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I saw Cujo as a 6 year old and its still sitting with me 25 years later. Our house was always the summer hang out spot for my family since we had a pool, so my aunt and grandma would always go to blockbuster on Friday to get some movies. I got to rent Pokemon Stadium 2 and all I wanted to to was play the game.

I couldn't play it until I watched a movie with the family. The adults decided we should watch cujo (the perfect film for kids aged 8, 6, 5 and 4 right?)

I still have weird memories of watching the movie, getting freaked out and burying my head in the couch to try and not see or hear anything. After the movie my grandma said I could go play my game, and I still associate the Golbat mini game with it since the dog got rabies from a bat.

So next time you want your grandkid to bond with you, don't fucking scar them ok?

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, when I was like 8. Was all fun and games until they ripped that slaves heart out and dunked it into the lava, or something to that extent. It's been a while since I last watched it, the details are a bit hazy.

Evil Dead

My mom led horror movies but was too scared to watch them alone.

For some reason she thought kids don't really remember things until around 6 years old.

So with her I watched hellraiser, IT, Freddy Krueger, Chuckee, The Thing (Carpenter version), Amytiville horror, Pet Sementary, Alien, the exorcist, and some others when I was 4 and 5.

Only ones that really freaked me out as a kid was Chuckee, and that hellraiser movie where pinhead comes out of a screen specifically (the third hellraiser I think?). Alien and Amytiville were my favorite ones.

Look, it was the 80s/90s. We had one TV. My parents were not going to watch kid shit during their down time so we watched whatever they felt like watching. Thus, I have too many to list here.

But for context apparently Alien and Aliens made me squeaky and giggly/happy as a baby. To this day I sometimes have bizarrely detailed dreams with xenomorph subplots.

Alien & Aliens by the 4th grade, the Terminators, Robocop...I had action figures for all those movies.

I also learned a lot from USA Up All Night.

Also got into my dad's playboy stash in the 3rd grade.

Starship trooper when I was still in kindergarten. The only thing I remember from this movie is the scene where the bug drills a hole in the soldiers head to drink his brain. Don't plan to watch this movie ever again in my life

Unexpectedly got nightmares for years after watching the movie Twister.

Dad allowed me to watch Species. Had to sleep in my parents' bed that night. Mom was FURIOUS :D

My parents were super strict. I was at a buddy's house when Terminator 2 first came to VHS and we watched it. I was probably around 11. Having not really seen anything like that, it definitely impacted me for a while. Then again, I was already having nightmares most nights by then anyway.

~~Homey the Clown~~ Shakes the Clown. Dad took that shit out after three lines. Maybe. The movie started with a group of clowns/men discussing their pussy preferences.

My brother showed me a movie from my dad's hidden porno stash when I was 8. So probably that.

When I was roughly 10 years old I watched my next door neighbors' parents' home made hardcore sex tape. She had found it while snooping in her dads closet. So yeah, little old me (boy) and closest friend (girl) sitting on her parents bed watching a very graphic homemade porn.

Definitely shaped my sexual development...

I had nightmares from Dawn of the Dead for weeks. I was 8 or 9 when my mom tried to show it to me, lol

Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The dipping scenes haunted me.

Jaws at about 5 yrs old and Robocop a couple of years later at about 7yrs old the uncut version loved them both except jaws made me phobic of the ocean and open water so paid a price with that one lol although I have all 4 movies on dvd watch them from time to time. Have both Robocop original and the newer one which is sh@t comparitively, no surprise being just a 12A no swearing and or adult humour no guys exploading on windscreens from being melted down with toxic waste then hit by a car lol and no fist spike weapon either. It will never hold a candle to the original movie which is a true product of the 80s and a must own movie, one rad movie.

I still can't believe Jaws was classified just PG and still is that's to savage for kids really not all of it the shark looks awful corny and cheap tat but the scenes you don't see it and the man in the pond where you see it sideways it looks real then it bites his leg off and you see the leg sinking those scenes aren't fit for kids no way. .

Kentucky fried movie

Candyman. I couldn't even look in a mirror for weeks.

I was chaperoning on a school bus full of kindergarteners. They started chatting about the scariest movies they had ever seen. Some of them were talking about Goosebumps and some were talking about stuff in the realm of ET. The one little boy in my group looked up to me and said that stuff for babies that's nothing. I said oh yeah? What are you watch. He said I like Jason I like Freddy I like Michael Myers. I asked him which scenes that he thought were the best and he actually seemed to have watched it all. I said so what did you think of IT by Stephen King. His eyes got wide and he said no no no no no no no. We're not going to talk about that.

Faces of Death, Faces of Death 2, Faces of Death 3, Faces of Death 4, Faces of Death 5 and Faces of Death 6

Videodrome. Watched it few years ago and started strongly recalling watching certain scenes. 20 minutes in I was like oh wow I've seen this before, but by the time James woods was doing bdsm with a debbie harry television, I was like "who let me watch this?"

It explains a lot, honestly

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