First 18's rated movie you saw

Max_Damage

As the title suggests, what was the first 18's rated movie you saw if you can remember, and what age were you?

My first 18's film was 'Predator' back when I was 8 years old in 1994. It scared the shít out of me!

Firetrap

I think it was The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. I ended up watching the last 30 minutes through my fingers it was so gross :eek:

lucyburn

I think it was Robocop and i was terrified.

BrandonBlock

That's weird mine was robocop too! Back in around 90-91 when I was just 5 I just remember not having a clue what was going on and losing interest halfway through.

Ruu_Old

I think it was Bloodsport, can't remember what age I was. My brother rented it.

padi89

The Emerald Forest ,tbh i can't remember if it was PG,15's or 18's BUT i do remember TITS:D So hmmmmm that was 18's for me,new release it was too at the time!!!!!

Melion

T2 when it was first released on VHS, i was 9

rossie1977

T2 was 15 cert as far as i remember, it was far less gory than the first film

Robocop is one of the earliest 18 cert movies i saw on vhs about 1988, great movie, still watch it today, ED-209 rocks

Rabies

Robocop i think.

keefg

I grew up in the era of the banned "Video Nasties" and thanks to Dave The Video Man the first 18 rated film I would have seen (I think) was Driller Killer.

That was in public anyway - I am sure I was a bit younger when I discovered those funny videos on top of my dad's wardrobe

bringitdown

The Terminator

However mum was more upset when I watch Dirty Dancing ... ahhh the ironing.

chopperbyrne

Probably something like American Ninja or some violent martial arts film.

I would have been 4 or 5.

MW

I remember watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street" when I was about 6. The one where Johnny Depp disappears into his bed and the blood is gushing out up to the ceiling. My God, the rhyme "one, two Freddy's coming for you" e.t.c. was so scary. I didn't sleep for about a month. I honestly thought I would die if I fell asleep.

Archeron

Robocop for me too. The scene with the dude washed over with acid and then exploded by a car scared the life out of me. Funnily enough, we saw that in school!

deman

Porkys!!

A friend at school lent me the vid. I was about 15 at the time.

RuggieBear

Terminator and Nightmare on elm street 3

armour87

Ditto - Nightmare on Elm Street

Mr E

Nightmare on Elm Street for me too..... I think I was 10 or 11.

Potential-Monke

Stephen Kings "The Stand" snuck into the sittingroom early and stayed under the couch (I knew my brother'd be watching it) to see it.

Mrs. MacGyver

Nightmare on Elm Street

ciaran76

Porky's

DublinWriter

Eraserhead...when I was 12.

I've been fine ever since *twitch twich* except for a bizarre and unexplainable desire to keep a fetus in a jar and receive instructions from it.

ironictoaster

Ruu wrote: »

I think it was Bloodsport, can't remember what age I was. My brother rented it.

KUMITE! KUMITE! KUMITE!

starn

Terminator and Die Hard 2. I thought the y who did the warnings at the start of the video's was going to break my door in at any moment

ParkRunner

I think Die Hard was 18's (the first one), it seems pretty tame by todays standards

rossie1977

first die hard was 18 cert, die hard 2 was def 15 cert though because i saw it in the cinema in the summer of 1990 and i was only 13 at the time

the stand was a tv movie and not 18 cert, watched it a few weeks ago, still cool but the ending kinda sucks

Goldenquick

The Exorcist when it came out many many years ago, still scared of it too .

A-Trak

Robocop for me too!

The acid scene has always been burned into my memory too (sorry)

Also does anyone remember video shops that let you rent 18's films if you had a letter from your parents!

_Kaiser_

Robocop for me as well.. :eek:

Setun

Goldenquick wrote: »

The Exorcist when it came out many many years ago, still scared of it too .

Yep same. My friends very responsible parents showed it to us when we were about 10. :eek: Don't think I really understood it at the time, although parts of it tormented my sleeping patterns for many weeks afterwards...

Makaveli

rossie1977 wrote: »

first die hard was 18 cert, die hard 2 was def 15 cert though because i saw it in the cinema in the summer of 1990 and i was only 13 at the time

the stand was a tv movie and not 18 cert, watched it a few weeks ago, still cool but the ending kinda sucks

Die Hard 2 is one of those rare occurrences where the IFCO cert is less than the BBFC cert. 18's for them 15's for us.

The Stand was also 15's.

Terminator was the first I saw, although the BBFC cert was 15's. I think I was about 7 at the time.

Proxy

I remember watching both Halloween and Night of the Living Dead (original) as a kid and being rightly FREAKED for ages... theres one film though that sticks with me, and all I remember is a scene where there was a lot of lightning, a guy in a house with no lights on who removes the crown of his skull and leaves it on a dresser, rocking. The image of it rocking in the flashing light stuck in my head for years. This would have been on TV in the late 80s so it could be anything really...?

Duiske

Saw "I spit on your grave" when I was 14 or 15. Don't know how that film was not banned.

JackieChan

First 18's movie(I think it would have been 18's anyway) was Halloween 3.
I saw this in the cinema! Dont ask me why me and my sister were brought(she is a year younger than me). I was about 7/8 at the time.
The song still haunts me..lol....# 3 more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween #

intheknow

I was 14 and there was a cinema on O connell bridge, where the harp bar was, now Q bar and it was called "sex life in a womens prison" apart from the odd side shot of tit, that was it, but was A years w**k material in our young heads !!:D

hamster

Probably The Burning - A friday the 13th clone. Still have memory of the camera moving through the woods, all dark at night, slowly slowly moving with a purpose towards the next victim... a strange constant hum /|\

Alanstrainor

Starship troopers!:o
I was about 10/11 and i convinced my mum to rent it. That night, my parents myself and my brother sat down to watch it, we got about 20 minutes into it and there was a shower scene with naked ladies, and well that was the end of the movie. Oh the awkwardness, haunts me to this day, well when you're 11/12 to see things like that with your parents was about the worst thing that could happen!

Terminator, followed by robocop, predator and aliens which I watched through my fingers.

Jimbo

Barbwire - 11. Oh the memories

TerrorFirmer

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Starship troopers!:o
I was about 10/11 and i convinced my mum to rent it. That night, my parents myself and my brother sat down to watch it, we got about 20 minutes into it and there was a shower scene with naked ladies, and well that was the end of the movie. Oh the awkwardness, haunts me to this day, well when you're 11/12 to see things like that with your parents was about the worst thing that could happen!

I remember seeing that too when I was 11 or 12, persuaded a friends mother that it was '12's, I think'. Best movie experience ever, I've seen better movies since but none have had quite the same impact on me.

Also does anyone remember video shops that let you rent 18's films if you had a letter from your parents!

Yeah! I'm young enough that I had to forge one for Saving Private Ryan

I told my parents the next day I'd seen the movie, and they went ballistic, went into the (very tiny) store and demanded to know why they'd let a minor rent such an excessive movie. They produced our work of art from a file, turned out they kept them all just in case of said occurrences!

I really can't remember what the first 18's movie I saw was. I would think Predator or Robocop, something along those lines. It might even have been Starship Troopers. As in, the first movie I watched from beginning to end.

The first sense I ever had of watching a 'grown up' movie was the film Sniper when I was about 10. Really good one it was, too. They stole that sniper in the bell tower scene in SPR straight from it!

CrazyTalk

Any of these:
Alien3, Predator 2 or Robocop 2 (which scared the **** out of me might I add)

JæKæ

One of the lethal weapon films. I clearly remember seeing my first tit on this. The murdered woman on the bonnet of a car.

TheDriver

Think it was "confessions of a window cleaner" on VHS!

brightspark

Hitchcock's "The Birds"

Saw on on TV when I was about 12, its original rating was X (same as 18)

I was nervous of flocks of birds for ages afterwards

Also used to watch Vincent Price films, though I don't remember being scared much by them.

opr

Basic Instinct is my first memories of seeing an over 18's movie and after this it was Trainspotting.

What a mix for an impressional young guy :eek:

Opr

KrazeeEyezKilla

Saw Terminator when I was about 6, about a year after the sequel was released. I couldn't understand it as I thought the Terminator was the good guy and could not understand why he was trying to kill two innocent people.

I saw Basic Instinct when I was 8 and didn't see the fuss in the leg crossing scene or the lesbianism.

Cokehead Mother

The Matrix when I was 9. Don't know if that counts, it was a pretty soft 18.

ixoy

"Nightmare on Elm Street" I think - not sure what year it was, but I do know I saw all the sequels as I found them in the video store. Saw lots of those video nasties as a kid and it left me unaffected (I didn't buy the pressure to ban "Child's Play 3" and other films even as a young teen, and I don't now either).

Chad ghostal

Makaveli wrote: »

Die Hard 2 is one of those rare occurrences where the IFCO cert is less than the BBFC cert. 18's for them 15's for us.

Die Hard 2 is 15's in england too, it's a cut version of the cinema release (which was also 15's afair). We have the same version here. The 18's (uncut cinema release) version was only released on video in widescreen once and can't be bought any more afaik.


First 18's film was Robocop, Loved every minute of it. I couldn't believe they made films that gory, the scene where murphy dies had the babysitter squeeling

dazberry

I went to the Isle of Man when I was about 14, and Rambo was in the cinema (which was 18s here and 15s there), and my 'oul lad brought me under instruction that if I was asked - I was 15. I didn't think twice about it - but on returning to school one day a subsitute teacher trying to pass time asked everyone what films they had seen that summer - there was uproar when I said Rambo - I was a legend for about a week

I also remember us going into the Ambassador to see Robocop (in our school uniforms - around 17 no less - and we were let in). It was so violent we came out laughing our heads off :eek:

D.

Dubit10

Westlife Xmas special:D(Should be 18 rated anyhow)Utterly scary