What age is good for starting to watch scary movies?!
Question: I know they have ratings, so obviously some are better than others. But I don't think those bloody gore shows are good for really young teens...or the psychological thriller types.
What age did you watch a scary/horror movie and after you saw it, do you wish you didn't?
What was it?
What age did you let your kids watch something like that (or what age did they) and was it a bad thing?
Answers: I know they have ratings, so obviously some are better than others. But I don't think those bloody gore shows are good for really young teens...or the psychological thriller types.
What age did you watch a scary/horror movie and after you saw it, do you wish you didn't?
What was it?
What age did you let your kids watch something like that (or what age did they) and was it a bad thing?
The first scary movie i saw was gremlins. I was 8. I was freaked out for weeks and i slept with the light on and i was scared to death.
Seriously it depends on at what age u can handle them
I am 25 and still don't watch scary movies!!!!
6-100
i was 7 and i watched nightmare on elm street and till this day i think Freddy is coming for me from underneath my bed and blood is going to spray out like in the movie
i am not a parent but, i got to watch at age of 10. i was not thrented by it and i knew all of it was not real. The next movie i am going to see that is a scry movie is prom night.
no it was not a bad thing sometimes you have to let go and let your kids grow up.
i was watching horror movies since i can remember and i still watch one almost every night. my son is 2 and he loves scary movies. they dont give him nightmares or make him scared. he loves jason and freddy as a matter of fact thats all he talks about and is going to the upcoming horror show to get autographs . i think as long as you know or can explain that it is just a movie and not real scary movies are good for people at all ages!!
Ive been wtching horror movies since I was about 6 or 7 and Im glad that I watched them all, but Im scared of the dark and cant sleep with out the tv on, just make sure that they know that its not real, they will have nightmares with or with out the scary movies.
My dad let me watch The Exorcist at age 9 and it still scares the Bageezus out of me. I think it traumatized me. Also, he let me watch some B movie about nuclear holocaust around the same age...i cried myself to sleep....THANKS DAD!
I am in my late 20's now but I was actually LESS sensitive to violent gore movies when I was a teen. When Scream came out I actually thought it was good where as I would NEVER watch something like that now. However I LOVE psychological thrillers like The Ring and Disturbia.
I would say the right age is the age when your kid can watch the preview and tell you that he or she is genuinely interested in watching the movie. Once your kid has the curiosity for something scarey, you pretty much should give him or her the freedom to give it a shot.
i've been watching horror as long as i can remember, and while yes, there were some that after watching, gave me nightmares as a kid (the thing--took me 20 years to watch that again, alien, nightmare on elm street), i knew enough to 1) know that they weren't real and 2) use the info i'd gleaned from them to determine how to survive if something like that ever happend to me.
and that's what horror is really all about -- survival. Most horror lovers don't watch to see people get hurt. We watch to see how people survive the situation. We actually appreciate when a writer makes the characters smart enough to figure out a way out of their predicament.
Horror has been around for ages. Most of the fairy tales we were told as kids were horror stories.