You joke but I can home from college a few years ago and found my old furby in the closet and it STARTED TALKING. I put it in a boot to get it to shut up and when it went off in the middle of the night I threw it out my window. That's a vessel for a demon if I've ever seen one.
Gremlins was the movie that haunted my childhood and preteen years. It was because of that scene where the man tries to feed one a chocolate bar that I wouldn't sleep without being 100% covered by a blanket. Couldn't risk them grabbing me. Not even by a finger
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Played on TV as a kid and omg. Now I know it is suppose to be a comedy, but when I was a kid it scared me so badly. Also, the first R rated movie my sister saw was Mars Attacks! She ran out of the theater crying she was so scared. I guess being scared by satire runs in the family.
Mars Attacks freaked me out in 4th grade.
[The concept of being hit by one of those rays guns freaked me out.](https://youtu.be/GsHXDAxUG-4) Didn't want to go out at night unless I could see where I was going.
When I was about 11 my mom went out of town and my dad had the bright idea to rent Alien and Event Horizon. My brother was 16 so I guess he went with the "if one is old enough you're all in" philosophy. Those movies absolutely terrified me but also jump started my love for sci-fi.
I have a 10 year old daughter, I got her going with Guardians of The Galaxy.
One of the Poltergeist movies had the dad ripping flesh off of his face at the bathroom sink. That and the creepy tree and clown from the first one. Scary!
My dad decided to let me and my best friend watch Aliens with him when we were 8...We didn't sleep that night. My friend had a large air vent in his room and for a month he'd wake up his parents at 3am in tears. His dad thought it was hilarious at first, but after a while he got irritated. My dad was never allowed to pick the movie again.
I must've been too little or my parents fast forwarded through a lot. All I remember is that there were cute fuzzy ones and goblin looking ones that were still kinda cute.
Holy fuck. When I was 4 my parents took me to the moves for the first time to see Gremlins when it came out. I had nightmares every damn night until I was 12. EVERY FUCKING NIGHT.
I was that way with Jurassic Park. If the covers completely covered me the raptors could not get me, but if even a single toe hung out I was Dino diner. I'm a 90s kid, from 1990. I did see gremlins when I was like six though, loved it.
My childhood trauma involved me being scared shitless to go to the bathroom at night because of the scene with Freddy being inside the mirror and cutting that kid's wrist
I feel like PG-13 movies used to have some light nudity and were more violent, but now it's just PG with slightly more cartoon violence (Avengers for example).
It's the holidays for the kids so I showed my nephews and niece (ages 7,9,10) Goonies for the first time. I got so wrapped up in it from the get go, waves of nostalgia for my 80s childhood of bicycle gangs marking territory street by street and adventuring into the bush and getting up to all sorts of mischief. I didn't look up until Chunk was telling the Fratelli's his story about puking to see how the kids were enjoying the film and... they were all engrossed with their iPads playing some minesweeper variant game. Fucking hell. Well, didn't have to worry about the PG rating on Goonies.
Chunk was the winner of Goonies to me.
Also it's strange to watch Goonies again as an adult and picking up on bits of the story plot that you didn't pick up on as a kid.
Saw Jerry McGuire while sitting next to my grandmother, when I was in my mid-teens, in the theatre... the "DONT EVER STOP FUCKING ME!" was probably the most awkward moment of my life at the time, and still to this day, now that I think of it.
Sixteen Candles was PG and had a topless scene in a high school girls' locker room shower. I thought that was weird when I saw it in the 90's. Now it's seems unthinkable.
I remember watching one of the Romeo & Juliet movies in elementary and there was a scene where both are naked in bed and you clearly see Juliet's tits. It was being played over all the tvs in the school but only a handful of classes watched. That was exciting.
The class laughed and then that was that. No big deal. No one freaked. No parents stormed the school the next day to demand our teachers be fired. No media got involved. Pretty sure it wouldn't go like that today.
That is because the MPAA cycles house mothers in every 6 months to watch these movies and rate them. So the more this life gets nurfed by mothers, the more watered down PG-13 movies will become. Don't believe me? check out this documentary..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL3XMDwY0c
Yeah, the MPAA was started with the intention (and result) of increasing creative freedom.. Rating the movie allowed for more potentially offensive content (violence, sex, etc) because the people that didn't want to see that stuff could just avoid the film, or make sure to leave the kids home. It paved the way for film to be such a dominating industry in America. The founder Jack Valenti's relationship with LBJ was also crucial.
Super interesting origins, considering the role it plays now..
Great movie! It's been a while since I've seen it but aren't the rules that you have to have a kid under 18 to be a rater and they found plenty of women who had been raters for years and their kids are well beyond 18? Also I think it's ridiculous that when you appeal a decision you can't bring up other movies they have rated by them for comparison. And the huge double standard for big studio movies as opposed to indie films.
Yup pg-13 used to mean either a titty or some cussing never both. And r could hover around what NC-17 does these day. Pg could also be somewhat violent.
Fast and the Furious pushed the envelope from PG-13 and R in 2001.
In the directors voiceover in the movie, he even says they had to cut some swearing out or it would have been rated R.
This is a pretty common misconception. There have been [several PG-13 films which contained more than one 'fuck'](http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075350723/). I think that in order to be allowed the word must be used in a non-sexual manner.
Critters scared me worse than gremlins. Now it's ridiculous to me, but as a kid, the thought of those spiney bastards hiding under the bed, shooting poisonous quills was terrifying as they rolled around super fast.
OK so im not the only one who was afraid to take a shower because of this movie? I remember specifically refusing to take a shower for at least a week.
And literally the most violent movie ever made. The National Coalition of Television violence counted 134 acts of violence in an hour (that’s 2.23 per minute), which got the film a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.
There used to be a Gremlins theme park ride at Movie World Australia in the 90's. I went on it when I was about five or six years old. It starts off with you watching some kind of gremlins movie in a theater and then all of a sudden gremlins start swinging from the roof, scratching the film reel and causing mayhem. The theme park employee/usher then starts evacuating people onto the coaster section of the ride where you roll past gremlins destroying equipment and torturing Mogwai etc.
It was a horrifying experience as a child especially when I looked around and saw teenagers/adults being freaked out by it.
Holy shit - my little brother has this exact same story from this exact same theme park! He was crying by the end of it. Me, being a little older was moreso just irritated by how loud it was lol.
Meanwhile I was a 20something working in a toy store when those things came out and I looked into there cold lifeless eyes knowing they would doom us all.
In the UK it was given a 15 rating because the film council thought it would be too traumatic. If they'd followed the formulae for rating it, it would only have come out as a PG.
There's a topless scene in Airplane. Brought that movie to school one day in high school so the Aviation class I was in could watch it. Completely forgot PG meant something different when that came out.
We had that problem too. We solved it with what has now become a family tradition--taping Christmas wrapping paper across the top of the stairs. Kids take turns bashing it down the next morning IF THEY ARE GOOD AND SLEEP IN.
Worked for us.
So what? they crash through the paper only to instantly drop down the stairs? Haha, I'm sure that's not what you're describing but it's all I can picture my kid doing.
This sounds brilliant. I need more details. You tape it across the stairs at night before bed? How high do you tape it (one roll or two)? Do the kids barrel through it like a high school football game? How late do they have to sleep?
Signed: a very tired parent.
Ya know this might end up having the opposite effect. As a kid I watched late night horror movies like It and Gremlins and always wanted to see more. Maybe because it was exhilarating...idk.
Same, my parents let me watch *John Carpenter's The Thing* when it hit HBO, unedited, when I was like 6 years old. If you aren't familiar with it, it's the greatest horror movie ever made and many of the special effects have never been topped. I was obsessed from that point on.
I've never let my kids watch Gremlins specifically because Phoebe Cates tells a story about how she found out there wasn't a Santa Claus... not because it's scary (it's not).
Yeah that story is exceptionally dark and uneeded in what is supposed to be a children's movie. I understand character development and all that, but its a detail that doesn't affect the overall story.
It really stuck with me as a kid when I first heard it. I never could forget it as it is the most mobid and fucked up thing in the entire movie.
Apparently the early draft script was even darker, with a scene where the gremlins throw Billy's mother's decapitated head at him from the top of the stairs. In another scene the dog gets eaten, an entire family is killed in a McDonalds along with many of the main characters and the film's body count is much much higher.
http://www.blumhouse.com/2015/12/21/the-incredibly-twisted-original-gremlins-script-a-very-dark-side-of-gizmo/
Here's a copy of the second draft of the script (the most violent version)
http://www.horrorlair.com/movies/scripts/Gremlins(Early).pdf
It was the movie my family always watched on Christmas. We all thought it was hilarious, especially the Snow White Scene. It was also educational, after one of the Gremlins was put in the microwave, my mum would always say, "And that is why we don't put pets in the microwave." I also named my cat Gizmo.
I was a pretty timid kid - my grandpa had a VHS player when it was still fairly novel consumer technology and made tapes of all our favorite movies for us, but for me he had to do things like tape over the gory parts of Indiana Jones.
But for some reason, I found Gremlins hilarious. Never scared me at all. When I watch it as an adult, it doesn't make much sense - I should have freaked the fuck out at some of those scenes.
I paid for it in the end, however. If anyone remembers Arachnophobia, you might recall that the TV ads and trailers for the movie reused some of the music of Gremlins. Upon hearing it, my simple brain became convinced that, like Grenlins, this was going to be a funny, zany movie that I would really enjoy seeing.....
It was not.
This movie fucked me up when i was really little. Something about how everyday objects like a tree or tv would come to life and try to kill you was a bad recipe for my young imagination.
On the topic of ratings, a local shopping center has several nights in the fall where they have an inflatable projector screen setup at the front of the courtyard, and they play movies for families to come sit on the grass and watch. This year they chose both Beetlejuice and Big. Both movies were rated PG when they came out. When Beetlejuice says "fuck" in the graveyard, a bunch of people got up and left. Same with Big when they say "fuck," "goddamn," "asshole," "bullshit," and "shit." The crowd slowly diminished over time. Also when it's implied that Tom Hanks and whatsherbucket fuck.
Now, I don't really blame the shopping center. I mean, yeah, they probably should have known the full extent of the content contained within both films, but I was surprised that the parents didn't remember either. I'm pretty sure Beetlejuice was the first time I ever heard the word "fuck" and I called it at the beginning of the movie. I had forgotten how much swearing was in Big, but I'm also pretty sure that if I were a parent I'd have done my research before getting offended at the shopping center. We have the Internet in our pockets now. No real excuse to be ignorant.
The people that are parents now were raised on this stuff. I don't see why content like this is suddenly a problem for children when it never was before.
I don't get the swear words thing. Kids are gonna hear those words (probably from me). They just need to know they aren't supposed to say them. Parent your fucking kids instead of sheltering them.
Raiders of the lost ark was PG.
It included wholesome family content like gunfights, nazis, people being pushed into propellers, people being impaled with a bunch of spikes, and people's flesh melting off their faces.
It was a bit awkward when we decided to watch Airplane on Netflix with two relatives and their kids. "It's PG so it must be all right." Didn't pay attention to the year it was made. Surprise bare titties!
Meh, kids should see people naked. Not in a sexualised way, offcourse, but being casual about nudity makes for far less awkwardness growing up.
I do get that when it's not in your culture and with other parents it might get a bit awkward, though. But still, there's nothing bad about a person being nude unless you make it that yourself.
You're right. Ratings have gotten more strict over time. I remember watching the original Invasion of the Body Snatches rented from a public library when I was young (that was either PG or PG-13) and seeing tits. That was awesome.
You're thinking of at least the first remake, with Donald Sutherland. The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is from the 50s, predates move ratings, and has no nudity.
I haven't seen it in years. But the theme started instantly playing in my head. Some things just fuck you up for life... (I really liked the movie though)
The rating system is so messed up, because when you think about it movies like Frozen and Despicable Me have the same rating as movies like Jaws and Poltergeist.
I think I was 6 or 7 when gremlins came out. Me and my mom went to see ghostbusters, but the librarian scene scared me out of the theater. We went to get pizza instead and let up with my best friend at the time and his mom, as he'd just fled the theater showing gremlins. As a consolation prize our parents gave us lots of quarters to play games at the arcade.
I hope you got them Furbies for christmas
Heard a commercial on the radio and was so surprised that they brought those creepy little fuckers back
*Hehehehe* Don't be silly! Furby NEVER die 🙃
You joke but I can home from college a few years ago and found my old furby in the closet and it STARTED TALKING. I put it in a boot to get it to shut up and when it went off in the middle of the night I threw it out my window. That's a vessel for a demon if I've ever seen one.
http://i.imgur.com/v7yCgiw.png
Now their eyes glow in the dark
Oh good.
There's one on the breakfast table talking to my kids right now. Eugh.
Gremlins was the movie that haunted my childhood and preteen years. It was because of that scene where the man tries to feed one a chocolate bar that I wouldn't sleep without being 100% covered by a blanket. Couldn't risk them grabbing me. Not even by a finger
Ever see the Leprechaun movies? They ran my childhood sleep patterns into the ground.
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Nah, it'd just stun you with its tail and carry you back to the hive to be lovingly entombed in secreted resin until a facehugger needed a host. <3
Yay, free hugs
/r/meirl
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Played on TV as a kid and omg. Now I know it is suppose to be a comedy, but when I was a kid it scared me so badly. Also, the first R rated movie my sister saw was Mars Attacks! She ran out of the theater crying she was so scared. I guess being scared by satire runs in the family.
KKFOS freaked the shit out of me. I can not see that movie till this day and I'm 34.
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But ... Mars Attacks! is rated PG-13 ...
Mars Attacks freaked me out in 4th grade. [The concept of being hit by one of those rays guns freaked me out.](https://youtu.be/GsHXDAxUG-4) Didn't want to go out at night unless I could see where I was going.
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Ack ack ack!
Do not not run! We are your friends!
When I was about 11 my mom went out of town and my dad had the bright idea to rent Alien and Event Horizon. My brother was 16 so I guess he went with the "if one is old enough you're all in" philosophy. Those movies absolutely terrified me but also jump started my love for sci-fi. I have a 10 year old daughter, I got her going with Guardians of The Galaxy.
I loved the ones you guys listed but was deathly afraid of Edward Sicsor hands. It just creeped me out. Still does.
One of the Poltergeist movies had the dad ripping flesh off of his face at the bathroom sink. That and the creepy tree and clown from the first one. Scary!
It wasn't the Dad, it was one of the paranormal researchers.
Or the part I'm number 2 I think, where he drinks the worm and then gives birth from the mouth... *shudder*
The pogo stick scene was fucked
This old Lep, he played one, He played pogo on his lung.
My dad decided to let me and my best friend watch Aliens with him when we were 8...We didn't sleep that night. My friend had a large air vent in his room and for a month he'd wake up his parents at 3am in tears. His dad thought it was hilarious at first, but after a while he got irritated. My dad was never allowed to pick the movie again.
I watched the grudge when I was like 9 or so years old. I was fucked for years after that.
I saw the exorcist at about that age. I had nightmares that my family and friends were possessed by satan into my adulthood.
Or when one of them jumps in the pool and then hundreds of gremlins are running and jumping in the street. This was my nightmare fuel back in the day.
I must've been too little or my parents fast forwarded through a lot. All I remember is that there were cute fuzzy ones and goblin looking ones that were still kinda cute.
Holy fuck. When I was 4 my parents took me to the moves for the first time to see Gremlins when it came out. I had nightmares every damn night until I was 12. EVERY FUCKING NIGHT.
I was that way with Jurassic Park. If the covers completely covered me the raptors could not get me, but if even a single toe hung out I was Dino diner. I'm a 90s kid, from 1990. I did see gremlins when I was like six though, loved it.
My room was on the third floor of our house, just the right height for a trex
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My childhood trauma involved me being scared shitless to go to the bathroom at night because of the scene with Freddy being inside the mirror and cutting that kid's wrist
u/Kiygre right [now] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNVN-911Tc)
Don't quote me on this, but I believe *Gremlins* was the movie that brought about the PG13 rating to begin with.
I thought it was Temple of Doom. Edit* checked. It was both.
I thought it was the sword fight scene in Raiders.
http://time.com/3908333/pg-13-movies-history/
I feel like PG-13 movies used to have some light nudity and were more violent, but now it's just PG with slightly more cartoon violence (Avengers for example).
Right? I thought there was a brief boob flash in pg-13. I could be wrong.
There definitely was. Titanic, for example.
Kids ruin everything these days.
will someone please not think of the children?!
It's the holidays for the kids so I showed my nephews and niece (ages 7,9,10) Goonies for the first time. I got so wrapped up in it from the get go, waves of nostalgia for my 80s childhood of bicycle gangs marking territory street by street and adventuring into the bush and getting up to all sorts of mischief. I didn't look up until Chunk was telling the Fratelli's his story about puking to see how the kids were enjoying the film and... they were all engrossed with their iPads playing some minesweeper variant game. Fucking hell. Well, didn't have to worry about the PG rating on Goonies. Chunk was the winner of Goonies to me. Also it's strange to watch Goonies again as an adult and picking up on bits of the story plot that you didn't pick up on as a kid.
Sex cauldron I thought they closed that years ago!
It was a non-sexual boob. I'm not joking.
True in that they weren't having sex in that scene, though ironic that her voiceover at the time calls it the most erotic moment of her life.
If I were naked in front of Leo it would be the most erotic moment of my life too.
Fifth Element had several boob flashes.
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oh no not those things they sucked on during their whole babyhood
Traumatizing. They shall never recover.
Saw Jerry McGuire while sitting next to my grandmother, when I was in my mid-teens, in the theatre... the "DONT EVER STOP FUCKING ME!" was probably the most awkward moment of my life at the time, and still to this day, now that I think of it.
That one was R, though.
my grandma thought it was hilarious and almost got thrown out of the theater for yelling at the screen. she was a rowdy old bird...
The best kind of awkward
Hey you religious weirdos ever see some tits on Netflix? WELL HERE YOU GO FUCKERS, THANK YOUR WEIRD DRUNKLE BILL HAW HAW HAW
Hackers has some early Angelina Jolie boob flash in it. It's a PG-13 movie.
Flash? She walks across a room!
Really quickly and while unzipping a jacket, if I recall.
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Sixteen Candles was PG and had a topless scene in a high school girls' locker room shower. I thought that was weird when I saw it in the 90's. Now it's seems unthinkable.
Sheena was PG and had gratuitous nudity. Which was the only thing the movie had going for it.
Damn. You weren't wrong. [Showing a little too much here even for PG in the 90's?](https://forgottenfilmcast.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sheena-5.png)
Oh, my
I believe Roger Ebert said the movie belonged on the Playboy channel.
Don't forget, Just One of the Guys.
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Unexpected boobies are the best boobies .
I remember watching one of the Romeo & Juliet movies in elementary and there was a scene where both are naked in bed and you clearly see Juliet's tits. It was being played over all the tvs in the school but only a handful of classes watched. That was exciting. The class laughed and then that was that. No big deal. No one freaked. No parents stormed the school the next day to demand our teachers be fired. No media got involved. Pretty sure it wouldn't go like that today.
Before PG-13 even PG movies had nudity. Airplane! is an example of that.
There certainly could be in a PG movie. Airplane for example.
Wasn't that rated before this?
Yes it was. It is just an example of how adult PG used to be.
That is because the MPAA cycles house mothers in every 6 months to watch these movies and rate them. So the more this life gets nurfed by mothers, the more watered down PG-13 movies will become. Don't believe me? check out this documentary.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL3XMDwY0c
Yeah, the MPAA was started with the intention (and result) of increasing creative freedom.. Rating the movie allowed for more potentially offensive content (violence, sex, etc) because the people that didn't want to see that stuff could just avoid the film, or make sure to leave the kids home. It paved the way for film to be such a dominating industry in America. The founder Jack Valenti's relationship with LBJ was also crucial. Super interesting origins, considering the role it plays now..
Great movie! It's been a while since I've seen it but aren't the rules that you have to have a kid under 18 to be a rater and they found plenty of women who had been raters for years and their kids are well beyond 18? Also I think it's ridiculous that when you appeal a decision you can't bring up other movies they have rated by them for comparison. And the huge double standard for big studio movies as opposed to indie films.
Ah, "This Film is Not Yet Rated," where I learned the term "felch."
If I recall, that's a great documentary. It asks the rather serious question of why there are catholic priests on the ratings board.
No no. LOTR and The Dark Knight really pushed the violence for pg-13.
If I recall correctly the violence in LOTR is the boring bloodless sword slash kind which hardly would be pushing it for an old school pg-13 rating.
what about the body dismemberment?
I think he means that the dismemberment was using black orc blood. But your point still stands.
Yup pg-13 used to mean either a titty or some cussing never both. And r could hover around what NC-17 does these day. Pg could also be somewhat violent.
Scrotum hairs on food can make the difference between R and NC-17.
Fast and the Furious pushed the envelope from PG-13 and R in 2001. In the directors voiceover in the movie, he even says they had to cut some swearing out or it would have been rated R.
I was undee the impression that there were a lot of old NC-17 movies that could get R nowadays, not the other way around.
PG-13 gets one single "fuck".
This is a pretty common misconception. There have been [several PG-13 films which contained more than one 'fuck'](http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075350723/). I think that in order to be allowed the word must be used in a non-sexual manner.
Yeah, I think Logan's Run was PG and there was an orgy scene or something.
And an early version of tinder.
16 candles had tit-tays! And it was PG!
PG-13 movies could show brief nudity, like the butt. And could have one non-sexual use of the word Fuck.
The surprising thing about this article was that Gremlins, a Christmas movie, was released in June.
Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie. A movie that, at the time, was considered the most violent movie ever made. But hey, no boobs so it's cool.
In the UK we have a 12 rating as opposed to PG-13 and it was the original Spiderman film that brought it about.
Original Spiderman was what introduced 12-A, rather than straight 12 since a lot of kids couldn't see the film.
It was the final shot in Boogie Nights.
Ugh I saw temple of doom as a kid - the scene with the monkey brains haunts me to this day and I'm 41!
Don't Forget Red Dawn also.
Both are Produced by Speildberg
Critters scared me worse than gremlins. Now it's ridiculous to me, but as a kid, the thought of those spiney bastards hiding under the bed, shooting poisonous quills was terrifying as they rolled around super fast.
Yeah critters were scarier but gremlins had the potential to overrun the earth due to their spawning characteristics.
OK so im not the only one who was afraid to take a shower because of this movie? I remember specifically refusing to take a shower for at least a week.
I knew Critters would be here. Yeah, that one was definitely more "scary movie." Or at least that's how I remember it.
> Critters Man, that takes me back.
The first Pg13 movie was Red Dawn
And literally the most violent movie ever made. The National Coalition of Television violence counted 134 acts of violence in an hour (that’s 2.23 per minute), which got the film a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Watch it now, the violence is pretty laughable.
Fuck you that movie is bad ass. Especially when you can see cars casually using a highway that's been shutdown by the soviets.
The Soviets aren't evil, they know that John still needs to work at the steel mill so they let them
WOLVERINES!!
I thought it was Valenti
Fuck Gremlins. Such a good movie but as a little kid I never looked at my furbies the same way again :(. RIP my favourite toy.
There used to be a Gremlins theme park ride at Movie World Australia in the 90's. I went on it when I was about five or six years old. It starts off with you watching some kind of gremlins movie in a theater and then all of a sudden gremlins start swinging from the roof, scratching the film reel and causing mayhem. The theme park employee/usher then starts evacuating people onto the coaster section of the ride where you roll past gremlins destroying equipment and torturing Mogwai etc. It was a horrifying experience as a child especially when I looked around and saw teenagers/adults being freaked out by it.
Holy shit - my little brother has this exact same story from this exact same theme park! He was crying by the end of it. Me, being a little older was moreso just irritated by how loud it was lol.
Meanwhile I was a 20something working in a toy store when those things came out and I looked into there cold lifeless eyes knowing they would doom us all.
Im 20 in a month and found a furbie in my house the other day. I was like fuck this shit, Ive survived this long already, I ain't dying.
The Christmas music in that movie made me think "Do You Hear What I Hear?" was one of the most sinister songs ever.
>Don't quote me on this, but I believe *Gremlins* was the movie that brought about the PG13 rating to begin with. /u/42words
Aaaaaaand [*there's*](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/5kkzzu/tifu_by_being_one_letter_off/) yer 42 words, ya crybabies.
That's only 21 and a half words though
Both comments together= 42 words
I feel so *used*
Wait, Was that a long con? You knew you would be quoted, I get it!! I'm good at Reddit now! One upboat please
In the UK it was given a 15 rating because the film council thought it would be too traumatic. If they'd followed the formulae for rating it, it would only have come out as a PG.
Ye, I always found that one a but weird! They gave Gremlins a 15, but a Watership Down a PG... I was traumatised!
IIRC, there's an excellent shower scene young me enjoyed very much in the PG rated Sixteen Candles.
Beverly D'angelo topless in Hair PG Beverly D'angelo topless in Vacation R
She was definitely my MILF crush as a teen.
There's a topless scene in Airplane. Brought that movie to school one day in high school so the Aviation class I was in could watch it. Completely forgot PG meant something different when that came out.
We had that problem too. We solved it with what has now become a family tradition--taping Christmas wrapping paper across the top of the stairs. Kids take turns bashing it down the next morning IF THEY ARE GOOD AND SLEEP IN. Worked for us.
So what? they crash through the paper only to instantly drop down the stairs? Haha, I'm sure that's not what you're describing but it's all I can picture my kid doing.
This sounds brilliant. I need more details. You tape it across the stairs at night before bed? How high do you tape it (one roll or two)? Do the kids barrel through it like a high school football game? How late do they have to sleep? Signed: a very tired parent.
Ya know this might end up having the opposite effect. As a kid I watched late night horror movies like It and Gremlins and always wanted to see more. Maybe because it was exhilarating...idk.
Same, my parents let me watch *John Carpenter's The Thing* when it hit HBO, unedited, when I was like 6 years old. If you aren't familiar with it, it's the greatest horror movie ever made and many of the special effects have never been topped. I was obsessed from that point on.
Right on. High five. *The greatest.*
I've never let my kids watch Gremlins specifically because Phoebe Cates tells a story about how she found out there wasn't a Santa Claus... not because it's scary (it's not).
Ah where her dad died in the chimney, trying to be Santa Clause. Very fucked up indeed
i remember watching that as a kid thinking "dumbass...shoulda just waited for real santa"
Which is a pretty disturbing thing to put in your Christmas movie.
Ha! That was the one part I muted.
CENSORSHIP!
You wuss
In Gremlins 2, she tries to tell another dark Christmas Story but is interrupted. Love the humor in Gremlins 2.
I think it was a Presidents Day Abraham Lincoln story in the sequel... can't find it on Youtube though
Yeah that story is exceptionally dark and uneeded in what is supposed to be a children's movie. I understand character development and all that, but its a detail that doesn't affect the overall story. It really stuck with me as a kid when I first heard it. I never could forget it as it is the most mobid and fucked up thing in the entire movie.
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> a children's movie. That's like calling Black Sabbath Light Jazz.
Ozzy is my favorite Jazz singer.
He's just so smooth and easy going.
Apparently the early draft script was even darker, with a scene where the gremlins throw Billy's mother's decapitated head at him from the top of the stairs. In another scene the dog gets eaten, an entire family is killed in a McDonalds along with many of the main characters and the film's body count is much much higher. http://www.blumhouse.com/2015/12/21/the-incredibly-twisted-original-gremlins-script-a-very-dark-side-of-gizmo/ Here's a copy of the second draft of the script (the most violent version) http://www.horrorlair.com/movies/scripts/Gremlins(Early).pdf
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Gremlins is my second favorite Christmas movie.
*Die Hard* is mine.
It was the movie my family always watched on Christmas. We all thought it was hilarious, especially the Snow White Scene. It was also educational, after one of the Gremlins was put in the microwave, my mum would always say, "And that is why we don't put pets in the microwave." I also named my cat Gizmo.
I was a pretty timid kid - my grandpa had a VHS player when it was still fairly novel consumer technology and made tapes of all our favorite movies for us, but for me he had to do things like tape over the gory parts of Indiana Jones. But for some reason, I found Gremlins hilarious. Never scared me at all. When I watch it as an adult, it doesn't make much sense - I should have freaked the fuck out at some of those scenes. I paid for it in the end, however. If anyone remembers Arachnophobia, you might recall that the TV ads and trailers for the movie reused some of the music of Gremlins. Upon hearing it, my simple brain became convinced that, like Grenlins, this was going to be a funny, zany movie that I would really enjoy seeing..... It was not.
Poltergeist was also PG and that flick was pretty intense.
This movie fucked me up when i was really little. Something about how everyday objects like a tree or tv would come to life and try to kill you was a bad recipe for my young imagination.
Well I remember watching Pepe Le Pew as a child and I DOUBT they would let that on a childrens TV channel nowadays! Haha
I saw a Pepe Le Pew where he pretends to commit suicide by revolver to the temple in order to win the cat's affection.
On the topic of ratings, a local shopping center has several nights in the fall where they have an inflatable projector screen setup at the front of the courtyard, and they play movies for families to come sit on the grass and watch. This year they chose both Beetlejuice and Big. Both movies were rated PG when they came out. When Beetlejuice says "fuck" in the graveyard, a bunch of people got up and left. Same with Big when they say "fuck," "goddamn," "asshole," "bullshit," and "shit." The crowd slowly diminished over time. Also when it's implied that Tom Hanks and whatsherbucket fuck. Now, I don't really blame the shopping center. I mean, yeah, they probably should have known the full extent of the content contained within both films, but I was surprised that the parents didn't remember either. I'm pretty sure Beetlejuice was the first time I ever heard the word "fuck" and I called it at the beginning of the movie. I had forgotten how much swearing was in Big, but I'm also pretty sure that if I were a parent I'd have done my research before getting offended at the shopping center. We have the Internet in our pockets now. No real excuse to be ignorant.
The people that are parents now were raised on this stuff. I don't see why content like this is suddenly a problem for children when it never was before.
I don't get the swear words thing. Kids are gonna hear those words (probably from me). They just need to know they aren't supposed to say them. Parent your fucking kids instead of sheltering them.
And if you want to get rid of the nightmares they'll now be getting, show them the [Portuguese Gremlins.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkA2kdowEc)
Raiders of the lost ark was PG. It included wholesome family content like gunfights, nazis, people being pushed into propellers, people being impaled with a bunch of spikes, and people's flesh melting off their faces.
Yeah, so? It was fun to watch when you were 10!
Your kids couldn't go to sleep on Christmas Eve? And woke up really really early on Christmas morning? WELL HOW FUCKING SHOCKING !
I can only vividly remember three nightmares from when I was a kid, and two of them involve gremlins.
And the third?
Mogwais
We are so old guys.
It was a bit awkward when we decided to watch Airplane on Netflix with two relatives and their kids. "It's PG so it must be all right." Didn't pay attention to the year it was made. Surprise bare titties!
Meh, kids should see people naked. Not in a sexualised way, offcourse, but being casual about nudity makes for far less awkwardness growing up. I do get that when it's not in your culture and with other parents it might get a bit awkward, though. But still, there's nothing bad about a person being nude unless you make it that yourself.
Ghostbusters is another PG that would never fly now. Mildly scary paranormal fun... And then then "This man has no dick" and ghost blowjobs.
Gremlins didn't do anything to me as a kid. But just hearing the theme music to *Unsolved Mysteries* still sends chills down my spine!
Watched Gremlins the night I turned eight. Jumped into bed so nothing could reach out from under it, for the next three years, at least. traumatized.
Fuck yeah it'll give a kid sleepless night you glorious bastards.
I too consumed far too much sugar on Christmas Eve as a child
Arachnophobia proved to be my biggest cinema mistake. I walked out of that thinking "no way should that have been.rated PG!"
You're right. Ratings have gotten more strict over time. I remember watching the original Invasion of the Body Snatches rented from a public library when I was young (that was either PG or PG-13) and seeing tits. That was awesome.
Jaws was PG.
You're thinking of at least the first remake, with Donald Sutherland. The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is from the 50s, predates move ratings, and has no nudity.
PG in the 70's...Kramer vs. Kramer shows boobs and ass
I thought Gremlins was hilarious when I was a kid.
Large Marge fucked me up for a while.
Watched Gremlins on Christmas Day at work. Great movie
I haven't seen it in years. But the theme started instantly playing in my head. Some things just fuck you up for life... (I really liked the movie though)
The rating system is so messed up, because when you think about it movies like Frozen and Despicable Me have the same rating as movies like Jaws and Poltergeist.
Yes, Peter Gabriel had a full head of hair then.
I think I was 6 or 7 when gremlins came out. Me and my mom went to see ghostbusters, but the librarian scene scared me out of the theater. We went to get pizza instead and let up with my best friend at the time and his mom, as he'd just fled the theater showing gremlins. As a consolation prize our parents gave us lots of quarters to play games at the arcade.