Rypro 525

For the most part, i was allowed to watch what ever I wanted ever since like 92, when I first saw t2. Well, actually the only thing at the time that was off limits was nudity, but they got over that part.

MasterofDVD

My parents worked too much to keep an eye on what I watched. I was a member of CH when I was a teen and whatever I ordered my grandparents would pay for. And they had no clue when the shipments would arrive at their house.

Below are some of the more adult films I owned and watched when I was growing up:
Body of Evidence
Jade
Basic Instinct - Unrated Director's Cut & Regular Version
Sliver - Unrated Version & Regular Version
Showgirls

I even sat down and and watched The Specialist with my folks when it came in the mail from CH. They were dead silent during that shower scene.

I know my parents cared and all but they sure didn't monitor me very well at times.

greatjedi

My childhood was a bit too sheltered. I was pretty much restricted mostly to Disney movies and some PG rated movies after they were screened by my parents.

I know that's really sad. Actually I think it did more harm than good. I was always curious about what I wasn't allowed to watch. Language was bad, violence was worse, and nudity was absolutely forbidden. When I got a little older, I would sneak out and rent movies I know my parents wouldn't approve of just because curiosity got the better of me.

soxrule

Jade=my childhood classic

SPiRAL

My parents were very liberal. I remember them taking me to see Revenge of the Nerds , Bachelor Party , Zapped , and all those great 80's T&A movies.

inVectiVe

Speaking of Raunchy 80s Comedies, I saw Revenge of the Nerds and Hot Dog: The Movie on tape when I was.....I musta been well under 10 years old. Also saw plenty of R-rated horror while I was still in elementary school - mostly Nightmare on Elm Street series IIRC.

fumanstan

My parents didn't really keep a very close eye on me and pretty much left decisions up to me, which allowed me to be introduced to quite a few things at a young age... which didn't screw me up one bit Thanks mom and dad!

Mutley Hyde

My childhood was a trip. My mom wouldn't ever let me watch Psycho, but I was an avid Hitchcock fan. Now knowing the story, I can kind of understand how a mother might be leery of her son watching it.

But seriously, I used to watch all the cop movies (French Connection, Dirty Harry) war movies and adult comedy with my dad (Blazing Saddles, Blues Brothers) as a kid, and when I would visit my grandma, not only did she allow, even encourage, me to watch horror (it really is from her that I get my love of Hitchcock and Hammer), she'd take me out and buy me all the Eerie and Creepy comics a boy could want. She even ordered all the back issues out of the back catalog for me. Man, it's because of this woman, this kind, old gentle woman, that I'm so messed up.

Anyway, I always had a bit of a hard time readjusting when I would come home to Mom's after spending a weekend with either Dad or Grandma. It's not that Mom was really all that restrictive, but she certainly was moreso than Dad or Grandma.

Goldberg74

My parents had a deal...

If we watched a war movie on Saturday with dad, we watched a musical on Sunday with mom. (... and no they are not divorced.)

Imagine this double feature... "Rambo III" followed by "The Music Man"...

... such was my childhood.

But I do remember my friends and I trying to watch "Highlander" through the slats of the blinds at my friend's house during a sleep over one night.

Mourn

I could watch whatever i wanted on VHS/tv/movie channel, although i imagine there were some movies my parents just wouldn't take me to, which didn't really mean much as i started going to movies without them when i was ten. Once u hit 14 here you can see pretty much anything, most R movies in the US aren't here (The Matrix Reloaded being an example).

calhoun07

My mom was pretty cool about letting me see different stuff. I don't think she really worried too much about the ratings system, but if she felt I could understand the movie or not. She didn't want me seeing things like Ordinary People, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy and such, and I think in retrospect for good reason! Those movies would have bored me to death! But she let me watch good horror movies, like Amityville, Xtro, Phantasam, and others. And all the while, she watched them with me, and I had no problems separating fantasy from reality.

Rogue588

Initially, my mother was concerned..but it was my grandmother who was the one that corrupted me by letting me see Jaws when I was six. After that, we'd watch all horror movies together.

I would definitely be restrictive to my kids [especially when it comes to the majority of what passes as cinema today..]

devilshalo

My uncle took me and my cousin to see Alien. I was 11, my cousin was 8.

Dad took me to see Blake Edward's 10 that same summer.

Mom took me to see Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip when I was 13.

Same year, my aunt took me to Friday the 13th: 3D.

KingSmoth

My parents initially freaked when they caught me watching A Nightmare On Elm Street with my cousin when we were 6. I also ended up watching Friday the 13th Part 2, and loved them both, which kicked off my horror movie streak. They didn't mind at all through the years. Ironically, now that I'm 21, they completely disapprove of me watching horror movies and playing video games(kicked me out of the house because of it 6 months ago), and said they "made a big mistake" letting me do that when I was younger. I don't understand that at all - I'm not a psycho, I'm not a pierced/tattood/head-to-toe-in-black person bemoaning death and destruction on the world, teetering on the brink of suicide, slashing my wrists for fun because "pain feels good and eases my suffering"...

JimRochester

For me, my mom didn't want me to see the Godfather because of the nudity and violence. A more liberal friend was going and his parents talked mine into letting me go. I have to admit I'm fairly strict with my kids. It's not that I want to limit them, but my daughter has nightmares and my son is a little too preoccupied with violence. He doesn't need any more reinforcement.

calhoun07

Don't they know it's the quite little boys everybody thinks are nice who hurt animals that grow up to be the mass muderers?

My reaction to growing up with horror movies was the total opposite. My mom still buys them and rents them whenever she can, but I just hate horror movies now. They don't scare me. They scared the bejesus out of me when I was 8 or 9, but now, they mostly make me laugh, and that's when I watch the occasional one. I tend to avoid them, most of them look so droll.

Brain Stew

I can remember my parent's letting me watch R rated movies around the time I was in 5th Grade. I don't think I was really able to watch R movies before then, but I don't think I really had any want to. I have only really become interested movies in the past 3 years.

badger1997

Hell, I had a friend whose parents wouldn't let him watch R-rated films up to the point where he graduated high school. For all i know they still don't.

It was hilarious because when we were in our teens and would head out to see an R-rate movie, he would have to look through the paper to find a movie playing at about the same time at the theater in order to tell him mom he went to see that instead. And this was like when he was 18.

Man that was a restrictive household. I remember giving him a Metallica CD for his graduation present and he immediately ran off to his room to hide it so his parents wouldn't see it. LOL

Adam Tyner

My parents (well, my mother, at least) had the same mindset. Both of my parents were horror buffs, and I was exposed to a pretty substantial amount at a very, very young age.

Rypro 525

Unless, there was a sticker on it, his parents would have no problem with it right, thats the way it was with my house.

icondude

Nope. I could watch porn on the living room TV in the middle of the day if I wanted to. Often it got a bit crowded (standing room only) when I did this because at my parents house porn acts like flypaper for humans.

B.A.

My mom and dad (particularly my mom) made an attempt to restrict us from R-rated films before high school, but they failed mightily. When we lived in West Germany, all we had was our VCR, so we just had hundreds of movies lying around and when the parents weren't around, we watched their movies. My mom didn't have much of an argument after she knew I had watched the Breakfast Club in the fourth grade, but she still tried. Once I was in junior high, my dad regularly rented R-rated action films when my mother wasn't home (he made me promise I wouldn't tell on him ). They didn't have to worry about me sneaking around watching horror films though, because when I watched Nightmare on Elm Street IV - I couldn't go near a gory-horror flick for years (I watch them once in a while now, but I really don't care for them - must be scarred for life).

Rypro 525

Kind of reminds me of the simpsons episode where they got free cable.

Julie Walker

Well when my parents were married. My dad really was strict & trying to put on the 'good' parent act by controlling our entire lives!

It was funny though. He'd let us watch Platoon with him on tv. He'd warn us "Now kids..this may have swearing in it,since it's a war movie!"..not realizing it's edited for tv!

We'd watch Die Hard..he'd have no problems with it. Yet once he found out my mom let me buy it on VHS without him knowing about it. He freaked out..& tore the tape apart,even went so far as to toss it into the sewer!

I guess he didn't mind us watching certain films with a adult presence,yet alone..again he'd go ape. I remember once we all stayed up to catch a late 2am showing of Nightmare on Elm Street 3..he did not complain about the content at all!

Meanwhile he tryed his best to ban us from ever seeing the Friday the 13th films. He'd go ape..probably saying "Nudity is bad..those films are trash..all about the sex & violence!".

Of course that did not stop us,hehe We'd rent the stuff..but keep it hidden..& viewed late at night. It was pretty scary though..knowing how pissed he'd get if he found out.

Then once divorced. The floodgates were fully opened..& i rented plenty of R/Unrated & NC-17 material at such a young age


Of course i stil lhad to hide the stuff when Dad came over. He'd start going ape as usual. He was pissed that i rented the unrated version of T2 from BlockBuster..& it had those pathetic 'restricted viewing' stickers on it. I told him "umm you took us to see this in theaters with no problems,even let us rent it on video when it came out & oh yeah..their's no added graphic material in this version,so it's really know big deal!" which really through him off,hehe


Eventually he grew up..& didn't worry about it anymore. Since for one..we all turned out normal & pretty mature. So the films never had any negative effect on us. So now my collection is out in the open(i tryed buying some horror vhs as a kid..but would be scared from the wraith of my dad,that i threw alot of them out!)..& even see plenty of films with my dad in theaters. We saw Rules of Attraction last year..& loved it. Even saw the hilarious exploitive Species 2 back in '98. My little brother who was 10 at the time tagged along!

My dad tryed saying after the film putting on the 'good' parent act said "I think that movie was too sexy for your little brother..& he should not have come!". I laughed(could'nt control myself..the film was so hilarious!) & said "He can handle it..he's seen the unrated version of Basic Instinct which i rented a couple years ago + plenty of other films!". So my dad never bothered worrying about taking my little brother with us to films which may have graphic violence or sexual content.

I wonder what my dad would have thought if he saw House of 1000 Corpses though?

Dudikoff

I grew up on violent action movies. Arnold was my favorite since Conan and still is. I would have to shut my eyes for nudity, but I guess a guy getting pumped full of bullets is alright. My parents would always buy rated R movie tickets for my friends and I. Though my mom did tell me I couldn't see Basic Instinct, which I snuck into anyways. Having HBO and Cinemax was also really cool. All my friends would come over to watch the good movies.