Your first R-rated movie

Sleepy Hollow. I was about 7 or 8 I think.

 

Who knows for sure? It's been a long time...

However, 2 movies stick in my mind.

A strong--very strong--contender for Movie #1 is National Lampoon's Summer Vacation. Which is rated R. And which I saw--are you ready for this? :lol:--in junior high. I don't mean junior high in the sense of just being that age. I mean junior high in the sense that my English teacher showed us that movie. But...it was edited, sort of. She was ready at all times with remote, ready to fast forward anything too much for our tender 13 year old eyes. (Yeah. Right. I still remember some of the conversations some boys would have...but that's another story.)

I would not be surprised if other R rated movies were shown through jr. high and high school, although I also wouldn't be surprised if those movies weren't edited by the teacher and the Mighty Remote. I have, for example, a sense that I might have seen Breakfast Club as a teenager, and school is the only place that would have taken place.

And it's also possible that I might well have seen something technically rated R at home. But...that would have been via broadcast TV, and so the movie would presumably have been edited down to being more like PG.

Movie #2 that I recall was Frenzy. I saw that high school age, maybe 9th or 10th grade? My family went to see it at a local college, where it was possibly as part of an Alfred Hitchcock week or some such thing. Given that it was college, it was not edited, as one scene featuring a bare breast proved. Not that I'd expect to be edited; the primary audience was, of course, the college students. I felt...really uncomfortable. Was it because I was seeing it with my parents there? Or just that a gay boy didn't really want to see a breast?

 

I don't even remember. I've been watching horror films since I was very young.

 

I've been watching R-rated since I was like 5? So I can't remember what it was.

 

I don't know the first I SAW in theatres or TV really. Scratch that...it was GI Jane. My uncle took me and my brother in 1997. I would have been 14. I do recall a scene where she is topless. Other than her rolling around in the sand, it is all I remember from the movie. It was great; mom was ticked that he took us. The first I purchased was American Pie on VHS in 2001. That I remember clearly. LOL. I hid it in a drawer.

 

The Australian horror/thriller movie about backpackers being murdered. Wolf Creek. Fucking scary too!

I want to add though.. The most fucked up horror movie I have ever seen in my life is Saw.

 

My parents gave so few f***s that I'd probably watched 30-something by age five. Really, it would be impossible to come up with them all.


I could point out the most violent/graphic one that I watched as a young kid though - Predator 2. Hell, probably haven't seen many movies more violent, come to think of it...

 

Oh gosh, I have no idea. I watched a lot of the old horror flicks (Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Omen, The Shining, etc...) when I was in elementary school, seven or eight perhaps?

Funny, I sat and watched those with my dad, but I was never allowed to watch Harry Potter, even up through my teens.

 

I'm not sure, it probably was Rocky Horror Picture Show since my parents are obsessed with it and they would surprisingly let me watch it, well they made me cover my eyes at certain parts.

 

R in Australia is MA, so I guess Braveheart. Still one of my favourites!
The first R movie I watched in the Australian rating system was Emmanuelle. Still have that theme song stuck in my head.

 

First one that I can recall is Step Brothers. My parents were very overprotective growing up so my brother secretly gave me the TV after my dad and him watched it. I was like 12 when that movie came out.

 

Dawn of the Dead when I was 9. I watched it with my sister (who would have been 18 at the time). Wasn't really scary.

Saw is fucked up, but not scary. I don't really like gore so it doesn't appeal to me.

 

Midnight Cowboy, I believe. I think I was 8 or 9.

 

The terminator, is the first one thats memorable for me.

 

Sweeny Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street on TV when I was 13 (my Mum thought it was 15)

 

I don't really know, the earliest one I remember is A Clockwork Orange

 

Oh so many, my parents weren't exactly careful when watching r rated movies. I mean tell a 4 year old "cover your eyes" obviously they are going to peek xD

 

The first that I recall was Backdraft. I was 9. A large group of people from my dad's station went to see it at the drive in.

 

Air Force One, around 11 or 12

 

I don't remember. Judging by the content of my nightmares, it was probably Hellraiser.