Did you watch 18s movies when you were a kid?

LighterGuy

Remember watching Robocop when I was 5 or something on VHS. That bit where ed209 kills the guy after being first revealed FREAKED ME OUT! ... had to cover my eyes from the scene lol.


Also remember watching Predator around the same time. Freaking ... me ... out.

your stories?

chillywilly

Yup, I used to poo myself watching IT as a kid.

Yea I remember watchin 80's movies when I was young... There were so many more jebs on show than there are now.

14 and was watching Kill Bill from 07. I don't watch it for the violence but just the story line and how it's played out. <--- Film Buff

Sisko

Saw all the greats before I was 10, the terminators , predators , Aliens etc etc.

Never got scared, was when my parents wouldn't let me watch them that I'd get scared, kids imagination is far worse then anything hollywood can do. I understood I was watching actors even at that age.

What did scare me was shows like unsolved mysteries , alien abductions and so on cause of the whole 'this really happened in RL' vibe off them.


I mean listen to this feckin music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S6ZQn9lvk

LighterGuy

:eek:
Sisko... you're bringing back so many memories of that show. My dad loved it.

chillywilly

Sisko wrote: »

Saw all the greats before I was 10, the terminators , predators , Aliens etc etc.

Never got scared, was when my parents wouldn't let me watch them that I'd get scared, kids imagination is far worse then anything hollywood can do. I understood I was watching actors even at that age.

What did scare me was shows like unsolved mysteries , alien abductions and so on cause of the whole 'this really happened in RL' vibe off them.


I mean listen to this feckin music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S6ZQn9lvk

You should put a warning on that video for people who are watching it alone in the dark at half 4 in the morning!


:pac:

J. Marston

Watched Chuckie when I was 8 or 9. Fùcked me up for weeks.

newmug

Never watched a movie in my life.

Now films, yea saw plenty of 18's ones before I was 18. Aliens was the scariest.

Adamantium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZBgHBHQT8
still scares the crap out of me......the only program i would turn off because its SO creepy! chills!

deelite

Lemon Popstickle
And all the Porky movies

GV_NRG

yup sure half the fun of watching an 18's movie is watching it befor your eighteen!
i just watched all the usual ones alien, kill bill 1 and 2 etc etc

Spunge

My Dad used to rent me Predator, Aliens and Terminator when i was really young but then when i got older he wouldn't rent me anything :mad:

Spunge

Sisko wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S6ZQn9lvk

Thanks, now im traumatised, completely forgot this existed, damn show gave me many sleepless nights thinking about aliens and bigfoot out my window.

Kiera

My parents wouldnt let me but i remember my mates older brother making us watch Nightmare on Elm street when we were about 8. Was convinced Freddy was under my bed for years after that

Dravokivich

I vaguely remember watching the oriingal version of "the fog" when i was a kid between 5 - 8 years old.

My favourite bit was

when the priest was cut in half by a big seaweed with a broadsword

Aglomerado

There was a small cinema close to where I lived when I was growing up, no age restrictions applied... got in to see Robocop when I was 10 and still remember the melty toxic waste bit! The local video shop was the same, my love of "nasties" was well known.

galwayrush

Bambi, freaked me out for ages afterwards.

Joey the lips

18's movies were my first sex education demo's

Then i had to put them into practice.

My first relationship was a fail when on the first date i opened with

"I'm gonna fcuk you up the ass bitch"

I started watching Love actually and prity women after that.

I am still with the prostitute.

Biggins

LighterGuy wrote: »

Did you watch 18s movies when you were a kid?

Yes.

TanG411

I liked watching the Halloween series, except for three because that's sh*te.

seamus

All the time. In my house, the age rating was an advisory rating and nothing more. I know plenty of people whose parents wouldn't let them watch 18's movies when they were 16 though.

Batman came out when I was 8, had a 15 cert. I watched that. Gremlins came out when I was 2 - I think it had an 18 cert originally. I saw it when I was 6 (loved it!)

CrazyRabbit

I remember staying up late and watching C4. Some of the programmes/films they showed back then were practically porn. I used to love that channel.

westies4ever

being the youngets in my house i saw loads of 18 movies. my older brothers were well into video nasties in the 80's. i saw the evil dead when i was 6 - that terrified me for weeks. nightmare on elm st was the worst - i stayed awake all night sitting on the bedroom floor - i was convinced my bed was going to eat me! saw it not so long ago and i cant believe it scared me so much!!

bm365

Now I have a machine gun.
HO HO HO

o1s1n

When I was about 9 or 10 I really wanted to watch Robocop. So my mam taped it off the tv one night.

I sat down all excited, ready for the gore everyone in school had been telling me about. Murphy is about to be blown to bits...the tape skips! back the video comes, it's about to get gory again, and it happens again! wtf?

The oul wagon had censored out all the nasty bits. Her own home version of the BBFC.

D1976

Saw this when I was about 10, frightened the bejesus out of me.

Run Georgie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZGf2vnASHc

pragmatic1

D1976 wrote: »

Saw this when I was about 10, frightened the bejesus out of me.

Run Georgie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZGf2vnASHc

A truely horrific film when you're a kid. Stayed with me a long time.

saintsaltynuts

I remember watching The Fly(1986) when i was about 8.I was cackin meself,i was sitting there with the biggest rolled up newspaper saying.."Come near me you little focker"....

pragmatic1

Was allowed to watch pretty much what I liked unless it was porn or something. Kids are too mollycoddled these days.

mike65

Dravokivich wrote: »

I vaguely remember watching the oriingal version of "the fog" when i was a kid between 5 - 8 years old.

The Fog was a AA rated film - you wous!

Sadly I was almost old enough to vote by the time home video became the norm, but I saw some X-rated stuff at the flicks and on telly every now and again.

Seamus, Gremlins was a 12 cert dispite all the splatter!

RedXIV

IT was the one that freaked me out the most.

My dad used to confiscate loads of pirate videos in work and then bring them home. they'd nearly all be over 18s with enough smut to keep a 10yr old happy

MagicSean

The ones I remember from my preteen days are Terminator, Flashdance, Robocop2 and American Warewolf in London.

EDIT: Gremlins, Critters and IT too

billymitchell

'member the day I watched Basic Instinct for the first time, I was about 11-12. Loads of bewbs and other stuff. The worst thing about watchin films with boobs back then was the crappy pause feature on the VHS. Couldnt see nothin when the tapes were paused

seafood dunleavy

I used to hate when I found a porn site and then had to turn it off because it said I had to be 18.

Dick Burns

i remember i was mad to watch the first scream tink i was 8/9,so i got my mam to tape it,she found out what it was and wouldnt let me watch it, and hid it,so one morning i was up early for school i went to get bread outa the breadbin and BOOM there it was watched the first 15/20 mins before school i was scared s**tless going into school

also i got mam to tape terminator 1 for me n when she seen the sex scene she flipped n recored 20 seconds of eurosport over the sex so now i have holland v germany from the 70's in the middle of terminator ha

good times

edward scissorhands was 18 but scared the beejayus outa me!!!

_feedback_

Back then, movies weren't as accesible as they are now. The only movies we watched were those that were rented from "Dial-A-Video". No chance we were getting any over 18's.

And by jaysus, you'd rewind it before it is returned or there would be trouble!

Riddle101

Kiera wrote: »

My parents wouldnt let me but i remember my mates older brother making us watch Nightmare on Elm street when we were about 8. Was convinced Freddy was under my bed for years after that

Same thing happened for me when I heard about Gary Glitter

Seriously though. Terminator 1 & 2, Robocop, Predator, Con Air, All the horror movies such as Friday 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, IT, The Shining and many others.

Dick Burns

is it just me or does the 18's mean nothing now?like remember in the TV guide years ago it wud say 15/18 n u wud tried scribble it out so the mother didnt see it

i think 18's theses days everyone watches them no matter what age

i wudnt let anyone youn watch any the paranormal activitys wud scar them for life

podgemonster

Parents used to let me watch Gremlins up until they stopped being cute, i was always intrigued as to what happened in those cocoons.

Edward Scissorshands freaked me too, the music the darkness of it all, was too much for a little kid.

Apart from that I was aloud watch all the blood and violence once I was over 10 but as my mother used to say 'as long as there are no bed scenes'

Mr Freeze

LighterGuy wrote: »

Also remember watching Predator around the same time. Freaking ... me ... out.

your stories?

Yip, used to watch 18 movies all the time as a kid, back in the 80's the guy in the one video shop in town, would rent me any flick. But my parents used to go mental when they'd find the film case and see it was 18's. I woulda been around 8 at the time watching them, did me no harm.

I remember getting in trouble for watching Critters 2, and Predator 2. Parents weren't happy.

Even though I was allowed watch Predator 1 when it was on UTV, but it was cut to shreds, no cursing, and no Carl Weathers arm getting zapped off, and loads of other great bits cut.

Dick Burns

CKWPORT wrote: »

Yip, used to watch 18 movies all the time as a kid, back in the 80's the guy in the one video shop in town, would rent me any flick. But my parents used to go mental when they'd find the film case and see it was 18's. I woulda been around 8 at the time watching them, did me no harm.

I remember getting in trouble for watching Critters 2, and Predator 2. Parents weren't happy.

Even though I was allowed watch Predator 1 when it was on UTV, but it was cut to shreds, no cursing, and no Carl Weathers arm getting zapped off, and loads of other great bits cut.

i remember watching predator 1 on utv n couldnt believe the mount that was cut out like if they think its too violent why boardcast it??

do ya think watchin an 18's while young wud have any affect on you in later life?i think it would man you up if anythin (could prob start another thread out of this)

mike65

****s up your spelling no end....

galah

they used to have proper porn on tele back in the 80ies in Germany (they probably still do) - pretty much every evening after 10 pm. Used to watch it when the parents were out - never laughed so much in my life....;-P

Dick Burns

galah wrote: »

they used to have proper porn on tele back in the 80ies in Germany (they probably still do) - pretty much every evening after 10 pm. Used to watch it when the parents were out - never laughed so much in my life....;-P

Laughed or pulled youself around the room as much??

ucdmike

Planet of the Apes scared the bejesus out of me when I was a child

Mike 1972

When I was a kid films got an 18 cert (or even banned outright) on even more ludicrous grounds than they are now so yes I did watch 18 films as a kid with the full knowledge and approval of my parents.

Oddly though the TV listings back in those days didnt give age ratings for films. It was generally understood that films scheduled for late night broadcast were not intended for kids but this was only a rough rule-of-thumb and not particularly reliable (contrary to popular misconception the "9pm watershed" doesnt apply in Ireland) meanwhile US cop shows of the era (a staple of early evening schedule on RTE/ITV back then) often featured a lot of gratuitous violence but this was all fine and dandy as long as nobody said any naughty words.

CKWPORT wrote: »

Even though I was allowed watch Predator 1 when it was on UTV, but it was cut to shreds, no cursing, and no Carl Weathers arm getting zapped off, and loads of other great bits cut.

My Dad refuses to watch films on UTV for this very reason. RTE for all their flaws rarely cut films they either show the damn thing in its entirity or dont show it at all.

Does anyone remember the Today tonight (eighties RTE current affairs series big into moral panics) "investigation" into "Video nasties" ? Most of the subject matter would be considered laughably tame these days. Back in the days when there was actually something worth watching on Channel 4 it was a regular target of the Daily Mail's condemnation (probably the best endorsement one can get) unfortunately at the time hardly anyone could get the bloody signal where I lived

In the absence of Channel 4, German satellites or a video the closest thing to televisual porn was the weekly subtitled film on RTE2 :eek:

admiralofthefleet

yeah i watched robocop when i was around 9 or 10. good night sweet prince

youcancallmeal

Candyman when I was about 10.
Couldnt look in a mirror for years after that!

Up-n-atom!

My older cousins used to babysit me and my brother and watched whatever the hell they wanted. I seen Bloodsport and Robocop, but not horror films, thankfully - I don't think I'd be able to sleep if I did. It was bad enough watching alien abduction films/tv programmes. I used to think I'd find a little green man staring in the window when I went to bed, and I stayed up for ages one night thinking that an airplane was an alien spacecraft coming to get me!

Azureus

I dunno what rating it was, but I do remember watching The Shining as a young kid and not being able to sleep for weeks.

First argument I ever remember between my parents was 'WHY THE HELL DID U LET HER STAY UP AND WATCH THAT!!'

One of my fave films of all time now though, I was a wimpy 7 year old