Haha. Just kidding...kind of.
I was 5 when this came out and my mom took me to see it not knowing what it was about. She says she thought it would be some sort of wilderness movie. When the two girls are ripped apart 5 minutes in, she figured out she was mistaken.
I call shenanigans on her explanation but I do recall her taking me home before the movie was finished.
I can relate! My grandfather took me and my aunt to see this at the movies - I was 6, she was 13. We made it through the entire movie and I was traumatized. I still to this day remember the girls in the cabin, the girl getting slashed near the waterfall and the horse's head getting knocked off. Oh yeah, and the boy looking for his rabbit. It was such a gory movie!
My mother was TICKED when she picked me up and found out he took us to see this. Our house bordered some woods and I was terrified that a bear was going to come out and get me. I slept in my parents' bed for weeks afterwards.
Even the poster still gives me chills LOL. I would love to see the movie today to see if it was really as terrifying as my 6-year old mind viewed it.
I don't know that my brain fully comprehended what I was seeing. I do remember my mom's hand shaking a lot as she took me from the theatre.
I watched it again about a year ago. Seems tame by today's standards but I'm sure you could still scar/scare a few young'uns with it.
I was only 11 when my dad took the whole family out for movie night. When the opening titles started, with the scenes of endless, rolling forest accompanied by a majestic orchestral score, I was thinking, oh great, I have to endure an hour and a half of another of my dad's boring nature documentaries. Then the body parts started flying...
shareI was 13 and by then was used to gore and violence. My dad took me to Dirty Harry, Death Wish, The Getaway, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, etc..
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