I saw vanilla sky when I was 24. I still don't understand it.

Silence of the Lambs when I was 12. Ack

i saw hellraiser at age 11- which is way too young,even now I'd consider myself too young to watch it..

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i was pretty much too young for every movie i watched in my childhood. my parents didn't really have limits as to what kinds of movies we watched, and if they did, my sisters just sneaked me into their room to watch it anyways.

i'd seen all the george romero movies by the time i was 7, and the lost boys was my favorite movie when i was 5.

it's very odd to go back and watch these movies when you're older and you get a lot of the things that went straight over your head when you were young.

My parents let me watch 'Gremlins' w/ them when I was five and I ended up sleeping on their floor for a month. Then they let me watch Silence of the Lambs when I was eight... which honestly wasn't nearly as traumatic as 'Gremlins', that shit was just horrifying at five years old

stephen king's it when i was five or so. for some time i was so afraid of peeing and having a shower because i thought that pennywise would come out and kill me. i'm afraid of clowns ever since.
oh, and jaws. which, believe me, even though i lived in venice and in the lagoon it's quite impossible to find any kind of fish, that movie scared the hell out of me. even now i try to walk far from the canal!

my parents never cared about letting me watch movies so whatever they watched i watched.
the exorcist - birth till now ive been watching it FOREVER people used to bitch at my mom like "HOW COULD YOU LET A 4 YEAR OLD WATCH THAT"
striptease - saw it in theatres when i was 6 and then the next day at a birthday party at tumbles i did a striptease and took off my shirt and threw it into the ballpit

and like every other horror or violent movie

No movies that I can think of, as most of my childhood was pre-cable & pre-vcr. I do recall that I used to watch All in the Family when I was quite young. I never thought it was too old for me, but I do remember turning it on at my grandmother’s house and her asking me if my mother allowed me to watch that. As a teenager I watched it all again in reruns, and realized that I hadn’t understood a blessed thing the first time. I don’t even understand why I liked it then. I suppose that was why my parents never tried to object, they could tell that anything I was really too young to hear about was flying right over my head anyway.

I read a number of trashy adult books as a child that I really shouldn’t have. There is a point at which the reading levels of children who read unusually well and adults who don’t coincide, and pretty much all of it is inappropriate for children. I think I learned most of my cuss words and the specifics about sex that didn’t come in the how-babies-are-made books that way. People were so concerned about TV rotting our minds that no one really cared what a kid read, as long as they were reading.

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''welcome to the dollhouse'' at age 7.

First of all, I love your av. I was pretty good at shielding myself from frightening imagery as a child, but sometimes it was unavoidable. A friend of my mother's needed to drop off a video, and right in the front entrance of the store is a giant, cardboard display of Pinhead! I was horrified and refused to leave the car. I was 5 years old at the time, and this was in 1988.

Savini's 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead was frightening to me as well. USA's Up All Night ran it, and I only came across the scene in the farmhouse where they're trying to board up the windows and doors, and zombies start ripping through the barricades.

The 1986 remake of The Fly and Robocop were other films that scarred me as a child. I felt terrible for Seth Brundle and Alex Murphy for what happened to them, and the noises ED 209 made when it fell down the stairs still bother me.

Just seeing the video box at Videotowne as a child was enough to scar me. Something I loved to do back then was to test my inner strength by looking at the backs of the video boxes in the horror section. Now all these years later, I remember lots of fantastic box art but I can barely remember the titles.

Seeing parts of Hellraiser as a child did kind of scar me..
Pet Cemetry II: age seven
Tales fromt he Crypt video cover: 8 or 9

Ahhh! I got scared from a family friend telling me the PLOTS of these damn films! I was a wussy child.

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Jaws. I still wont watch it to this day!!!

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Birds - Watched it when I was about 6 and screamed bloody fucking murder everytime I saw a crow or something for about a week.

The Exorcist - I think I was 8 and I almost shit my pants. My 11 year old sister was too scared so she brought me down to watch it. Bad idea.

Girl, Interrupted - I would have been 8 for this one too. I remember loving it but not understanding it at all. My dad brought me to see it in theatres because he really wanted to go.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands/Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos. I saw it when I was maybe 5 or 6 with my parents. Scarred for life. I doubt the movie is as full of sex as I remember it.

I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit? when I was 6 years old on the big screen in the theater. Ok, my friend makes fun of me for this (whatever she thinks Tom Hanks is a brilliant actor), but the final scene /w Lloyd had me screaming. The other audience members will probably never forget the time they went to see that movie.

2001 space oddysey
is that the right title
i was relatively old like 15 or 16 but i fell asleep

1. IT! - I Hated it, but also watched it about 4 times in 2 days because I do that.

2. In Bed With Madonna - I don't remember how old I was, but I remember my mum taping over the bits that were 'too rude' even though I'd already watched it about 10 times by then. I remember re-enacting the 'like a virgin' masturbating scene that christmas in a game of charades. The shame my mum must've felt.

3. Arachnophobia - The night I watched this I cried so hard I was actually pulling my hair out. My mum and step dad had to restrain me to get me into bed too. That was fucked.
I'm not even that bad with spiders now. I don't like them, but I'm ok with them.

Im sure there are more, but I can't think of them now.

Also, how the fuck did some of you lot see 18 rated films in the cinema when were so young?!

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My dad failed at being a parent, so on weekends with him I could basically watch whatever I wanted. But the film that sticks out is The Warriors. Oh God, it freaked me out. I was fine with the violence, it was the costumes! I had nightmares of men dressed as scary baseball players chasing me for weeks after watching it.

this is exactly how it was in my house too.

my sisters and i were reading hollywood wives and scruples by junior high. whatever my mom had on the bookshelves, we read.