What movies you were too young to see?

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We all were kids once. We've seen a lot of movies. Our parents took us. Not just our parents, but others. They we're not paying attention to what we saw. We're watching movies for adults when we were too young and wasn't ready for. How old you guys were, what movie you saw and how was it?

Trilogy Of Terror. While this had been a TV movie, I had been somewhere around five or six years old when it aired. It wasn't the horror element that my parents thought I was too young for, but because TV guide had advised it be watched only by mature viewers for sexual situations. I remember how my mom said it was "X rated," which I took to mean at the time that it had something to do with x rays (didn't see why x rays were bad). Years later when I rented it of video, I found the so called mature content to be ridiculously tame.

Okay. When will Trilogy of Terror 3 come out?

I was 8 when South Park first came out, and I got well into it. My parents thought that just because South Park is a cartoon it means it's for kids - even though they were aware of the age rating. But my mum still thought that high age-rated cartoons are still "silly" and "childish". But my mum was wrong, as adult cartoons are just as adult appropriate as any non-cartoon adult movie. Maybe she was fooled because there were so many South Park plushies and figures and I spent most of my time playing with them (in my dolls house). Also there were lots of child-sized sweaters that had South Park characters on.

I had such an innocent mind up until I first watched South Park.

I know. I want to see Trilogy of Terror become a trilogy.

So many because my mom loved horror! One was "The Boston Strangler." This one particularly upset me because one of the actresses that played one of the victims looked just like my mom. It sickened me. The strangler was tyeing her feet and toes too to a bed post with her pantyhose. An absolute nightmare to see!! ! I ended up going out toward the refreshment area which was closed and decided to play with a soda machine by sticking my hand up the machine and getting free cans of Coca Cola. I was 7. My mother was 23. When the movie was over, she came looking for me. I got to see all the "OO7's" - mostly with Sean Connery and Roger Moore. The rest were on television - Psycho, anything from the late 60's and early 70's - anything that could scare the living shite out of you - that's what she watched and so did I. Just to be close to her. Space aliens scared me far more than anything else. One more! The "Night Gallery" series. Worse still - I stayed up late and watched television when everyone else went to bed. I saw "Easy Rider", "Valley of the Dolls", "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", "Scarecrow" - too many adult themes. I don't think that many people saw a problem with kids watching these. I became savvy at a young age and developed a crush on the actor Richard Benjamin.

"The Graduate" was a very "hush-hush" movie circa 1968. It was discussed in hushed tones.

Any movies that had a lot of graphic violence or disturbing content in them my NT sister and I
were never allowed to watch at all when we were growing up.

That's okay.

In the mid-1970s, I remember seeing Born Losers at a second-run theater. It was my Dad, my Mom, me, and my sister stepping into that theater after we had already seen another movie.

I was 12 or 13 years old.

The movie was about a motorcycle gang terrorizing a town. The pre-rape menacing is shown. The gang rape happens off-screen, and then post-rape, the young woman is being taken down a hospital corridor in a stretcher.

At one point, they capture the same woman twice.

Billy Jack fights the gang and tries to rescue one woman. At one point, the motorcycle gang catches him. Two guys are holding him as one guy is repeatedly punching him in the face, when his face is already a mass of bruises.

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It was way different from the earlier Billy Jack movie which is a much more thoughtful story of him standing up for Native American civil rights activists, and using karate and fighting. But just not as ‘evil’ and bad a movie.

I wanted to watch a medical documentary from 1978 about a woman going through life with kidney failure, but my first wife would not let me.  After she divorced me, I tried to borrow the movie on VHS from the public library, but all I got were some cold stares and haughty attitudes.  Now with the Internet, I have tried to find it on-line, but even my best Google-fu cannot locate it.  The title?

The Call.

Should have been a better horror movie. A group of teens torment a former day care operator to suicide, and then said teens learn they are included in the woman's will. But they must take turns listening a full minute to the dead woman on the phone.