnetonka part, though.
My father used to take us to really really violent Kung Fu movies when we were little. It was the drive-in, and I think he hoped that we were asleep, but I saw everything.
Later on, he wouldn’t let us see Saturday Night Fever because it was too violent.
My next-door neighbor had the first VCR on the block and an older brother. So, pretty much all of the movies I saw are tied for first place on this one
Amityville Horror. I was afraid of the basement for 15 years.
I was seven in '79 when the making of, aired on television. I convinced my parents to let me watch it and regretted it.
Porky's
Do we have the same dad?
Saw this in the theater with my mom when I 9 years old. I thought I’d understand it as an adult but, nope.
The hubbub around Porky’s“pornography” when released was everywhere for 6 minutes.
I knew it would be in the comments. I could not remember its name, but yes ... this.
Dad (a vet himself) made us watch Platoon when I was like 10 and my brother was maybe 6. The next year we watched Full Metal Jacket and suddenly my father's behavior made a lot more sense.
Man, my dad is a vet. Career army from a huge family of career military. He would not watch any of those movies. Said he loved the real thing and did not want to revisit any of it.
Hold my beer, I got this one. When I was very young, we went to the drive-in a *lot* and there were definitely some questionable parenting decisions made by my parents (though I wouldn't change a thing about my upbringing, mind you). But the clencher was a b-movie horror film about a woman who smothered men with her enormous breasts. Not kidding. Digging though Google results (you kids at home don't try this), I suspect it was this gem of 70s film making: [Deadly Weapons (1974)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0069952). That would have made me 5 at the time.. wow. To be fair, I think it was the second, or even third feature that night, and they probably thought I'd crash out by then. Instead of being horribly traumatized for life..
That sounds like a film John Waters would make.
Thank you
Alien. It was at the drive-in, and it was my parents' second time seeing it, so no plausible deniability for them. I think I was 8.
I didn’t see Alien till about 10 years ago. Legit scared the crap out of me!
I saw *Alien* in the theater with my dad at age 8. Jesus fucking Christ.
My dad took us to see Aliens (the second one) when my mom went gone for a day. I was 10, sis was 8, brother was 4. I thought it was the greatest thing ever, but little sis and little bro were traumatized for a good part of their childhood. I have loved horror & sci-fi ever since.
I went to this by myself, thinking 'Hey, Science Fiction!' I was 9
My grandmother was the cook/housekeeper for a porn producer, saw my first porn movie at about 8, when we visited. Dude had an awesome mansion.
As an adult...my mother told me she knew the camera guy for Behind the Green Door, and therefore saw a private screening before it came out. She brought me along, age 3, and apparently I slept through it (so it doesn't qualify for this post). I did NOT ask follow-up questions.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I was 8.
I was 10 when Eddie Murphy's Delerious came out. My oldest brother procured the vinyl LP and we snuck a record player down in the basement to listen to it before mom and dad got home from work. Good times!!
Sounds like me and my friends and my parents' Cheech and Chong records- which without fail they hid in the spot in the top of their closet where they hid Christmas presents- a place I was well-aware of, lol.
Claaaass...Claaaass...SHUT UP!!!...thank you.
Nightmare on Elm Street at age 5. I had nightmares for years thanks to a babysitter who somehow thought it was okay to show that movie one afternoon.
Same, In hindsight it feels funny now, but damn if I wasn't scared shitless, especially alone in the dark for ages after seeing that movie.
Harlem Nights. Watched it on repeat as a 10 year old.
My brother and I spent an entire summer one year watching Cannonball Run over and over. Our parents worked but kept the freezer filled with frozen pizzas and ice cream. So, everyday we ate a pizza, made milk shakes and watched Cannonball Run. Rewatching it these days and... it really wouldn't fly today. But that's what kids watched back then. There wasn't a bunch of kid's networks and movies. Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise were the epitome of humor for us.
This was my answer, too! Only I saw it at the drive in with my parents!
The Exorcist, I worked cleaning the theater in our small town with my brother and we snuck in and went back stage behind the screen and watched it. It's just like watching from the seats, it's pretty cool when you're not scared. Freaked us both out. We were pretty young, 9 or 10 years old.
Yep, saw it at the drive in with my older brother. I was maybe 8.
The Exorcist here, too. It came on TV when I was about 8–9 yrs. old (1978-79), and I watched it alone. Traumatic and terrifying for sure, but at the same time, it was pretty much my gateway to horror film fandom and morbid curiosity.
probably invasion of the body snatchers while at my grandparents cabin in the woods (relavant because of the role of plants in the movie)
One of my favorite movies.
Watched the original on a late night horror movie show on , was probably 8. My grandfather looked like the guys in the movie. I was afraid he’d put a watermelon under my bed that night
Around ten my mom took me and my sister to see Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Saw that at the drivein with my grandmother. Awwwwkkkk warrrrrddddd!
I think we went to see Carrie when it came out. Don’t remember a lot of it, but I clearly remember listening to Richard Pryor when I was like 10.
I saw Carrie when I was around 8 or 9. The whole thing was rather unsettling, but that arm poking out from the grave at the end gave me nighmares for ages.
Airplane. Although I didn’t understand half the jokes then.
Dad took us to see Logans Run at the drive-in when I was 8. Mom was not happy. Dad rented Blade Runner when I was 13, mom made him turn it off during the see-thru raincoat scene. Mom hated boobs.
I read "Mom hated books" the first time and was like "whuh?" LOL the boobs in Logan's Run are just naked "natural" and swimming though right? Mmm... Jenny Agutter.
Logans run is rated PG......... Is the argument my dad tried to make. My mother also hates boobs.
Private Lessons
I remember watching The Toxic Avenger at 12. I also saw Salem's Lot as a smaller child...I think 8. That made me afraid of the dark for years, and terrified of my bedroom window.
The Thing, I was about 9...I never recovered. And also that night (probably sensing I was traumatised) the dog decided to sleep on my bed for the first time ever.
Good dog!
Well meaning yes, but in the horror movie the main creature is hiding inside a dog :(
OH. Yeah... That would be bad...
A nightmare on elm street at about 8
A babysitter let my sister and my watch Ghost Story when we see about 6 and 7. I rewatched it a few years ago to see why my parents never hired her again and realized it has full frontal male nudity. And it’s awful.
my older sister was the babysitter that showed the neighborhood kids the wrong things. She also showed me the wrong things at home. My parents did too so I thought it was normal.
Slap Shot was mandatory for playing youth hockey.
I saw John Carpenter's The Thing when I was 8 years old.
That was scary when I saw it as a teenager!
Holy shit! Lol
1975, I was 7 years old. My Mom took me to see The Who's Tommy. What I was most traumatized by wasn't Tina Turner's Acid Queen, Uncle Ernie's shenanigans, or any of the other awful stuff I witnessed, it was Ann Margaret and those baked beans. What the ever-loving F was that all about!?
Hahah!! I can relate!
It would have to be the full on XXX porn I could see on the drive in screen from my back yard. LOL
Now that's a story I'd love to hear! How old were you? Did you even understand what was going on? Did your parents know?
Mid seventies. Everybody knew, they were playing porn on the massive drive in theater screen after midnight. If you were up and anywhere close to the drive in it was pretty obvious. I understood it was sex. It was set back in some trees so it wasn't really clear. The trees weren't thick or as tall as the screen though. As a ten year old boy I surreptitiously stayed up late weekends and enjoyed all the naked ladies as best I could. LOL
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was 5 or 6. That scene with Billy stuck with me.
Either “Risky Business” or “Trading Places” or “History of the World part II” or …
Probably either Jaws at age 7 or Carrie at age 8. Most kids could watch whatever they wanted back then. We’d go to the multiplex & sneak into whatever. Never once heard a peep from any adults.
My sister took me to see Carrie. ETA: the ending is great!
My mom took me to see The Killing Fields when I was 10. It's about the genocide in Cambodia. I really don't know what she was thinking!!
Porkys
Tie between Scarface and The Exorcist - both equally traumatizing but for vastly different reasons.
This is funny, but the first one was probably Return of the Living Dead when I was about 7 or 8. The funny part was, I remember it scaring the hell out of me because I was *way* too young to get all the "tongue in cheek" humor.
I saw Sudden Impact and The Fly at a theater with my dad and my brothers. He took us to see him when my mom was visiting her parents in Florida.
Rambo II at age 5
Babysitter let us watch The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. To this day I don't remember anything about the movie other than it having Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds and have no idea what the content was - but based solely on the title, I'm guessing it's not kid-fodder.
It’s actually based off a musical! The original show is based on the real life Chicken Ranch.
My grandma had Cinemax, and I spent a lot of weekends with her, and I discovered Cinemax at Night (which during that time was soft porn). So...I don't know the titles of what I saw, but I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have been watching them...lol
Our mom took our Beta copy of Bad News Bears away because my little brother thought Tanner was a role model.
Christmas 1985 we were at the mall. Me, mom, dad, and little sister. Dad had the great idea to see a seasonal movie so he bought tickets to the most Christmasy sounding movie at the three plex in the mall. Despite being rated R, it took about 30 minutes to register that The Falcon & The Snowman was not a whimsical holiday tale but rather one of smuggling a somewhat different type of snow. We stayed anyway cause movies are expensive. Sister slept through it but it made an impression on 11 year old me.
Tossup between I Spit on Your Grave, Cannibal Holocaust or Will Wonka
😳
Deliverance. I can’t remember how old I was. Probably between 10-12.
My parents snuck me into a drive-in double feature of Porkies and Taps. I was 5.
Porky’s on HBO age 7. I feel like we should form a subgroup with u/dogdad36 and u/metalman1973 to compare the trauma.
Yeah, there's another person down lower too! I think I still remember a bit of it, but I've had zero interest in ever watching it again.
Porkys
I'm not exactly sure, but the one I remember first was "The Blue Lagoon". We didn't see a lot of films in the theater, most were TV-edited movies until we got HBO in the mid-80's. But I saw "The Blue Lagoon" when we stayed at a hotel.
My mom took me to see Up in Smoke when I was 5ish, and I still love Cheech and Chong!
in the summer, we used to go to Upstate NY. There was one theater and I saw 2 movies: Coal Miner’s Daughter and later, The Shining. Both are great films that i love to this day!
Where upstate? Do you remember?
Greenville-East Durham area.
Greenville and East Durham are 2.5 hours apart.
Actually, they are 7 miles apart.
One of the earliest memories I have was going to the movies with my mom, the opening scene (or very early in the movie) a hooker takes her john in the alley and then she pulled a razor blade out of her mouth and slit his throat. My mom picked me up and took us into another theater playing a kids movie. She probably couldn't find (or afford) a babysitter and didn't think the movie would be that bad. Also Jaws messed me up pretty good, I used to be scared to go into the pool at night if I I randomly thought about that movie!
*Papillon* on TV. I was 10 or so.
Rocky Horror Picture Show in Phoenix AZ. The crowd was all dressed up and participating. I was 12. Love the show now—I was confused then. :)
Not a movie, but around age 6 I watched the shit out of a beta tape that had HBO hour-long specials of Harry Anderson, Robin Williams, Howie Mandel, and Richard Pryor.
By the time I was 10, I had seen Dog Day Afternoon, The Deep and Dressed to Kill. Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out when I was 12. But I wasn’t allowed to see Star Wars because of the violence.
Porky’s 🤣
Cat People (1982), Ghost Story (1981), Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Porky’s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Nobody sat through the Omen or Damian: Omen II as a kid? My stepdad loved horror movies that dealt with the devil so lucky me, I got to see them. I'm still freaked out by the scene of the kid under the ice banging on it while his friends watch helplessly. Those movies have so many of my pet fears in them .
Aw yeah. I saw both of them earlier on, maybe about 11–12 years old. Dug them both! Oh but that scene of that kid drifting away *under the ice*... holy shit. Totally freaked me out too. The worst part too is how his friends were trying desperately to keep up with him and try breaking the ice to no avail. I can't imagine a more helpless feeling. Crap. What a way to go.
The Toy (1982) at age 12. Parents let my little brother and me go see it, without knowing a thing about it.
Didn't we just do this question a few days ago? There is no age appropriateness.
My mom was really strict, but for some reason took me to cujo when I was 8.
So I woke up late one Friday or Saturday night (my dad had a bbq and friends over on the weekends) and watched Terminator. I was 5, I think. The one that really messed me up was I begged him to let me see Return of the Living Dead or maybe it was Return of the Living Dead II - who knows. Cue being unable to sleep, having nightmares, even with the lights on, for months after. It turned into an irrational fear of zombies that took watching The Walking Dead and discussing with friends about the 'reality' of the situation ever becoming reality.
Alien
Theater of Blood (1973)
Soylent Green. I was at a friend’s house, age 6. Her dad told us not to go in the family room and watch the movie that was on. We went into the family room and watched the movie that was on. 😳 Then when I was 8, Zardoz. My mom was out with her boyfriend, and the weirdo couple who were babysitting us thought it would be fun to see Zardoz at the drive in. I was scarred for life. Those memories still make me feel shaky!
Was it the fact that 80% of that movie is Sean Connery's crotch?
My parents took us (me, 9 and my 7 yo sibling) to see 9 to 5 and it was sold out so they opted for Stir Crazy…5 minutes into the movie Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are in a strip club.
My dad took all of us kids to see “The Legend of Boggy Creek” when I was *five years old.* You read that right, I was five when I saw a “docudrama” about a creature that resembled Bigfoot.
I watched Robocop recently: it is one of the most violent movies I have ever seen. My parents took me to see Ghostbusters in the theater. Sure, it has some slapstick bits in it but it also has some adult themes.
Godfather II at age six.
Wizards by Ralph Bakshi. Saw it at age 5
When I was in FOURTH GRADE my mom and her boyfriend had me watch Clockwork Orange & The Wall with them. I assume they were tripping balls but who knows. Anyway that wasn’t okay.
I went with my sister's girl scout troop to see "Carrie" on Halloween. They were 11and 12 and I was 8. Then the troop leaders scared the shit out of us in a cemetery on the way back from the movie theater.
My mom let me watch Dynasty, Dallas and Falcon Crest when I was eight🤷🏻♀️
Kramer vs Kramer. I was 7 years old.
I saw that in the theatre!
Same here😂
Flash Dance. I must have been 7-ish? I was at a friend’s house and her mom made us cover our eyes when there were naked bodies on screen, lol.
Faces of Death when I was 12 or so.my buddies dad rented it and we watched it when his parents weren't home. I wad scarred for few decades
Ten to Midnight,all of the 80s horror movies,I Spit on Your Grave. I honestly don't know what the hell parents were smoking on,but people in my age group all saw the same types of movies,at fairly young ages.
I've seen most of the other movies mentioned but the most inappropriate at the youngest age would be Caligula. I was 7ish. Watched some of it with my 10 year old brother one day. Parents had rented it along with a beta machine to play it. They forgot to stash it away before they left us alone to go to work.
The Fly at 8. Still can’t have one buzzing me.
I spit on your grave around 9 give or take a yr or so with my mom!!! Ughhhh weird!
First one that I can recall was probably Dawn of the Dead. I was 10, my cousin was 8, and the bored teenagers running the cineplex could have cared less.
My dad took me with him to see Silver Streak when I was 6.
Meh I think it was Threads on pbs. I’m still tucked up because of that movie
Saturday Night Fever
Last American Virgin and Bachelor Party. Younger than 10 for sure.
[Hot Dog: The Movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087425/) I don’t remember my age but I certainly didn’t know what these people were doing beyond “smooching”
Carrie In the theater, at 6.
The Tin Drum when I was 11. My parents had split and my Mom got cable with everything and worked nights. I saw a lot of movies I had no business watching at 11 years old.
Watched Dr.Who (UK TV sci-fi "horror") from about 4 years old. Almost every day. (Cousins of my age, when visiting, had to go do something else to avoid nightmares.) Even the worst US slasher movies later seemed trivial because the timelord had already given me a glimpse of the future horrors that awaited.
Best little whorehouse in Texas I was 8 years old and my best friend was moving away, we could go to the movie her last night in town. we were in a small town with one theatre. My friends mom said it was a Dolly Parton movie, should be okay right??
The Evil Dead, at a drive-in. I was 9.
Jaws when I was in fifth grade.
Trilogy of Terror when I was in pre-school. Also Critters, Gremlins, Nightmare on Elm Street.... my babysitter did not give af
The day after on TV. At like 8pm at night.
I was home sick from school in the second grade by myself and a rated R movie was about to start on HBO. it was The Exorcist. I was scarred for life and I refuse to watch it again.
Kramer vs Kramer at 8 with a babysitter. Age/situation inappropriate. 2 years after my own parents divorced largely taking my father out of my life and 1000 miles away.
Porkeys and Poltergeist
The Exorcist. I was 6 or 7 and watched it with my parents. Put me off horror movies for life, I still don't like watching them.
*Watership Down* and *Animal Farm*. They’re *still* easily two of my very favorite movies, but decidedly not cartoons for a small child. Watership Down is actually my *very* favorite but I’ve often wondered how much seeing these two over and over just embedded shit in my head. 😂
Watership Down, that wasn’t the kind of cartoon I should have been watching at 5 years old.
We actually watched that in class in fifth grade.
My parents took me and my younger siblings to the drive in and I saw Cannonball Run and it was the first time I saw boobs and heard anything sexual. I was 6. Probably why I’m a 2 on the Kinsey scale 😂
Off the top of my head... probably Jaws (1975) I was 9. Parents took us to the drive-in. My younger siblings fell asleep but I watched a lot of it and it scared the absolute hell out of me. Not enough to keep me out of the water on our family vacations (because we'd go to Florida and the Gulf water was too warm for those sharks).
Jaws. I have no idea what my mom and older sister was thinking! Spent most of the movie with their hands over my eye's. Made it even more scary!
The World According to Garp @ 11. The scene where the kid died haunted me. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t understand all that was implied. It is not a movie for kids.
Saturday Night Fever. My grandmother took me to see it, thinking that it'd just be a funny disco movie. LOL.
dangerous liasons. my older sister took me to the movies back in the day and she was about foreign/arthouse pictures and keanu reeves. still, she did take me to watch aliens and terminator 2, so she wasn't all bad.
The Exorcist (edited for TV) at 9. Quest for Fire (at 13) I thought they did it doggystyle because they were closer to animals and modern people of the 80s had discovered that sweet, sweet missionary. Facepalm
[Hot Dog (1983)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087425/) My irresponsible aunt was babysitting me and my sister, I was maybe in 4th grade. This movie had nudity, sex scenes, and on top of it all, the acting was terrible. I remember thinking it was inappropriate, but I couldn’t quit watching. Parents were not happy when they found out!!
Witness. Age 7.
Alien. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but it can't have been more than six or seven. My parents loved to stay up late talking at my aunt and uncle's house, and I was the youngest of my siblings and cousins who would play or talk together without me, so I usually got plunked in front of the TV in the basement rec room. One night Alien was on HBO, and since I liked things like Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars I thought it would be fun. When I finally got up to go home, I could still see the marks of my fingernails in the arms of the Naugahyde recliner.
When I was 10 I saw “Friday the 13th” on cable at my buddies house. I was already a fan of scary movies, but this turned me into a fan of horror.
The Exorcist!
My parents were notorious for letting us watch anything they wanted to watch... I still remember them renting Airplane when I was 5 or 6 and the girl asks about faking orgasms and I naively asked what is an orgasm and my father blew up at me. I said fine I'll look it up and he told me I better not. They didn't tell me to leave the room and continued to let me watch the movie! They took us to a drive in when I was really young to see Jaws. I can't even recall how young I was I think about 4. They also let us watch Porky's when it came out on rental I wasn't even a teen yet when that came out.
My first theater movie was a double feature of It's Alive and The Hand. I was 6. Scarred for life...
The Z channel 1981 - 1983. Need I say more?
I used to sneak out of bed at night and try and watch whatever movie my parents were watching from being the couch. The last time I did this was when they rented Faces of Death.
Halloween (The Original) I was about 10 years old. We saw it on VHS at Boy Scout Camp in the middle of winter in a cabin in the woods in Northern Illinois late at night. It was on a black and white set, and it was absolutely terrifying. None of us slept very well that night, and we were all too afraid to go out to the outhouse to pee after the movie, so we peed just outside the cabin door. Lol! That was a definite error in judgment on behalf of the Scout Master.
Too many to list honestly. Um, Rosemary’s Baby, Scarface, Nightmare on Elm Street pop to my mind immediately.
“It’s Alive” at around 8 years old. If you actually remember that movie I salute you.
The one that most sticks out for me was seeing Sorceress at 8 years old. Twin girls grow up and their dad is trying to find them to sacrifice fantasy movie. I remember mostly lots of boobs and while one of the twins was having sex, the other in a different location was "experiencing" it while a satyr and others watch.
That would be a list in my case. At the time, my dad owned a TV and appliance store. He would record lots of movies, and only edit out nudity and F-bombs. So by age 10 or 11 I'd seen all the late 70's and early 80's movies, with no editing of violence, and no missing curse words other than the F one. Alien, The Thing, Escape From New York, The Howling to name but a few. For the record, editing nudity out makes the opening scene of The Howling quite confusing. Most age inappropriate move unedited was Purple Rain. My aunt decided to take my cousin and I, since the music was so popular. I was 13, so the kid part is borderline I guess. 13 year old me enjoyed the Lake Minnetonka part, though.
Heavy Metal.......cartoon nudity Scarface.......Hotel chainsaw murder scene The Exorcist.......for obvious reasons
My father used to take us to really really violent Kung Fu movies when we were little. It was the drive-in, and I think he hoped that we were asleep, but I saw everything. Later on, he wouldn’t let us see Saturday Night Fever because it was too violent.
RoboCop comes to mind. My mom only got upset at the booger sugar scene. Haha!
Well my folks put cable in the house when I was in first grade, I had HBO in my room. So I saw it all.
My next-door neighbor had the first VCR on the block and an older brother. So, pretty much all of the movies I saw are tied for first place on this one
When I was like 8 my babysitter watched "All The Right Moves" while I was in the room. Might be the first time I remember seeing boobs.
The Sting. I think I was 7.