October 21, 20241 yr For a 5th grade Parliament it was Nightmare on Elm Street. Sleepover at a friend who was raised basically ferrel. Was gonna camp in the back yard but heck with that.
October 21, 20241 yr basic instinct came out when i was 12 and going through puberty. i saved up money and bought it on vhs immediately when it came out without my parents knowing. the inside of socks in 12 year old sidis' bedroom are still suffering from ptsd.
October 21, 20241 yr The Shining. Only movie that ever scared me. Also watched it at a sleepover in middle school.
October 21, 20241 yr Alien. 9 years old, at my aunt's house bc she had HBO and we couldn't afford it so i'd scored big time... on a pallet alone in the living room, all the adults in bed. not a good idea 😳 Edited October 21, 20241 yr by mchookem
October 21, 20241 yr I'll take this a different direction and say "The Color of Money". I was 10 when it came out, my mom loved Paul Newman and it had Maverick in it so we saw it. At 10 years old the concept of hustling was WAAAAAAAY over my head. I kept sitting there trying to figure out why Fast Eddie was so pissed at Vince for beating ass. I had watched Tom Cruise kick some ass in an F-14 a few months prior and didn't get why he shouldn't be kicking ass here.
October 21, 20241 yr Dark Night of the Scarecrow was a tv movie that aired in 1981, which would have made me 3 when I watched it. I’m sure it wasn’t super scary but to me it was terrifying.
October 21, 20241 yr Chucky. Prob 6-7 years old. F that shit. Trying to traumatize me all over again with all these remakes and sequels
October 21, 20241 yr 29 minutes ago, Parliament said: For a 5th grade Parliament it was Nightmare on Elm Street. Sleepover at a friend who was raised basically ferrel. Was gonna camp in the back yard but heck with that. Like that guy in Anchorman?
October 21, 20241 yr I bet I was six or seven when I first saw Excalibur and the sex scene between Uther in full plate mail and Igraine. It was a long time before I realized that’s not really how one performs the act. Also had parents who didn’t really police watching HBO back when it was the only premium cable available and saw pretty much all of the late 70’s/early 80’s horror before I was in second grade.
October 21, 20241 yr Is this limited to horror? Swaml thing was kind of traumatic for me. Bachelor Party... maybe 8 years old was nothing i had ever imagined before.
October 21, 20241 yr Just now, Butch Had Not said: Bachelor Party... maybe 8 years old was nothing i had ever imagined before. And then some?
October 21, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said: Jaws when I was 11. Led to pretty much a lifelong fear of the ocean. That movie turns 50 this coming June and it still rocks. I like watching YouTube reactors watching it for the first time( which is actually believable for a movie of that age and these young reactors) and the gnarly parts still get everyone. The head in the boat jump scare makes every single one yell.
October 21, 20241 yr The Graduate. I was probably 7 or 8. I always had a thing for Anne Bancroft after that.
October 21, 20241 yr Parents rented one of their favorite movies, Vacation, for a family movie night when I was probably 8 or 9 years old. Apparently they forgot that Beverly D'Angelo goes topless pretty early on... movie night was cut short after that scene, unfortunately.
October 21, 20241 yr my 1o year old wanted to be michael meyers for halloween. wached it with him the other day and i totall forgot there were straight up sex scenes in there. oops.
October 21, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Chewbacca said: The Shining. Only movie that ever scared me. Also watched it at a sleepover in middle school. Beat me to it - same And Watership Down. Fuck them mean ass, murdering rabbits
October 21, 20241 yr I'd barely even seen a PG movie when I turned 13 and decided to see Dreamscape with my friends. Scarred ever since. I believe it was one of the first PG-13 movies.
October 21, 20241 yr 14 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said: I saw Fire in the Sky when I was 9. Scared the shit out of me. Probably better places in the unpopular movie opinion thread, but Fire in the Sky has one of the unsung all-time best casts.
October 21, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said: I'd barely even seen a PG movie when I turned 13 and decided to see Dreamscape with my friends. Scarred ever since. I believe it was one of the first PG-13 movies. Snakeman did scare me.
October 21, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Genco said: Unsupervised access to premium cable in the 80s Watched Porky's at a sleep over probably when I was 8. Wasn't even a secret, the parents were like oh y'all watching Porky that's a funny movie have fun.
October 21, 20241 yr 28 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said: Snakeman did scare me. The first scene where the president is walking around a post apocalyptic city, opens a closet door, then several nuked kids reach out for him -- I think I pissed my pants.
October 21, 20241 yr My parents took me to the theater to see Porky's when I was 9. I also saw Alien in the theater.
October 21, 20241 yr Zapped, Hamburger, Last American Virgin. On second thought, I'm glad I watched all those movies when I was a little tyke.
October 21, 20241 yr Altered States in the theater at age 7. I eventually had enough so my mom and I left to hang out in the lobby of the theater while my dad finished the movie.
October 21, 20241 yr Watched Rosemary's Baby when I was 7. Not sure of my mom's thought process on letting me watch that.
October 21, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, Parliament said: For a 5th grade Parliament it was Nightmare on Elm Street. Sleepover at a friend who was raised basically ferrel. Was gonna camp in the back yard but heck with that.
October 21, 20241 yr 17 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said: Altered States in the theater at age 7. I eventually had enough so my mom and I left to hang out in the lobby of the theater while my dad finished the movie. I was maybe 12 or 13 when I saw that in the theater. Fucked me up good.
October 21, 20241 yr For me it was “Poltergeist” absolutely scared shit out of me and led to lifelong hatred of clowns.
October 21, 20241 yr My dad's oldest brother has eight kids, the seventh is my age. One night I was over there spending the night. This was the very early days of cable but I had to be at least 9 or 10 based on this movie coming out in 1981 -- I thought it was older. At any rate, we watched it one night and I made my cousin's leave the lights on in the room when it was bedtime. And I still didn't get a wink of sleep that night. Not a big fan of horror movies to this day.
October 21, 20241 yr I watched Teen Wolf and The Howling the same night with a friend when I was probably 9. The Howling was pretty scary for me at that time.
October 21, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Classic Rock said: Watched Rosemary's Baby when I was 7. Not sure of my mom's thought process on letting me watch that. That’s near the top of my list. I saw The Exorcist when I was 16 and it completely freeked me out.
October 21, 20241 yr 55 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said: For me it was “Poltergeist” absolutely scared shit out of me and led to lifelong hatred of clowns. That’s a really good one.
October 21, 20241 yr Watched The Shining with my parents when I was about 11 or 12. What the fuck were they thinking? Scared the ever-living shit out of me. Was even younger when I saw Poltergeist. Maybe third grade. Also with my parents. What the fuck were they thinking? At the same time, I loved horror movies as a kid in the 80s, and there were so many damn good ones. Something inside of me has always gotten a thrill over being terrified. It’s probably why I kept going to Longhorn football games during the Charlie Strong era.
October 21, 20241 yr Watermelon Man. Had to be younger than 10 when we saw it at the drive-in, not a clue about what was going. Did see my first pair of movie tits, though.
October 21, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, Red Five said: The Exorcist. Probably about 10. This. And The Omen And the Helter Skelter TV movie.
October 21, 20241 yr Also saw Amityville Horror when I was about 12. I stayed up the entire night that night. I was a wreck from that.
October 21, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, Dbeasy said: Jaws when I was 11. Led to pretty much a lifelong fear of the ocean. Saw this when I was 12-13 when I went to Chicago to camp. 2 weeks after camp, family vacation in Pensacola. Dad rented a catamaran and took me to sail the bay and dumped it in the middle of the bay. That was a good 20 minute absolute panic attack as dad tried to flip it back over and me trying to walk on water... Two other boats came up to see who died from all my screaming and dad not knowing how to right it... To this day, I can't wade or bodyboard in the surf unless there is at least one person further out than me in the surf... (not that it would matter, but still...) Edited October 21, 20241 yr by Grimas
October 21, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, CooterBrown said: My parents took me to the theater to see Porky's when I was 9. I also saw Alien in the theater. badass lol
October 21, 20241 yr i never even saw this movie, but the previews on tv gave me absolute night terror...
October 21, 20241 yr Just now, mchookem said: i never even saw this movie, but the previews on tv gave me absolute night terror... Holy shit I saw that in the theater too (my cousin and I would always get people to buy us tix to movies we weren't old enough to see). Damn, I don't recall what it was even about, but I remember running out of the theater.
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