Films your folks let you go and see......

[Trevor]

........ while you knew very well what you were going to see (and they didn't)

This was mine: I was eight. 



I still don't know why the cinema manager let me in.

[The Burgomaster]

Trevor:  I was about 11 when I saw RACE WITH THE DEVIL.  It was a double featute with W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCE KINGS.  An odd choice of movies for a double feature in my opinion.

As for your question, my folks were very liberal and I went to see just about anything I wanted.  My mother is pretty knowledgeable about movies, so she was generally aware of what they were about.  My parents took me to the drive-in to see THE EXORCIST, Woody Allen's EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK and other R-rated movies when I was a kid.  I guess that's why I'm so twisted as an adult.

[trekgeezer]

I got to see Barbarella when I was about 13.  My Mom and Dad took me and a friend  (we were 14)to the drive-in to see the Wild Bunch (because it was a western). Boy my Mom was pretty upset (mostly about Warren Oates little scene with the Mexican girls in the wine barrel. 

[SPazzo]

The first PG-13 movie I ever saw was Twister at age 4.  At age 5 I saw Batman.  I saw RHPS at age 7.  I'd seen a lot of movies with sex in them, but not too many violent movies.

EDIT!  I forgot, I did see the original Night of the Living Dead at age 7 or 8; scared the **** out of me.

[JaseSF]

When I was about 6-7 years old, Hooper's Salem's Lot scared the crap outta me. I didn't watch anything really scary again for almost a decade and I had recurring nightmares about vampires for years.

[Bmeansgood]

I really wanted to see Ice Pirates when it came out.  I was only nine so my mom made my dad take me so that he could intervene if things got dirty.  He promptly fell asleep while I watched the movie.   There wasn't anything too bad about the movie, except I kept screaming "space herpes" for weeks after I watched it. It took me a long time to understand why my mom didn't like me saying that.

[Mr. DS]

I don't recall any instance of going to the theater alone until I was older than 18.  Thats mainly because my father was my movie buddy.  We'd go see everything together and of course had similar film tastes.  Hell, if I still lived nearby and he wasn't in a rest home I'd take him out every weekend.

[Ometiklan]

In 1977 A friend and Myself went to see Damnation Alley without our parents.
We were 10 years old at the time.
And instantly fell in love with the Landmaster.

[Mofo Rising]

I recall my mom taking me to see Platoon in the theaters. I specifically asked her to, because my older brother and his friend convinced me about how bad-ass it was. If you've seen Platoon, you may be thinking my brother got the exact opposite idea about the film than was meant. (He did.)

At any rate, she took me to the theater to see the movie. The employee at work, God bless him, asked my mother if she was sure she wanted me to see this movie. She looked at me and said, "Do you really want to see this movie?" Of course I looked up and said, "Yes." So we went in and watched it.

Here's the thing, I was born in 1978. Platoon was released in 1986. That means I must have been eight years old, at most nine. Naturally, I probably shouldn't have seen that movie, but I understood the point of it. More so than my older brother, to say the least.

It shocked me a little bit when I later figured out how young I must have been when I saw the film. What surprises me is how I assimilated it. I wasn't scarred or disturbed for having watched it, it was just another film in the many I've seen.

Of course, I can't hear "Adagio for Strings" without getting chills.

[Rev. Powell]

My mom loved horror movies but had no one to see them with since my dad loathed them, so she took me to the theater to see THE SHINING at age 12 and THE HOWLING at age 13, along with a lot of lesser horror films I've now forgotten.  I can't remember seeing any r-rated movies before those, although I probably got a peek or two of them at the drive-in.

[InformationGeek]

My parents never let me go to a movie theater by myself to see anything, but they did let me watch Drunken Master when I was 9 on Pay Per View.  It was a fun film, but I didn't understand a couple of things I saw.  I should probably watch now...

[BoyScoutKevin]

Not so much "films your folks let you go and see . . .." but films we were dragged to see. My father was in the Navy, and sometimes, when he was stuck on the base or out to sea, my mother, not wanting to spend the night alone, would go and see a film, and a movie ticket being cheaper than a babysitter, she'd drag me and my younger sister along with her.

While most of the films we were dragged to see were children's films, some were not. And these were the ones that were not. See how many you recognize.

trapeze
bitter victory
the fly (1958)
the sheepman
tank force
the vikings
the gunrunners
hole in the head
operation petticoat

While many of the films I did not appreciate, when I first saw them, seeing most of them again years later, I came to appreciate my mother's good taste in films.