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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
I think that I saw Tremors when I was about ten or so - It was at the after school program at the YMCA (I remember this because I'm pretty sure that my parents wouldn't have let me watch it) - It scared me SO MUCH that that night at swim practice (I was on a swim team from age 8 - 18), I was convinced that one of those things was going to burst through the bottom of the pool and eat me. I remember sprinting DESPERATELY every workout to get from one end of the pool to the other...
I don't think my parents were very happy that I was so terrified... 
I'm not sure if I've seen it since, but I've been meaning to to see how I'd react now (I doubt it would scare me that much).  |
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Originally Posted by horcrux2007
Aw, you're parents didn't let you watch Tremors at ten? I vividly remember watching Hannibal when I was nine with my mom.
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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Well, to be fair, it's not that the pointedly forbade horror movies - My dad showed me a LOT of old black and white horror and classic scifi - I think that they just weren't into modern horror so it never occurred to them to show it to me or prevent me from watching it, you know? And I didn't discover it on my own until I was older because I wasn't interested either.
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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Ya, before cable, if it was on TV, basically parents didn't think they had to worry. My folks didn't want us kids watching Soap for a time, but never restrictions on horror. I'd watch horror films with my mom all the time. Oddly, my folks took the family to see Jaws when I was only 6. I didn't want to dangle my legs over the bed that night.
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My first entry into the horror genre was at five with the original Friday the 13th. My parents were never really that strict on stuff like that. They believed that I would find out about certain things anyway. In addition, even at a young age, they wanted me to learn how to make my own decisions. I mean I could not watch porn or anything like that (considering that is illegal and I would have had no interest anyway). I watched some of the older classics like Dracula (1931), which I loved and still love to this day, but most of the films I watched were newer for that time. I was and still am a huge slasher fan with Friday the 13th being my favorite franchise. I ended up introducing my nephew to horror at roughly the same age as I was. His parent, Jeannie, who was the one who actually took care of him, was completely fine with it. She had a similar policy as my parents likely due to being raised by them. His father was not as big of a fan of it though. He was pretty much absent though, ended up moving to Alaska for a few years actually. I cannot remember when I introduced my niece to horror, but she probably would have been six or seven. I did so with The Shining, which definitely terrified her. So much so she did not really watch horror for a few years. Today, she is starting to get into the genre and I look forward to introducing her.