# What inappropriate movies did you watch as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176 "2014-07-02T09:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![franz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@franz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/franz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/1 "2014-07-02T09:14:35Z")
I remember being pretty damn freaked out by A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was ten. Also watched a lot of Hollow Man when I was fourteen for obvious reasons. And, in hindsight, that is a pretty \*\*\*\*ed up movie with scenes of rape and groping depicted in a alluring manner. Friend of mine saw The Fly when he was a kid, which seems almost like an origin story. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/2 "2014-07-02T09:20:00Z")
I consider my viewing of **South Park: Bigger, Badder, Uncut** as absolutely formative, both of my viewing habits and my language. That… did not go well for a few years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![franz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@franz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/franz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/3 "2014-07-02T09:21:02Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I consider my viewing of **South Park: Bigger, Badder, Uncut** as absolutely formative, both of my viewing habits and my language. That… did not go well for a few years. 😃 yeah… south park…:)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/4 "2014-07-02T09:45:38Z")
An older movie, _The Days of Wine and Roses_, was pretty rough for the ten year old I was when I saw it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/5 "2014-07-02T09:48:53Z")
I saw Last House on the Left in the theater when I was about 10. A friends older brother bought us the tickets. I could barely eat for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/6 "2014-07-02T11:24:50Z")
The _Faces of Death_ series, and plenty of Euro sleaze on pay channels, both of my own accord. My mom was also a good source for weird stuff, which was odd because she was an evangelical Christian. She introduced me to _Eraserhead_, grimy giallo stuff, a lot of classic stuff like _Taxi Driver_ that was probably not appropriate for a 10 year old. (And though not an inappropriate movie, having her turn to me as we watched _My Beautiful Laundrette_ to tell me that she thought the gay make-out scene was hot was a bit much.) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/7 "2014-07-02T11:53:26Z")
The Fly (the original) freaked me out so much when I watched it during Science Fiction Week on the 4:30 Movie that I still have a unreasoning fear of being eaten by a giant spider. Ruined an episode of Gilligan’s Island for me. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/8 "2014-07-02T12:16:57Z")
“The Manchurian Candidate” was pretty heavy stuff for a seven-year-old. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/9 "2014-07-02T12:38:04Z")
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Not a great idea for a 7 year old with a bedroom window looking out over a thicket of vines. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/10 "2014-07-02T12:42:07Z")
_Alien_. [This scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcrreUVBeo#t=21) from Monty Python gave me nightmares when I was 5. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/11 "2014-07-02T12:46:20Z")
I watched _The Birds_ while peaking from behind the couch when I was supposed to be bed. My older sisters were “babysitting”. Still hate birds. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/12 "2014-07-02T13:23:38Z")
Jaws freaked my 7 year old self out out so bad I would not go swimming for about a year. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/13 "2014-07-02T13:37:08Z")
Like xizor, for me it was Jaws. I was 6 when it originally was released in the theaters and never saw it then. They did a re-released in the theaters a few years later, I cannot recall the exact year, but I would have been around 8 or 9… maybe 10-12? I recall it being during the summer because I think I went to see it in the matinee a half-dozen times or more. I still dislike the ocean or any “natural” body of water. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/14 "2014-07-02T13:40:58Z")
As a tween: Clockwork Orange, Kentucky Fried Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/15 "2014-07-02T13:41:50Z")
My mom freaked out when she found out that my dad let me watch “Porky’s” with my cousins when I was 11. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/16 "2014-07-02T13:53:59Z")
I _read_ Jaws when I was about ten and started feeling nervous in the swimming pool. 🙂 As for movies, I remember being utterly mortified (again, about age ten) watching Steve Martin’s The Jerk with my grandpa. I don’t recall any nudity but there were definite sexual situations that made me wish one of us was someplace else. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/17 "2014-07-02T13:58:41Z")
Saw “Pal Joey” when I was 10-ish. There’s a stripper scene in it. Yowzah! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/18 "2014-07-02T14:01:31Z")
I was five or so and a babysitter brought over _Maximum Overdrive_, which I am sure is a VERY stupid movie but which left permanent scars. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/19 "2014-07-02T14:07:07Z")
I saw Videodrome late at night at a cousin’s house and it freaked my little mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176/20 "2014-07-02T15:55:58Z")
Y’know…the only movies I remember being _freaked out_ by were on the Disney Channel. Hell, I saw _Red Dawn_ on TV when I was six, and _it_ was _far_ less scary and disturbing than the old _Watcher in the Woods_ [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctKApMlReU&t=1m42s). _ **“Help…me…”** _ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inappropriate-movies-did-you-watch-as-a-kid/692176.md?page=2)