For me it was "Silence of the Lambs." My dad rented it when I was about 8 and I've had the urge to eat people ever since.
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I can't remember. That was WAY too long ago.
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None. My parents were extremely selective in what I was allowed to watch. There was no theater within walking distance from my home, so sneaking into a movie wasn't an option.
shareI'm in the UK. Our equivalent to R is 18*. And I grew up in the 80s and early 90s near a video store where they were very, very lax about the rules. So I watched bunches of 18 certificate films from quite an early age. Mostly your standard 80s horror franchises: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, all of that good, hokey stuff.
The Exorcist too. Another example of the laxness of that video store, because the movie wasn't legally available in the UK at the time.
Bunches of stuff. And it never did me any harm. The people currently locked in my basement may disagree with that last part.
* - Well, technically our 18 is your NC-17. But most films rated 18 here would be R in the USA, so in practice...
Bunches of stuff. And it never did me any harm
I probably agree.
There's a little confusion over the categories. Because we have 15 and 18 here. Some movies rated R by the MPAA are rated 15 by the BBFC. (Probably most of them nowadays, actually. We've become significantly less uptight about these things in the UK over the last twenty years.). Some R rated movies are 18. Pretty much all NC-17 rated films would be 18 here. Our classification systems aren't in perfect alignment.
But, yes, I probably agree. More likely to be bored by adult themes than traumatised by them.
The Matrix (1999).
I was only 4-years-old when it came out.