Hell, the whole movie was a mindfuck. My brain was uncomprehending
Kids.
The Exorcist when I was 12
Kept me awake for a couple nights, got sick for a week because of that.
The Fly (Cronenberg) when I was about... 7?
My uncle exposed me to some pretty out there stuff like The Thing, The Blob etc but The Fly really got to me. Things like the monkey getting turned inside out are so... Meaty. Really disturbed me.
Think I was like 5 or 6.
Didn't sleep for three days.
Transformers: The Movie
Jaws when I was pretty young, the jump scare when they're diving at night made me cry and run upstairs to my mom lol
But how do you guys feel when parents are super protective and selective with their 8-9yo kids. Like oh my god, no, you can't let him watch Die Hard.
In my opinion, it's best to not watch too hard over their shoulder, let them feel it out for themselves. Don't make it a crime, but definitely don't encourage them if they like brutal action movies. Play it like you don't like it that they know stuff like that until they are like 14 or so. Then help them see the difference between good stuff, unambitios-fun and bad trash.
Poltergeist , the face ripping scene and the pool with skeletons which I later found out were real fucked me up!
Oh, I remember another one: Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County aka The McPherson Tape. It's that shitty found footage movie about a family that ends up being abducted by aliens, and my dumb-ass kid self thought it was actually real (because I had no idea about "found footage movies" as a genre) and the movie tried incredibly hard to seem real. Like, it had interviews with "UFO experts" and shit to break the found footage segments.
The whole descend into madness vibe, with things getting progressively worse just unsettled me. And then the ending... fuck. It got to me good, and I already had a trauma regarding aliens - it just made it worse. And after the movie "ends", they show pictures of each "disappeared" family member with a telephone number to call if you had any info about them. I was chilled and my trauma sorta got worse for a while
I was scared shitless!!!
The german animated movie Felidae was kinda fucked up, especially for a 6 years old.
Just some examples:
I remember this one running on TV on evening slots, because hey it's animated so it's for kids.
Daughter saw it at 3/4.
Few days ago she told be she had this dream in which she turned into a donkey like Pinocchio.
I told her I'm sorry, must have been scary.
She said what, no it was great !
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