My personal one was the shining. I ended up watching it over 20 times before I was 12.
I’m spending a lot of time babysitting my nieces (9 & 11). I’m cis male and I would love to hear what women would answer or suggest for me to show them in a cool uncle role.
Kiss of the Spider Woman. Back I the 80s our parents left us to fend for ourselves. I was around 10 years old and my parents were at a job site in northern Canada where the only channel was CBC. Definitely an intense movie, I’d say more than the Exorcism which aired another night. My brother missed the first, but had serious nightmares from the Exorcism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_(1985_film)
I saw Event Horizon on my 13th birthday in theaters with some of my friends.
Cheesus Ricest dude! I watched it as a 30 something year old and I felt disturbed with scenes in the third act.
Now you have to fill us in. Did you have nightmares and for how long?
Earlier that summer my father had made me clean a deer that had been shot in the gut and he did some hollywood style child abuse when I barfed about it, so I was pretty numb to the gore. What really bothered me was some of the dialog. I shudder 30 years later when I think about the line, “where we’re going we don’t need eyes to see.”
My stepdad was horrified he’d taken his stepdaughter to see something so graphic and made me and my friends promise not to tell anyone what we saw and to downplay the gore.
Damn, that would have been a hell of film at that age.
Five Million Years to Earth
I watched the wall when I was 7
And it fucked me.up form years… constant nightmares and panic attacks…
Why am I thankful for? Not sure…the memories?
Spaceballs, The Matrix trilogy (I was born in 1996), What Dreams May Come (possibly; I was too young to realize that he was dead and in the afterlife for the entire thing)
Honestly I can’t think of any from my childhood other than those that might have been “bad” for a kid, other than shows that went right over my head like Family Guy and the like. I know I wasn’t allowed to watch South Park until I just decided to start watching it when I was around 13.
Other movies that I really liked as a kid (other than Spaceballs cause it was kinda like Star Wars, and The Matrix) that may be kinda suggestive were Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, and Titan A.E. They may like Lord of The Rings (Arwen and Eowyn + magic and swords) and possibly Star Wars (Padmé and Princess Leia, plus Ahsoka from Clone Wars and Hera from Rebels). Although I’m a man and had an older brother that liked a lot of this stuff, so I ended up liking a lot of it too, you may get better results from other people.
Fun fact: Grave Of The Fireflies was originally a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
What the fuck, that had to be a trip! Either watch order would suck: ruin your mood before Totoro or get blindsided by the second feature.
Interesting note. Thanks for this! :)
I watched Full Metal Jacket this year at 34 and it was still pretty rough.
Trainspotting at 11
I read the Godfather when I was about 10. My shoebox diorama was the horse head on the bed. It was frowning because it didn’t like having its head cut off.
Saving private ryan at 13 was a bit horrific. The slow knife scene…
A fish called Wanda
How old were you when you watched it?
I think I was six and saw it in the theatre. Some adult themes for sure.
Fantastic movie though!!
Life long favourite!
Pink Flamingos.
What the fuck.
Lol, you’re glad about it?
I wasn’t old enough but am glad I saw it (kinda). What is old enough for that movie anyway? Has anybody lived that long?
Terminator 2 was fucking sick. I was like ten. It raised my standards for how cool a movie could be.
Requiem for a dream. I have still not used opiates.
I swore off Tylenol for a bit after watching that…
This was a tough one to watch.
Your family’s name is Latrine. We changed it, it used to be shithouse!
That’s a good change. 👌 That’s a gooood change.
I saw Midnight Cowboy when I was a little kid at the drive in theater with my parents. Didn’t really understand it and I was unsettling, but I lived the song and Dustin Hoffman’s “I’m walking here!”
