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.
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.
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?”
That nightmare really tied the room together, man.
I watched that as a kid with my brother!
Awesome brother!
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
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
Pink Flamingos.
What the fuck.
I wasn’t old enough but am glad I saw it (kinda). What is old enough for that movie anyway? Has anybody lived that long?
Lol, you’re glad about it?
I read the Godfather when I was about 10. My shoebox diorama was the horse head on the bed. It was frowning because it didn’t like having its head cut off.
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…
Trainspotting. I do feel like it kept me away from drugs though.
It wasn’t too early for me to see it but Requiem for a Dream is also an excellent cautionary movie about heroin, addiction, and mental health.
I saw this one in my late teens, and it was good, but it was way better as an adult.
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
Pan’s Labyrinth
Gremlins! Loved that movie as a kid haha 😂
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.
That was one of the movies that led to the creation of the PG13 rating, wasn’t it?
Hellraiser? Phantasm?
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I was in kindergarten and had a very inattentive babysitter.
Boy, that movie will seriously stick with you when your typical fare was Barney related. It’s really the grounding for me having any memories of that period of my life at this point, lol.
Saving private ryan at 13 was a bit horrific. The slow knife scene…
I’ll always have a hard time watching the knife scene.
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.
What about Leon: the Professional? I don’t know if that has been posted yet. But I saw that when I was however old you are in seventh grade. 12? 13? There’s some cop stuff for the bb cop.
The first and second Crow movies are good for the goth one.
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.
