What's a movie that you were probably "too young" to see, when you first watched it, but you're glad you did?

[oleorun@real.lemmy.fan]

Spaceballs! When I was maybe 8 or 9.

I asked my mom "What's a 'virgin alarm' and what does it mean that it is programmed to go off before you do?" and she said ask me again in thirty years.

Reminds me, I forgot to ask her.

[trent@lemmy.ml]

Hellraiser? Phantasm?

[plum@lemmy.world]

It depends on the 9 and 11 year old, but I saw Interview With The Vampire when it came out when I was 10, and I read the book at 12...

Are the nieces interested in spooky shit, or scifi, or fantasy? That might help you refine your picks.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

The Big Lebowski. I wasn't a teenager yet, barely understood why anything was happening but damned if it wasn't the hardest I'd seen my dad laugh.

[blue_morpho@lemmy.world]

Re: Shining

Mom dropped me off at the movies to see Star wars (again). As I walk in the screen showed elevators doors open and a waterfall of blood pour out. I found an usher because I thought I was in the wrong room.

Trailers, man.

[jerb322@lemmy.world]

Nightmare on Elm Street. Don't think I was quite 10 yet.

[plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org]

I won tickets from the radio to see the premiere of Seven when I was 12. Glad I saw such a high quality high impact thriller so early. Watching Pitts character struggle with his decision at the end and trying to work out if his choice was right. Or consider the possibility there was no such a thing as a right choice. Amazing experience.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend that 12 year olds go see Seven.

[banana@sh.itjust.works]

I watched that as a kid with my brother!

[timmy_jizz_tits@lemmy.world]

Good recc! Yeah they're both pretty morbid. The older one is going to have a goth phase, no doubt. The younger one wants as many details as she can get on whatever true crime stories I know.

[iggythesmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Little Shop of Horrors and Beetlejuice.

[lurker891@sopuli.xyz]

Same, asked my mom if Freddy Krueger was real and she said " I guess he is..." She had no idea who that was and I lost my sleep for who knows how long

[mindbleach@sh.itjust.works]

Terminator 2 was fucking sick. I was like ten. It raised my standards for how cool a movie could be.

[corno@lemm.ee]

Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha

[theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world]

Pan's Labyrinth

[dagwood222@lemm.ee]

[off topic?]

Ever seen 'Time Bandits?' The original, not the one with Kudrow

There's nothing particularly nsfw in it, but I think a couple of young girls would find it very cool.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

Requiem for a dream. I have still not used opiates.

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

Way too many to list. It was the era of VHS and my father had a very large tape collection. I definitely saw movies I was not supposed to see.

Let's try a short list...

Emmanuelle

The Story of O

The Empire of Senses

Black Rain

The Rambo Trilogy

The Alien Trilogy

The Predator (1 & 2)

The Bridges of Maddison County

The Blue Lagoon

That will do....

[housewolf@lemm.ee]

This one ^

The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won't leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies...unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.

[majormajormajormajor@lemmy.ca]

That nightmare really tied the room together, man.

[timmy_jizz_tits@lemmy.world]

I love Terry Gilliam, I've tried time bandits with them but they check out pretty early.

12 monkeys though.....