My personal one was the shining. I ended up watching it over 20 times before I was 12.
I’m spending a lot of time babysitting my nieces (9 & 11). I’m cis male and I would love to hear what women would answer or suggest for me to show them in a cool uncle role.
Fire in the Sky. Oh wait, maybe I shouldn’t have. I haven’t watched it again since because I was so traumatized as a kid watching it. Maybe I have the guts to watch it now decades later.
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.
They put that scene in the trailer? Man, way to blow your load early trailer people.
I remember a trailer where they show you the elevator doors and a narrator talks about Stephen King and the genius of Kubrick and then the doors open. Nothing else.
Same. I thought it was some stupid art film hahaha
Hellraiser? Phantasm?
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.
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. Which is a lot.
I had to hide my EMT training book from her because she was so curious about the pictures. She wants to be a cop.
I can’t believe I forgot about that gay goth masterpiece. They’ll love Interview With The Vampire.
Wednesday might be a good show to watch with them, if they haven’t already seen it.
They LOVE Wednesday. Used that to show them Edward scissorhands etc.
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.
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.
That nightmare really tied the room together, man.
Generally agree though I suppose it depends on how the parents feel about swearing and how likely the youngins are to repeat the approximately 700 fucks in the movie.
“Do you have to use so many cuss words?” “The fuck you talking about?”
I watched that as a kid with my brother!
Awesome brother!
Nightmare on Elm Street. Don’t think I was quite 10 yet.
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 :D
Same age, buying a Freddy glove for Halloween, asked my dad if we could rent it and he said yes. I was scared when the boyfriend pranked them in the backyard, but I thought the scene where she got cut to shreds and floated was awesome. I wanted to rewind and see it again and this time Dad said no. Wisely.
I thought Nancy was so hot!
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.
What’s in the box?
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Little Shop of Horrors and Beetlejuice.
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…
Emmanuelle
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The Blue Lagoon
Shit, that was a Brazilian afternoon staple for the whole 90s. No idea how much the tv channel censored/cut for the afternoon, but considering we had “banheira do gugu” during sunday afternoons… (if you don’t wanna look for it on youtube, it was a piece where 2 celebrities, a man and a woman, would get in a bathtub and try to get as many soaps out. One of them would be tasked with getting the soap, the other was tasked with not letting the other do so. All of that live for the whole country, of course)
Ei, quem não viu o Emmanuelle, tem de ver. É um clássico.
Mas hoje em dia não é que nem no início dos anos 2000, ter que ficar acordado 2, 3 da madrugada, na expectativa q passasse emanuelle e não uma merda de culto da fé 😆🤣
Em Portugal chegámos a ter uma rúbrica especial, num canal público, que tinha semanas temáticas de cinema. Começava às 22h. Teve uma semana dedicada ao cinema erótico.
Passaram a Emmanuelle, O Império dos Sentidos, A História de O (tenho de escrever o artigo em português), o Kamasutra (outro para escrever) e não me lembro do que falta.
Épico!
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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.
Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha 😂
That was one of the movies that led to the creation of the PG13 rating, wasn’t it?
I second this. It’s lightly gory and morbid but mostly a comedy. And a cult classic that will help them feel “in” when it’s referenced. But not too inappropriate for kids that age, in my opinion.
Oh they’re way beyond that lmao. They both watched it 5 years ago and like it but they LOVE gremlins 2.
They’ve seen It and the newer Halloween movies. I want to show them stuff that will challenge them intellectually, without being too far over their heads. With minimal sexual content.
Probably Monty Python’s Life of Brian
I was one of those Holy Grail kids, I loved the movie and memorized the lines. Wanting more, I looked up other Monty Python works
I was in 7th grade or something, raised in a very religious home. I was not expecting what Life of Brian was, and I know I wasn’t old enough to understand all of the jokes they made
Hilarious movie
Terminator 2 was fucking sick. I was like ten. It raised my standards for how cool a movie could be.
I think I was 7 when I first watched it. I also thought it was really cool then. Still one of my favorites.
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.
I miss the days when silly slapstick was mixed with subtle adult humor to make a family film for all ages.
My youngest introduction to Mel Brooks was Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I never fully understood the chastity belt bits at first. Call the locksmith!
Your family’s name is Latrine. We changed it, it used to be shithouse!
That’s a good change. 👌 That’s a gooood change.
Pan’s Labyrinth
