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survivalmachine , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

I've now got my own 6 year old. There's no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.

Every kid is different. My 3-year-old niece was over a few months ago.

Me: what do you want to watch?
Niece: dinosaurs!
Me: starts The Land Before Time
Niece: no! I want to watch REAL DINOSAURS that EAT PEOPLE!
Me: queues up Jurassic Park
Niece: YEAH! RAWR!

Aggravationstation , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

Didn't really mess me up but I watched Fear and Loathing when I was like 12. My friend recorded some shitty Wesley Snipes movie off Sky movies and insisted on loaning me the tape. I watched it once and can't even remember it. But Fear and Loathing was on after it and that movie blew my mind. I ended up taking a shit load of drugs as a teenager. Probably wouldn't have made a difference but I do wonder if that movie left me more open to trying them at the time.

Sizzler , in Who's the most famous person you've met?

I've got famous family members so I won't count them, for me it was either Jarvis Cocker or Craig Charles both hugely influential when I was a youth and both were great people to meet.

Aggravationstation , in So like, what absolutely ridiculous thing did you take to be fact when you were a kid?

I thought the moon was made of cheese. I think after watching Wallace & Gromit's "A Grand Day Out" when I was 2 or 3.

ShimmeringKoi , (edited ) in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?
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Late one night when I was 8 or 9, I glanced at the tv and caught the horse scene from The Cell with zero context. I spent the next fifteen years convinced it was something I had dreamed. Apparently this is the most common way people encounter this movie.

jabjoe , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?
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By the time I was 13, I'd watched loads of 18s. Aliens, Predator, Terminator and more. My parents didn't really believe in rating. I honestly don't think it harmed me. My teachers probably worried about me bring this stuff into school, but unless that traumatized other kids, it's fine. Maybe it desensitized me?

For my own kids, I judge it by the kid and movie, not the rating. If it's a movie I don't know, I'm read about it and rating is one of the things I'll look at. I will a read more if it is an 18. My 14y and 9y are pretty resistant, but my 12y is sensitive like my spouse.

Septimaeus , (edited ) in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?
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Some children’s movies of this era liked to weave hallucinogenically dark themes into otherwise whimsical stories. Many of them played on common childhood guilt or fear of rejection, abandonment, and loss, used merely as props or dealt with in deeply problematic ways.

I will say though they can be great for tripping and/or to lambast with a peanut gallery of friends.

infinitevalence , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?
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Rising Sun, it opens with the violent rape and murder of a woman, it was rated R for a reason and we should have never been let into the theater even if it was my friends dad with us.

I think he wanted to see it and did not give a shit about what it might do to us.

Shadowedcross , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

The Fly. Probably accounts for some of my hatred of flies lol

macrocarpa , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

ET. Some of the scenes are pretty intense. Not sure what my parents were thinking.

DBVegas , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?
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I watched Jurassic Park when I was like 6 and absolutely loved it. Little Nemo Adventures in Slumber land however absolutely terrified me at about the same age.

Hossenfeffer , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?
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Carry On Screaming. Nightmares for years.

GissaMittJobb , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

The Matrix at 7 years old messed me up a bit, what with the whole mouth melting together-scene and all.

slazer2au , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

I am using traumatized is the most loose sense here.

Talos the Mummy when I was ~10. First film where the villain won. Not Thanos level of wining because multi movie plot. Just all the good guys trying to stop him fail.

Twiglet , in What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you?

The Blob, the 80's version. I was around 5, snuck into a room where people were watching it. The guy being dragged into the sink made me terrified of using the toilet and I developed a turbo-pissing technique to minimise time spent on the bog.

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