In 1979 my teenage cousins took me to see "a monster movie" in the theater when I was 6 so I 'm like "Cool I love Godzilla and King Kong." Ummmm it was Alien and I didn't even know they could do things like that in a movie lol. After the chestbursting I shut my eyes so long I fell asleep haha. My mom about killed them. But even at 6 back then I never thought any of it was real. I love it now but that was too young lol.

You also have to gauge what your own kids can handle AND realize that a movie in the theater is WAY different than on video. I have a home theater system and my young kids had seen Jurassic Park several times and loved it including my son but when it came out in theaters again in 2013 and he was 7, I took them because they wanted to see it in the theater but during the tense T-Rex parts I put my hand on his leg and he was mega nervous and shaking some. He still liked it but they both said on their own afterwards "WOW that was WAY different" so keep that in mind when showing kids movies.

jokershady said:

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Every Halloween we always try to introduce one or two new Halloween/scary movies to our kids…..got 3 boys from middle school to kindergarten and decided to up our game this year and showed them all The Ring.

None of them wanted to go to sleep afterwards nor sleep by themselves….it was hilarious….but amazingly none of them ran off…..my middle son who was sitting right next to me though could've been this:



Y'all try and scare your kids this time of year with new movies or are we just sadistic as crap?

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I saw that sophomore year of college at the theater off hwy 6 with a group of friends. We greenhoused on the way, not realizing what we were getting ourselves into. You would have thought we were 5 years old when we all got back home. I did not want to go to sleep, or hear a damn phone ring.

That movie would have scared the sh** out of me as a younger child.

Dimebag Darrell said:

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jokershady said:

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Every Halloween we always try to introduce one or two new Halloween/scary movies to our kids…..got 3 boys from middle school to kindergarten and decided to up our game this year and showed them all The Ring.

None of them wanted to go to sleep afterwards nor sleep by themselves….it was hilarious….but amazingly none of them ran off…..my middle son who was sitting right next to me though could've been this:



Y'all try and scare your kids this time of year with new movies or are we just sadistic as crap?

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I saw that sophomore year of college at the theater off hwy 6 with a group of friends. We greenhoused on the way, not realizing what we were getting ourselves into. You would have thought we were 5 years old when we all got back home. I did not want to go to sleep, or hear a damn phone ring.

That movie would have scared the sh** out of me as a younger child.

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Oh it scared the hell outta me when I was in high school. But I know my audience quite well.

Honestly the one i was least concerned about was my kindergartener. he's good with that kind of stuff.

And in general kids are exposed to more things now than I was at that age. My kids have watched scary video game playthroughs and things like that on TV (stuff we screen ahead of time and channels i know)....things that I never could have seen in 2002.....so while it's still scary it's also different....

there's movie trailers now that rival some of the scary things we saw 20 years ago.....

on top of that another poster brought up a good point....when it's at home it is different....you can pause it....the lights are on.....it's a much smaller screen.....makes a difference.....

so maybe when we watch the sixth sense this coming weekend we'll turn the lights completely off and crank up the volume....

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In 1979 my teenage cousins took me to see "a monster movie" in the theater when I was 6 so I 'm like "Cool I love Godzilla and King Kong." Ummmm it was Alien and I didn't even know they could do things like that in a movie lol. After the chestbursting I shut my eyes so long I fell asleep haha. My mom about killed them. But even at 6 back then I never thought any of it was real. I love it now but that was too young lol.

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That's awesome. I recall a thought along the same line prior to seeing Alien in June 1979.

I had to go to the restroom right after the full-sized critter grabbed Harry Dean Stanton. This was an old building in Sugar Land, TX that I saw Alien at, and the restroom was not in great shape. One of the ceiling tiles was completely missing, leaving a big, black, gaping hole through which my 12-year-old imagination went to immediate work on. I never peed so fast in my life.

But the movie didn't really bother me much until later in the year when we saw it again. Then that movie f***d me up. I think I picked up on some subliminal imagery, later confirmed when I watched the making of feature on the laser disc (yes, I have one of those paper weights). The critter is not on screen for much time at all, but even so, the fact that its head in close up was built around a fake human skull is evident, at least subliminally. In the coming months after that second viewing, I knew none of it was real, but my sleeping mind didn't care about all that. My sleep was frequently interrupted by some really terrible dreams. I've never had a movie since impact me like that, and I've seen some that were probably pretty damn scary by any standard.

Alien is the most perfect movie of its type ever made, and will never be topped IMO. Aliens was great, but pales in comparison.

Ha that's funny. I saw it in Houston too, probably somewhere around Almeda Mall. Yeah while the chestburster thing was shocking to everyone, what confused and scared me was the first egg slowly opening in a creepy dark atmosphere and that thing jumping on his face because it was all really fast, loud and gross looking especially to a 6 year old lol.

I remember when I saw it first, but have been unable to date it because it was HBO. I think I've narrowed it some because I was baby-sitting some kid while his and my parents went out. I watched Alien, by myself in a dark stranger's house, when the kid went to sleep.

I know now it was in 1982, because the kid had a newly released Atari 5200. So I was about 12 and terrified.

Have you showed them Event Horizon yet. That one scarred me and I was in High school.

I've already committed to T2 being the first R movie they see so we're still a bit away from that one…..

Event horizon bothered me way more than the ring when I saw it….and apparently the directors cut (which I haven't seen) shows way more gore than the theatrical release….they wanted him to tone it down after they screened it….

HtownAg92 said:

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I remember when I saw it first, but have been unable to date it because it was HBO. I think I've narrowed it some because I was baby-sitting some kid while his and my parents went out. I watched Alien, by myself in a dark stranger's house, when the kid went to sleep.

I know now it was in 1982, because the kid had a newly released Atari 5200. So I was about 12 and terrified.

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I recall it coming on cable in May 1981, not HBO but The Movie Channel or something like that. Then I also recall getting an HBO guide later, probably early 82, where the back cover had a still from Alien and it was coming to that service soon.

Why I remember such irrelevant details so many years later is beyond me.

jokershady said:

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I've already committed to T2 being the first R movie they see so we're still a bit away from that one…..

Event horizon bothered me way more than the ring when I saw it….and apparently the directors cut (which I haven't seen) shows way more gore than the theatrical release….they wanted him to tone it down after they screened it….

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T2 was the first R-rated movie I let my now 17-year-old daughter watch. She was maybe 5. It had been many years since I watched it, and quite frankly, I'd forgotten the number of F-bombs and other coarse language in that movie. My wife was most displeased with me. And I remember vividly that when Arnie was lowering himself into that molten metal, my daughter just lost it, like watching the end of Bambi.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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HtownAg92 said:

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I remember when I saw it first, but have been unable to date it because it was HBO. I think I've narrowed it some because I was baby-sitting some kid while his and my parents went out. I watched Alien, by myself in a dark stranger's house, when the kid went to sleep.

I know now it was in 1982, because the kid had a newly released Atari 5200. So I was about 12 and terrified.

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I recall it coming on cable in May 1981, not HBO but The Movie Channel or something like that. Then I also recall getting an HBO guide later, probably early 82, where the back cover had a still from Alien and it was coming to that service soon.

Why I remember such irrelevant details so many years later is beyond me.

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I looked forward to the delivery of the HBO guide like Christmas. Especially reviewing the late night R rated movies for the month and trying to figure out when the parents were going to be out. That's how I got to see "10" in 5th grade. Definitely not scarred from that one.

Philo B 93 said:

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At least the title to this thread is right. OP will scar his kids.

If you want to scare them, yell "boo" from behind the door. If you want to cause sleep problems for months as their brains are in heavy development, show them The Ring as elementary kids.

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Report anyone scarring their kids to CPS.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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jokershady said:

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I've already committed to T2 being the first R movie they see so we're still a bit away from that one…..

Event horizon bothered me way more than the ring when I saw it….and apparently the directors cut (which I haven't seen) shows way more gore than the theatrical release….they wanted him to tone it down after they screened it….

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T2 was the first R-rated movie I let my now 17-year-old daughter watch. She was maybe 5. It had been many years since I watched it, and quite frankly, I'd forgotten the number of F-bombs and other coarse language in that movie. My wife was most displeased with me. And I remember vividly that when Arnie was lowering himself into that molten metal, my daughter just lost it, like watching the end of Bambi.

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i have a legit core memory of when i first saw that movie at home with my dad when i was 9 years old....can still hear him saying, "now you don't repeat any of the bad words from this movie you hear me?"......i dont think my mom knew he was showing me that either....but that was hands down the first movie i ever cried to...lion king as a child didn't even phase me but T2 brought the water work house down for me.

and it sounds like some of yall need to re-watch the ring cause yall are making it sound like i showed them the exorcist, rosemarys baby, or friday the 13th.....it was scary but its not THAT bad....creepy, saggy, tweenage girl who wears dirty laundry with hair that's too long w/ the worlds worst comb-over.....i'd think everyone would want their boys scared of a girl who looks like that....

I just watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time. Good movie, but it might as well be PG save for the one nightmare scene. Not scary in the least.

This movie definitely doesn't hold up to my adult brain, but I first saw Flatliners when I was around 8 years old. All I gotta say is, **** Billy Mahoney. He still shows up in my nightmares.

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I just watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time. Good movie, but it might as well be PG save for the one nightmare scene. Not scary in the least.

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I remember my parents being aghast at that movie back in the early 70s after it came out. I never bothered to watch it over all these years until just recently (TexAgs having a movie watching event where movies were voted on to watch, maybe about a year ago, and this title was the nominee.) I watched it and thought, Eh, that sucked. There was literally nothing of fright value in that movie.

jokershady said:

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Dimebag Darrell said:

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jokershady said:

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Every Halloween we always try to introduce one or two new Halloween/scary movies to our kids…..got 3 boys from middle school to kindergarten and decided to up our game this year and showed them all The Ring.

None of them wanted to go to sleep afterwards nor sleep by themselves….it was hilarious….but amazingly none of them ran off…..my middle son who was sitting right next to me though could've been this:



Y'all try and scare your kids this time of year with new movies or are we just sadistic as crap?

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I saw that sophomore year of college at the theater off hwy 6 with a group of friends. We greenhoused on the way, not realizing what we were getting ourselves into. You would have thought we were 5 years old when we all got back home. I did not want to go to sleep, or hear a damn phone ring.

That movie would have scared the sh** out of me as a younger child.

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Oh it scared the hell outta me when I was in high school. But I know my audience quite well.

Honestly the one i was least concerned about was my kindergartener. he's good with that kind of stuff.

And in general kids are exposed to more things now than I was at that age. My kids have watched scary video game playthroughs and things like that on TV (stuff we screen ahead of time and channels i know)....things that I never could have seen in 2002.....so while it's still scary it's also different....

there's movie trailers now that rival some of the scary things we saw 20 years ago.....

on top of that another poster brought up a good point....when it's at home it is different....you can pause it....the lights are on.....it's a much smaller screen.....makes a difference.....

so maybe when we watch the sixth sense this coming weekend we'll turn the lights completely off and crank up the volume....

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Ha this one scared the F out of me too. Honestly, that and The Ring are the only two movies ever to really scare me in the theater, and after. Other things have creeped me out, but nothing has come close to those two. The Exorcist bored me TBH.

I saw The Sixth Sense about a week before moving in early to Dunn Hall. There were nights when the halls were empty and I was convinced I was going to see some scary sh**. For like a week that movie haunted me in those hallways. I wonder if part of it was that I went into that movie thinking it was going to more of a psychological drama...to me it was a straight up f'n horror movie. Maybe I am just a huge poosay

EDIT: Actually, I take that back...this scene in Pet Sematary probably scared me more than anything I have ever seen in my life. As 4th graders at a sleepover, none of us wanted to go to sleep afterwards...i remember sleeping with a tennis racquet. We envied our friend who decided during the first 10-15 min or so that he wanted to go to bed.

Cocaine Bear could be scarring if you are about to go on a camping/hiking trip. Watched it last night, some interesting scenes, especially when the EMTs show up

tk for tu juan said:

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Cocaine Bear could be scarring if you are about to go on a camping/hiking trip. Watched it last night, some interesting scenes, especially when the EMTs show up

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nah it'll be Cabin Fever for that.

Also…if you enjoyed Cocaine Bear then DO NOT go read up on the real story it was based on because you will be extremely dissatisfied and disappointed

Finally got to see Alien on the big screen a year or so ago as a "fan favorite" at the AMC Fountains in Stafford.

Such a different experience in the theatre. Mostly I was captivated by the details of the set design. And you're so much more focused on the story in the theatre. That was the first time I realized how much it was a classic slasher pic adapted to space.