Amuse me internet: movie edition

[anagramofbrat]

A post elsewhere brought this to mind and I need things to amuse me so that this day can be gotten through.

So people tell me, what movies were you either allowed to watch or watched without permission as a kid that you were waaaaaaaaaay too young for? (For whatever reason - too scary, nudity, what have you.)

My sisters took some kind of unholy delight in either letting me watch on video or taking me to wildly age-inappropriate (read: Rated R) movies. I don't really remember all of them at this point, but the four I do remember vividly were Do The Right Thing, National Lampoon's European Vacation, Stand By Me and Single White Female, which I suppose qualifies as Fisher Price My First Horror Movie. There was also that Halloween where they packed off my entire eighth grade class to a campground very close to the filming location of the original Friday the 13th, and someone had the fantastic idea of showing the entire class that movie the night we got there, lol. That was a fun week. It kinda saddens me that that sort of stunt would get a school/camp sued these days.

You?

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[htl-1126.livejournal.com]

Amityville horror, when I was 5, parents allowed because they wanted the kids out of their way and we were assorted ages, but the oldest at the time was no more than 10. I saw Nightmare on Elm St. when I was 8 or 9 at a Girl's Club Sleep Over at the club and the movie was chosen by our chaperone, lol.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Another vote for Amityville horror. I also saw Porky's...erm..at an inappropriately young age.

[htl-1126.livejournal.com]

Yeah Amityville still freaks me out. Did you see the remake with Ryan Reynolds? I didn't find it nearly as scary and I kept waiting for Ryan's character to make a joke, lol.

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

heh, I saw the remake with the White Worm when it came out. It was funny because every time there was a loud music cue I'd have to either peel her out of my lap or chip her down from the ceiling.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I was a very sheltered kid, and didn't see horror movies until I was about 16 or 17, which was... unfortunate. But that's another entry for another time. (The scariest movie I ever saw when I was a child was Raiders of the Lost Ark, but there's only that one face-melting scene, so the rest wasn't so bad.) Anyway, I saw Akira when I was about 14 or 15, and with no horror movie background to prepare me, the images really, really bothered me for weeks afterwards.