Were You Allowed To Watch Films That Wasn't Your Age Certificate?

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VERONICA EMMA CHUNG

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Anyway, were you allowed to watch movies, like a 15/18, before you were the actual age?

I'm lucky that my dad's a movie buff, we watched Pulp Fiction together when I was 11!

So, what about you?
 
Yes, I was only just 15 when I went to see Alien at the cinema with my dad.

(having a beard helped me get in though...)
 
At the cinema no but in my own house yeah . I was watching 18 films when I was 5 , although any sex scenes were quickly forwarded (and it was on video so those white bars across the screen when you forwarded cut out what you could see!) to avoid that conversation :p
 
They would watch the films before me when I was very very young, but older my Father bought my cinema tickets for 15/18 certificate films when I couldn't get in and I watched a lot that I shouldn't have at frienRAB sleepovers and borrowed off frienRAB. :)

Went through a phase of watching all the gory/banned films when I was about 11, managed to con my Father into buying them when over in America because there was no visible age ratings on the front or spine :) So managed to get things like Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and I Spit on Your Grave on VHS, he he.
 
Yeah I was allowed - I was never scared by films, and I was always pretty mature when I was younger. I was pretty much an 18 year old in an 11 year old's body (fortunately my body has now caught up with my mind!)

I never saw anything PARTICULARLY unsuitable though. I'm not really a fan of certification, I think it should be up to parents - they know their children best, after all.
 
To a point. I watched 18 films when I was about 8. When I was 10 though, my older brother was "babysitting" me and put on The Exorcist. I was shit-scared for weeks afterwarRAB. That was horrible. :D

But yeah, mostly. My parents were never that strict when it came to television/films so I did watch a lot of "grown-up" stuff from a young age. Stuff like the Halloween and Elm Street films I loved.
 
I was really into horror films as a kid (and still am) - my parents said that I could watch them as long as there were no associated nightmares. I had no nightmares and continued to watch whatever I liked.
 
I was 8 (1979) when my Dad got Alien and Friday the 13th out from the video rental shop. It was our first video recorder (it had huge push buttons like fingers protuding from the front) and me and my uncle (who is 6 years older than me) badgered him to get 'em. Been a horror fan ever since. My other uncle used to ow a video rental shop so we used to grab all the slashers (Texas Chainsaw Masscre, Evil Dead, Driller Killer etc - all before the BBFC got their grubby paws on them, too!). They never frightened me or gave me nightmares 'cos my uncle used to collect Fangoria (a magazine that discussed the special effects and interviewed cast and crew). I knew what was real and what was fake. I certainly haven't been affected by those type of movies although i am now desensitised to any horror movie. They just don,t scare me anyore and that disappoints me!
 
Yes I did at home. I didn't so much with the cinema. I was 14 when I saw a 15 which isn't a huge difference. It's a shame my youngest brother of 13 still looks too young so I don't risk taking him even to 15s yet.



I'm not a horror fan so I've never seen TCM, but I certainly watched I Spit on Your Grave with my parents when I was about 13/14.
 
Yea i was but my dad actually banned me from watching The Exorcist until i was 18, i did actually wait and had geared myself up for a good scaring but was massively dissapointed, so think i should have watched that when i was abit younger so i could have got the whole really scary thing that he and my mum got back in the 70's. Though i do remember watching Poltergiest when i was about 10, which i loved, but did go up the stairs to bed with a hammer and a screwdriver just incase! lol!
 
I remember my dad taking me to see "Life of Brian" back in 1979 when I was 11, and it was rated AA (now 15).

Mind you I don't think my mum was too impressed when I spent the next few weeks quoting "You're f**cking nicked me old beauty" as many times a day as I saw fit (which was quite a lot).
 
i was never stopped from watching anything when I was a kid. My parents used to hire me a video every weekend and I always wanted Cannibal Holocaust, or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and things like that. Fair play to them for getting them for me though.

Then a video shop opened around the corner from us, and they used to let me hire anything, and they carried on after the law changed and everything had to be rated, but my mum had told them it was okay. Proper looked forward to my Saturday horror movie with a double sized can of coke and a Fry's chocolate creme I did, I used to judge whether a film was worth watching by whether it was a 15 or an 18.

And the film of 1985 was A Nightmare On Elm St, you were no-one at school until you'd seen it :D

I had a friend at school that wasn't even allowed to watch television after 7pm. His parents were devout Christians. I don't know what happened to him. He's probably a serial killer.

And a friend and I were talking to a teacher at school when we were about 15, and he was telling us that he wouldn't let his children (I think the eldest was 11) watch Big because it was too adult. He was a devout Christian too.
 
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