I had nightmares from Dawn of the Dead for weeks. I was 8 or 9 when my mom tried to show it to me, lol
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Dad allowed me to watch Species. Had to sleep in my parents' bed that night. Mom was FURIOUS :D
I saw Cujo as a 6 year old and its still sitting with me 25 years later. Our house was always the summer hang out spot for my family since we had a pool, so my aunt and grandma would always go to blockbuster on Friday to get some movies. I got to rent Pokemon Stadium 2 and all I wanted to to was play the game.
I couldn't play it until I watched a movie with the family. The adults decided we should watch cujo (the perfect film for kids aged 8, 6, 5 and 4 right?)
I still have weird memories of watching the movie, getting freaked out and burying my head in the couch to try and not see or hear anything. After the movie my grandma said I could go play my game, and I still associate the Golbat mini game with it since the dog got rabies from a bat.
So next time you want your grandkid to bond with you, don't fucking scar them ok?
When I was 10, my parents rented The Kiss of the Spider Woman. I was forbidden to watch it, so I snuck downstairs and watched it late at night. They were right, I should not have watched it. I was definitely not mature enough to understand everything that was happening and it really caused me some emotional turmoil for a month or two, just thinking about it. It's such a tragic movie. Likely Raul Julia's finest performance, and William Hurt is also quite excellent in it.
It's the only movie my parents ever forbid me from seeing.
Mars Attacks! was very poorly marketed. I remember the commercials for it seeming tame and asking my parents to take me to the theater to see it and it fucked me up for a few good weeks. We didn't even stay to the end, but I had nightmares about it that very same night.
...i don't know that i shouldn't've seen it, but the 1978 invasion of the body snatchers was my introduction to existential horror at the ripe age of seven years...
...what shouldn't i have seen?..about a year earlier, a family friend handed-down a big brown grocery bag stacked to the rim with pre-code EC horror comics: that was some teeth-gnashingly gruesome stuff...
My mom led horror movies but was too scared to watch them alone.
For some reason she thought kids don't really remember things until around 6 years old.
So with her I watched hellraiser, IT, Freddy Krueger, Chuckee, The Thing (Carpenter version), Amytiville horror, Pet Sementary, Alien, the exorcist, and some others when I was 4 and 5.
Only ones that really freaked me out as a kid was Chuckee, and that hellraiser movie where pinhead comes out of a screen specifically (the third hellraiser I think?). Alien and Amytiville were my favorite ones.
Revenge of the Nerds when I was 7. Adult forgot about the peephole scene.
Watched old horror movies all the time with my grandfather growing up. None of that was scary. Watching Chuckey when I was probably 8 with my brother was terrifying. Didn't help we had one of those big my buddy type dolls in the house. I think I was Chuckey for Halloween that year.
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, when I was like 8. Was all fun and games until they ripped that slaves heart out and dunked it into the lava, or something to that extent. It's been a while since I last watched it, the details are a bit hazy.
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Brain Damage. Scary and way too sexual for a little kid.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I’m scarred for life :/
Evil Dead
I watched Borat with my dad when I was 9.
Back door sluts 9
Back Door Sluts 9?‽! Not that one!
I was around 7 and my much older brother convinced me to stay up until very late in the evening when the dirty softcore stuff was on tv. Must have been midnight or whatever. Finally it started... I don't know what I expected but I was like "that's it??!" It was so boring! Fell asleep a minute later.
Candyman, a mates older brother showed it to us when I was around 10ish, don’t think I was ever the same again.
Also caught a bit of Toxic Avenger on late evening tv around the same age, when I should have been asleep but sneaked on the tv. Boy did I regret that.
I like Wolfie's Just Fine's song about this exact experience https://youtu.be/qG8iAtpavK4?si=VzTW2qGWlJ7Lg9f0