You're grounded if you see that movie! Horror films are paren't DIDN'T want us to see

[skweemkween]

We break curfew. We stay on the phone too long. We stay out an hour past what we were told 'cause nobody had a watch. We didn't save that money for our college tuition.

As kids, we've broken a lot of rules our parental units set for us, but was there ever a time when our love of horror was the straw that broke our parents' camel's back?

What movie/movies were there in which you heard a parent say," I FORBID you to go see that!"

Mine? She never forbade (??) me to see any movie BUT after I showed her Damien:Omen 2 and VAMP once 'cause she wanted to know more about my interest, she said I was dabbling in Satanism and said I "have a problem." http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif

[MICHAELvoorhees]

American Psycho.
Species.

I own the unrated version of American Psycho anyway, HAHAHA!!!

[Cyclonus]

You guys don't even want to know how ridiculous the situation with my mom got as far as renting "R" rated movies was concerned.

http://www.webcom.com/tby/redzone/redimage/main/hellbd.jpg

Hehehe, that's the one that pissed her off the most.

[Antonio]

I grew up on violent films, but my parents wouldn't allow my brother and I to watch sexually explicit movies. Go figure.

One movie that I can remember my father not allowing me to see on video or pay cable (when I was 13) was A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. When I saw it years later, I understood why.

[Ghostface 2000]

Scream
Speices

[teenkiller]

None. My parents didn't care what I watched as long as I understood that it was only a movie and I didn't start exhibiting irrational fears. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[the saw is family]

my parents were always pretty strict about what i saw until i was about 13. even when i was younger when we went to the video store i would wonder down the horror aisle because the films fascinated me. then when i turned 13 my parents basically gave up due to my constant nagging to let me rent horror films.

[CKY]

Exorcist - dunno why though, it fuckin blows

[Romero&Juliet]

I have been watching movies for a looong time, and there are only two that my parents would not let me rent.
...and that was probably because they were the only two violent movies that I've rented that my parents have seen.
A Clockwork Orange, And Easy Rider.

[Kaos]

I got lucky. My parents said as long as I could tell the difference between movies and real life, and that I didn't let it carry over into reality, that I had no limits on what I could watch. Of course that was at age 12 and by that time I'd already watched God knows how many horror films.

[andy13]

The only film I have ever been told not to watch was HELLRAISER by my mum...but that was because it scared her.
Having a parent (my mother) who is quite the fan of horrors, my parents have never really cared, which is probably why they let me scare myself to death watching Friday the 13th when I was 9 (which started me off).

[countchocula]

The Exorcist. I used to view that film as forbidden fruit, but now I don't really have an interest in seeing it.

[Dehydrator]

My dad actually had me watching ol' Hitchcock movies. I don't recall any actual movie my parents didn't want me to see. But my teacher once said that watching Bud Spencer would make us violent, after "beat up the class outsider" eventually went from a hobby to a passion and we found new use for the electric fence near our school. Oh, the violence of innocence! Hmm, he was a stupid asshole anyway and now he's the leader of a security firm. He owes us a beer for educating him in the aformentioned forms of violence dammit! Good for me, my parents didn't give much of a fuck about my teacher's hate for Bud Spencer. My first horror flick was BLACK SABBATH and there's never been any controversity about it. The more I think of it, the more I am sure that children are the ones who are most affected by horrormovies, even if they are crappy ones (did I mention that my second horrorflick was Troma's collosal shitbag of a TCM-ripoff MOTHER'S DAY?). AMERICAN WERWOLF came next and I remember my parents didn't exactly dig that I watch it but they knew I'd be watching it anyway so my dad even taped it for me. He once sent me to bed during RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK because he thought it was too brutal...go figure

[gorysnoopy]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CKY:
Exorcist - dunno why though, it fuckin blows</font>

yeah CKY
my strict jehovah's witness mother would not let me see this
when i finally saw it a couple years ago,man was i disappointed!!!!!

[Boogeyman]

when i was little my parents never lemme ne horror movies! i was so pissed because my friends were..but soon she didnt give a damn and then i watched em all. maybe thats why i love them now? (that'll make me think for a while)

later

[stevereno]

ummmmm whn i was younger i never liked horror movies so i didn't care that my mom didn't want me watching them cuz i wasn't anyway.but i do remember watching the exorcist at my friends house and telling my mom when i got home.she was mad cuz it scared the bejesus out of me and i had to sleep with her that night(nothing sexual)but ever since i saw that movie i've been hooked to horror films like a hooker to heroin.

[badgirl]

My older brother was seeing THE LOST BOYS (which i desperately wanted to see!!) while my mother took me to see WHO'S THAT GIRL. When our movie ended, my mother stuck her head into THE LOST BOYS right at the point where Keifer Sutherland bites into the head of the gang-banger. She forbade me to see it after that, and now it's one of my favorite movies. You've gotta love the irony.

[Michael_myers]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
My mother thought it would be sooooo gory, she watched it with me and enjoyed it. NO GORE!

[Hell Phantom]

I was a lucky one as well, there might be a movie that I couldn't watch but I ended up seeing it anyways so I don't remember.

[Whiskeyclone]

When I was 11, I rented I Spit On Your Grave, and my mom wouldn't let me watch it. That was the only time it happened, but it was disappointing.

[Jewbo]

my dad always encouraged me 2 watch horror films coz he is a fan so he would bring home all these films and me him and my mum wud watch em in the dark. so i have never not been allowed 2 watch a film.

[Lady Summerisle]

Well, I had to fight to rent HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. My mother was adamant about those being bad for me to watch. OOhhh, look, gang rape is evil.
Another really funny entry is THE STEPFATHER and FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. I have no clue why Mom didn't let me watch those, perhaps because she thought they were about incest. One of them is.

[Horror_Fanatic]

I actually got grounded for watching Scream, my mom went down the video store and restricted my account to pg-13 only. Then my dad got back from his trip to London, and talked her out of it, although she still checked what I was renting, until I was 14.

[JCR]

My mother got her lawyer to send my dad a letter because he let me watch silence of the lambs and basic instinct when I was twelve. It was very amusing (well maybe not for dad).

[Odd Emu]

Eh only 2. Faces of Death and TCM.
Faces of Death it is kind of obvious why.TCM I watched and didn't really get why she didn't want me too.

[asyouwish530]

My religious upbringing had so many pitfalls with horror movies and discoveries of hidden porno and Fangoria mags you wouldn't believe. One time I thought I would sneak into my parents room to watch THE TOOLBOX MURDERS and they caught me doing that, yet they let me watch JAWS. Watching horror at friends houses became the norm, and I sort of casually, EVILLY, slipped into everything horror and found that it's great and wonderful and I credit them for what I'm doing now. Mom and Dad have loosened up somewhat since those days, and sometimes I can even catch my dad watching Skinemax when I come in the house late http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif.

[XCoRyX]

my parents never would want me watching a clockwork orange....then 2 or 3 years ago it was encore and i snuck downstairs and watched it at night i was scared cause i didnt know what to expect,i thought it was a slasher type movie,and the droogs always scared me a tad and my brother messed around with me...now im one of the biggest clockwork orange fans ever...go figure.My parents didnt like me watching american psycho either,cause when i ask for the poster and dvd they dont get it for me and i know why.anything else doesnt really bother her.

[Corpse Candle]

The problem is when I was younger one of the first films that I saw when the family first got a video player was ALIEN then it was GHOLIES.
After that once I was with my brother alone in the house and he told me to keep quiet about the RAMBO film he was gonna put on.
Then he put on a violent British gangster flick where a man was aphxyated.
Now I know this is a bit off topic but closest I came to bieng grounded was when my mum told me that under no cercumstances was I allowed the watch THE STUFF.

[Alex Cross Fan]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by gorysnoopy:
yeah CKY
my strict jehovah's witness mother would not let me see this
when i finally saw it a couple years ago,man was i disappointed!!!!!</font>

If anything, CKY, Jehova's Witness is a cult, I should know, my next door nieghbor used to be one, until she saw the bullshit it was. Your not supposed to celebrate birthdays, Easter, Christmas, or Halloween, but you can celebrate wedding anniverseries(SP?), what the fuck is that?
Me, I was lucky, my parents didn't really care what I saw, they knew that I was a well adjusted person, they just drew the line at nudity and sex. I had a good childhood(I'm 17 now).

[*sweet psychotic*]

What started me off as watching horror movies with my dad when I was little, now I watch them all the time, my momd oesn't so she doesn't even know what is in them but if she saw some of them she'd cringe(the same with my music http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif) But I pay for all of it anyway and my mom knows that I am warped beyond repair so she doesn't care. I'm almost 17 anyway, you can't fix damage after the age of 9 I think...

[Indyjjjj]

my folks never really got up in arms about the movies my brother and I watched. We didn't ONLY stick to horror at all. Actually, probally 35% of what we rented was horror.

I guess they understood that we could manage whatever we watched and weren't susceptible to such things. Besisdes, horror isn't about blood and guts to me at all anyway, its about the atmosphere. We couldn't watch a porno in front of them or anything though...

[EvilAsh]

NONE. I feel sorry for a you people who aren't allowed to see certain movies. A long as it's not hardcore porn my parents don't care.

[Lindsey]

My momma can't even name one horror movie, let alone even watching em'. Since she hasn't seen any, she can really 'ban' me from any horror flick. Lucky for me, she doesn't care what I watch. Woo-Hoo! http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/contrib/tweetz/moon.gif

[Cyclonus]

Honey, is it me or are you really feisty tonight? (you vixen you)

Anyways, my mom is a smart woman, but sometimes she has her head stuck in the past, and she just didn't understand that I was too old to be told what I can or can't watch!

http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/otn/realhappy/mhihi.gif

[This message has been edited by Cyclonus (edited 04-20-2002).]

[Elgyn]

My parents always thought there was something wrong with me because of my fascination with horror films - they really disliked it when I rented the "Friday the 13th" movies.
And then later they didn`t want me to see "The Crow" when it was in theaters. My dad thought the premise was Satanic.
A dead man coming back to life: Satanic? Ummm, HELLO DAD, if that`s the case then I guess JESUS was Satanic!!!!

[Deathnote]

Well, I think one of the main reasons i'm so into horror movies is because of my parents.
They are real horrorfans and as long I can remember we would rent Horror vids for the weekend

[freddy666]

A Clockwork Orange and Faces of Death were the only two my parents wouldnt let me see.

[Sheepshaver127]

My mom wouldn't let me watch any horror when I was a kid, but my dad didn't care. I remember watching Silver Bullet when I was like 8, and it scared the hell out of me. I do remember when Natural Born Killers came out my mom forbid me to watch it because of all the hype. Now years later it's one of my top movies and I consider it a classic.

[Ominous Phone Call]

I was never allowed to watch FACES OF DEATH or THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, other than that, I could watch whatever I wanted to.

[stevereno]

my mom never liked me seeing any chucky's

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Andrew Tom]

Ok, when Psycho(the original) was on TV a few years back, my grandad changed the channel when the famous shower scene came on. Other than that, there has never been any fuss about me watching horror. I only get comments on the movies I watch whem my mom gets a glimpse of them, but she never says I shouldn't watch.

[spacemonkey]

I know youre all gonna say "here goes spacemonkey talking about Fright Night again.." but, my mom and I were watching Fright night, I knew I loved horror movies back then when I was about 14, but my mom wasnt fully convinced I should be watching that sorta thing, anyhows by some sort of miracle I got my mom to actually start watching this fine film, she was kinda into it (it is an excellent film after all) but once Evil Ed started saying hes famous "dinners in the oven" line and transforming back into a human from werewolf form, that was it, she went from "this is sorta interesting" to "change that demonic garbage right now" I eventually saw the film again (of course) but I always remember that day... http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[A.J. Hakari]

Mom & Dad didn't want me seeing SEVEN or THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. By then, I'd already taken in PSYCHO II. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Spider-Man]

Well, my parents never really cared what movies I saw, so...nathin'