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Agreed, I'm actually pretty shocked that they reduced it to a 15, there's some pretty strong stuff in there.

11-year-olds are young enough to get terrible nightmares from films like Aliens - if it was my child who wanted to watch something age-appropriate and got shouted down, I'd be pretty furious.



Meh. I've had nightmares from a movie once in my life.

Which one? That lovely children's classic "The Wizard of Oz".

That witch was scary!!


They removed the realy dark scene Dorothy is in the Witch's dungeon and sings a dark reprise of "some where over the rainbow"

It only exists as a outtake (its on yahoo) as it was to upsetting.


For me it was The Exorcist. Watched it at 7 or 8. Had nightmares every night for a week. Didn't really learn my lesson though.


Happened to me with A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was 6. Also didn't learn my lesson, but never again in my life I had a nightmare. Freddie was really scary, all else can said to be a dream if Freddie isn't there. :)


> Meh. I've had nightmares from a movie once in my life.

Some of us weren't so lucky.


Really? It was the monkeys with wheels that were too freaky for me.


That was The Wiz?


Oh, you're right in that I was wrong. I was thinking of the movie Return to Oz (1985).


The wheelers? Freakier than the witch with the gallery of heads? If you say so.


Chaplin's "Limelight" haunted me for years, because I got it into my head that he actually died in the scene were his role persona died.

I saw plenty of much more graphic stuff that didn't phase me for a moment.


I've had nightmares from a movie once (and only once) too.

It was The Care Bears Movie.


The flying monkeys scared that shit out of me.


My mother took me to the theater and watched it with me. I was 11.

No nightmares.

If anything, I was the weird kid at school, because everyone else was watching Nightmare on Elm Street when they were 8 and 9, and mom wouldn't let me.


The only movie that gave me severe nightmares at that age, was E.T.




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