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My dads brother visited us one time - when I was around 7 years old - and they sent me to bed and watched a movie together on TV. I'm not sure where my mom was, perhaps taking care of my little brother, but I quietly went down the stairs and saw them watching the movie, and I stayed very quietly so they would not know I'm there.

It was a Bruce Lee movie, "The Big Boss (1971)". In that movie Bruce works at a ice factory and his boss kills some people and puts them into the ice. That's not the worst of it. They then have those big ice blocks and a big blade saw and that saw cuts the big blocks into smaller peaces. It also cuts those bodies in the ice blocks into smaller pieces.

I couldn't believe what I saw and went back upstairs and couldn't fall asleep. I never told my parents.

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[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
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[-] WindowShopping2@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 months ago

It was a mid-90s movie on HBO called “Cyber Sex” or something like that. I was much too young to be watching. Pretty sure it started my fascination with porn and eventual addiction…

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Dad let me watch Poltergeist when I was 6 and Mom let me watch The Shining when I was 7. I was also 7 when the Thriller video came out, and I think that scared me more.

[-] BuckWylde@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You and I have a similar origin story

[-] univers3man@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The dipping scenes haunted me.

[-] munchieghost@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

And Judge Doom struggling as the steam roller flattens him. Up to that point he was treated as a human character. Fists pounding on the roller, he pleads and screams as it slowly crushes him. The other humans turn away rather than witness the horror. I was 6.

BUT turns out, it's all okay! He was a toon all along! So no worries that we watched his demise, right? He's fine! You can tell because of the high pitched laughing and bizarre "flat" version of the Judge standing up and re-inflating himself until his human eyes pop out.

Roger Rabbit. You know, for kids.

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

We watched that when it came out on VHS I think. Definitely not a movie for a pair of 8/9 year olds.

Though the only saving grace is that we were too young to understand what was going on.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Twilight Zone movie.

Watched alone on dark night.

The part when the lady visits the house, where the family is terrified of putting a foot out of line.

That has the most distasteful feeling of dread. Really well done, not for kids!

[-] wallybeavis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Omen, Excorcist, Nightmare on Elm St, Jason, Cujo, Friday the 13th - I was a very free range kid. The one that really sticks out is (IIRC) The Amityville Horror. There is a scene with these red glowing eyes down a dark hallway...the adult in me knows it was probably just some guy with two flashlights, but it still raises the hairs on my arms thinking about it

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[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Dad took me and my brother to see Predator in the theater. Would have been about 10 and my brother 8. While I applaud him wanting to share something he was excited about with his children I am sure there were better options.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

To many but the one that haunts me is “chaser”. A Korean movie about a serial killer who haunts prostitutes.

Why I remind it? Well, I watched it with my brother and when I got back from the toilet, he pretended to be some rando in a hoodie with a knife. Keep in mind, I was 14 and it was 11:30PM.

[-] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Stephen King's IT from behind the couch.

How I didn't develop a lifelong fear of clowns I have no idea.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Lover 1992 when I was like 9 or 10. Those who know the movie, will understand that this maybe was a bit much for a boy. However it had a lasting effected on my appreciation, of what a good emotional movie looks like. I'd call it double edged sword, as obviously that movie is inappropriate for a kid to watch. However the relationship between the two is very beautifully portrait and made me a helpless romantic. It was at a time when they'd show movies like that on free TV at night and I was visiting my grandparents and they had a TV upstairs.

[-] THEWIZARD@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jaws at about 5 yrs old and Robocop a couple of years later at about 7yrs old the uncut version loved them both except jaws made me phobic of the ocean and open water so paid a price with that one lol although I have all 4 movies on dvd watch them from time to time. Have both Robocop original and the newer one which is sh@t comparitively, no surprise being just a 12A no swearing and or adult humour no guys exploading on windscreens from being melted down with toxic waste then hit by a car lol and no fist spike weapon either. It will never hold a candle to the original movie which is a true product of the 80s and a must own movie, one rad movie.

I still can't believe Jaws was classified just PG and still is that's to savage for kids really not all of it the shark looks awful corny and cheap tat but the scenes you don't see it and the man in the pond where you see it sideways it looks real then it bites his leg off and you see the leg sinking those scenes aren't fit for kids no way. .

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Jaws was absolutely the first thing I thought of. So many kids suddenly developed a fear of ponds, lakes, and swimming pools because no one stopped and asked themselves if it was a good idea for a small child to watch people get eaten alive.

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[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I pretty much accidentally watched Evangelion as a kid thumbing on a TV set. It has definitely shaped my type for women for years to come.

[-] jas0n@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Unexpectedly got nightmares for years after watching the movie Twister.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Exorcist and Candyman.

Also, I can't remember the name of it, but my mom was watching some movie about women in prison. And someone got mad, took out her fork from her cup noodles, and stabbed a woman in the leg. Twisted, pulled it out, wiped it in her pants and kept eating.

I was maybe 5 or 6, but I swore I would never go to prison after that. I had nightmares of that woman and that fork

[-] muzzle@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Flatline (1990)

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Insidious 1. First and last time I was scared.
And I watched "Mission to Mars" (2002) somewhere around 22:00 on TV snd that was deeply creepy.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

My parents were super strict. I was at a buddy's house when Terminator 2 first came to VHS and we watched it. I was probably around 11. Having not really seen anything like that, it definitely impacted me for a while. Then again, I was already having nightmares most nights by then anyway.

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[-] mastod0n@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Dad allowed me to watch Species. Had to sleep in my parents' bed that night. Mom was FURIOUS :D

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

A looooooot of porn.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] PixelTron@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

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.

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