Your first R rated movie

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was 5-6. I had no idea what half the movie meant at the time, but I really loved the songs and I remember I would be walking around my neighborhood singing at the top of my lungs “ta-ta-ta-ta-touch me. I wanna be dir-ir-ty!” Yeah… that happened.

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antsinurplants@reddit

Flesh Gordon.

Dad thought it was a good idea to bring his kid to a drive-in (told to lay in the back) while he and his gf watched it. I must have been about 5.

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Butterfly_Cat777@reddit

My parents took me to the drive-in to see this, too! 😄 I was around 11 or 12, and it may or may not have been the first R-rated movie they took me to. I would not be surprised that it wasn't, though.

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LordBalderdash@reddit

Was that the one with John Holmes?

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antsinurplants@reddit

As it turned out, yes. Only learned that much later in life obviously but yep, that's the one.

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iloveairportsushi@reddit

Wait… what???

Flesh or flash??? If it was Flesh with John Holmes I’m thinking something more than R rated…

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antsinurplants@reddit

Yeah exactly. Who the hell brings their kid to Flesh Gordon!

and to your other point: "The film initially was assigned a MPAA rating of X, but was then re-edited, receiving a reclassified rating of R. The original running time was 78 minutes, but the later, unrated "collector's edition" video release runs 90 minutes."

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iloveairportsushi@reddit

This comment just sent me down a rabbit hole first reading Johns wiki, then googling pics, then to the bub I went. I’ve heard all my life about his legendary er.. appendage. But oh to be alive in the days of the internet where his pictures are so widely available and free. Good times!!

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AdditionalYoung6694@reddit

I guess I should remember, but I’m not sure which was first. It would have been on HBO. Maybe Animal House.

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Ed98208@reddit

Friday The 13th in 1980 at a drive-through. I was 13 or 14. My parents would never, but my friend’s mom was more permissive. I wasn’t ready, lol.

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AdNo6784@reddit

Trading Places... on VHS. We had a slight discussion about nudity just before Jamie Lee Curtis showed off hers.

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CeilingUnlimited@reddit

An Officer and a Gentleman. Saw it with my mother in the theater on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I was 15.

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Important-Round-9098@reddit

I saw MAS*H the movie in 1970 with my dad at age 8. This happened because my parents took my older sisters to some intense action movie that they thought would be too much for me.

I'm not sure why MASH was decided on other than my dad had several of the books and loved them. I recall liking it and not understanding huge parts of it.

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Mother_Bowler8905@reddit

History of the World Part II with my dad in 6th grade. He groaned every time there was a serial innuendo. He groaned ALOT!

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West-Association820@reddit

Cross of Iron with my Dad

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CommunicationHappy20@reddit

The Howling. I was 4 and it fucked me up for a long time. I still don’t like horror movies.

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girlpaint@reddit

Whoa 😳

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CommunicationHappy20@reddit

My parents are drunk idiots. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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girlpaint@reddit

Lol 😂😆

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Annanake420@reddit

My dad owned multiple porn shops so I saw much worse. But the first movie I remember my friends freaking out that I saw was Risky Business.

I didn't bother telling them it was no big deal because part of my job was flipping through the channels in the movie booths to make sure the porn movies were tracked right and hadn't degraded from constantly playing .

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2PlasticLobsters@reddit

Mine was Saturday Night Fever. My bestie & I slathered on some of the cosmetics we'd been given to play dress-up. We also borrowed a couple of her mom's trench coats.

After we got in, I remember feeling triumphant that we'd pulled it off. They thought were were teenagers, yay! Of course in hindsight, I realized that the minimum wage worker in the ticket booth didn't give half a shit. We looked like 13 year olds playing dress-up. It was still a great moment, and we had a blast.

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WorldsMostDad@reddit

Caddyshack was rated R?!

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Eazy12345678@reddit

i dont remember but maybe terminator

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dingatremel@reddit

DC Cab

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StephenDoesStuff@reddit

Are we related?

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dingatremel@reddit

My cousin Jimmy played it for me, so…..maybe?

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Kind-Limit4462@reddit

Platoon

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qualityskootchtime@reddit

Went to a friends house around the block and they were watching Nightmare on Elm Street Pt. II. I was probably 5-6 years old lol

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DAGB_69@reddit

Alien, aged 11.

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mjrose576@reddit

Animal House. My Mom and Aunts/Uncles took all of us cousins (9-17) just thinking it was a comedy. Luckily they sat on the other side of the theater. Later on in life I asked my Uncle about it. It was my Mom and her sisters idea. They were shocked but didn’t say anything. He said that he, my Dad and my other Uncle were laughing so hard that they were getting in trouble with their wives. I was 9.

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Massive_Effect_1956@reddit

Top Gun late 80s

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girlpaint@reddit

Was Top Gun rated R?

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saomonella@reddit

Its PG

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Massive_Effect_1956@reddit

lol. No way. Thought it was R rated just due to the f bombs! Well that’s the 80s for you

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Nervous-Rush-4465@reddit

Magnum Force. I was 9 or 10. My dad liked Clint Eastwood.

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ironicmirror@reddit

Don't recall the first R, but the first pg-13, was on my 13th birthday, Red Dawn.

Will always be a Wolverine

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Majik9@reddit

The first PG-13 movie came out on your 13th birthday. You weren't impacted like us younger GenX kids

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saomonella@reddit

Revenge of the Nerds. My dad let our soccer team watch it during our end of the year party, while the adults were hanging out. Pretty sure he hadn't seen it before. We were 7 or 8, and it was the greatest thing we had ever seen at the time.

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dmcanall59@reddit

Blazing saddles

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Majik9@reddit

Die Hard

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Big77Ben2@reddit

Coming to America when I was 12-ish in the theater (younger Gen X here). Was awesome.

For awkward though, I saw American pie in the theater with my dad and college girlfriend.

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Ok_Membership_8189@reddit

Saw An Officer and a Gentleman in a theater with some cousins, including male ones, and my mother 👀🤦‍♀️

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Big77Ben2@reddit

Yeah that sounds fun lol.

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Ok_Membership_8189@reddit

Yes? In the way that “fun” can also mean highly uncomfortable to the point of being mortifying. 😁

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Big77Ben2@reddit

Exactly. Remember in American pie when the dad showed his kid the magazines? My dad leaned over and said “aren’t you glad I never did that?”

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Nick_Fotiu_Is_God@reddit

It was either Alien or 1941.

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mudshark698@reddit

Porky's

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-animal-logic-@reddit

Mine was The Exorcist. The theaters were being pretty hard-core about keeping the 17-and-under crowd out, so I got to see it with someone older as my "accompanying adult".

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CartographerJust3259@reddit

Mine was The Godfather. The scene in the bedroom in Italy, right after the wedding, is a defining moment in my life.

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Im_Ashe_Man@reddit

JAWS. The babysitter let me watch it when I was 5. 40+ years later and I still won't go in the ocean.

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tambor333@reddit

Jaws was PG.

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girlpaint@reddit

yeah but it really should've been R

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Im_Ashe_Man@reddit

OMG, scariest PG movie ever?

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johnklapak@reddit

Death Race 2000

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Fiercesome5@reddit

Aliens. In the theater. Because I had read the book first, I suppose my normally very strict parents allowed it. I was accompanied by my dad. Still had nightmares about face huggers for weeks.

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girlpaint@reddit

So cool

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bbatesoffice@reddit

My parents took me to see Cronenberg’s “Rabid” when I was 6.

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girlpaint@reddit

oh geez. Cronenberg at 6? whew ur a badass

I think I saw Scanners at maybe 9 or 10. Videodrome as a pre-teen. Even at those ages, it was a lot.

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Reader124-Logan@reddit

Alien. Saw it on HBO.

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girlpaint@reddit

Nice 👍

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girlpaint@reddit

My mom took my sister and I to see Manhattan when we were young. I think I was 6. I saw Jaws at the drive in at 7.

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theprofessorofrandom@reddit

Lethal Weapon on VHS un the mid 90s.

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JediDad1968@reddit

In a theater, it was COBRA with Sylvester Stallone

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Legitimate_Rock_6169@reddit

Fast times at Ridgemont High

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darlingkd@reddit

How old were you? It was my first too. I was 6.

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Legitimate_Rock_6169@reddit

6 OMG

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BanginTheBeat@reddit

Corsican Brothers

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Meauxjezzy@reddit

Porkies

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Jealous_Inside_9428@reddit

Mine was Animal House.

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tambor333@reddit

Same

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a_paperless_world@reddit

Because our parents took us (me, two sisters) to Silver Streak (PG) they had no issue with taking us to Stir Crazy (R). Which has a scene in a stripper bar! My mother WAS SHOCKED! I laughed my ass off and my mom shot daggers at me. Good times.

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tambor333@reddit

Animal House

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VelvetVellocet@reddit

Jaws II. Saw it in the theater with my Uncle.

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Expensive-Vanilla-16@reddit

I'm gonna guess sneaking a rental of Porky's. I've seen a lot of the mild rated R but that one was really raunchy and truly put the R in rated R.

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Medium_Suggestion433@reddit

Jaws I was 8!

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bbatesoffice@reddit

Believe it or not, Jaws is PG. I think it would definitely be an R nowadays.

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StephenDoesStuff@reddit

DC Cab. I was 5. Sister was 6. Dad took us to the theater. Even then I remember thinking this wasn't ok.

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MeowMeowCollyer@reddit

Saturday Night Fever. My baby sitter took me.

But, my dad had taken me to X-rated Fritz the Cat when I was 7, so SNF seemed pretty tame.

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jenthemightypen@reddit

Fritz the Cat was on Superchannel in the mid 80's. I was expecting a cute cartoon about a cat.

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MeowMeowCollyer@reddit

I mean…it’s not NOT cute 🤔

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IzzyandRebelsmom@reddit

that movie may possibly be my first one as well. My husband's parents brought him and his younger brother to see Jaws at the drive-in when he was only 7 and his brother was 6. Like WTF??

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D_Mom@reddit

National Lampoons Vacation

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SuthernGent691@reddit

Porky's in the theater.....

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Mindless_Travel@reddit

The Godfather. I was seven and I saw it in a tent in Ireland with my brother and cousin.

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Shocker68@reddit

The first R movie I can remember is The Exorcist. Dad took us the the drive-in while Mom was out of town

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Learned-Dr-T@reddit

1980: First Family with Bob Newhart and Gilda Radner. I was 12/13. I got my dad to take me. It’s not a good movie.

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sleeperaxe@reddit

Poltergeist. I was maybe 8 years old. My friend’s mom let him rent it for a sleepover. Scared the ever loving shit out of me.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Poltergeist was PG.

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sleeperaxe@reddit

Holy shit. So it was. Unreal

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Nuts, right? It’s like they wanted us traumatized for life.

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jsh139@reddit

Same! My stepsister took me to see it in the theater. I had nightmares for weeks.

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Leotobileski@reddit

Blue Lagoon

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Cassedaway@reddit

Whrn I was 9 I talked my Dad into taking me to see Soldier Blue . I told him it was a cool cowboy movie all the kids at school were talking about. In fact I just saw an ad in the paper and was bored. A very traumatic mistake. We didnt speak on the way home

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Cute_Doughnut_7739@reddit

Carrie 1970s

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RitaPoole56@reddit

Deliverance!
I was a VERY innocent 16 or 17 year old when the Admissions officer who initially interviewed me for a day student spot at a prestigious boarding school invited a few 4-5(?) boys for trip to Boston for a movie and sleepover at his apartment.

For some reason my strict mother was charmed by this man and voiced zero objections and asked no questions (at least to me). I was naive and shy enough not to even think about how odd this was.

I’d heard NOTHING about the movie before and didn’t think much about the rating. If you know the movie it starts out as a bunch of buddies taking a long canoe trip down a river just before the area will be flooded by a dam. Kind of a cool action/adventure flick for young teen boys until…

Let’s just say the Appalachian culture took a sudden turn for me and I was more than a little sketched out. We returned to his school owned apartment and I didn’t sleep well. I was creeped out and never told my parents any details.

No surprise that a disturbingly long time later allegations were brought forth about the guy and suddenly he was gone from the school. I suspect there were some out of court quiet settlements as the school has VERY deep pockets and supportive alums.

I never really asked my mom about her decision and trust in this guy. Between this and an earlier trauma around sexuality my life was impacted for years.

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Over_Ad5921@reddit

The Exorcist. I think I was 5, big mistake.

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LividSituation9152@reddit

Same here. I was a tad older, but still, big mistake. Never been so terrified since.

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Careless-Two2215@reddit

Same. The theater was like a free babysitter and my immigrant mom had no idea how to censor movies. There was an Asian lady running the theater and we'd go watch whatever was playing so they could drink tea and gossip.

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Complex-Buffalo-183@reddit

History of the World Part 1 at a friend’s house who had cable.

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JackWagg0n@reddit

Animal House. I was 14. My sister (30) took me.

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shakeyjake@reddit

Dad took us to Mad Max when mom was out of town. Little sister ratted us out because telling mom there were 2 people “doing it” in a field

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jbenze@reddit

I think Road Warrior was probably mine.

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Dry_Knee_6135@reddit

Porkys

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Lockjaw62@reddit

My cousins took me to the drive-in when I was about 13 to see 99 44/100% Dead.

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MrBootsRiley@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop when I was 9.

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Jonawal1069@reddit

Used Cars......boooooobies

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165interbond@reddit

Parents went to the drive in to see Hannie Caulder. Me and my brother were supposed to be asleep in the back. Had a thing for Raquel Welch ever since

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MoreCowbellllll@reddit

Fast Times

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Basic_Scale_5882@reddit

Scarface

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MoreCowbellllll@reddit

Yikes

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claytionthecreation@reddit

Revenge of the Nerds and Beverly Hills Cop all in one night lol.

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danthefalconfan@reddit

I’m not sure which one but I’m positive it was an Eddie Murphy movie.😂😂😂😂

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big65@reddit

Apocalypse now in theater and I was 9, dad thought it was a good idea.

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oneangrywaiter@reddit

The horror…

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big65@reddit

Yeah it's such a great experience for kids to see a water buffalo to get beheaded.

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BartStarrPaperboy@reddit

Not my first R-rated movie, but my pops had a friend from high school who was an actor, Paul Shenar. When I was 15 the whole family went to see his new movie: Scarface

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Live-Obligation-2931@reddit

MASH

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Significant-Water227@reddit

Blue Thunder…Still a great movie👍

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nerfherded@reddit

Animal House, 1978. Junior high.

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ogfuzzball@reddit

Damien Omen 2. I was 7. Drive in where first movie was PG (no memory of that cause DO2 scared the shit out of me). My dad assumed I’d fall asleep in back seat before it started. Nope. I was like paralyzed/glued peering over the top edge of the front seat, holding on like I was looking over a fence. I couldn’t look away.

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Swmboa@reddit

Yikes! Like what the what. I can’t believe your parents didn’t look ack and throw a towel over your head or something. Mine was Terminator at 7. Nothing compared to yours!

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ogfuzzball@reddit

Parents divorced at that point. Dad had me for the weekend. I think he was so into movie he didn’t realize I was still awake. My mom was pissed when she found out though! LOL

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analogpursuits@reddit

Cujo at the drive-in, out the open back hatch of the car. Family watched some boring movie out the front, I watched Cujo on the opposite screen, with some sound from distant car side speakers. I was 11. It was upsetting seeing Elliot's mom so helpless, and with the wrong family.

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MastodonAsleep816@reddit

Porky's.

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Just-Measurement-927@reddit

Same here. My parents took me and a friend to see it while on vacation, at 12 years old. I was scarred for life.

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Ruenin@reddit

Hmm.... hard to say, but I'm going to guess Terminator.

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WorcsBloke@reddit

This is so weird for me as a Brit to read. Over here there simply isn't an equivalent of a R rating, and it's also illegal to release a movie unrated. If it's 12A then kids can go with an adult, but if it's rated 15 or 18 then that's an absolute ban. A 17-year-old with a group of nuns doesn't get into an 18, end of, similar to NC-17 in the US. And yes, they do check IDs, like with beer.

Obviously this doesn't stop a kid seeing that kind of film at home if they have access to streaming, or to physical media. I can't remember exact titles, but I certainly saw a few 18 rated DVDs or on late-night TV a couple of years before I was that age. Nothing like seeing them aged eight or whatever, though.

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sargent73@reddit

Screwballs I was an innocent 8 years old at a family Xmas party when the older cousins got into dads movie stash and all the kids were of course left to ourselves.

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CleMike69@reddit

Exorcist in 4th grade it messed me up

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Metagator@reddit

I was in 6th, but it still messed me up..

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don_teegee@reddit

Fast Times at Right Ridgemont High.

No regrets.

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b_o_m@reddit

Stripes.with Bill Murray. 7th grade.

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Slagegg@reddit

Burt Reynolds in “Sharkey’s Machine.” The theater would not let us teens in, until an old guy said “yeah-they’re all with me.”

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Feasibly_Impossible@reddit

Excalibur

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CASUALxCHICKEN@reddit

6 yrs old, Nightmare On Elm Street. My aunt, who was just a teen, was babysitting me and my brother at the time. She got in a little trouble for letting us watch it.

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Mammoth-Captain1308@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop. I was sleeping over at the house of the friend my dad always said I should try to be more like.

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HenryLoggins@reddit

Zapped

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bobdck1719@reddit

Heavy metal from what I can remember. I was 5.

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ACorania@reddit

Stripes

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Necessary-Peace9672@reddit

Sneaked on HBO: The Sentinel; in theater: Saturday Night Fever

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pomdudes@reddit

Porky’s

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Low-Donut-1978@reddit

The French Connection.

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canfullofworms@reddit

Carrie. I was in the 3rd grade. I'm still scarred. (But I do love Stephen King)

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furbalve03@reddit

Purple Rain

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drumbo10@reddit

Porkies!

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Putrid-Tale-5114@reddit

Which Way is Up-Richard Pryor

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Spiritual_Crow409@reddit

Heavy metal

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oboingadoing@reddit

I remember watching The Omen when I was around 7. Lol

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LizTruth@reddit

I saw Blazing Saddles at a drive in with my parents when I was 7. Our folks thought we'd just sleep.

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New-Entrepreneur4132@reddit

Alien

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Electronic_Guess_345@reddit

Porkys

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jack_is_nimble@reddit

Me too! I was 13. lol.

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CurrentFew6275@reddit

How I learned what a glory hole was 🤣😂🤣

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jack_is_nimble@reddit

Porky’s. In the theater. It came out in 1981 so I was 13 years old. lol. 😬

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Calm_Boysenberry_829@reddit

I’m sure there was something earlier than this, but the first one I remember was Poltergeist.

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lurkin_murican@reddit

Fun fact - Poltergeist was rated PG. They didn’t even have PG-13 back then.

However - that movie is terrifying. Close enough.

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Calm_Boysenberry_829@reddit

I knew there was no PG-13, but I would have sworn the original theatrical release was R and then is was downrated to PG on either theatrical re-release or home video, but I may be thinking of something else. Been a minute.

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jimbobwe-328@reddit

Additional point, Poltergeist and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were the movies directly responsible for PG 13 bring created in the first place.

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l00ky_here@reddit

Gremlins

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jimbobwe-328@reddit

Do you want to know why I hate Christmas?

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chummers73@reddit

Escape from New York on HBO.

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Charming_Butterfly90@reddit

My best friend’s older sister took us to see Fast Times at Ridgemont High when we were 10.

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NotoldyetMaggot@reddit

Probably a Stephen King or Halloween/Nightmare on elm street type horror. At 7 I'd already read all my Dad's Stephen King books, so we would watch the October horror movie marathon together... thanks Dad!

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Icy-Cardiologist-958@reddit

Probably Terminator 2.

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Awkin-Sopwith@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop

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Icy-Cardiologist-958@reddit

Another one that would not be rated R these days.

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Helpful_Surround1812@reddit

Saturday Night Fever...at the drive-in.

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Icy-Cardiologist-958@reddit

Wow. That would be rated PG these days.

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

Night Shift with Henry Winkler and Michael Keeton directed by Richie Cunningham. Very funny movie ..I was 10 parents brought me.

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hypnoskills@reddit

"Do you like music?"

"Yes!"

"Nah nah nah!"

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

Jumping Jack Flash is a gas gas gas!! In the Hearst taking kids for prom.

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wieldymouse@reddit

Probably Piranha 2 or Alligator

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9trystan9@reddit

Alien

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Steeleremi@reddit

It was either Scanners or Damien the omen
3.my dad took me. I was 6 😂

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Many_Ad6069@reddit

Trick or Treat it had Ozzy Osbourne in it. It came out about 1986?

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katarina_the_bard@reddit

Johnny B Good rented from Blockbuster

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zoeybeattheraccoon@reddit

The Shining

When Johnny jumped out from behind the column and whacked Scatman with the axe, I dove under my seat. And my mom tried to cover my eyes when ghost lady got out of the tub and you could see her bush.

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BartStarrPaperboy@reddit

American Werewolf in London

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zoeybeattheraccoon@reddit

I saw that with my grandma, her friend and her friend's daughter (my age). I guess we were around 12 at the time. When the dude's junk appeared on the screen, my grandma stood up and said something like "that's disgusting! I can't believe we're seeing this!" and dragged us out of the theater. lol

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ED-DOG92@reddit

Technically it was the Exorcist. I accidentally walked in the room where my older teenager cousins were watching it on vhs in 1979 and it was during the ending scene where Damien jumps out the window to his death. Everyone yelled at me to get out because they thought I was too young to watch it. I totally wanted to see what that movie was about and watched it a few years later by myself. I was hooked for life afterwards.

The one I did watch entirely though was Friday the 13th. I was under 10 years old.

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thonnard42@reddit

Stripes

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Fit-Umpire3257@reddit

I was 8 years old 😂

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SlippyA@reddit

Evil Dead when I was 13! Scared the crap out of me!

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gaddnyc@reddit

The Postman Always Rings Twice - I still have feelings when I see Jessica Lange.

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GoslingIchi@reddit

Excalibur.

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kanine69@reddit

Pretty sure it was Conan the Barbarian.

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Significant-Still-50@reddit

Footloose. 5th grade. Watched it with the Pastor’s daughter at her house. I was 13 and not allowed to watch Top Gun at my house. lol

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GoslingIchi@reddit

Footloose is only PG.

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Spo-dee-O-dee@reddit

The Omen. Rode our bikes to the theater, bought a ticket to Capricorn One and then went into the theater playing The Omen.

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Icy-Illustrator-1431@reddit

my second.. parents too me to the drive in for my birthday

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segirmo@reddit

Nighthawks

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brawdbach@reddit

Trading Places here. My other half had never seen it and his face watching it as an adult recently, that just made my week 😇

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WatersEdge50@reddit

Halloween

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johntwoods@reddit

Action Jackson for some reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Chance-Sun-9103@reddit

Before cable was fully available in our town, our local real estate developer bought a package for his apartments. it had 3 channels, a TV guide for the 5 networks channels plus our 2 new ones, an odd little channel that showed obscure sports like Australian Rules Football called ESPN and the Movie Channel. They were showing Porky's over and over, so that was my first

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lovepony0201@reddit

Saw Platoon with my parents when I was 15. It made a huge impact on me.

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CFCHooligan420@reddit

My grandmother took me to see Porky’s in the theater when I was 8. Don’t think she knew it was rated R when we went in! 😂

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acelticmonk@reddit

My dad loved Richard Pryor, so we had a family movie theatre outing to see Stir Crazy when I was 11 and my brother was 9 🤣. Apparently he had no idea what to expect, and was surprised at the strip club scene. Mom went into damage control mode.

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dirtdiggler67@reddit

Animal House

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SavageRabbitX@reddit

Alien, my Aunt is cool

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pigprof@reddit

Trading Places is the answer.

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Octoberfex@reddit

Excalibur. Also my intro to Wagner's music.

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Relative-Quality4382@reddit

Revenge of the nerds and caddyshack. My dad would rent them for us when we would visit him. I was ten.

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LizBreal85@reddit

Candy man, I was 6.

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judgehood@reddit

Aliens. Fucked my head up for years. That curling, twisting vibrating cieling, when they found that first woman with the chest burster, then flaming people going over railings and shit.

I wasn’t scared of Freddy or Jason… for some reason that Aliens scene just got to me.

I’ll never forget that first time.

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dancingmoongoddess@reddit

Porky's. My only-child, not too bright, older cousin was babysitting and thought it was a great choice for a four year old. My parents found out at Christmas dinner that year when someone asked me what my favorite movie was, thinking I would say Annie or Dumbo. Imagine the horror of silent and boomer gens of the small town, Southern Baptist ilk.

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Due-Statistician-682@reddit

Mine was Porky's too! As a kid the mummy guy terrified me. Boogie, boogie, boogie! 🤣

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Doc_Widdershins@reddit

OG animated Heavy Metal. Life changing for me.

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stalkythefish@reddit

I remember seeing it on HBO or Cinemax as a kid and thinking it was just the coolest thing ever made!

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Dry-Clock-1470@reddit

First Blood

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zooncethyme@reddit

I remember when I was in the 2nd grade, I would come home from school and watch this every day

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Bratbabylestrange@reddit

In 1979 my friends dad got the first VCR I had ever seen, along with a big old projection tv. I was 9. If was so long ago that they called it a VTR (video tape recorder.) As you can imagine, there weren't a ton of movies to choose from and they were pretty hard to get ahold of, so he had four movies: King Kong (with Jessica Lange) Arthur, 10 and Halloween. We weren't allowed to watch 10 haha, and Arthur wasn't really our jam as fourth graders, so we watched King Kong and Halloween over. And over. And over. And I had nightmares about Michael Myers sneaking through the shadows after me almost every single night, but it didn't stop us from watching it again the next day haha. So Halloween was the first R-rated movie I ever saw, and I watched it about fifty times.

After a while he got 9 to 5, and that was pretty refreshing for a change

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Ski-U-MahGuy@reddit

Cocktails. I was around 12 . Mom was horrified!

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stalkythefish@reddit

In a theater? "10"... with my grandfather.

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ru_k1nd@reddit

Apocalypse Now

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SFO_Eric@reddit

Apocalypse Now

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subliminalbrat@reddit

Blue Lagoon. On Laserdisc.

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GhostWr1ter999@reddit

I think it was a showing of Hell Night on HBO.

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Artistic-Yogurt4446@reddit

The Omen it was at the drive in and we kids were supposed to be asleep in the back of our faux wood paneling station wagon. 🙄

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UnicornWig@reddit

That’s the same way I saw Close Encounters at the drive in. 😂😂

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Degofreak@reddit

Mom took a carload of neighborhood kids and us to see Rocky Horror Picture Show. Probably should not have seen that at 14.

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ExtraAd7611@reddit

Why not? I was seeing it about once a month in high school. Still love the music.

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TheRateBeerian@reddit

Or maybe that’s the perfect to see it!

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danconderman33@reddit

Someone had the cool mom!

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darlingkd@reddit

I was 6 and my older sisters were supposed to take me to see a kids movie, but we saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High and I learned what “humping” was. 🤦‍♀️

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Pooker_butt@reddit

Jimmy Reardon. I talked the baby sitter in to taking me when I was like 12ish. We were both unprepared and embarrassed afterwards.

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darlingkd@reddit

I loved that movie and I’ve never met anyone else who’s seen it.

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TheBatmanWhoPuffs@reddit

I think mine was either Alien or Mad Max. We got our first VCR in 1978 and my parents didn’t care about what I watched. Not many parents did. I remember the other kids parents let our hockey team all watch Porky’s when we were 11 & 12 for a hockey party once and Sword and The Sorcerer. Great times.

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Saint_Ursula@reddit

10 yo, Poltergeist was on HBO and the babysitter didn't have HBO so guess who didn't sleep again for 5 years... I still can't look at clown dolls and not shiver.

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Viper640@reddit

Not sure how old I was but yeah at least 5 years. Still that supernatural horror is a no go for me.

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Saint_Ursula@reddit

Same I can't watch supernatural horror either. Truly traumatized by that movie.

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eaghra@reddit

Saw that one in the theater as a 7 year old by myself, because it wasn’t rated R but rather PG. Somehow convinced my parents I could do movies by myself since I did so well seeing Star Trek II which had come out the same week, school had just gotten out, and I could go see a matinee of it for just a couple dollars at the theater a few blocks away. Besides, it was practically a kids movie because of all the kid actors in it right? Right?

Didn’t sleep for days. If the tree outside my window wasn’t going to break through and get me, then the random shadows or clown under the bed was going to. Or my face was going to melt off for no reason. How in the world was that movie rated PG?!

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Saint_Ursula@reddit

Wait, Poltergeist was rated PG?!?! Damn. Also you reminded me I have to trim the branches outside my window 😬

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Happy_Lake_11@reddit

History of The World

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icallthebigonebitey0@reddit

Animal House with my dad and uncle. In pure late-70s fashion, they wanted to see it...and just took me along. I was 8 and boy did I learn a lot that day lol.

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Flashy-Army-7975@reddit

Jaws. And no I still don’t go in the water.

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Respiratorywitch@reddit

Jaws was PG-13, it was my first PG movie and I was 13. I can’t remember my first R movie but I think it stared Burt Reynolds.

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Flashy-Army-7975@reddit

Jaws was rated R as PG13 wasn’t developed till 1984.

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Respiratorywitch@reddit

That’s right, it was released as PG, though originally it was going to be rated R. It was my first PG movie.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Jaws is and was a PG film.

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cl0ckw0rkman@reddit

Watched this at the age of 6 years old. A week before a beach vacation with the family. My older sister and I refused to get in the water.

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DomerJSimpson@reddit

Snuck in to see The Choirboys. It's a movie about a bunch of cops. Didn't know anything about it at the time, just that it was rated R. It was pretty crazy. Based on a book by Joseph Wambaugh, who hated it and wanted no part of it. Have never watched it again or even seen it being played on cable.

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UpstartCrow88@reddit

Probably far too young for whatever was showing on HBO at the time for inadvertent exposure, but the first R rated movie I got to see in the theater was Purple Rain and I was 12. My mom was sick enough of hearing me yammer on ceaselessly about it that she herself took me to see it.

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se7ensaint@reddit

Omen or Exorcist. Maybe a Bruce Lee movie

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littlebroknstillgood@reddit

On cable: American Werewolf in London.

On screen: Terror in the Aisles, when my cousin turned 17 and could take us in.

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ShoutingWhiteBoy@reddit

Bustin Loose

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prison-schism@reddit

I was 4 when i saw Christine by Stephen King on tv. My parents gave absolutely no fucks if i watched horror movies, haha. And i have stuck with them ever since.

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plinker_fma@reddit

Mad Max....was about 7 years old. Saw part of it on my cousin's TV via satellite dish (you know, the big 10 or 12') we had in the late 70's and early 80's.

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Obvious-Confusion14@reddit

Cannonball Run.

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RedGhost2012@reddit

In the theater? Conan the Barbarian . It had boobs!

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OldSkooler1212@reddit

Mad Max was the first rated R movie I went to by myself. I was 12 or 13 and the theater in my small town was owned by one of the cops in town. They never required an adult for R rated movies. I went to a lot of rated R movies before I was 17.

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Alit_Quar@reddit

Porky’s. On a church trip. With the responsible adult watching and smoking in the same room.

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h8movies@reddit

Blazing Saddles

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Zakkrazy@reddit

Yeah I saw that movie around 7 or 8 years old on VHS. Got in a lot of trouble the very next day.

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blister469@reddit

This is problly my favorite comedy of all time

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inigo_montoya@reddit

That sounds like an amazing welcome to the world of R.

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tpt75@reddit

Cyborg. A friend and I were like 16, and I was banned from the VCR for a month! Not worth it. It was a terrible movie.

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Eldritch-banana-3102@reddit

Jaws was R. I let my sons watch it very young :)

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Zakkrazy@reddit

Jaws was PG when it came out, before PG-13 even existed.

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Eldritch-banana-3102@reddit

Wow. Total Mandela Effect for me!

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Zakkrazy@reddit

I mean, today it would probably be R just for the Quint bitten in half scene, but the late 70s were a different time… I should know, I was 1.🤣

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Abject-Afternoon-388@reddit

JAWS

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MrRatherDapper@reddit

Snuck into Blade Runner while I was in junior high

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bluejammiespinksocks@reddit

We had cable tv when it was just one movie station (ON TV). I remember watching Firestarter and Poltergeist when I was about 7. I was about 5 when I saw The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (I called my grand mother the next day to tell her all about “the chicken ranch”). My parents never censored what I watched.

For my 10th birthday I had a sleepover party. My dad rented 2 movies. The Care Bear movie (which we watched when my younger siblings were still awake) and Purple Rain. My dad was officially “the cool dad” to all my friends as their parents wouldn’t allow them to watch it.

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wildcat_crazy_zebra@reddit

Was Poltergeist really rated r? I know I watched it a bunch but I don't remember if it was on the TV or VHS. Dang.

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bluejammiespinksocks@reddit

I wasn’t sure but I do know it scared the crap out of me as I was, I’m sure, too young to be watching it. But I know I did watch a LOT of movies that were not appropriate for my age.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Nope it was PG.

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mynamesv@reddit

I think it was Nightmare on Elm Street

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metacholia@reddit

Saw porky’s on HBO when I was too young to bother fapping to it.

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OE2KB@reddit

Animal House

I was 11

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Carbonman_@reddit

I think my first 'R' movie was 3 In The Attic. Chris Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Maggie Thrett and Judy Pace.

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FurBabyAuntie@reddit

On TV....Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman) or maybe $ [Dollars] or McCabe & Mrs. Miller or The Parallax View (Warren Beatty)

In a theater--Sharky's Machine (Burt Reynolds)

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RogersMrB@reddit

Texas chainsaw massacre

Blue lagoon (1&2)

I'm certain there's more.

I also remember seeing full frontal nudity on CBC on like a Sunday afternoon. None of the nudity for RoboCop is removed but all of the violence was.

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musicjunkee1911@reddit

The Exorcist when I was about five or six. My mom thought I was asleep on the floor in front of the TV.

I was not.

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Bastyra2016@reddit

Pretty sure my first R rated movie was Saturday Night Fever. I was 11. I remember when Tony reached into his drawers and played with his junk. I also remember the sex scene in the car. My dad saw it a few weeks later on a business trip and was less than thrilled. Of course I was all of 12 and my sister 9 when both our parents took us to see Animal House.

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mentionitallbitch@reddit

Rambo first blood part 2

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Queen6cat@reddit

Urban Cowboy

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Open_Appointment1091@reddit

That was PG

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I-singjazz@reddit

The Blue Lagoon followed by the Last American Virgin.

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Open_Appointment1091@reddit

Alien. I was 11.

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yecart55@reddit

Mine was Tommy. I was 10. The scene with the acid queen traumatized me for life.

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Artistic-Yogurt4446@reddit

Did anyone see The Changeling ? I slept on my parent’s bedroom floor in a sleeping bag for like a month afterwards.

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SixtiesKid@reddit

I think it was Rocky. We saw it at a drive-in and we kids weren't very interested.

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Msleadfoot@reddit

Cat People. My grandparents got an ON TV subscription & my cousin and stayed up and watched it after they went to bed.

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Grand-Hand-9486@reddit

Saturday night fever

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rogun64@reddit

I scrolled through the answers because I'm really not sure. But I saw Saturday Night Fever at the theater when I was 10 and so it was likely the first for me. I had a friend whose mom would take us to R rated movies, but the funny thing is that I'm pretty sure it was just the two of us for SNF. We may have paid for another movie and snuck into SNF, because we'd do that sometimes.

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Livid-Age-2259@reddit

MASH with my parents in the 1970’s.

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Immediate-Agency6101@reddit

trading places

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Ok_Membership_8189@reddit

I can’t remember what it was, but I remember I saw it on hbo while babysitting, probably around 1979 or 80.

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enola007@reddit

Was like 10 yrs old at friends & she put in vhs tape that we thought was a cartoon of Alice in Wonderland but the mushrooms were not mushrooms

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l00ky_here@reddit

Hahaha! I remember a night when I was in my senior year where a girlfriend and I both took double hits of acid while I was spending the night over at her place. She had parents who were out of town and only her 20 year old sister was there. Me, her, and a couple of others did the acid and we had another guy friend "babysit" us. We went to the park, the donut shop, walked all over. When we went back to her house we were on the comedown but I brough a visit of Alice in Wonderland and we watched it. It was do weird because in our mindset wonderland made sensr.

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enola007@reddit

Haha! We did the same yrs later but that time we watched The Wall

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l00ky_here@reddit

My folks used to set up a homemade laser against a wall and have it pulse to that album and trip balls every weekend

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Ok-Fly5147@reddit

Slap shot! First time I saw breasts! I was never the same. Lol

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DeepPucks@reddit

"Nipples as hard as little rocks."

Think it was my first R too, but my parents made me turn my head for that shot. They also played it all the time at youth hockey events and I think even hockey camp. Totally inappropriate for elementary school kids, lol. Different time. There was no "Disney" Miracle. Slap Shot was all we had.

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DawnGW@reddit

Great movie!

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hotsaucebleucheese@reddit

Mine too

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frednekk@reddit

Tarzan the Ape Man with Bo Derek. Horrible movie, wonderful mammeries.

Er memories.

Yes - I meant memories.

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UsedHotDogWater@reddit

Aliens and The Fly double feature at AMC ...holy shit it was amazing

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Bulky-Sun8899@reddit

Animal House. We snuck in. Bought tickets for a different movie but weaved left. They chased us but we scattered and hunkered down. Those were probably the 1st boobies I saw on the big screen. It was glorious as a 13 year old!!

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bimmer4WDrift@reddit

Neighbor's older sis & boyfriend took us 14 y.o.s

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MissSuzyTay@reddit

Bonnie & Clyde, 1967. I was seven. Grandma took all six grandkids, ages 7 to 12.

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Delicious_Iron7977@reddit

Barbarella at the drive-in. I was supposed to be asleep in the back after we watched Disney's Robin Hood animation. I was 7.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Barbarella is rated PG

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Delicious_Iron7977@reddit

It was marked Mature or unrated on release, as PG wasn't officially a thing until 1970.

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Feisty_Ad6420@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop. My dad said he would take me to see a movie for my 10th birthday, so I picked it based on chatter at school.

My Dad was 40 at the time, a Vietnam vet, and while he was always saying JC this and GD that - he hated any vulgarity that went harder than shit. He had no prior knowledge about what the movie was all about. I remember it being uncomfortable.

But to go to school and say I talked my dad into taking me was such a good feeling. He was always watching stuff like Porky's and really cheesy 80's flicks. He'd rent them from the grocery store and make me go to bed before he'd watch them.

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Stadium_hairpin@reddit

Love at First Bite (1979), with George Hamilton as Dracula. At a drive-in

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Love at First Bite was PG.

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FoleyV@reddit

Friday the 13th (and my cousins should definitely NOT have let me watch it at 7!

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thejohnmc963@reddit

Apocalypse Now. I was 12. The theater near me was being cut up to be a 3 screen theater. It was the last movie shown on the big screen

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norvillerogers1971@reddit

My parents took me to see a boring movie called Best Friends with Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds. I think I was 9.

When I was older my brother took me to see R rated movies that my parents wouldn't let me watch like Purple Rain, Beverly Hills Cop and Breakfast Club when I was 12 or 13

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somePig_buckeye@reddit

O my goodness, my family went to see Best Friends when we were on vacation in Florida. I was the same age. I remember nothing about it except that it was so very boring.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Best Friends was PG and yes, it was very boring.

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FitSignificance334@reddit

Escape from New York at cousins house. I was like 6

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FitSignificance334@reddit

Saw Alien at 7 and the traumatized the hell out of me

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fertile_gnome@reddit

I was ten when I saw it in the theater in its first run. Loved it. It was for sure the first R movie I saw in a theater.

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FitSignificance334@reddit

also theater. loved it, just really wrecked me for some time

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BoldBoimlerIsMyHero@reddit

my parents let me watch anything they were watching. I saw movies I should not have seen at a single digit age.

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

A crappy b movie called Love at First Bite that my mom took me to when i was six. Most of it went totally over my head. I guess she wanted to see it and needed someone to go with her 😆

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Love At First Bite was PG.

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

Oh was it? Weird. I always thought it was r. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Extreme-King@reddit

That is such a great campy comedy vampire 80s movie

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

Exactly! 😆

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kevinlc1971@reddit

6th grade. My buddy Frankie and I bought tickets to Terms of Endearment and snuck into Hot Dog the Movie. Got caught and grounded but it was worth the 2 weeks spent in my room. Sunny side up!

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

You got grounded for seeing a PG movie.

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kevinlc1971@reddit

It was rated R. First boobs I saw on a big screen.

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liveandletlive222@reddit

We had showtime and HBO when I was little, so I would sneak to watch stuff at night. I remember watching a movie called Fire with Fire about a catholic girl who falls for a reform school boy. First sex scene I ever saw. I was 8 or 9

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knarlomatic@reddit

Logans Run. My first peek at boobies!

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Logan’s Run was PG.

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RealHeyDay@reddit

That's hilarious. I saw Logan's Run about 10 times in the theater when I was 12 and have zero memory of boobies

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knarlomatic@reddit

When Logan and Jessica have left the compound they end up all wet and in a cold place. They strip and put on furs. Jenny Agutter's boobies are visible. As are those of the ladies frozen in ice. I think the movie is free on YouTube.

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RealHeyDay@reddit

Oh I believe you 100%. Maybe because I'm a girl it wasn't memorable? Idk. Confirms I really am straight lmfao

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knarlomatic@reddit

I guess that confirms I'm straight too. Jenny Agutter had me feeling all sorts of teenage boy stuff for years after!

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

Mine would have been The Gauntlet, the 1977 Clint Eastwood thriller. Saw it at the drive-in with my parents.

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RedBeardtheFierce@reddit

Thunder heart

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Smallmyfunger@reddit

Road Warrior / Beastmaster double feature.

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Pattycakes1966@reddit

Exorcist. Still haven’t recovered

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Firm-Conference-3896@reddit

I have a friend for whom this was the first movie of any rating she saw in a theater.

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kevintheredneck@reddit

Mine was Airplane! But the best was a toss up between Porky’s and Animal House.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Airplane was PG.

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Potential-Pool-5125@reddit

Live or Let Die. I was 5.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Live and Let Die was PG.

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Firm-Conference-3896@reddit

Black Sunday: the John Frankenheimer one, not the Mario Bava one.

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TurtleToast2@reddit

Whatever was on HBO after my mom ditched us. Most traumatizing was Exorcist. Most fun was Nightmare on Elm Street.

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dirtygreysocks@reddit

Meatballs 2.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Meatballs and Meatballs Part 2 were both PG.

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

Dirty Dancing 🕺💃 I was 15. My single mom was very very religious. We were house sitting in a new city; that she got a job in. My new friends and I watched it when she was at work. I still love that movie

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

It was 100% PG-13

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Zakkrazy@reddit

Yup. Not sure what these people are talking about.

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goodlordineedacoffee@reddit

Dirty dancing wasn’t r rated was it?

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BeneficialSpend6253@reddit

famously unrated. It would have been R or NC-17 for both sex and the abortion scene.

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Full-Friendship-7581@reddit

I was 13 and friends of the family took me to see the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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jjruns@reddit

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Dolly Parton. Burt Reynolds. Dom Deluise

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Long-Cockroach-8372@reddit

Yep. This is the one.

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-Mark161718-@reddit

Early 80s we had just got our first VCR. My older brother got his hands on Friday the 13th part III. It absolutely terrified me.

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Noodnix@reddit

My first R rated movie was Friday The 13th, Part III in 3D, in the theater though. I was 12 when it was released and went with a friend and his mom.

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GardenBunnyBaseball@reddit

I was 11 when Friday the 13th Part III 3D came out in theaters & my dad took me to see it.

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turbojoe13@reddit

My first horror movie was American Werewolf in London. I didn't sleep for a month or two

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Vast-Impression4089@reddit

Either Butterfly or Blue Lagoon. Can't remember which one came out first.

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Zakkrazy@reddit

Probably First Blood. I was 7 I think. Still a great movie.

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DrgSlinger475@reddit

One Crazy Summer. It was the second movie of the double feature after The Muppets. I was 7, sister was 5 and slept through it.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

One Crazy Summer is PG

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Dxbr72@reddit

My dad took us to see James Bond Live and Let Die. 1972. I was 6 😳
He also took us to see the Poseidon Adventure and the Towering Inferno. My mom couldn’t figure out why I was having nightmares after visiting my dad 😂

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l00ky_here@reddit

That James Bond was rated R? I though all of them were PG?

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hibbityhibbity@reddit

Those were all PG, but that’s the crazy thing about morality in America. Death and destruction are perfectly fine, but don’t you dare look at women’s breasts.

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Dxbr72@reddit

I just remember the flaming skull 😂😂😂💀💀💀

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Ok_Hat_3414@reddit

Porky's

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JustSteve1974@reddit

This was my answer as well.

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Aggravating-Event459@reddit

Working Girl because Han Solo was in it.

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camcaine2575@reddit

I was 9 years old and I vividly remember my mother taking us to the local drive-thru to see a Nightmare on Elm Street. The reason I remember this is because the scene where the woman was in a bathroom, top off with no bra(I'm gay so that is not the dominant memory). My mother obviously didn't know what kind of movie. But what I remember is when Jason killed her with all of the blood, my mother said something to the effect of, "Nope!" and hung up the speaker and proceeded to pull out and go home.

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B9M3C99@reddit

Jason was not in the Nightmare on Elm St movies. It was Freddy Kruger.

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camcaine2575@reddit

Well, whatever the bad guy was. Excuse me

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Marriedfriendly@reddit

Stripes

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tracerhaha@reddit

Me too. They showed it to us at summer camp. That also showed Fame right after.

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Ok-Entertainment5045@reddit

Friday the 13 th at a friends birthday party in third grade

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maddylime@reddit

Purple Rain, my mom absolutely ADORED Prince!

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Bunny_Knitting@reddit

Is Breakfast Club rated R? Yup, it was The Breakfast Club.

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stellaandme@reddit

Mine too! I was 12, and my parents were out of town. My 16 year old sister was in charge, and she hatched a plan to rent the VHS so we could watch this forbidden movie. It's still my favorite movie to this day.

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Sleepy_cheetah@reddit

Platoon. I was 6 years old. My cousins tricked me into thinking we were going to see a silly comedy movie. I was traumatized. I told myself they are going to leave that jungle any second now. But they never did & it got worse & worse.

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Last-Guidance-8219@reddit

Beverly hills cop i was 5 was staying with my sister and her at the time husband. Went home told mom all about it mom was not happy

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worththinking@reddit

Blues brothers. Had to ask someone on the line to buy the tix for us

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maxxjazz44@reddit

The Exorcist

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THENHAUS@reddit

Our mom let us watch all manner of traumatizing horror flix if she saw them as “Christian.” The Exorcist, the Omen, Amityville Horror, something called Devil Dog: the Hound of Hell. If there’s a Devil there’s gotta be a God, right? We could also watch anything based on an Edgar Allen Poe story because, y’know, the classics. Pit & the Pendulum, House of Usher, Tell-tale Heart, 1960s Vincent Price stuff that freaked me the fuck out. Of course I’m a huge horror fan now so maybe it didn’t do any permanent damage. Or did it??

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JollyGiant573@reddit

Blazing Saddles

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No_Alarm_3993@reddit

Friday the 13th. I was eight or nine years old... My friends mom was just drunk off her goard and we sat there watching horror movies all night... a kids sleepover...

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No_Hat7946@reddit

Taxi driver. My mom and aunt covered my eyes and ears in some parts

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Minute_Dog_1793@reddit

The Shining

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mothlady1959@reddit

Deliverance

I was 12. You can imagine my surprise

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hawksmarinerz@reddit

Carrie. My mom took me.

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annihilus01@reddit

Excalibur. Conan was #2.

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Synsin01@reddit

Commando.

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that_chi_girl78@reddit

Revenge of the Nerds.

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ia16309@reddit

The first R rated movie I saw in theaters was Glory. As for at home, I don't recall.

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banana_bread71@reddit

Animal house. Age 8. W my 7 year old brother and our dad. While mom was at bingo. On supertv. Changed my life forever… Thank you, God!!!

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TeaVinylGod@reddit

At 12 years old, My mom took me and some neighbor kids to see a matinee of Beverly Hills Cop.

While walking to the car, I suggested to my friends that we play out the movie and I'm Axel.

My mom says in her Boston accent, "What are you gonna do? Run around the yard saying Fuck You to each other?"

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DuchessOfLansdale@reddit

😂

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Ok-Pomegranate2000@reddit

Porky's, I think I was 14, at a drive in and they showed boobies!

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Cambiknitter@reddit

Saturday night fever

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DuchessOfLansdale@reddit

Same! I was 10! What were my grandparents thinking? 🤦🏻‍♀️

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FrankParkerNSA@reddit

Had to be a Schwarzenegger movie - probably Commando or Terminator on a VHS rental before the age of 8. I distinctly remember getting kicked out of the room by my dad when my uncles were all watching "Weird Science" and the first thing the guys wanted to shower with Lisa.🤣

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Merle-Hay@reddit

American Gigolo.

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Nyxgirlfren@reddit

Porky's and my boyfriend and I got kicked out halfway through because they realized we were 14, not 18.

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Dry-Bar8606@reddit

Animal House. I was 7. Dad thought it would be fun family fare.

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system7777@reddit

Ghost Story

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Temporary_Lab_3964@reddit

Risky business when I was in 3rd grade

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Alewort@reddit

The World According to Garp. My mom took me, I must have been 9.

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flipflopswithwings@reddit

Was that R? My mom took me too! Great movie, I always remember the Ellen Something? club

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Alewort@reddit

Tell me you forgot it had full nudity.

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flipflopswithwings@reddit

Who was nude??

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Alewort@reddit

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084917/parentalguide/

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schmearcampain@reddit

I don’t think it was full. Cushie took her top off. Jenny Wright is an underrated 80’s babe.

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Alewort@reddit

Baby Garp probably doesn't count, but a couple of the boys in the locker room were (not from memory).

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HeyNow646@reddit

The Rabbit Test and All That Jazz. In the theatre when I was about 12.

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LaterMusician@reddit

It was a movie called H.O.T.S., if I recall correctly. We were at a drive in watching a Disney movie and it was on the other screen. I just remember seeing boobs on the screen for the first time.

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hibbityhibbity@reddit

So sad that Drive-Ins disappeared.

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LaterMusician@reddit

We actually have 3 of them within a 40 minute drive. I haven’t been to one since the first Star Trek reboot movie came out though.

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hibbityhibbity@reddit

Yeah, there’s a few still out there, but nothing like it used to be.

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SnooWitchYu@reddit

I was 8 when our family went to see Monty Python's Life Of Brian. We saw The Shining the next year.

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Lopsided_Tomatillo27@reddit

It was probably Conan the Barbarian. I must’ve been 9.

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NorthOkra2975@reddit

Woodstock

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Teulisch@reddit

Robocop. aunt and uncle let us watch it at grandmas house. and holy crap that once scene at the end with the toxic waste? saw it again as an adult, and man that was a messed up bit.

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MegaRadCoolDad@reddit

Porky's. I know people think it's problematic now, but I still think it's great.

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spsled@reddit

Not sure if Jaws was rated R? If so, that was it. Clearly remember The Exterminator, history of the world.

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tkingsbu@reddit

Porkys

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Chance-Arugula-2998@reddit

Alien

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lantern_carrier@reddit

Same here. I was five. Love it even though it scared me. Thanks Dad!

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Better_Power_9913@reddit

Night of the Living Dead when I was five. It was unrated because the rating system had not started yet, but is normally rated R now.

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mEp1973@reddit

My dad took me to see Stir Crazy. At 7 🤣 I came home and told my mom "I saw a naked woman". But I didn't watch Eddie Murphy Raw until a few years ago because they drilled it into my head to never watch it 😅

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ApoplecticWombat@reddit

Eddie Murphy's "Raw" was my very first date, at 15 years old with my 16 year old girlfriend. She was freaking out afterwards because we were the only white people in the packed theater.

Those were the days...

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Blatzkreig@reddit

Youngblood. Tea with Ms. McGill took some time to process.

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Super-Meringue-8490@reddit

I was an extra in that movie. A lot of hockey rinks in the summer, in Toronto.

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Ferrindel@reddit

The Shining. My dad sat me down to watch it. One of my favorite memories of him.

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OliveBadger1037@reddit

My dad took me and me (11) and my brother (9) to see Apocalypse Now when it first came out. Not because we wanted to see it but because he did, and it just happened to be our weekend with him so he dragged us along. I was confused by that movie for a very long time until I finally rewatched it as an adult.

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Medium-Ad6276@reddit

Purple Rain

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Successful_Shift5845@reddit

Me too. I think my mother wanted to see it and she didn't know what to do with me, so along I went.

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Shell-Fire@reddit

Richard Pryor's Dynamite Chicken. I still want a refund.

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Beautiful_Benefit867@reddit

Flashdance

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Kokodhem@reddit

I knew there had to be another. My mom wanted to see it but she was a single mom and I was an only. How bad could watching an upscale stripper movie be on a prepubescent boy? LMAO I still keep Seduce Me Tonight by Cycle V in my song collection...

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MyRoseOfSharon@reddit

"Chesty Morgan" I think was the name of the movie. If it wasn't the name of the movie, that was the name lead actress and star of the show. She was supposed to have a chest size of 64DDD or something like that.

It's the only time I can remember my dad wanting to go to the drive in to see a movie. Even if he had to go to the drive in with mom s four or five kids. I can't remember if I was the youngest or if my baby brother was with us. I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6.

Just he was either a private detective or an undercover police officer. She had a camera hidden in one of her boobs. She would take secret pictures with by taking the boob out of her bra , aim her nipple and then lift the nipple up twice. You could hear the camera click like she was taking a picture.

Lmao at the memory. 😂

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zero_cat_chance@reddit

Deer Hunter. Baby sitter took me and my little bro to the theater. I was 8. My mom was pissed

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

Yes very violent show for 8 years old. It is disturbing for a harden adult.

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Sad-Corner-9972@reddit

Alien -a friend’s dad took us.

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schmearcampain@reddit

That was my 10 year old birthday movie. What the fuck were our parents thinking?

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Sad-Corner-9972@reddit

Hellagood jumpscares

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PruneEuphoric7621@reddit

Halloween

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B9M3C99@reddit

Same. It was a sleepover birthday party. We were maybe 11?

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Ckc1972@reddit

I saw The Jerk in the theater in 1979. I was about 7.

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hibbityhibbity@reddit

Big Bad Mama on cable at my cousins. We talked my friend’s dad into taking us to 10 at the theater. But I really remember “watching” The Poseidon Adventure at the drive-in. It was PG, but the screen in back of us was showing Behind the Green Door. Crazy time to be an 8 year old.

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Moist-Sundae-1116@reddit

My parents used to take us to the drive-in with the accurate thought that we’d fall asleep before the movie ended. Having said that, I think my first R rated movie was 1972’s Lady Sings The Blues. I would have been 4. 😆

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DviantPink@reddit

Creepshow. I was five and my mom took us to the drive-in. My brother and I were supposed to be asleep in the back seat.

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aut0po31s1s@reddit

Porky's, (1981).

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DogWarm509@reddit

Had to scroll way too far to find this one 😂

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jersey_viking@reddit

Alien

In space, nobody can hear you scream. At home, ain’t nobody heard of Rated R.

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elev8or_lady@reddit

This was mine too! My mom “accidentally” took me to see it at the theatre. I was 4. I think in 1979, boomers weren’t yet used to rated R films and how they really weren’t suitable for kids.

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sleezyrydr@reddit

And God created Woman. It was definitely worth the 65cents admission.

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RefrigeratorFit9226@reddit

JAWS, I was 7

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Legitimate-March9792@reddit

Jaws was rated PG, not R.

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RefrigeratorFit9226@reddit

My bad, I thought it was R because it scared everyone & was super gruesome 😁 I see now it was PG, but would've been PG-13 had that been in option in '76

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Neat-Ad11@reddit

I lived very close to where Jaws was filmed. I was in third grade and at the end of the year we took the boat over to the island for lunch as a school outing and I can still remember seeing all the trucks and cameras and all on the pier. I think there was also this half of a boat kind of prop on the pavement next to the pier. My friends were just saying that a movie was being filmed there but I don’t think we knew which one.

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anonskier@reddit

The Warriors Come out and plaaaaayyy

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Cyndytwowhys@reddit

The Godfather. When Sonny and the bridesmaid had their um, shall we say moment, my Mom said “I don’t think you should be watching this.” Hey, it wasn’t my idea.

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Square_Ad_4929@reddit

Stripes. So funny and plenty of boobs.

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rankstranger81@reddit

Speed

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Couldbeaccurate@reddit

4th grade The Shining. Scared the crap out of me

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Legitimate-March9792@reddit

Mark Of The Devil. I was about 6 years old.

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ritchie70@reddit

I have no idea. How do you people remember stuff like this?

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schmearcampain@reddit

That just means you were taken to one by your parents so young, you can’t remember which movie it was.

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ritchie70@reddit

lol no, more like so old it wasn’t much of an impression.

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JoyfulNoise1964@reddit

Trauma

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JohnWa54@reddit

I was 7 when Blazing Saddles came out. Think the folks figured I'd fall asleep at the drive in. Nope... I may not have understood everything, but a 7 yr old me thought that the fart scene was hilarious!!!!

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sidewaysbynine@reddit

Same movie, but I was 10 or 11 and overseas where we got everything well after it was out of theaters in the US.

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overarmur@reddit

An American Werewolf in London. I was 3 years old. Parents of the year they were not.

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AliVista_LilSista@reddit

Private Benjamin

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KittiesRule1968@reddit

Animal House was my first one, although I managed to get "The Happy Hooker Goes To Washington" on a hotel tv at 7 years old my parents told me.

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Frequent-Chapter-546@reddit

Jaws

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the_great_confuser@reddit

Jaws was actually PG.

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Frequent-Chapter-546@reddit

Oh...i was 6 and went with my brother. Crapped my drawers when the skull rolled out of the boat

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thedarkonekc@reddit

Late 70s my sister got HBO

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TheRateBeerian@reddit

Probably Up in Smoke, I would have been 8 or 9, but there might have been one before that who knows, my parents didn’t really care and let me watch all kinds of stuff.

My mom worked at the local single screen theater in the late 70s so I just looked up r rated movies from then that I’d def saw in that theater: Halloween, Up in smoke, cheech and Chong’s next movie, and Nice Dreams, Mothers Day (Troma movie), 10, The Jerk (which i know i saw every day for a week and still know the whole thing by heart), Piranha, Friday the 13th, prom night… Heck now that I think about it I saw Carrie at some point during then but it came out when i was 6. Maybe it came on a rerelease a couple years later.

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Phildagony@reddit

I spit on your grave.

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schmearcampain@reddit

Oof. That’s a rough one.

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Spear_Ritual@reddit

Escape from New York, probable. On HBO.

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schmearcampain@reddit

I thought you’d be taller…

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APoolio12@reddit

Caddy Shack is so much better than mine!

My first one was Das Boot when I was 7 or 8. I mostly thought it was boring and would rather have watched Star Wars or a rerun of Bonanza on tv, lol.

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schmearcampain@reddit

What’s the matter? You didn’t like depressing 3 1/2 hour movies in German when you were 7?

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APoolio12@reddit

Crazy, right?

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FlexibleIntegrity@reddit

I think mine was the Road Warrior.

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schmearcampain@reddit

Yessssss. The GOAT. I have that movie poster framed in my office.

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

Blue Thunder in the movie theater

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schmearcampain@reddit

I love that movie. I don’t think it was R rated though.

Catch ya later!

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Lighteningbug1971@reddit

The last American virgin

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l00ky_here@reddit

I remember seeing that in the shared hotel room With my parents when we went on a vacation. I was "supposed" to be asleep but I watched it because they were thinking that an 8 year old kid is going to be able to sleep with the tv playing a "forbidden" movie 10 feet away.

I dont remember anything about it but I do remember going back home and being at the pool with the other kids and saying something about pooping cherries or I saw "The Last American Virgin" having literally no clue that it was what it was about, and being told not to talk about it by the mom on duty watching us swim.

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Lighteningbug1971@reddit

Me and 2 other friends watched it several times . I was the one with the new satellite dish that summer and I guess I was 13 or 14 , and we had all the channels to watch . We felt so bad for that boy in the movie that was in love with that awful girl who kept doing him wrong . Needless to say we learned a lot watching it!!

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Doit2it42@reddit

Alien. I was 15 so my mom had to take me. 😆

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102aksea102@reddit

Mine was Alien as well. I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I spent the night with a friend and her parents had HBO. My mom specifically told me not to watch HBO!! And what did we do? Watched Alien. I’ve never been so scared in my entire life. I’ve never watched scary movies since and I sure as heck never watched Alien again or any of the sequels.
Nope.

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schmearcampain@reddit

You owe it to yourself to watch Aliens. It’s not scary. Still one of the best action movies of all time.

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krissym99@reddit

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Only rated R due to the car rental scene. Gobble gobble!

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peatmo55@reddit

The Fog and Phantasm at the drive in when I was 5.

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freckleskinny@reddit

The Exorcist... 1977 - I know, I'm old.

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schmearcampain@reddit

That movie broke my brain. I have never liked horror movies since.

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New_Resort3464@reddit

The Deep at the drive in. Double feature with King Kong. My mother lost it when she realized I was awake and watching.

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Temporary_Cow_8486@reddit

Grease 1978. I was 8.

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Weird-Ninja8827@reddit

In the theater it was either Aliens or The Fly. It was a double feature and I don't remember which was first.

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l00ky_here@reddit

I had to beg my parents to let me watch "The Fly" for at least a year before they let me. It was one of those 7-11 video rentals they did in the mid 80's where you would take a card that looked like the video box to the counter and they'd rent the movie. It was the closet thing to a blockbuster I had that took kids and was walking distance to my home. They had "The Fly" and I kept asking if I was old enough yet to watch it. When I finally did my parents both sat and watched with me. I loved it, but my mom cried and was angry about it. As an adult I can see how freaking sad it was for the Geena Davis character falling in love, and then going through all she had. That ending was do bleak.

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theoneandonly78@reddit

DC Cab…..at a drive in theater. Remember seeing a huge set of boobs on the screen while on a slide.

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danconderman33@reddit

Caddyshack, I was 5. My Aunt and Uncle took me, the theater burned down the next day.

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aquariagerl@reddit

My friend’s aunt took us and let us watch Porky’s. 😂

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linaraq@reddit

Stripes

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my_sister333@reddit

Heavy Metal. I loved the end. Paved the way for the badass Princess Leia in a bikini to be my hero.

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Ok_Watercress_7801@reddit

Rosemary’s Baby

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HonestNeighborhood67@reddit

Risky Business

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schmearcampain@reddit

After all is said and done, that may go down as his best movie.

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78andahalf@reddit

Mine was also Caddyshack! I was about 11. My older brother (about 23) was babysitting me that night, and he and his date took me to see it at the drive-in, just like Greg and Bobby Brady, I swear to god!

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schmearcampain@reddit

That is so meta. I love it.

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iAmAmbr@reddit

I remember my parents laughing when I, a 3 or 4 year old at the time, started dancing like the gopher in Caddy Shack!

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l00ky_here@reddit

Saw that one too, on HBO or something.

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Sea-District4363@reddit

The Blues Brothers in 1980 with my mom. I was 11.

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l00ky_here@reddit

I saw that but didnt know it was an R

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Sea_Ganache620@reddit

Friends had HBO. The first movie was Porky’s. I might’ve been in 2nd grade or so. Quite an awakening.

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reporterbabe@reddit

Little Darlings, where Kristy MacNichol and Tatum O’Neil compete at camp to see who can lose their virginity first.

I don’t know why I fixated on seeing it, but my mom finally took me (I was 13, I think?) and I loved it.

After that, my parents decided they would just take me and my little brother to R-rated movies, so my 10-year-old brother’s first R-rated flick was Altered States.

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schmearcampain@reddit

Teen sex comedies died with us.

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National-Stock6282@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula_(film)

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schmearcampain@reddit

My parents used to take us along to movies they wanted to see, so my guess is probably Magnum Force when I was 3-4.

The first one I remember going to on my own was Animal House when I was 9.

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TeufelRRS@reddit

I remember seeing both 48 Hours and Poltergeist when I was 6 yo. 48 Hours was at a drive-in. Poltergeist was at a regular theater. Things were very different in the 80s which probably explains a lot about how I turned out. FYI, I saw a lot of Eddie Murphy movies when I was a kid and this was well before his kid friendly makeover and later arrest for picking up a trans prostitute to supposedly give her a ride home.

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l00ky_here@reddit

Poltergeist was scarier than Gremlins, but it was Gremlins (and Temple of Doom) that had the PG-13 Rating developed. Red Dawn being the first.

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Ba55-man@reddit

Spielberg really pushed to have his movies rated PG. Poltergeist, Jaws, Temple of Doom, were all pretty violent for PG.

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No_Donkey_9356@reddit

Pretty women

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flipflopswithwings@reddit

Does anyone remember the special “family friendly” cuts of popular movies they made in the late 70s to get more people in the theaters? I have a vivid memory of seeing a “family matinee” of Saturday Night Fever with all the swear words and the young woman jumping off the bridge cut out.

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CaptainBeefsteak@reddit

DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS?

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reporterbabe@reddit

The family friendly Saturday Night Fever notoriously still had a scene with a topless stripper!

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EttaJamesKitty@reddit

I don’t remember. We had HBO and I could watch whatever I wanted. I think “Mommie Dearest” was the first movie I saw on HBO.

I remember my friends and I watching “Stripes” over and over again so we could do the graduation routine.

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

That’s the fact, Jack!

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Admirable_Summer_917@reddit

Saturday night fever, I was 14. My sister took me.

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l00ky_here@reddit

My parents took me with them to an evening double feature with that and Grease. I watched Grease and slept through SNF.

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Pink_PhD@reddit

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I was 10. I got my mom to buy me a ticket while distracting her so she wouldn’t notice the rating. 😏

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itumac@reddit

The Jerk

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

Same. My parents took us to see Coal Miners Daughter and it was sold out. They decided to try The Jerk despite not knowing Steve Martin or what it was about. They hated it. My brother and I (9 and 8) reenacted “He hates these cans!” for months.

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middle_aged_cyclist@reddit

It was actually a clip movie called "terror in the aisles" hosted by Donald pleasence from Halloween

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l00ky_here@reddit

I loved that movie! I had recorded it off HBO or some channel and watched it at least 6 or 7 times. I can watch it this day and remember all the scenes.

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Curtain-MikesSong@reddit

Basic instinct. And I watched it with my parents. In their bed..... Fucking awkward man....

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l00ky_here@reddit

Lol...I saw that with my BF at the time, but I did go see The Doors with them.

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No_Farm_3562@reddit

Yikes lol

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l00ky_here@reddit

Its a tossup between The Terminator ot A Nightmre on Elm Street on video.

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Repulsive_Drawl@reddit

Last American Virgin

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arieljagr@reddit

See it or be it! Terrible tag line, but a great movie. Such a sad ending.

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kleindinstein5000@reddit

Excalibur. My friend's Mom took us and his little sister, I must've been 12. Mom had no idea. It was awesome!!

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demonkidz@reddit

Conan the Barbarian...

I thought I was on cloud 9

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Ok_Yellow1536@reddit

Apocalypse Now.

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GatorNavy9002@reddit

Does parents dropping you off a the theater for. Disney movie and then going into the Pom Pom Girls theater count? My brother and I were only there until we daw the first boob , giggled, and got kicked out.

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PlummetComics@reddit

Excalibur then Outland

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arieljagr@reddit

Excalibur for me! I was 12 or 13. Very embarrassed by the sex scenes, but I loved the movie altogether. Still love it.

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Something_Wity_AF@reddit

Friday the 13th

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murphinator2@reddit

In 1985ish I was babysitting my nephew who insisted he was old enough to watch it. After profuse begging I agreed.

It was on a broadcast tv and edited. He was 8ish?

I got the phone call next day that he was up all night with scary dreams. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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SteveinTenn@reddit

Porky’s.

My holy-roller mom was on a break from church and took the whole family to see it. It was the year I turned nine. And I LOVED it!!! Mom did, too.

Unfortunately her backsliding was always very temporary and we were jumping pews again in a few weeks.

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Coldfinger42@reddit

Probably a Dirty Harry movie. Mom was a huge Clint Eastwood fan

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Ba55-man@reddit

My parents took me and my brother to see Stripes when I was 10. My dad laughed hysterically. My mom was mortified, but I saw boobs in the first five minutes of the movie.

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Brilliant-Battle-876@reddit

The Groove Tube. Or about five minutes of it. Snuck in. were pulled out of the theater by the napes of our necks.

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flipflopswithwings@reddit

Fame (I’m gonna live foreverrrrr…..baby remember my name!)

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EttaJamesKitty@reddit

My parents took me to see it for my 8th birthday. Then I bought the album with some birthday money.

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Michaelbirks@reddit

It is a great album.

Hot lunch!

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Effective-Company-46@reddit

All That Jazz.

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Mel_Dee8@reddit

Purplerain ☂️💜

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mountnbkr@reddit

I'm not genx but mine was Dirty Harry. I was 15 at the time...

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Longjumping_Plum_920@reddit

Saturday Night Fever

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Accomplished-Leg8461@reddit

Joe

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Livid-Monitor-9007@reddit

Robocop my cousin and I were 8 when our uncle took us and he didn’t know it was that violent lol

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kellymig@reddit

I’m not 100% sure but I really my cousin taking me to Blue Lagoon. It was over my head. To be fair I had seen Meatballs years before and most of that was over my head as well.

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SwissTanuki@reddit

Evil dead..but since it was a copy of a copy of copy on VHS it was almost like a Japanese adult film. Still..

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sidfinch@reddit

The Jerk

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luri7555@reddit

Stripes

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IamSusanMarie@reddit

Slapshot

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buck_09@reddit

That was mine too. I thought it was kinda boring except for the hockey and fights scenes. I didn't really understand what else was going on. Was probably 7 or 8.

It's one of my wife and my favorite movies now. Hey! Hanrahan!

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Illustrious_Name_441@reddit

Who own the Chiefs?

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IamSusanMarie@reddit

Owwwnnns owwwnns

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kalassyn@reddit

Ten with Bo Derek. I was way too young. But no one was watching what we did.

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Forsaken-Cheesecake2@reddit

Don’t recall but we had Encore and HBO so I know there was a selection.

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Andurilmage@reddit

Robocop

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No_Recording1467@reddit

The Blue Lagoon. I was 13. I also saw Endless Love in the theater.

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BenedickUSA@reddit

Police Academy. 7 years old with my 6 year old brother and Dad. Epic.

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Uranus_Hz@reddit

My dad and uncle took me and my cousin with them when they went to see Blazing Saddles. I was 9 and my cousin 7

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inigo_montoya@reddit

Might have been Stir Crazy, with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.

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NelsonMuntz3@reddit

Mine Def was Stir Crazy. I was ten. Parents took me because the 50 cent ticket was cheaper than a babysitter. I saw my first boob, and I immediately understood it's significance.

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skipper_jonas_grumby@reddit

Police Academy

We rented it so I was probably 10 or 11 at the time

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superguysteve@reddit

At the same age, I went to see it at the drive in with my parents. We drove home in silence and still don’t talk about it.

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KiwiCandle@reddit

Event Horizon. I was around 10.

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ComparisonOk8602@reddit

No fucking idea. We stole HBO. I watch everything.

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marKRKram@reddit

Porkeys

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Overall_Matter_2520@reddit

Purple Rain. Snuck in when I was in middle school.

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sysaphiswaits@reddit

Die Hard With a Vengeance. Still one of my favorites.

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Oldebookworm@reddit

Planet of the apes, at the drive through. My mom didn’t know I watched it. We were supposed to be lying down and sleeping during the second feature

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mittychix@reddit

That movie was awesome, iconic reveal at the end. I had a giant room-sized floor puzzle of a scene from the movie.

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JoyfulNoise1964@reddit

American Gigilo.... taken here by my Dad and his gf when I was 12 The second Animal house taken there by my mom and her bf also I was 12

Before that the only movie my parents ever took me to was Poseidon adventure I was 8/9 And terrified!

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OptiGuy4u@reddit

"10" Bo Derick.....🫠

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excoriator@reddit

Mine, too!

Told my parents I went to see Escape From Alcatraz. I’ve still never seen that film. 🤣

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sineofthetimes@reddit

Up the Academy

I have no idea what happened in it.

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sitewolf@reddit

All I remember is that it had the first topless adult female I'd ever seen- Dyan Cannon.

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excoriator@reddit

“10”

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cometgirl@reddit

The Rose

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mittychix@reddit

The Omen. I begged my mom to take me. She had to read the book first to make sure there was no sex in it. (I guess people getting hanged, impaled, and beheaded is okay though. And a father trying to kill his own young son because he’s the antichrist, lol.) I did enjoy it.

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Boring-Ad9170@reddit

Pennies from Heaven. My first movie boobies.

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CaptainZ42062@reddit

Jaws, when it premiered in '74(?), my dad had me that weekend and HAD to see it... "Don't tell mom..."

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redshirt1701J@reddit

I was released as a PG originally.

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CaptainZ42062@reddit

Really? Chalk it up to an 11 year old memory.

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redshirt1701J@reddit

There were cuts that had to be made to keep it out of an R rating. Mostly gore, nothing…spicy.

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KingPabloo@reddit

The Exorcist

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blueboatmich66@reddit

Saturday Night Fever

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Space_Vaquero73@reddit

Zapped!

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togocann49@reddit

The Choirboys. Watched it with my dad on Betamax around 79/80

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Human__been@reddit

American Werewolf in London. Buddy and I cut out the PG letters from another movie and carefully pasted over the R for this movie and then showed his mom so she would take us

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GenralChaos@reddit

The first really R R-movie i remember is "The Sword and the Sorcerer". But i also remember being taken to see the OG Star Wars in 80 at maybe 5 and Raiders at maybe 6. After that, Poltergeist, Excalibur and a bunch of others.

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Sorchochka@reddit

OG Star Wars was not rated R. No actual Star Wars movies are more than PG-13 and that began with Revenge of the Sith.

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GenralChaos@reddit

true, which is why i lead with Sword, but i was also trying to establish my parents wanted to go see movies, and didnt care what it was or how old the kids were (1973, 1975-me, 1977).

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MageZero@reddit

Alien. I was 8. It scared the shit out of me.

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Swmboa@reddit

Alien still scares the shit out of me. I was probably 12 when I saw that. My older brother’s favorite movie. So it got rented a lot.

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Zayariel@reddit

My dad showed me Scanners when I was like 5 or so.

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Fast_Chest9306@reddit

The Kentucky Fried Movie 😂

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Mojoyashka@reddit

Police Academy. Then Conan the Barbarian. Those are the two that stand out. Honestly the Blue Oyster was confusing to me until later in life.

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herculaneum@reddit

Foxes with Jodie Foster.

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universalspeckodust@reddit

American Beauty or Me, Myself, and Irene… definitely one of those two.

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GenerAsianX1992@reddit

Double feature: Conan the Barbarian and Road Warrior.

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Swmboa@reddit

Terminator? I think. I was 7. At the neighbors.

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Glittering_Word9081@reddit

The shining. Where da fuq were my parents??? To this day I can’t watch horror movies or face long hotel corridors.

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Xraided143@reddit

The Terminator

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RandomObserver13@reddit

When I was about 15 or 16 somebody had the great idea to start a Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror club. I signed on to that! First thing we did was watch The Terminator. I have no idea who our advisor was or how that got past them but I remember the boobie scene and was just like whoops! I can only imagine how something like that would go down these days, lol.

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tooslow_moveover@reddit

Terminator is an unexpectedly moving love story, hidden inside a relentless action film.

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theyFOOLEDmeJerry@reddit

Me too. I was 14.

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SgtBearPatrol@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop. I was 9 and I couldn’t believe my parents let me see it. My younger sister and I watched it all the time.

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Lolly1113@reddit

Pretty Woman. With my mother 😂

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Maleficent_Gur5924@reddit

Flashdance? My mom had her hand over my eyes for a lot of it..

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Alert_Advisor_5422@reddit

The Exorcist. My aunt was babysitting and turn it on and fell asleep. I was maybe 6 yrs old and was super scared and refused to sleep alone. My mom made my aunt sleep with me for days.

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Only_Presentation758@reddit

I don’t remember but it was surely at a friend’s whose family had HBO. My parents were very strict & wouldn’t even take us to a PG-13 movie in the theaters.

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Grreatdog@reddit

Double feature of MASH and Patton at the drive-in with my dad. I was ten or eleven. It was one of maybe five things I ever did with my father.

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bberries3xday@reddit

Mine was Serpico. I was 12 or 13 and I had read the paperback novel. I asked my cynical divorced dad to take me so he could get me in. The last movie he had taken me to before that was Charlotte’s Web, so he had low expectations.

We both loved the movie but after that he saw me in a different light.

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Novel_Willingness721@reddit

Stripes. On HBO.

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gwy2ct@reddit

Blazing Saddles… my mom was away and my dad sneakily snuck us in and warned us not to tell mom lol
I did tell her about 40 years later 😊 and she still wasn’t too happy with dad

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Turkzillas_gobble@reddit

Might've been The Terminator? There was a weekend when we rented a VCR, my older sibs and family friends picked the movies, and my parents hadn't figured out what "Rated R" meant yet.

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thestatedrone@reddit

I was 9 or 10 and went to the drive-in with my mom and older sister (16 years older than me). I can't remember what the first movie was, but it was something age appropriate maybe? The second movie was American Gigolo.

I had fallen asleep in the backseat. But woke up and saw that scene. They both tried to cover my eyes, too late.

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emspfaery@reddit

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. It was middle school and I wrote myself a note and forged my mom's signature. 🤣

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DawnCoub@reddit

Priceless! You went with a note 😂

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tooslow_moveover@reddit

Mine was Ordinary People. Heavy stuff, that still brings me down a bit when I think about it.

First R-rated movie with no parent: Risky Business. Fooled 14-year old me into thinking I could get some on a train and then get into Princeton.

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OkIntroduction5150@reddit

The People Under the Stairs. Scared the shit out of me.

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Julian_Thorne@reddit

Porky's

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DawnCoub@reddit

Came here to say this. It was on HBO and I was 9. What the heck???

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LemmingsofDoom@reddit

The Enforcer - my dad took me to see it.

I was eight years old.

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Average_Br0@reddit

This movie, messed me up my honestly haha

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Nervous_Survey_7072@reddit

Parents took us to drive through to see Caddyshack when I was 8. Made us duck down in the back of the station wagon when the naked scenes came on.

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PahzTakesPhotos@reddit

Friday the 13th. At a friend's house. He had an older sibling who let us watch it.

I don't want to say it had an effect on me, but my only son's name is Jason.

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vinegar_strokes68@reddit

Saturday Night Fever. Total "oops" moment on mom's part

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grimlock75@reddit

There was a movie from 1984 called Tank, with James Garner. It was PG, but disturbed me with the whipping scene.

There was also a laser disc my aunt rented called Cinderella 2000 that was basically porn.

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fireyqueen@reddit

I think it was Nightmare on Elm street with my sister who was 9 years older than me.

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mthenry54@reddit

Blue Thunder when I was 9 on VHS. I still love that movie.

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paleotectonics@reddit

JAFO

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RandomObserver13@reddit

I still find it hilarious that Dana Carvey of all people ended up as JAFO in the (very short lived) TV series.

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dwts16@reddit

Same. First R rated movie I got to see on my own.

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Hairy-Preparation708@reddit

Stripes and Faces of Death. My friend’s parents rented a VCR (yes, that was a thing in the beginning) and we got to pick 3 movies. I can’t remember the 3rd movie

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blister469@reddit

Porkys

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O-really@reddit

Porky s gang unite lol. My parents took me to see it at the drive in.

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blister469@reddit

IS MIKE HUNT IN THE PARKING LOT

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EveryFamilyhasCrazy@reddit

Porkys was the first R movie I snuck into after watching and paying for a PG movie. I was 13 I think and had never laughed so hard in my life!!

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blister469@reddit

Love a 3 of them

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Daliguana@reddit

my brother and I went to a drive-in double feature Bo Derek 10 and Sheena of the Jungle in 1984. I was 14, he was 16. Sheena was PG but 10 was R. 10/10 would do it again

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candicb@reddit

Private Benjamin with my parents.

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bunkie18@reddit

Caddyshack as well! Saw it at the theater with my parents. I was 13 and my mom couldn’t get her hands on my eyes fast enough during the “oral” scene 😆

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SignificanceDue1561@reddit

I had a cool babysitter and I watched Halloween on HBO when i was...6 or 7? never ratted her out. iirc she was only like 13 or 14 herself.

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mcd_down@reddit

My grandmother took me to History of the World, Part 1 and An Officer and a Gentleman.

I was 14.

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AthleteHistorical490@reddit

I think mine was “Platoon.” And yes it was traumatic AF lol.

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Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit

In the theater? Legitimately?

Umm... Nope, not gonna tell you my birth year. ;)

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RandomObserver13@reddit

Blue Thunder. As far as theaters go. Saw X-rated action before that though (not that that was a good thing).

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Truth_and_Soul@reddit

The Jerk. My mom didn’t realize it was R until we got there. She was excited to see it so she took the risk

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Charlie22tt@reddit

Blazing Saddles

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redshirt1701J@reddit

The Kentucky Fried Movie. Midnight Showing

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a1welding2004@reddit

The Blue Lagoon. I think I was in third grade. My step mom took me to see it.

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TheChocolateWarOf74@reddit

The Exorcist in the early 80s. I was way too young to watch it.

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NativeNashville@reddit

My mother and my best friend’s mother took us to see Friday the 13th when we were 12.

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poppinwheelies@reddit

Porky’s

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Hiisnoone@reddit

This was prolly my third or fourth. Haha what a baptism.

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blackfarms@reddit

I saw the original Caligula when I was 14?...lol

That was an eye opener.

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MrRetrdO@reddit

I have that one in my DVD Collection.

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hotdog-savant@reddit

I do t remember what the first movie was but I do remember getting a free trial of HBO and watching it by myself for R rated movies and keeping an eye on the door so I could change a channel when my parents came home.

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MrRetrdO@reddit

Not really sure? We had this new channel called "HBO", so I know it was on that channel.

It's a bit of a toss up: Hair (the movie), Alien, The Exorcist.

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mrsprkle6@reddit

Blazing Saddles, age five.

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probridgedweller@reddit

Something to do with war \~ vet as a dad

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ec666@reddit

My uncle took me to see some Cheech & Chong movie.

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Breathtaker@reddit

Alien. Was scared at a primal level all night.

Do not regret.

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ROCKGIRL969@reddit

Halloween in the theater with my p's. I was 8 years old.

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darthbreezy@reddit

Creepshow....

Where's my cake, Alicia? It's FAAAAATHER'S DAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!

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mrplow999@reddit

Alien. I was 11. Cousins took me and told my mom and aunt that we were going to see In Search of Noah's Ark.

I was fairly traumatized, couldn't sleep with the lights off all summer

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Dry_Nail5901@reddit

The French Connection, in a theatre, first run

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wagowop@reddit

Saturday Night Fever, I was 13 and went with my Mom. She covered my eyes during the racy scenes, haha

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CWShermanGirl@reddit

Cocktail

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dansamy@reddit

Revenge of the Nerds

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minaretcrew@reddit

The Bodyguard. Sneaked it into the Blockbuster pile. I was terrified that the checkout person was gonna rat me out.

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rip67@reddit

The Shining, 1980

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Acrobatic_Bird_3972@reddit

Same. I was in middle school at a birthday party sleepover. We sneaky watched it when it came on late night on cable. "I heard it's a scary movie and it's 'R' lets watch it yay!". Oh her parents were really not happy with us in the morning.. discovering a bunch of royally freaked out girls who had never slept, and then having to tell all the parents what happened when they picked up their kid haha.

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Grimace2_9@reddit

Stripes

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bbqduck-sf@reddit

Carrie.

The opening scene certainly raised my awareness.

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anon2univ@reddit

Parents took me with them to see "Sharkys Machine" had to be 11 at the time. I actually ended up going to different movie after my mom thought Sharkys was to violent. I seem to recall seeing a comedy with Chevy Chase instead and looking it up I think it was "Modern Problems".

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Only-pooooooooh@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop

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markov-271828@reddit

Question for Fire 🔥

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ThatOtherOtherGuy3@reddit

Friday the 13th Part III as a 9 year old.

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Longjumping_Ad_4431@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop I HOWLED

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Anachronism--@reddit

Me and a friend bought tickets to cats eye but went into the theater for Beverly Hills cop. Which one does anyone remember?

I just looked it up and I should really watch cats eye, it looks pretty good…

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simikoi@reddit

Police Academy was the first movie I saw boobs. Nightmare on Elm Street was my first horror movie. Not sure how old I was.

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lostinexiletohere@reddit

Skipped R went straight to XXX, my spermdonor and stepmonster had a cable channel called Escapades when I was 12. Watched Confessions of Window Washer and Happy Hooker goes to Detroit

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Comfortable-Sky-9569@reddit

The Bodyguard my brother and his now wife took me I was. 13

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keoweenus@reddit

Robocop at age 8

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Wild-Region9817@reddit

Vacation in the theater with my parents.

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Better_Resort1171@reddit

Was Up in Smoke , X?

That would be mine

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t-dogg4@reddit

My parents took me to Stripes because the babysitter bailed. I’ll never forget the shower scene.

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ffs2050@reddit

Conan the Barbarian, age 10

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DMGlowen@reddit

Friday the 13th the first one somebody had it on VHS.

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Away_Bit_3382@reddit

The Exorcist. Went with my parents, brother & sister. I was 12.

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fi1mcore@reddit

A friend who lived in Georgetown took me to see The Other Side of Midnight athe the Key Theatre and hoo boy, that earned its full R.

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Aggravating_Cable_32@reddit

Aliens

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fizzelnut@reddit

The howling at the drive in

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Trent1373@reddit

Prince of the City, I was 5 or 6. Dad told mom we were going to see some kid’s movie, but we watched this instead. I didn’t care, I just liked hanging out with my dad.

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waxboy1997@reddit

"Conan the Barbarian" - Schwarzenegger! 🤣

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Ok-Limit-9726@reddit

Something about a cheer leader in Dallas…

…can’t quite remember the plot, think her name was Debbie

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VeeVeeDiaboli@reddit

Wasn’t she also an actress and went to Hollywood where she met up with Adam West? It certainly changed my view of sixties Batman….

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christerwhitwo@reddit

MASH. I was 11. My dad took us.

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Jackstraw1@reddit

I'm thinking it was the first Alien movie. I was 9 when it was in the theater. My old man saw it first and figured it was okay for me to see. After that, violence in movies was for me to watch no matter matter how gory it was.

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the_great_confuser@reddit

An American Werewolf in London. I was in 8th grade. I remember being scared walking home from the theater in the dark with my friends.

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AbuPeterstau@reddit

Either Zapped or Flashdance. We owed both of them on Betamax videocassettes.

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CMDR_Avalien@reddit

Alien, when I was 10. My Dad recorded films off the TV (with the adverts edited out - thanks Dad) & had a collection of mostly Bond films, Star Wars & Indiana Jones. But he kept the 18 rated ones on the top shelf, so one day when my parents were out, I got down the one with Alien written on it & put it in the VCR. The title sequence & music creeped me out & the initial scene & sound effects genuinely frightened me, but I stuck with it & it became one of my favourite movies ever. Got to meet Bill Paxton & Sigourney a few years ago also. Thanks Dad, miss you!

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PaintedSilverRiver@reddit

I went to the drive in with my mom and it was a triple showing- the exorcist, the hills have eyes and last house on the left. 😳
I was 8.
First time at a drive in too.
I was so scared I refused to go to the bathroom alone.
Then I read the amityville horror and traumatized myself.
Good times.

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D-ouble-D-utch@reddit

Cheerleaders Wild Weekend.

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XerTrekker@reddit

First legit allowed to see - Beverley Hills Cop at the theater when it came out. Around age 12-13.

First actual was History of the World on HBO at my friend’s house while their parents were asleep, still in elementary school.

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armblessed@reddit

My dad thought it would be great to take me (13) and my 11 year old brother to see Phantasm. That creepy dude and the flying spear ball thing became the fabric of nightmares.

https://i.redd.it/4hfbbhtl4z2h1.gif

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eastcoastmark@reddit

A couple of us snuck into Colors in 1988.

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Waesrdtfyg0987@reddit

I remember how big a deal that movie was. LA gangs on the big screen!

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eastcoastmark@reddit

https://youtu.be/rYbrhAk_IQs?si=v6eX8W2y3af9yEf6

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GimmeMyMoneyNow@reddit

Either Blue Lagoon or Halloween. Saw both when young in elementary school.

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Phil_Agate@reddit

Blue Lagoon was out at the same time as Airplane! I remember my 13-year-old cousin and my 15-year-old self waiting for Airplane! laughing at the girls who were trying to find someone to act as their guardian so they could see Blue Lagoon.

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GimmeMyMoneyNow@reddit

Oh yeah. I probably saw Airplane! around the same time. Latchkey kid with VHS!

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seriouslyisiton@reddit

Stripes. I was 13. They wouldn’t let me in without a parent so my dad bought a ticket then promptly left.

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9inez@reddit

Freebie and the Bean (Caan & Arkin) 1974, 8 or 9 depending on time of year. Friend’s dad took us, because that’s what he wanted to see. Had a blast.

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actuallyno60@reddit

Double feature at the drive-in: MASH and French Connection. I was 6.

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Extreme-King@reddit

I was 11 or 12 when I read French Connection. WOW

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katk1025@reddit

American Gigolo. I was in 7th grade and conned my older sister in to taking me to see any movie I wanted to see.

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Its_noon_somewhere@reddit

Silence of the lambs

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Build68@reddit

Probably fast times at ridgemont high.

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stevejscearce@reddit

Question for Fire. Bought tickets for a different movie and snuck in.

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EarlyLibrarian9303@reddit

Tagline: “Where’s the fire?”

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stevejscearce@reddit

Damned auto correct.

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kckitty71@reddit

St.Elmo’s Fire

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raymondspogo@reddit

Conan the Barbarian, but on HBO not at the movies. I used to watch movies at midnight when I was 10.

So I didn't really have permission.

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DeadLined784@reddit

"Weird Science"

I was 6 at a classmate's slumber party for her 7th birthday

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SeaDawgs@reddit

Weird science was actually pg-13.

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DeadLined784@reddit

Thank you!

Someone else let me know as well and I commented "I'm so old I forgot".

I edited my original comment

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Fire_Mission@reddit

That's PG-13

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DeadLined784@reddit

I'm so old, I forgot

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MJ_Brutus@reddit

Cat O'Nine Tails

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EarlyLibrarian9303@reddit

A person of taste and culture.

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MJ_Brutus@reddit

My parents took me to the drive-in. They didn't have a sitter.

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tauregh@reddit

Saturday Night Fever. My mom took me and my brother for some strange reason. I was 11 years old, my brother was 15. My mom put her hand over my eyes in the scene where the girl hands him a condom. In retrospect, wtf?!?

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

Animal House

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

gif

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

I didn't get many of the jokes but the zit bit cracked me up.

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Carlito2393@reddit

My brother took me to see Conan the Barbarian.

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StephDeSwasson@reddit

Mom dropped my siblings and I off at the mall to watch Piggies. As we were underage, we couldn't go in without an adult. Luckily, one of our soccer coaches was there, so he brought us in with him.

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bobj33@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop.

Our video rental store didn't care about renting rated R movies to kids. My friend and I loved it. Saw the sequel in the theater by buying a ticket for another movie and then sneaking in once it was dark.

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DudlyDjarbum@reddit

Blues brothers

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sumthymelater@reddit

gif

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wendyb1063@reddit

I was 12. My Mom dropped my twin brother and me at the old, majestic theater in the dowtown of the small midwestern town where we lived. We were supposed to be seeing Star Wars, which had just come out. However... the film had not yet arrived at the theater, and since our Mom wouldn't be picking us up for a couple of hours... so the manager said he would let us watch the movie that was just finishing its run there...Saturday Night Fever. Fairly shocking at our age, but we were both riveted.

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chabs1965@reddit

My Tutor with Matt Latanzi (sp?). I was 17-18 and found out what a bj was.

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RicharFromage@reddit

Yo! I think that was what my grandparents had on laserdisk!

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Mammoth_Ad_483@reddit

I watched Risky Business on HBO at my grandmother's house when I was 7 or 8 while she was busy with house guests. Eventually someone saw me watching it and asked my grandmother if I should be watching it, and that was the end of that.

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CrispyKayak267@reddit

The Omen

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bald_eagle_66@reddit

Porky's

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yurtlizard@reddit

Blazing Saddles. My uncle took me. Maybe 9 or 10 yo.

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MTSilverDude@reddit

Predator, during a birthday party/sleep over in 3rd grade. I thought that thing was outside all night, lol! And where I learned the word Motherfucker, thanks Arnold!

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CoralSpringsDHead@reddit

The China Syndrome - 1979

I was 9 and shocked at how many times they said “fuck”

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CrazyWhammer@reddit

I had a 1st date at 13 at that movie. We made out the whole time and I didn’t watch a thing.

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RealHeyDay@reddit

Coming Home with Jon Voight and Jane Fonda when I was 15. My bestie and I were absolutely stunned & shocked by the sex scenes. Like, jaws on the floor shocked.

Your typical network TV show today has more explicit sex scenes than that movie ever had.

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calipithecus@reddit

I think Carrie. Though it could have been Amityville Horror.

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Mediocre-Life-4784@reddit

My dad took me to see Animal House when I was six. I thought it was rated PG for years because that's what he told my grandma it was.

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kuruman67@reddit

I watched Don’t Look Now WAYYYYY too soon!

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Osinuous@reddit

Alien, I was 10 months old at the drive in.

First one I actually remember seeing was national lampoons vacation with my babysitter when I was maybe 5?

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Cranks_No_Start@reddit

Alien was one of my first as well. I think I was 12 and had the hots for Ripley.

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Otis737@reddit

The Last Boy Scout.

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Outside-Character962@reddit

M*A*S*H but this was before R ratings. I think it was M for mature audiences

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CrazyWhammer@reddit

Blazing Saddles! Thanks for taking me dad. Today mark’s the four year anniversary of his passing.

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exitpursuedbybear@reddit

T 2: Judgement Day I thought I was so cool

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jjrox75@reddit

Revenge of the Nerds and/or Trading Places. The comedy was great, but the boobs are priceless!

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athensslim@reddit

DC Cab

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Far_Animal6970@reddit

Police Acadamy and I was WAY too young. My dad was a cop and loved these movies so I watched the first 4 probably 50 times each thanks to HBO and blank video cassettes.

I was probably 6 or 7 and he felt the need to explain to me what was going on underneath the podium. Amazing parenting 😳🙄

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

I always forget that was Rated R. It seemed pretty tame for 80s standards.

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

Animal House

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kingForOneDay@reddit

Porky's, or Bachelor Party. Parents had HBO & Prism

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ButteryOpossum@reddit

Purple Rain - I was 8 and visiting my grandma who had HBO and not a lot of supervision. I saw my first porno in 4th grade when a friends older brother showed it to us as a joke.

I grew up rural and had no TV until I was 12, so both of those events are very vivid in the memory file.

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HeavenHellorHoboken@reddit

Stripes!

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Accurate-Bumblebee14@reddit

Porky's! My friend's mom walked us up to the ticket booth and told the attendant all our parents gave permission

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saxyroro@reddit

As someone who grew up with HBO and eventually thousands of videotapes, I don't think I could put my finger on , which was the first.

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KathyfromTex@reddit

Maybe it was "Fritz the Cat". Not really sure.

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MrsRalphieWiggum@reddit

The Blues Brothers

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surfinbird@reddit

“The Blues Brothers? Sheeeit. They still owe you money, fool.”

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MrsRalphieWiggum@reddit

They’re on a mission from God

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donkeyhustler@reddit

Angel heart

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jaybehm@reddit

Breakfast club

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sherlockjr1@reddit

I think that honor would go to whatever movie was playing at the drive in next to my middle school. I was there for a music concert. You could see the drive in screen from a second story window.

It was … enlightening…

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Glum-File6980@reddit

A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was six.

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AForse@reddit

Apocalypse Now.

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wizardwithgussets@reddit

The road warrior

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

First that I saw anywhere: "The Shining" on cable TV at my uncle's house in the early '80s.

First that I saw in the theater: "Boyz N The Hood"

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Neither-Dentist3019@reddit

Mine was also The Shining at a friend's 13th birthday. We rented it and her parents made us all call our parents to make sure it was okay.

I didn't know anything about it and I was not ready.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

I probably should have been 13 at the time, but I wasn't. I was 6, and he sat me down in the living room to watch it all by myself, thinking it was okay for me because there was a little boy in the movie about my age.

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Scifidelis@reddit

Zombie Gore and boobs.

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LouSevens@reddit

Tatoo on HBO!

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Salty-Pack-4165@reddit

I'm just about sure it was The Exorcist ,Omen or some other horror. Back in 7 grade I weaseled by way into film club that was essentially group viewing of VHS movies pirated in Germany. It was mid 80s still commie Poland and there I've seen a whole lot of movies I was too young to see anywhere else. Faces of Death was one series I vividly remember but before that classics like Omen,Exorcist ,Rosemary's Baby etc were must see.

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jtriomino@reddit

Lethal Weapon on VHS. I figured I'd watch it since my parents weren't home. Was not prepared for a naked butt Mel Gibson. Quickly shut off and rewound.

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Relative_Housing_375@reddit

Alien 1979, I was 14.

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MutedTechnology8644@reddit

Same!

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gollo9652@reddit

Mine too but I was 11. My grandmother bought the tickets and had no idea what was going to happen.

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Romanmir@reddit

“Wizards”, I was eight…

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Fly_Larvae@reddit

The Emerald Forest. 1985. Lots of naked people.

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Scott72901@reddit

I think it Animal House on VHS.

My first in the theater was “Eddie Murphy: Raw” - with a preacher’s daughter.

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GrimaceMusically@reddit

“Rambo: First Blood Part II”. I was born in ‘74. My mom was SUPER religious and any movie that even hinted at any kind of pre-marital sex or physical intimacy was totally of limits, as was any movie or TV show that had kids who talked back to their parents. For example, “Growing Pains” was something I was not allowed to watch because it showed teenagers being “disrespectful” to a parental figure. We didn’t get cable TV until way after everyone else because at first there was no way to block specific channels like MTV. My sister’s boyfriend brought his VCR over one night so they could watch movies (she is 10 years older than me so the rules didn’t apply to her) and one of the movies was “Rambo”. Came home from school and she was watching it. For her, ultra violence was perfectly acceptable, so long as there wasn’t nudity, sex or implied sex, and minimal cursing. Made ZERO sense to me, still doesn’t.

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_JahWobble_@reddit

The Toy. My mom covered my eyes when the clothes came off the painting over US Bates's desk.

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drinkslinger1974@reddit

I think that was “80’s PG” which meant it got away with a lot more haha

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_JahWobble_@reddit

Was that PG?!?!

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drinkslinger1974@reddit

I remember it coming on hbo in the middle of the day when I was 9 or 10. There were some pretty intense movies that were PG before PG-13 was created. IIRC, Temple of Doom and Red Dawn were the ones that pushed the vote over the top.

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SkidsOToole@reddit

Purple Rain.

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ecsutton3@reddit

Police Acadamy, Blazing Saddles, and Stripes. I was 10 and dad had got to pick the VHS offerings for the night. It was glorious and he never got to again without mom's oversight! lmao

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boybrian@reddit

Excalibur. Still one of my favorite movies.

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

48 Hours. Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. 1982. I was 14

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wildcat_crazy_zebra@reddit

Porky's

Was home alone, as usual, and going it in the vhs case. The big RATED R on the label sounded perfect for a 3rd grader.

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Ok-Rock2345@reddit

Alien. And then the second one was Dawn of the Dead. I did Ness around...lol

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Leading-Potential267@reddit

Aliens midnight movie. Theatre was packed and as a kid thinking I was all that with my cousin it was the greatest experience. Especially when the entire theatre erupted as one. Never repeated and can’t forget it.

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aeiou-y@reddit

The Jerk. My dad took me and my little brother when we were under 10.

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spencesmom@reddit

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The_Latverian@reddit

The Bo Derek "Tarzan" movie

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No_Thanks_3336@reddit

Friday the 13th at 8 years old lol.

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Keefer1970@reddit

Private Benjamin with Goldie Hawn, when it first made the cable rounds in the early 80s. I guess I was about 11.

I revisited it recently for the first time since then and thought it was pretty tame for an "R" film. If it were released today it'd probably get a PG13 at most.

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2ndChanceAtLife@reddit

Rambo
My grandma had HBO cable. My brother & I started watching Rambo with her. When it got to the naked shower scene, all she could say was “Oh my goodness!” She was scandalized.

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

Stripes, at a drive in. My brother and I were hiding in back of my parents’ van because my dad was cheap and didn’t want to pay for 4 tickets

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TonyWilliams03@reddit

Blues Brothers

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KartQueen@reddit

Funnily enough, blazing saddles. Double feature at the drive in. My sister and I were supposed to fall asleep in the back of the station wagon after the first movie. I stayed up and watched the second movie. Loved it, especially the fart scene.

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Phil_Agate@reddit

Blazing Saddles for me too, when it was re-released to theaters in.something like 1980.

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Diesel07012012@reddit

Pretty Woman

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Memeow11@reddit

Dad took me to see Alien when I was 10.

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naramri@reddit

Amityville Horror. I was 10.

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johnonymous1973@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop

My sister took me. (I was ten.)

My mom was NOT happy.

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supergimp2000@reddit

I always think it was Logan’s Run in 1976 because I saw my first on-screen boob. Back then nudity was still PG. Times change.

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mscrybaby-mo@reddit

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. I was 7

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Zaphod71952@reddit

My brother took me to see Mad Max in the theater, age 12.

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oracledp@reddit

The Godfather

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iloveairportsushi@reddit

Porky’s… was porky’s R rated?

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SnootchieBootichies@reddit

Definitely nudity and 100% raunchy humor throughout

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rlr0718@reddit

Either Halloween on video I don’t remember what age. Revenge of the nerds in the theater. I was 9.

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therocketn00b@reddit

Not sure whether it was my first, but I got grounded for going to see Pump Up the Volume. I thought it was a stupid thing to get grounded for, and I still do, so I guess I didn't learn my lesson that time.

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socceryank1968@reddit

My sister took my brother and I, 8 yrs. and 9 yrs. old, to see a double feature; Piranha and Dogs! Absolutely b-movie gems! 🤣

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calipithecus@reddit

I saw Piranha waaaay too young and I still have a hard time in water that I can't see to the bottom of. I can hear that feeding frenzy noise...

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PaperPerfect3100@reddit

Conan the Barbarian

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SnootchieBootichies@reddit

Same for me

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Extension_Case3722@reddit

Private Benjamin

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Tmettler5@reddit

I think Blue Lagoon.

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AlbatrossThat5870@reddit

Nightmare on Elm Street on HBO back in the early 80s. My sister was babysitting me and let me watch it. I was like 8 I think.

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thaulley@reddit

I think it was Animal House, around 5th grade.

I lived in a small town in the California coast and it only had one single screen movie theater. Whenever an R rated movie played they still let us kids in but we had to sit all the way in the back and not make noise.

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RitualHalatiik@reddit

I don’t remember the first ever but I remember the first I watched with dad and the first I watched with mom.

With dad, it was Blue Thunder. (On VHS) I have zero clue why he thought we should watch it, but he used to cackle when I’d use the term ‘JAFO’. Lol

With mom, it was interesting because she didn’t intend to watch the movie with or without me. It was Bachelor Party. (On HBO) It just happened to come on when my dad had left to drive across the state because my brother was at summer camp and ended up in the ICU with the doctors saying it was touch and go. (I was too sick to travel so mom stayed with me) She watched it numbly whilst I was just confused about the donkey doing lines of coke. Once mom realized, she apologized but it was never acknowledged or spoken of again.

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MiccioC@reddit

Mine was Caddyshack as well! My uncle Joe showed it to me behind my parents backs..lol

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BumpyGums@reddit

Porky’s, and it’s one of my favorite R rated movies to this day.

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Modman75@reddit

Used Cars (1980)… I was 11 and my brother was 9. They took us to the Drive In to see it.

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mild_shart_attack@reddit

Sudden Impact

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Expensive-Bullfrog76@reddit

Porkys

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somePig_buckeye@reddit

Stir Crazy in 2nd grade at the theater. We were in Columbus shopping and he wanted to see the movie.

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miparasito@reddit

Airplane!

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Phil_Agate@reddit

Airplane! was PG, I know that's hard to believe.

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drum_nerd@reddit

Porkys is the first one I can recall seeing that had nudity in it (I was born in 76)

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Grand_Taste_8737@reddit

Porky's

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SeaDawgs@reddit

Flashdance is the earliest one I can remember, but my parents weren’t particularly strict about movies. Actually, I think I even watched flashdance with them. I think my mom fast-forwarded through the scene in the stripclub where Jeanie worked. . I was probably 8. I loved the soundtrack.

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Ttthhasdf@reddit

Animal House.

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rakrunr@reddit

In the theater, Saturday Night Fever. I was 7.

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Minimum_Painter_3687@reddit

Stripes. I was around ten when I saw it.

The neighbors had just bought a laserdisc player and invited us over to watch it. I don’t think my parents really knew what kind of movie it was. There were some slightly panicked looks when the gratuitous titties made an appearance. I’d already been exposed to Playboy so it wasn’t new to me.

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McGruffin@reddit

Alien when I was 9

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ogticklemonsta@reddit

Porky's

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kridkralc@reddit

That's an awesome first R rated movie!

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GeoHog713@reddit

In the theater - Terminator 2.

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ScubaTrek@reddit

I was 15, and my dad (a minister) decided he was going to take me. Gave me a choice between Porky's and Conan the Barbarian. I picked Porky's. He wanted to leave but we did stay.

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Psychological-Bet932@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop when I was 9 and on an airplane. I wasn’t interested nor did I understand it at that age, but it was the in-flight movie and I was thrilled that my parents were going to let me watch an R rated movie. I probably flipped the audio channels on the headphone switch on the seat to something else though.

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EnoughEstate7483@reddit

Friday the 13th : Part VI

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Fire_Mission@reddit

Blue Thunder. In the theater with my parents. Much cringing on my part.

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Curlytoes18@reddit

Probably National Lampoon’s Vacation but I watched the less-naughty version (less cursing, no nudity) on TV.

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Training-Finish-2754@reddit

The original nightmare on elm street- I was about 8, don’t think I slept until I was 10. The funny thing is, I now love this movie and don’t think it’s scary whatsoever, whereas I saw Salem’s Lot a few years before that, and never watched it again- and I love vampires!!

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Different-Step-4600@reddit

Kentucky fried movie in the theater. I was so young that mom kept covering my eyes. Still don't know what possessed her to take me to that movie.

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yurinator71@reddit

Midnight Express double feature at the drive in theater with Star Wars. I saw space explosions and boobs that night. I have never been the same.

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kperry1270@reddit

It was a Chuck Norris film about a cult back in the late seventies I remember being afraid to go see it with my cousin because it was R rated

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Only_Sherbet_8606@reddit

My brother got me into nightmare on elm street when I was 14. It was great!

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Donna_Schrump@reddit

I saw Revenge of the Nerds way too early. Like 10 or so.

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Smittles@reddit

It must have been Rambo or Delta Force or The Exterminator. My step-dad upped the violence level when I was about 7. I think the first one that my folks “let me watch” was The Mosquito Coast. We definitely all watched Stand By Me. Then, one day, my dad walked in on the skinhead bonfire scene in The Lost Boys and put the kibosh on R-Rated pictures for a while.

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Darkest_Brandon@reddit

Conan the Barbarian!!!

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AttemptingToGeek@reddit

My first one on VHS. Kids lined up to see it.

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surfinbird@reddit

In the theater, Blue Thunder at 10 years old.

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bm1949@reddit

In a theater, Rambo II at 10 years old. Dad had no one else to go with.

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surfinbird@reddit

Yep, Dad took me to see it.

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AttemptingToGeek@reddit

July 1978

I was 8

Animal house

It was awesome!

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DeauxDeaux@reddit

Caddyshack at the drive in with the family when I was five.

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EveryFamilyhasCrazy@reddit

Alien- age 11. Won four free tickets on the radio!

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Some-Collection320@reddit

Jaws

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Smittles@reddit

Jaws is PG

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Some-Collection320@reddit

Oh. My bad. Midnight Express, then.

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kategoad@reddit

Some movie with Chevy Chase, or Steve Martin, or John Belushi.

In the theater? Stand By Me with my cousins.

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Character-Solution-7@reddit

I have never even realized that Stand By Me was rated R.

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kategoad@reddit

Seems quaint now, right? Couple of swears and smoking?

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DotOneFive@reddit

Trading Places.

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Glittering-Wrap-9814@reddit

1980, I was 15. Movie was Little Darlings, got a ticket for whatever PG movie was starting just before it, hid out in the bathroom and went into Little Darlings at show time. We were lucky to have a 4 screen theater nearby, in those days we didn’t know that the multiplex would become the norm. My friends and I did this several times. Those parochial school girls are the worst!

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Kong_AZ@reddit

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. It would probably air on regular TV now. 😆

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Fantastic_Golf_7154@reddit

Saturday Night Fever

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Aaliman@reddit

Terminator on VHS by mistake, thought the robot was the coolest thing even with it being evil.

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LinuxLinus@reddit

Harlem Nights. My best friend's mom had just died of breast cancer and his dad wasn't doing a lot of content supervision on the movies we rented, for obvious reasons. I was scandalized but not harmed by the picture, despite what people these days might tell you about what happens when a 10-year-old sees something iffy.

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longipetiolata@reddit

DC Cab in the theater. My friend’s dad took us and didn’t tell my parents what the rating was

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DooganC@reddit

Alien - age 9

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altairstarlite@reddit

Alien

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Honeybee71@reddit

The exorcist probably

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skos18@reddit

Same here

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yeahwellokay@reddit

Psycho III at a neighbor's house when I was 8 or 9.

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BlankTom_PNW@reddit

Snuck into Logan's Run when I was about 9.

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doubtaboutit@reddit

Unfortunately for 8 yr old me it was The Thing

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scottyk318@reddit

I snuck in to see Fame when I was after paying to see some stupid PG rated movie!

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ericehr@reddit

Animal House. I was like 9 or 10

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makeup1508@reddit

one of my favorite movies

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IdahoDuncan@reddit

Might have been Alien.

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Plastic-Sentence9429@reddit

In the theater? Either Hopscotch or Fame with my parents. I was 9. At my friend Drew's house across the street? (dude's parent BOUGHT movies on VHS and Beta, didn't rent them), probably The Blues Brothers, then Halloween, then whatever horror movie we could get our hands on. Friday the 13th and the sequels, etc.

Oh, there was one that I'd see on cable after school when I was 8 or so called Don't Go In the House, about a guy who built a special room in his house where he could lure women, strip them naked, chain them to the ceiling, and burn them to death with a flamethrower. This was on at like 4pm.

I'm a completely normal human being.

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makeup1508@reddit

The Omen 1976 I was 10 years old. Shows some of the questionable judgement of my dad. He let my 14 year old sister and I go to this horror movie by ourselves.

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lovebeinganasshole@reddit

Serpico at the drive in. My mom had a thing for Pacino.

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Live_Ear992@reddit

Heavy Metal. I was on a field trip to the movies to see Bad News Bears. But my brothers were next door watching Heavy Metal. I snuck out to join them. It was great!

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Effective_Bar_6098@reddit

In the theater, I think it was The Thing in 1982.

Looking it up, I see The Blue Lagoon was released in 1980. I saw that on VHS, but I don’t remember when. I remember thinking “should I be watching this” while my parents were in the background.

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BigShot357@reddit

While on summer vacation, an older cousin took my sister (11) and me (10) to see The Thing. I had nightmares for a while afterwards. 😵

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DawnGW@reddit

Blazing Saddles

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DT114_469@reddit

Mine too

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MaximumJones@reddit

The Exorcist

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DawnGW@reddit

oooo, how did that affect you? My mom forbid me to see that and I never saw it until they re-released it in the early 2000s in theaters. (I did read the book in high school though, and it was very disturbing)

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MaximumJones@reddit

I was either 6 or 7 and in Catholic school. It fucked me up for life. 😳

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Temporary_Web993@reddit

Jaws

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DT114_469@reddit

Believe it or not, this was rated PG. I saw in theaters when I was like 5. I laughed when the surfers leg sank to the bottom of the ocean

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Brother_Farside@reddit

In a theater- Excalibur. On HBO, have no clue.

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dirtybo0ts@reddit

The Silence of the Lambs

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DoowiBrisket@reddit

The World According to Garp

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

Stripes.

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LordBalderdash@reddit

Same, at a drive-in with the parents. A double feature with Victory, the futbol movie starring Pele.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

Poltergeist when I was 4. I know it ended up with a PG rating, but originally it was R rated before Spielberg and Hooper appealed.

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Rand_74@reddit

Bachelor Party. I was 10.

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Ah yes, Monique Gabrielle's perfect chest was an awakening to my pre-teen self.

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Amazing-Software4098@reddit

I think Conan the Barbarian. What more could I have asked for?

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Aimster0204@reddit

I was very young, maybe 5 or 6 and my dad and I watched jaws together on VHS (I assume). I didn't go in any body of water, including a bathtub for at least a year, maybe more. My mom was pretty mad. To this day, I have not rewatched, but I am a little obsessed with shark week.

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DawnGW@reddit

oh, you should watch again... it's one of the best movies ever. From beginning to end, it's got a great story. But yeah I saw it when I was very young too. As an adult, it's so good, especially the Captain Quint's backstory.

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Trolldad_IRL@reddit

It still holds up, as long as you understand it was set in 1975.

Watched it again recently for the nth time and it still captivated me.

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Trolldad_IRL@reddit

Jaws was PG.

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Aimster0204@reddit

i just assumed... really? wow!

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Commercial_Lock6205@reddit

Saturday Night Fever. I was eight.

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PinkyLeopard2922@reddit

Little Darlings. It was one of those free preview weekends of HBO or something and I snuck out into the living room long after my parents were asleep to watch it. I was terrified the whole time that they would wake up and catch me.

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pleatymactweed@reddit

Porky's, 1981. I was 7.

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aftrnoondelight@reddit

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Beverly Hills Cop on VHS. My parents had seen it in the theatre, and didn’t remember anything too objectionable. Then the strip club scene came up. First mom said to cover my eyes. I said, “But I’ve already seen ‘em!” Dad said, “Ah, the scenes almost over anyway.” 👌

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Iceman3132@reddit

Apocalypse Now in the theater. I was 10 and could not sleep for a couple of nights afterward.

My dad felt awful. He grew up on John Wayne war movies and had no idea what he was walking us into.

Today I know it's a groundbreaking movie for depicting the insanity of war. But back then it just freaked me the hell out.

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waknlibrarian@reddit

Friday the 13th My best friend had Showtime.

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BuckyGoldman@reddit

Cousin took my brother and me to a double feature at the drive-in. Arthur and 10. So, i guess it was 1981-ish. Parents could not get babysitter and took us to see Friday the 13th Part 2, also 1981. I was 11.

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KingCurtzel@reddit

Slapshot! Thanks Dad!

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Kreesto_1966@reddit

Blazing Saddles in 1974. I, too, was in the 3rd grade and my mom didn't realize it was R rated until we were pulling into the drive in theater. After a heated discussion between my parents, my dad won out and my sister and I got the see the movie.

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DawnGW@reddit

that was my first rated R movie, too. I also remember seeing it at the Drive-In theater. I didn't get a lot of the adult jokes anyway, lol. I remember laughing at the farting scene. I was about 5 yrs old.

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Kreesto_1966@reddit

Yeah a ton of it went over my head. Loved the farting scene though, naturally.

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timothypjr@reddit

The Hindenburg.

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KillerSwiller@reddit

Terminator

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Advanced_Tax174@reddit

Atlantic City. We didn’t understand it at all. 😄

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AZTerp1080@reddit

Flashdance

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Willing_Try2786@reddit

Bachelor Party...boobies

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Mysterious_Can_6106@reddit

Not sure if it was rated R but it was Trilogy of Terror! The one with the doll that became alive when it lost the chain around its waist. I was afraid to get off the couch, I swore that doll was under the couch waiting to slice my ankles.

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whskytrsh@reddit

I think mine was D.C. Cab with Mr. T

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AngryK9_@reddit

Back in '82 Mom and Dad went to see a movie in the theater and took me along. The movie was "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

I really don't recall what it's rating was. In fact I don't remember much about the movie at all aside from seeing a woman's naked butt at one point.

What I do remember the most is being in Winn Dixie at one point and Dad telling the cashier about seeing the movie, and censoring the title by referring to it as "Best little blank blank in blank"...then me, being a child of about 8 or 9 at the time, blurting out the whole title rather loudly apparently, in the way that kids often do.

Pretty sure that was embarrassing to my parents. Yes, it's the one thing I remember most about that experience.

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Midnight_Cowboy-486@reddit

Probably Porky's, when I stayed the weekend over at Grandpa's.

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Educational_Bid_5315@reddit

Risky Business. I slept over at my cousins house and my aunt said we could pick that or Mr. Mom. I was way too young

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sterling3274@reddit

I remember my parents taking my brother and I to Beverly Hills Cop.

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Sea_Voice_404@reddit

Police Academy when I was 12. We had just gotten cable which came with HBO and my dad turned it off when I tried to watch it because of the rating. I ended up watching it 5 hours later when I was babysitting my brother anyways.

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Complex-Republic-443@reddit

Terminator. Got in with a friend of mine at 12 yrs old. Still remember sweating it out in line! We asked a twenty-something behind us to be our "guardian" if they asked, which they didn't. Fun times!

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HypergolicHyperbola@reddit

Conan the Barbarian at about age 13 or 14?

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Own_Carry7396@reddit

The Blues Brothers. 9 years old. I grew up in Mt.prospect, the Blues mobile was a MP cop car. My parents saw it the night before, and said we had to see it. It was showing at the Mt.Prospect theater. I still remember when Jake asked Elwood where he got the car from, and Elwood said he picked it up it up at the Mt.Prospect police auction, the whole theater went nuts!

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Tacosweaty@reddit

My memory is a little hazy, but it was either Carrie or Enter the Dragon. First time I saw tiddies on the big screen. Although Carrie was at a drive-in. Not sure what my parents were thinking.

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dcmfox@reddit

I'm much older than you, and my parents didn't understand rating or just didn't care.

Mine was Dirty Harry, at the drive-in

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Ryoukai2001@reddit

My first on cable: The Blue Lagoon. First in the theater: Conan the Barbarian.

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Krishd88@reddit

The graduate when it came out at a drive in!

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BlatantEgg4314@reddit

Excalibur.

Man, was that exciting! Some older friends snuck me into the theater when I was probably about 14 or so.

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NicInNS@reddit

Probably Porky’s, but I also rem a nightmare on Elm st (was that R?) and Cat People…which my parents prob thought was innocuous because of the title. I rem watching it at my grandparents cuz my gramps had a vcr.

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antisocialdecay@reddit

I mean I saw Rambo and Predator way too young but I suspect it was Porky’s.

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TheAnalogDuke@reddit

Porky’s

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Awe3@reddit

Not sure if I remember right. I think it was Up in Smoke.

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PepsiOfWrath@reddit

My parents would just take me to any movie, I saw fatal attraction pretty young. I saw poltergeist when I was six. I have no idea as I don’t think my parents bothered to filter anything from my little GenX mind.

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Heavymetal73@reddit

I watched way more R rated movies than I had any business to when I was really young. We had HBO around 1980 and I was only 5 or 6 and remember seeing a horror movie will doll like people and one suffocated a girl by covering her face with plaster while she was tied down. I’m 52 now and still remember that scene.

I went with my mom to see Beverly Hills Cop. Might have been 10 or 11.

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GraphicSarcasm@reddit

Alien or Jaws. Maybe American Werewolf in London. Can't remember. I was afraid of the dark and scared to go into a pool for quite awhile.

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NJ2SD@reddit

Die Hard in theaters when I was 9.

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Jmofoshofosho8@reddit

Terminator 2. I was 7 or 8.

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Sir_midi@reddit

When I was 4 my parents took my brother and I to the drive in to see something. After quite a while they wondered why we were laughing at all the wrong parts. The whole time we were turned around watching Walking Tall.

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HighSeasArchivist@reddit

Rambo: First Blood Part II, when I was 8. Yeah...

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PrettyWorn_@reddit

Okay that movie scared me lol

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Ok-Offer-541@reddit

I think it was Eddie Murphy’s RAW. I probably didn’t get half the jokes - but still thought it was hilarious and knew that I probably shouldn’t have snuck in there. lol 🤭

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PrettyWorn_@reddit

I got some icccce cream I got some iccccceeeee cream 🎶

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Ok-Offer-541@reddit

Yessssss!!! Being probably a middle schooler at the time - I thought that was hilarious!! 😂🤣😂🍦

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PrettyWorn_@reddit

Yes! Haha I loved Gunny Goo Goo

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FlyingTerrier@reddit

Actual porn. We were about 10 years old. One kid’s parents were rich rednecks and had a porn collection we watched after school. I had no idea what was going on until much later.

As to regular movies probably Hitchcock movies like The Birds on TV. Then Jaws. I do remember watching Nightmare on Elm Street at a church youth sleepover. The nurse scene helped my puberty along!

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pdxtom@reddit

Animal House at the drive inn. Was told to duck down during the infamous topless pillow fight
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Ischmetch@reddit

Blazing Saddles

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thebiglerm@reddit

Revenge of the nerds

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Trolldad_IRL@reddit

That my parents too me to? I think it was Alien.

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BecauseISaidSo888@reddit

First one I saw was Blues Brothers on HBO at 7 or 8 yrs old. First one in the theater was Conan The Barbarian at 9yr old

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Queasy-Extension6465@reddit

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1975 at a drive-in, age 10.

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imk@reddit

I have this vague memory of seeing a movie while we were moving. I guess my parents were stuck with me and just wanted to do something. I remember being fascinated by the film because it was adults acting really wrong and strange.

It was Dog Day Afternoon. I guess I must have been around 8

I saw it again as an adult and the movie blew me away. So many feelings I could relate to.

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s1l1c0n3@reddit

Friday the 13th : The Final Chapter. I was in the 4th grade!

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pandesoldynomite@reddit

Porky’s

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SamHandwich0@reddit

Best Defense- Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore in 1984, i was 9.

My grandpa was taking me to the movies it was a two screen theatre and the other one was showing The Muppets Take Manhattan.

He 'wasn't going to pay good money to see a pupet show' so we saw that. He told me not to tell my grandma about the nudity- lol

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TyCrassus@reddit

Trading Places

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Bake_knit_plant@reddit

Not me but my daughter. Best little whorehouse in Texas

She loved all the pretty girls and their dresses, and the singing and dancing. She had no idea what they were saying about or dancing about so it was great for her

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winterneuro@reddit

Alien. I was 9

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EnjoyingTheRide-0606@reddit

The Jerk.

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Tired_o_Mods_BS@reddit

48 Hours. I was 7.

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Flababulous@reddit

We got HBO in early '81, I remember staying up to sneakwatch Terror Train and Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke.

The first one seen at a theater was a few years later, a few of my friends and bought tickets for Pee Wee's Big Adventure, but snuck into see Commando instead.

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