My dads brother visited us one time - when I was around 7 years old - and they sent me to bed and watched a movie together on TV. I’m not sure where my mom was, perhaps taking care of my little brother, but I quietly went down the stairs and saw them watching the movie, and I stayed very quietly so they would not know I’m there.
It was a Bruce Lee movie, “The Big Boss (1971)”. In that movie Bruce works at a ice factory and his boss kills some people and puts them into the ice. That’s not the worst of it. They then have those big ice blocks and a big blade saw and that saw cuts the big blocks into smaller peaces. It also cuts those bodies in the ice blocks into smaller pieces.
I couldn’t believe what I saw and went back upstairs and couldn’t fall asleep. I never told my parents.
Faces of Death, Faces of Death 2, Faces of Death 3, Faces of Death 4, Faces of Death 5 and Faces of Death 6
Oh god I’m glad those are erased from my brain after 30 years lol
Beast master
I was really into He-Man and honestly all things medieval so thought it’d be great for me, but that film kinda fucked me up for a while as a wee one.
…i don’t know that i shouldn’t’ve seen it, but the 1978 invasion of the body snatchers was my introduction to existential horror at the ripe age of seven years…
…what shouldn’t i have seen?..about a year earlier, a family friend handed-down a big brown grocery bag stacked to the rim with pre-code EC horror comics: that was some teeth-gnashingly gruesome stuff…
When I was 10, my parents rented The Kiss of the Spider Woman. I was forbidden to watch it, so I snuck downstairs and watched it late at night. They were right, I should not have watched it. I was definitely not mature enough to understand everything that was happening and it really caused me some emotional turmoil for a month or two, just thinking about it. It’s such a tragic movie. Likely Raul Julia’s finest performance, and William Hurt is also quite excellent in it.
It’s the only movie my parents ever forbid me from seeing.
Ninja scroll. Did you know cartoons can get raped??? I didn’t…
The Brood, the captures of the film adverted at our movie theater fucked me up as a kid and I will never watch it.
Big Boob Nurses 17
Night Shift Nurses with Detso Ritter the man who wrestles himself.
Dad let me watch Poltergeist when I was 6 and Mom let me watch The Shining when I was 7. I was also 7 when the Thriller video came out, and I think that scared me more.
You and I have a similar origin story
E.T. --specifically the scenes starting with the government showing up to take care of him while he’s dying. E.T. being lifeless in that clear body bag will never be removed from my mind.
That color… How pale he was. Mom used to buy frozen burritos at the time. I felt uncomfortable eating them for months…
E.T. is a funny one. It was the first movie I saw in a theater, as a smallish child on a school outing. And I was traumatized by it. That weird alien skin and eyes, those creepy bony fingers. As I remember, it literally gave me nightmares. But to this day I have never met anyone who didn’t find E.T. “cute” as a child. Possibly I was just too young.
Homey the ClownShakes the Clown. Dad took that shit out after three lines. Maybe. The movie started with a group of clowns/men discussing their pussy preferences.The Chicago Chronicles short I’m assuming?
Or perhaps you mean the movie Vulgar the clown?
Realized this having been Homey is a false memory, and found out it was Shakes the Clown.
After some digging I’ve learned I’m misremembering it being Homey, and it was instead the 1991 film Shakes the Clown.
There was a MOVIE?!?
Based on the In Living Color character?
I’ve come to learn from other responses that this was likely not a Homey movie, but I’ve always believed since childhood that it was. Someone said it might be called Vulgar (2000), but that seems too late in my life to correlate to the movie we saw. I’m currently digging to figure out what it was. I swear the men sitting around talking about pussy were clowns.
Edit: Looks like it was Shakes the Clown.
The fucking bugs under the skin.
The scene with the guy without eyes and a tongue is imprinted into my mind because I happened to look at the TV just as that happened. I don’t even remember how old I was, but definitely way under 10.
According to my parents, saw Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom when I was 4. Then I saw Jaws at age 6. But it was Ghostbusters that gave me nightmares for about 7 years afterwards.
Hang on, am I reading that correctly? You had nightmares for 7 years?
Yup. Shit is fucked up.
That ghost in the library basement was pretty scary.
As bad as Large Marge for me as a child.
I watched Borat with my dad when I was 9.
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…
