Please help settle an argument
Please help settle an argument

Poll: Please help settle an argument

Total Members Polled: 120

Watership down aged 4: 42%
American warewolf in london aged 6: 58%
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Some Gump

Original Poster:

13,018 posts

216 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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Forum, we need your help to decide who had the worse parents. Both parties were shown totally inappropriate films at an early age, both had recurring nightmares for a long time on the back of it.

Scenario 1:
4 year old watches watership down. A lovely film featuring the systematic murdering of cute little animated rabbits. It's ok though, it's not like the dead ones end up in Eden, they seem to torment the living ones as animated raw evil with blood in their eyes trying to chew the paws of the still living. Reassuring to know.

Scenario 2:
6 year old subjected to american warewolf in london. "Calm down it's just a film" he says. Matey boy useful just spent 5 agonising minutes turning hairy and malformed, then ripped that bloke in the puffa jacket's throat out on a moor. Wholesome stuff.

So denizes of PH: since both parties seem to have been traumatised for at least 1/2 a decade in each case, who had the worst parents?

JuanCarlosFandango

9,836 posts

101 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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Me
Watched When The Wind Blows when I was 7 or 8 and the cold war was still going. Had nightmares about it until I started drinking

Orchid1

906 posts

138 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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I remember watching the X-Files episode with the killer dolls as a kid. Had nightmares for weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_OzBEXhMA

xjay1337

15,966 posts

148 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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I was playing GTA 3 when I was 8 and i turned out fine.

Eric Mc

125,708 posts

295 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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I watched "The Day of the Triffids" (in a cinema) aged about 8. My wife wonders why I have no interest in gardening.

rlg43p

1,617 posts

279 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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I was traumatised by Bambi in the cinema when I was about 5 or 6 years old!

nikaiyo2

5,962 posts

225 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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JuanCarlosFandango said:
Me
Watched When The Wind Blows when I was 7 or 8 and the cold war was still going. Had nightmares about it until I started drinking
Lol same for me! It terrified me more than anything else. It makes you wonder wtf they were thinking “let’s do a nice children’s animation, about nuclear war.”

A mate of mine was baby sat by his older sister and made to watch Jeepers Creepers when he was 10 or so. It’s great sign the song and he goes mentalsmile

Berkshire bred

985 posts

105 months

Saturday 6th October 2018
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I remember being shown the saw films aged 9 or 10 as it would toughen me up. More like fk me up.

Long Drax

744 posts

200 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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But, nurse Jenny Agutter in the shower... cloud9

P.S.

What is a warewolf?


Edited by Long Drax on Sunday 7th October 00:06

castex

5,176 posts

303 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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Watership Down was winning, but pissed people have turned the tables.
Think of the bunnies!

jimPH

3,981 posts

110 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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I too had nightmares about American werewolf. Only later I found out it was a horror comedy, not as a kid it wasn't!

Turn7

25,731 posts

251 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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JuanCarlosFandango said:
Me
Watched When The Wind Blows when I was 7 or 8 and the cold war was still going. Had nightmares about it until I started drinking
Plus one...

Turn7

25,731 posts

251 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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Some Gump said:
Forum, we need your help to decide who had the worse parents. Both parties were shown totally inappropriate films at an early age, both had recurring nightmares for a long time on the back of it.

Scenario 1:
4 year old watches watership down. A lovely film featuring the systematic murdering of cute little animated rabbits. It's ok though, it's not like the dead ones end up in Eden, they seem to torment the living ones as animated raw evil with blood in their eyes trying to chew the paws of the still living. Reassuring to know.

Scenario 2:
6 year old subjected to american warewolf in london. "Calm down it's just a film" he says. Matey boy useful just spent 5 agonising minutes turning hairy and malformed, then ripped that bloke in the puffa jacket's throat out on a moor. Wholesome stuff.

So denizes of PH: since both parties seem to have been traumatised for at least 1/2 a decade in each case, who had the worst parents?
American Werewolf - first time I ever saw Jenny Agutters tits........so, yep, still traumatized....

ApOrbital

10,590 posts

148 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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The blob think it was 1958 ish film watched that when i was about 6 i'm still not right in the head.


Jasandjules

72,607 posts

259 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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Watership down, no contest.

S100HP

13,801 posts

197 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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IT when I was 7. Put the plug in the sink for years.

mad4amanda

2,410 posts

194 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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jaws aged 9 never been able to enjoy a swim since even in a pool it haunts me!

cayman-black

13,265 posts

246 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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mad4amanda said:
jaws aged 9 never been able to enjoy a swim since even in a pool it haunts me!
LOL. I was 11 when Jaws came out before this film i used to love swimming in the sea even going far out in my parents small power boat and jumping into the deep sea, god that film changed everything never again !

motco

17,633 posts

276 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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Long Drax said:
But, nurse Jenny Agutter in the shower... cloud9



Edited by Long Drax on Sunday 7th October 00:06
That would traumatise a six year old! He'd be wking himself blind for the rest of his short life!

DJFish

6,017 posts

293 months

Sunday 7th October 2018
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Carrie for me.

Also remember seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show at a very young age, bit of an eye opener that one...

The one horrible film I remember most from childhood was a public information film they showed us at school about the dangers of playing on building sites, bloody horrific so it obviously did its job but it also put me of a career in the construction industry.

Edited by DJFish on Sunday 7th October 12:51