It’s called a “thriller” or a “horror” film. Many people find being frightened in a safe setting to be exciting and entertaining. That’s the same reason people love roller coasters and haunted houses.
6 Year old? To the Crazies. I would have said something to the bitch.
My sister and I was brought to see Jaws at a young age, the film terrified us. What made it worse is the evil step father thought it was funny to slip a poster of a great white shark under the door during our baths. Terrified of images of GW’s to this day. So is my sister.
I’d never take a kid to this type of movie.
The issue of age aside, how was the movie blondebear? I can’t wait to see it.
I watched it Friday night and enjoyed it. It’s not something I’d buy, but if a friend rented it or bought it, I’d watch it again. It was better than Wolfman.
Selfishly enough, I could care less how old the kid is, as long as he’s being quiet! 
The last movie I saw in the theater was Rob Zombie’s Halloween. There were LOADS of youngsters there…and they were SO loud! Seriously, what happened to “no one under 18”… I won’t even go out to see a movie, now.
You people do realize that “rated R” has never meant no one under 18, right? That was “X” and more recently “NC-17”
I thought it was pretty good. I only saw part of George Romero’s film, so I can’t really compare the two versions. Eisner set a real mood of dread and impeding doom, and as I noted, there is no shortage of on-screen carnage. There are some very intense moments, a couple of which had me gripping the armrests.
I guess I’m just thinking back to Jr. High, when it was the policy of the LOCAL theater not to let anyone under 18 in to an “R” movie; however, your parents could purchase the tickets and then they would let you in.
No one under 18 without the permission of an adult. Them’s the rules. Theaters have the right to refuse entry to anyone, for any reason, however the MPAA guidelines don’y say “no one under 18,” they say “No one under 18 without the permission of their legal guardian.”
NC-17, no admission to anyone under 17, period.
Because it’s a perfectly valid way of making a point.
If you’re making a movie about the holocaust, and your point is make people feel deeply and seriously disturbed, you don’t gloss over the people being burned in furnaces. You show them, on screen, burning alive. If you’re making a movie where you want people to be afraid, you show them the gruesome, terrible way that they’re going to die (that’s the point of total immersion).
That’s not local theater policy, that’s MPAA policy. If a theater is found disregarding that they get a fine.
Like Liqueur licenses in some states, children can drink wine at the table, if they’re over a certain age, but the parent must buy it for them.
Any parents of 6 year old girls reading this thread? I’m curious to read your opinion.
I took my six year old daughter to see Anaconda when it first came out. Big mistake. She had nightmares for weeks. wife was furious that I took her to see a horror movie. Lesson learned.
I saw Jaws with my dad when it first came out when I was six and had no problems.
Yes, I have a 6-yr-old girl. And a 6-yr-old boy.
My uncle let me see that movie when I was about 8 or so.
That was the movie that created my fear of the dark that lasted until I was about 17-18 years old. I loved the movie, but it just created a fear of the dark and a fear of aliens. But then the movie *Aliens *which I saw in my teens cleared up that fear, but I still was afraid of the dark for a while until high school.
I saw Rambo 2 though when I was 7 and i loved it, that did nothing for me, same with Predator 1 and 2, they were great movies for me as a kid, but I never noticed any of the language or such until I watched them as an older child. But Alien, that movie and *Arachnophobia *(the first 10 mins) were the two movies that traumatized me as a kid, everything else was fine.
No chance here… if fric and frac (10 and 12) want to see that kinda stuff let em sneak it on a sleepover at a friends house… (like how i saw Risky Business)
I was at THe Players Club with a couple of 9yr olds. a movie about a stripper… which btw was a BAD movie about a stripper… I’ve given up being upset by this kind of shit…
Who fines them? :dubious: The MPAA is a private organization and it’s ratings have no force of law. Movie theatres have no legal obligation to enforce age limits. They can even show films that haven’t been rated at all to anyone who can buy a ticket.
IIRC, in order to carry movies you have to have a contract with the distribution organization. The distribution organizations abide by the MPAA guidelines, one of which is a fine or revocation of your right to receive movies.
I believe there’s also recourse (of arbitration?) that a theater can take. It’s like a weird pseudo-legal system that all MPAA involved parties agree to.
FTR- Yes, I have a 7 year old boy.
No, I would never take him to that movie.
But, his older brother (when he was 7) took me to some movies that were equally horrific (to me).
(Have you ever seen ‘Pokemon: The Movie’? All 2 1/2 hours of it? Shudder)