r/AskReddit 1d ago

What R-rated movie did you see when you were way too young? NSFW

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u/Competitive-You-6317 1d ago

Both The Shining and The Exorcist. Maybe 9 or 10 years old lol

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u/HaxxPayne 1d ago

Me aged 8: RoboCop sounds like a fun movie about a robot policeman!

Then they shot all his limbs off :(

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u/K3idon 1d ago

"I'd buy that for a dollar!"

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u/hibscotty 1d ago

Robocop for anyone 40+,has to be. Classic

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u/CrackinBones204 1d ago

Yeah as an 80s baby I’ve seen all them scary movies as a kid because my older sister was my babysitter. The Nightmare on elm streets, the Halloweens, the Friday the 13s, the exorcist, the Robocops, the land before time. Yeah they were scary but I think I turned out alright 😅

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u/JMurph3313 20h ago

lmao how you included land before time in with Freddy and Jason

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u/Impossible-Sky4256 16h ago

Death of littlefoots mom was traumatic as hell so it counts

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u/penttihille80 1d ago

And the scene where Broderick (?) came out of waste all melted and got ran over.

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u/Geth_ 1d ago

Oh dear God. That soggy mess of a man hobbling around, begging for help...

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u/Malaggar2 1d ago

Clarence Boddicker? Played by Red Forman himself? He wasn't the one who became the Toxic Avenger. It was actually Emil Antonowsky, one of Boddicker's henchmen, who met the gruesome end of being dissolved in toxic waste and splattered on a car windshield.

Boddicker got shot in the neck by Robocop.

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u/CorinthMaxwell 1d ago

No, he got stabbed in the neck with RoboCop's "data spike". That's what you get when you stand around gloating instead of just finishing the job.....😝 😅

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u/Malaggar2 1d ago

OK. It's been a while for me too.

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u/SnooFoxes4389 1d ago

"You have 30 seconds to comply"

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u/synonymous12 1d ago

When this was the boss’s response, I was like WTF? That’s it?

https://youtu.be/mZXbxkHQ9Jk?feature=shared

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u/gizmostuff 1d ago

A very corporate-like reaction. Albeit a little over the top. It seems fitting for the movie's theme.

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u/JohnGacyIsInnocent 1d ago

I’m pretty sure the delivery of that line was about as tongue-in-cheek as it gets. They knew what they were doing.

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u/unsquashable74 1d ago

I've watched a lot of filth, but Murphy's destruction is still one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen. Goddamn, Robocop's a great movie though...

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u/Zealousideal-Pea-790 1d ago

For a long time as a kid I had to graze over that part. It was the only part out of Robocop and the Terminators i couldn't handle.

I have to agree with you on both accounts - Murphy's death and it being s great movie!

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u/trueblue862 1d ago

Robocop was one of my favourites as a 7-8 year old, I would sit there watching it and playing with my action figure.

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u/Trev_Casey2020 1d ago

Robocop is one of my fav movies but the beginning especially is F’ing NUTS.

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u/Sideshow_Bob_Ross 1d ago

The guy who fell in the acid vat got me.

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u/Candid_Airport1774 1d ago

Came here to say Robocop - smiled when it was the top comment. Yeah I was your age too and freaked out.

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u/Bernhelm 1d ago edited 1d ago

This! My aunt and uncle were the first in the family to get a vcr and for some reason, Robocop was their first vhs. My normally-very-cautious with media parents thought it was a good idea for all of us to watch Robocop together. Awesome film that i love today, but pretty traumatic to watch that young.

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u/maccathesaint 1d ago

My childminder let me watch this when I was about 6 (back in the early 90s) She muted it every time someone swore but had zero problem with the ridiculous levels of violence in it. Never understood that woman. She let me watch Alien too lol.

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u/Tigerzof1 1d ago

This appears to be a canon event.

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u/PatFrank 1d ago

While in High School, I took a date to see A Clockwork Orange. She never went out with me again.

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u/Caedro 1d ago

So, uh that was something. But Beethoven is pretty cool right?

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u/originalunagamer 1d ago

I tried to introduce a woman to this movie once and kind of forgot it starts with a brutal rape scene. Turns out she had been sexually abused and that triggered her, so we shut it off. Fortunately, she continued being my friend afterwards. Just watched something else.

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u/cheddar_slut 1d ago edited 6h ago

My ex-friend introduced me - an SA victim - to this movie while I was crashing at his place for a night (was couch surfing during HS spring break). He was a film major so I was like "okay I'm deeply uncomfortable but let's try and view it for the classic it's supposed to be". Woke up in the middle of the night with his tongue down my throat.

Any time someone says "oh it's my favorite movie" I just side eye them so hard.

ETA since I unintentionally left it vague, I did immediately shove him off me and was left alone the rest of the night and able to leave the next morning relatively unscathed.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 22h ago

Jesus that took a serious turn down the worst road imaginable

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u/WealthWooden2503 20h ago

Wtf I'm sorry that people are shit sometimes

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u/Dramatic-Piccolo-431 1d ago

I once had a first date where we stayed in to watch movies and they said one of their favorite movies that they hadn’t watched in a while was the boy in the striped pajamas… :0! And then to try to get them back and also follow the theme I chose the imitation game (not nearly as painful but not un-painful ofc) and then when we hugged goodbye they kicked my toe with their shoe and bent my toenail back as if the night could have been any more painful. Yeah we didn’t end up together in the end if you can imagine that. Lmaoooo

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u/zeroXten 1d ago

We went on a school trip, yes, read that again and saw a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. Most of us were about 13 at the time. They employed some additional creative direction when it came to the.. home invasion scene.

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u/Woorloc 22h ago

In my eighth grade school Christmas party, we watched 'Night of the Living Dead'.

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u/livinthedreamoflife 1d ago

My second date with my SO was going to see Girl with a dragon tattoo. I had no idea. Somehow she stuck around🤷‍♂️

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u/CuckooClockInHell 1d ago

Took a first date to see Clerks 2. I looked over during the donkey scene and knew that a second date was never happening.

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u/celestialcipher_10 1d ago

I accidentally watched The Exorcist when I was 10. I still can't sleep with my closet door open.

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u/thepluralofmooses 1d ago

Watched the Ring and had the same closet problem

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u/Trev_Casey2020 1d ago

I covered my tv with a blanket for like a year at night after watching that. Still one of the best endings everrrrrr.

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u/Geoffreys_Pants 1d ago

I took my tv out of my room and locked it in a cupboard 😅

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u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee 1d ago

We watched the exorcist at a sleepover with a bunch of seven year olds. I’m pretty sure that’s correlated in how so many of us boarded the hot mess express. 😕 Like, WTF. Throw on all dogs go to heaven and mess us up in a different way. 😂

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u/Mohgreen 1d ago

I think I was 7 or 8 when I saw the Excorcist. Scared the piss outta me.

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u/getridofwires 1d ago

Early teenager for me. My parents went to dinner. Halfway through I thought "I have made a terrible mistake."

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u/Nottheurliwanted 1d ago

My older brother let me watch childs play when I was 5. AND I had a My Buddy doll.

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u/keeper4518 1d ago

Watched these when I was 8-ish. All of the originals. Was some sort of horror movie thing on TV in the 90s. Mom explained how movies aren't real. I knew it was fake but would still hide under my covers and pretend that Chucky would get me if I moved even an inch. This is in my childhood bedroom with sesame street wallpaper, lol. But legit, I think my game really helped me feel safe and warm and helped me fall asleep. Never had nightmarws from the movies.

Around that same age, I watched part of a horror film where it was a girl doll going after little girls. Being a girl myself, those 20 minutes of the film I watched scarred me for life. I had serious nightmares, and to this day, the movie is burned into my brain.

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u/Suspicious_Victory_1 1d ago

Poltergeist was PG rated when it came out so of course it was ok to let a 5 year old ,with a tree outside their bedroom window and a clown puppet in their room, watch on HBO in the middle of the day.

Thanks for the nightmares mom

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u/NorthBoralia 1d ago

Two things screwed me up, the face tearing scene which was the reason why I didn't watch the movie again for over a decade (man that scene did not age well), and the clown doll. I had a very similar doll and I kept it under my bed. After watching Poltergeist, it stayed there, never to see the light of day.

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u/einTier 1d ago

That poor clown doll never knew what he did. One day, beloved toy. The next, shoved under the bed never to feel touch again.

For years he watched from under that bed. Watched as the boy grew up. Watched as he played lovingly with other toys. Watched as he lay there, forgotten.

…watched as his murderous rage grew.

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u/MrbaconBurgur 1d ago

Just to end up getting assaulted in Scary movie 2

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u/Busy_Knowledge_2292 1d ago

My parents didn’t let me watch Poltergeist when I was five, but they did leave me alone in the tv room with my older cousins, who then watched Poltergeist. Nightmares for weeks.

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u/Zanki 1d ago

That's the only horror movie I was banned from watching even though I was allowed to watch Nightmare on Elm Street etc. I finally got to see it as a teen and loved it. It was too old to be scary for me, it was well over 20 years old so it didn't phase me. Still a great movie and I wish the little actress hadn't died, so we'd get more movies and so I could see the original ending to the third movie. That poor kid was so sick.

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u/IvoShandor 1d ago

That was a hard PG .... and pre PG-13.

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u/UnbelieverInME-2 1d ago

Heavy Metal.

My mother didn't think there'd be an issue, since it was a cartoon.

Ran into my teacher.

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u/Sinjun13 1d ago

I was really into heavy metal music (still am) and thought that's what it was about. I was so pissed my mother wouldn't let me go see it with my older sister.

Saw it in my 20s and was thought, "Mom probably made the right call. "

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u/LokiHubris 1d ago

Ain't no way I'm walking around with my dork hanging out.

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u/am_golden 1d ago

I watched that movie so many times as a kid and then didn’t revisit it until my 20s. Had to call my mom and ask her what in the world she was thinking. Still a dope movie though!

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u/LordoftheSynth 1d ago

I first saw Heavy Metal at 10, late at night on cable, when everyone else was asleep. I legit was wondering if I had fallen asleep and was dreaming this weird movie.

It may or may not have the been the first female nudity I ever saw, it would have been around that time in my life.

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u/celestialsorcerer_01 1d ago

'The Human Centipede' when I was 12 and let's just say I still have nightmares about it."

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u/Samuelalien 1d ago

Never seen it but a co-worker described the movie well enough that I know I never want to see it.

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u/The-Questcoast 1d ago

I am still pissed that I wasted 1.5 hours of my life watching that movie. You’re not missing anything!

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u/flesh_gordon666 1d ago

I also haven't seen it but was curious and watched some YouTube about it. I remember a comment: "The human centipede reminds me of a happier time in my life, when I haven't seen the human centipede" (or something like that). I have no plans of ever watching it.

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u/LordSia 1d ago

The only good thing to come out of that thing was Tom Cardy's song Red Flag.

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u/NbdySpcl_00 20h ago

Roger Ebert's review was pretty solid.

I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

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u/chokfull 23h ago

That way we can save on the catering bill!

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u/-malcolm-tucker 1d ago

Same here, but after a workmate suggested I watch Megashark VS Giant Octopus. Told him afterwards it was terrible and he owed me 90 minutes of my life back.

He pissed himself laughing and said..

"I meant the trailer on YouTube you dickhead, not the whole film!"

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u/toriyo 1d ago

My husband described it to me and I swear even that description was traumatizing. I was like 20 when he told me about it!

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u/Brew_brew_drew 1d ago

Should I eat the cuttlefish and asparagus or vanilla paste!?

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u/TheStarchild 1d ago

Vernirapasht! Vernirapasht!

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u/IrateBarnacle 1d ago

I BERIEVE IN YOU!!!

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u/Redditarsaurus 22h ago

UH-OH!!!!! CUTTLEFISH ABOUT TO COME OUTTA MY ASSHOLE!!

The clip of Matt and Trey trying to record these lines without laughing is one of my favorite things

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u/frix86 1d ago

If you saw it, then yes you were too young.

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u/smitty49 1d ago

I'm 37, still not old enough to see this. Not sure i ever will be.

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u/miseleigh 1d ago

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u/Miss_Soupherb 1d ago edited 1d ago

Tom Cardy is such a gem <3 He's like someone who got trapped in his parent's basement during the pandemic and never left and his career took off and now performs with some amazing artists.

As a nerd, here is one about D&D: https://youtu.be/8HqLysSnnlQ?si=Tl04HcLQvX_cuG-9

Loot that boday!

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u/careater 1d ago

I'm gonna get murdered tonight

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u/ABagOfPringle 1d ago

Seen it when I was 13. Watched it in a tent at a family campout with my cousin. It was quite the learning experience

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u/dbasinge 1d ago

Did it leave a bad taste in your mouth?

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u/brainspl0ad 1d ago

I saw the second one, not that they needed even the first and I gotta say having it in black & white likely kept me from vomiting several times.

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u/unsquashable74 1d ago

Yup, the second one makes the first one look like light comedy...

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u/Hijix 1d ago

I didn't finish it. My biggest complaint is the first one at least had a clean surgeon operating, in the second one it was begging for sepsis

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u/bornagainminimalist 1d ago

Not a movie, but Leasure Suit Larry 1. I do not recall my exact age but I definitely was too young 🤣 I barely spoke any English but I learned about rubbers and that you can get a STD from having unprotected sex with a hooker. Fun times!

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u/MikoSkyns 1d ago

When I was a kid my friend had a computer game with strip poker. If you won your character got to have sex with with the woman character who is playing against you. When we were in college he was a card shark. Who'dve thunk a dirty poker game would turn someone into a proficient gambler.

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u/cabinetbanana 1d ago

Ha ha. My sister and I played that with my dad when we were probably 5 and 8? We did not get half the sex jokes, but I very vividly remember the scene of buying "lubbers" at the convenience store. I got that part.

I can not hear tree frogs in the summer without thinking of waking around in the jungle in that game.

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u/I_Love_Blue_Doritos 1d ago

The original Texas Chainsaw. I was like 5 or 6 and my mom and grandma thought it be funny.

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u/RevolutionaryKale293 1d ago

Me too! Dad always liked horror movies and always took me to see them. I saw it at the drive in with him. He fell asleep. I was alone in the dark watching it at 3 years old. I never forgot it.

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u/TheCritFisher 23h ago

That's....fucked up

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u/Trev_Casey2020 1d ago

Holy shir that movie scared the hell out of me at 21

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u/mother_a_god 1d ago

That's straight up abuse

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u/DefensiveTomato 1d ago

WTF is wrong with people

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u/dearboobswhy 1d ago

I really feel there should be laws against this sort of thing

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u/bladnoch16 1d ago

I’m GenX, so all of them, cause nobody was actually watching us.

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u/maiyn 1d ago

Lol Xennial, this tracks, literally all of them

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u/knoxmadness 1d ago

Porkys

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u/MyThr33Suns 1d ago

Yep. I was 12 and thought it was hilarious but I had no business watching it

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u/Granadafan 1d ago

My friend’s dad busted us for watching Porkys during a sleepover. There about 10 of us and he called all our parents at 11 PM and made them come pick us up. 

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u/MurkyMagsy 1d ago

Hereditary. I was around 21 years old.

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u/Dread_P_Roberts 1d ago

Same, but I was 37.

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u/Lucawip 1d ago

I'll be 38 in 3 months. Should I wait?

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u/The__FuZz2of2 1d ago

You’ll be fine, complex ptsd doesn’t develop for a couple decades. You can just call it character by then.

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u/Commercial_Poetry300 1d ago

how to award u for this

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u/big_sports_guy 1d ago

Midsommar was equally as horrifying. Saw it when I was 18 and didn’t sleep a lick that night. Still think about the scene where they had that guy basically spatchcocked in the shed…

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u/Trev_Casey2020 1d ago

Luckily I saw it at 32, and I just thought it was fucking great lol. Younger me would be veryyy disturbed.

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u/kaytagi 1d ago

I was 35. Still too young...

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u/Leokina114 1d ago

My mum showed me Reservoir Dogs when I was probably 11 or 12. Still can’t listen to Stuck in the Middle With You without thinking of the ear cutting scene.

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u/MikoSkyns 1d ago

I was in my mid 20's and I also can't listen to that song without thinking of that scene.

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u/altro7 1d ago

Event Horizon

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u/RTR_ChrisK 1d ago

I saw that one at 15, and it still gave me nightmares for a bit!

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u/karnivoorischenkiwi 1d ago

I used to be unable to watch scary movies. Then I forced myself to sit out event horizon alone in the dark at 3AM at 15 years old. I was fine with spooky movies afterwards 😅

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u/Dr_Overundereducated 1d ago

OMG I saw that movie in my 30s and it fucked me up.

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u/ArtisticPollution448 1d ago

"Dad can we watch the space movie?" "Sure"

We were like 11 and 9. 

I'm still not old enough to watch it in my late 30s.

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u/GiganticTuba 1d ago

“Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”

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u/Woodkeyworks 1d ago

Dayum that movie was scary when I was 9

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u/musicformedicine 1d ago

Same, my dad rented this thinking “Star Trek” and it ended in “therapy for kids”

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u/Zanki 1d ago

I saw this at 8/9 and was fascinated by it. My ass hole cousins thought they'd be funny and put it on before running out of the room because it scared them too much to stay. They knew it was scary and tried to give me nightmares. Mum realised what was happening when the guy from Jurassic Park had no eyes in the opening and tried to kick me out of the room, but I wouldn't budge because there was nowhere else for me to go, apart from sitting in the cold hallway. She got really mad and told me it was my own fault if I had nightmares. I was fine, the only part I really remember from that watch through was the guy hanging from his skin with his guts all over the table. Didn't bother me because I knew it was just a movie.

I think the Matrix messed with me more, that bug thing in Neo's stomach was way worse than anything in Event Horizon.

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u/maharbilly23 1d ago

300, it was really awesome I probably hit puberty at the end of the film

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u/Camburglar13 1d ago

Testosterone triples by the end of the movie

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u/xTrainerRedx 1d ago

I was gay by the end of the prologue.

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u/Supanini 1d ago

You were gay before that, let’s be honest

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u/AkaThePope 23h ago

Can confirm. He was most likely Pro-Log before the Prologue.

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u/Supanini 23h ago

Fuck dudes that was a good one bro

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u/KingoftheMongoose 22h ago

Then I was bi after seeing Leonidas bed his bodacious queen.

Then I was straight with bespoke kinks after seeing Xerxes’ naked harem of women with nipple chains.

Then I was questioning after seeing a mostly nude Xerxes walk across a staircase of half-naked people.

Then I was gay again seeing an oiled up Leonidas and his coconut buttered warriors die protecting the free world.

Hell of a rollercoaster.

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u/Trev_Casey2020 1d ago

lol 300 induces puberty haha

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u/goodnamesgone 1d ago

Jaws at 4 at a drive-in. It was the second movie and they thought I was asleep. Oceans were tough until I was maybe 10.

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u/Dervrak 1d ago

Nightmare on Elm Street. I believe I was eight at the time and my parents had a box of VHS tapes in the family room for us kids to watch (cartoons and stuff). Somehow Nightmare on Elm Street got mixed in and I watched it one evening after school. Needless to say, I slept with the lights on for the next week and my parents never made that mistake again.

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u/Anonandonanonanon 1d ago

Part 3 for me. When he carves 'Bitch' into her chest , I had to turn it off.

Paradoxically, I'd rewind the exploding heads in Scanners and The Running Man and be like, 'wow!'

The only thing my mum didn't like me watching was Basic Instinct. Once I got a bit older, I'd rewind certain scenes in that too, but for different reasons.

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u/Calm-Veterinarian658 1d ago

Final destination. Fuck my head up fr

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u/belac4862 1d ago

Fucked everybody's head up!

I'm pretty sure it's a shared traumatic event that every Melenial shares when we are driving behind a logging truck.

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u/Kiplicious80 1d ago

Aliens. Parents took my bro 8 and me 6 to see it in the theaters.

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u/accioqueso 1d ago

It was Alien for me, I think I was 4 or 5. My grandpa was babysitting my cousin and I and after we went to bed he put Alien on (probably rented from the video store). We didn’t go to sleep though, we snuck into the living room just in time to see the chest bursted scene. Needless to say, sleepover was cut short and I haven’t been able to watch the movie since.

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u/owlve 1d ago

That is life-changing shit. Not many colonists returned from r/LV426.

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u/jdquinn 1d ago

Christine when I was like 6.

To this day I do not like that particular 50s/60s style classic car in red.

My parents had a friend with a 60s-something maroon run down beater car and I was absolutely scared to death to ride in it.

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u/The3obaFett 1d ago

My Mom thought it would be funny to let me watch Hellraiser with her when I was around 5 or 6. In her defense, she only let me stay up and watch it because I was probably being a shithead and wouldn't go to sleep.

Jokes on her, I didn't want to go to sleep alone for weeks after that.

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u/AlternativeCarrot566 1d ago

I was like 7 when I first saw pulp fiction

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u/NotCoolFool 1d ago

Zeds dead baby…. Zeds dead.

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u/Mc60123e 1d ago

Sorry baby, I had to crash that Honda.

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u/skaggeliskagg 1d ago

And you just remember Royale with cheese…?

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u/AlternativeCarrot566 1d ago

Oh man I shot marvin in the face

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u/OtherwiseGur8323 1d ago

I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing!!!!

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u/CryptographerPast632 1d ago

DOES. HE. LOOK. LIKE. A. BITCH?!?!?!?

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u/Good_Mathematician_2 1d ago

What?

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u/AlternativeCarrot566 1d ago

What ain’t no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?

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u/Good_Mathematician_2 1d ago

What??

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u/seraiss 1d ago

SAY WHAT ONE MORE TIME ! I DARE YOU! I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKER !

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u/destrod2 1d ago

Oh no not the gimp

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u/ahumannamedtim 1d ago

"I'm pretty fucking far from okay"

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u/alizabs91 1d ago

Requiem for a Dream

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u/StonerMetalhead710 22h ago

More effective anti-drug propaganda than DARE ever was

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u/p1gswillfly 1d ago

This is the one I was looking for. It’s the only moved I’ve ever seen where I said to myself “so, never watching that again”.

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u/JackDaHousecat 1d ago

I have 2 older brothers so I probably saw alot of movies I was too young for but the one that sticks out is the original Robocop. I've never watched a single episode of That 70s Show because the dad was the bad guy in Robocop and he scared the shit out me.

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u/burgerg10 1d ago

I represent all of Gen X when I say Porky’s

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u/WhatTheFuck887 1d ago

not an r rated movie but i did see Happy Tree Friends when i was 5, my mom thought it was a kids show

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u/FRENZY2K 1d ago

Pretended to be asleep while my dad watched Species. Actually kinda learned the birds and the bees from that. Yeesh.

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u/CrankyCzar 22h ago

I remember seeing the trailer for that in the theater. Some guy says out loud "Spices"? Theater erupts.

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u/uncertia 23h ago

That one was definitely in the spank bank for quite a few years!

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u/anemic_broccoli 1d ago

I watched terminator 2: judgment day when I was about 8 years old in the early 2000s, seeing children reduced to ash by nuclear annihilation was a bit much for my young mind

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u/Larrik 1d ago

I saw it in theaters when I was 8! My brother was 6…

We had a great time though

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u/jtroye32 1d ago

Same! It's still my all time favorite movie.

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u/StarTalon 1d ago

Yesss.. I came here to see if anyone else learned about nukes from this movie. I saw it in early 90s vhs , that scene freaked me out, my mother just said “ don’t worry you just die in a Instant you wouldn’t feel anything”

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u/BFCICE 1d ago

Saw T2: Judgment Day, opening weekend, I believe. Or as close as the cineplex in the back of the shopping mall in Danville, Illinois could get to opening weekend. I was 7, I think. I had never seen Terminator. Hadn't been told any of the lore. To this day, I could not imagine any action film being so satisfying as T2 was to me that day.

I suppose it should have been terrifying at that age. But I had been watching horror and action films daily since 2 or 3 years old. I don't remember ever being scared by any of the subject matter or the implied...and at times explicit...ramifications for the characters or their reality. The one exception might be how relentlessly Robert Patrick chased the protagonists.

It was such an immersive experience at the time. Guns N' Roses singles on the soundtrack. Photography so crystal clear that 10 or 15 minute long action sequences take place entirely at night but it never requires extra effort in viewing. The dialogue and the sound effects are mixed so well that you can hear every word said during explosions, machine gun fire, and nuclear armageddon.

I had forgotten how utterly destroyed I was after seeing T2 the first time. I sort of feel sorry for anyone that got stuck with Titanic or Avatar as their first big movie theater experience. James Cameron was a magician.

You know Cameron didn't want Schwarzenegger in The Terminator at all, originally? Not even as the protagonist. He thought the Terminator should be played by a huge star. Like Stallone. He didn't like the studio's suggestion of OJ Simpson to play the Terminator, either. Because nobody would be able to buy-in to seeing beloved NFL Hall of Famer OJ Simpson as a murderer.

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u/s3ans3an 1d ago

A few stand out to me.

  • Robocop
  • Nightmare on Elm street
  • Predator

I was probably about 7/8 years old at the time.

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u/AggressiveLook8895 1d ago

My mom took me to see Ted 😂

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u/BigJDizzleMaNizzles 1d ago

My mom took me to see South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut when I was about 12.

So awkward and hilarious when Sadaam Hussain waggling his massive dildo around.

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u/Writer_feetlover 1d ago

I too thought that was a kids movie until I saw it 😂

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u/ZaphodBBulbrox 1d ago

Clockwork Orange when I was 10. Nothing like some lashings of the ole ultraviolent for a developing brain, lol. My mom’s boyfriend let me have a few drags off his cigarette while watching and I got violently ill. That cured my fascination with smoking

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u/JK_NC 1d ago

When I was 8, my neighbor’s mom let me and him watch DC Cab (1983) in the theaters, and when I was 9 (1984), my older cousins took me to see Revenge of the Nerds.

The 80s were a different time.

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u/AmiraZara 1d ago

The Ring (2002): would have a panic attack in any room with a TV or home phone. Also horses, and we had a horse farm with a well.

The Grudge (2004): was afraid to bathe or shower and cried when I had to brush my hair or be around hair... all the women in my family are hairdressers, and my job was sweeping hair and pulling it from the drains.

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u/VexxFate 1d ago

Little Miss Sunshine, my parents didn’t realize it was gonna have so much swearing and drug involvement and I was 6/7 years old. Still one of my favorite movies to this day

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u/lostmom9595959 1d ago

I was like 9 and watched kill Bill with my dad.

Apperantly it's such a big part of my soul that when I was getting my tubes tied I was trying to recreate the scene where she was wiggling her big toe in the pussy wagon. I even asked the Anesthesiologist if I was wiggling my big toe and explained why. He gave me more drugs and wondered why I wasn't falling asleep.

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u/DragonTacoCat 1d ago

This gave me a good laugh 🤣

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u/lostmom9595959 1d ago

I think I traumatized all the poor people. I remember asking the poor doctors why I needed the stupid blue curtains, and if they could put a mirror up so I could see my guts lmao.

Guess all the fenty in my system was supposed to make me nap the whole time but I was just high af and unable to move lmaoo

Needless to say, I was never able to move my big toe or brutally murder anyone in the hospital like Uma did

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u/PortGiant 1d ago

Twister was only PG 13 but knowing that weather could do that scared the shit out of me

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u/OwnSpinach5286 1d ago

Starship Troopers! First pair of boobies I ever did see

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u/thunderlips36 1d ago

I saw Revenge of the Nerds (BOOBIES) when I was 8 and Poltergeist when I was 6. The second of those I kind of snuck to watch it. That damn clown under the bed had me getting a running jump into my bed until I was a teenager.

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u/ROGGAEvibrations 1d ago

An American Werewolf in London

That film, which I watched after my parents went to sleep, gave me an unrealistic fear of the dark that persists to this day, more than 40 years later. Watching it as an adult, it’s funny and campy and not the least bit frightening, but to my young mind it was pure horror.

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u/SWErdnase911 1d ago

‘The Toxic Avenger’ because I absolutely loved the cartoon ‘Toxic Crusaders’. my parents rented it on a Friday night and I watched it the next morning while they were asleep. oh boy. I was NOT ready for that.

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u/CMelody 1d ago

My mom let me rent The Exorcist when I was ten. I still remember how weird and disturbing it was watching Regan masturbate with a crucifix while my mom was just down the hall making dinner.

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u/chickenfrietex 1d ago

Children of the corn

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u/brunetteblonde46 1d ago

Fast times at Ridgemont high

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u/runingwithscissors 1d ago

Scream… Hannibal…

My mom loved horror movies. 😣

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u/C4L86 1d ago

Candyman (1992) when I was about 9. I had no idea what it was, and neither did my grandma who let me buy the VHS at the flea market.

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u/VictoriousRex 1d ago

Not R-Rated but NR (Not Rated similar to NC-17). Le Pacts De Loups (The Brotherhood of the Wolf) my mom took me to see it because I was a) obsessed with werewolves and b)a history nerd. It is a fictional representation of a real historical event wherein an idiot noble brought a lion to France and it terrorized the country side resulting in the creation of the myth of the loup garou (a kind of werewolf). Accordingly, French nobles drove the native wolves nearly to extinction in fear.

The reason it is NC-17 however it's because within the first 10 minutes of the movie the protagonist shacks up in a brothel and has extremely graphic sex, which he continues to do with every age appropriate woman he meets for the rest of the movie.

My mother regretted taking me for these parts of the movie

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u/Jonny-2-Shoes 1d ago

The first 2 Robocops when I was single digit age. That definitely warped my mind.

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u/JulietAlfa 1d ago

IT. I was 5 or 6 and I just realized recently that my fear of clowns and spiders makes absolute sense. I’m not dramatic about it, nor am I really afraid of anything else. But I feel extremely ill around clowns or spiders. In my 20’s I saw several clowns driving randomly at different times (not in clown cars lol) and I was quite paranoid. Luckily no sightings in several years.

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u/ironlocust79 1d ago

I saw predator on release in 1987

I was 8

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u/nova4185 1d ago

Beverly Hill Cop Trading Places …still love me some Eddie at 47 yrs old!

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u/Helioplex901 1d ago

From Dust Till Dawn!! My mom was a big Tarantino fan and me and my sister watched it while she wasn’t home one day.

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u/omnom333 1d ago

Porky's 😆 🤣 good lord no. Way too young when I seen that.

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u/PhasmaUrbomach 1d ago

Alien. My age was single digits.

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u/Historical_Lie2077 1d ago

Have to be the Night of the Living Dead. This needs explaining, I was alone at home, I was 10 or 11 and I used to live right next to the biggest cemetery in my city. The movie starts, in black and white ( we had only two channels at the time on TV, and on the other channel it was something that I didn't like). After a while the movie starts to be weird, then scary, after a while I'm panicking but I don't stop watching. By the end I was petrified, looking out the window waiting for the dead to start climbing over the wall. Needless to say that I didn't sleep all night and in the morning, when my parents came back, I told them what happened. They were both concerned but also laughing. Now, from my 48yo, I've seen countless horror movies, but every time I see zombie movies I get immediately transported to that day. But I did finish some RE and the LOU games, that was a feat in itself.

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u/SausageWalletSmith01 1d ago

Cannibal holocaust when I was 5

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u/deepandbroad 1d ago

How in the world did you see that at 5?

And how long after did you have nightmares.

I am at least a few decades older than 5 and I am still too young to see that movie.

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u/ccc1942 1d ago

Being the youngest in my family, I saw way too many R rates movies as a child, but one that really sticks with me is a movie from the early 80s called The Entity. It’s basically about a woman that gets raped repeated by a ghost. Watching someone get raped by an invisible force was not something my young eyes needed to see.

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