What was the first R-rated movie you ever saw? It doesn't necessarily have to be an 80's movie, but I am curious to know what kind of affect did it have on you.
Since I'm older than most of the regular posters here (I'm 43), my first R-rated flick was the "The Godfather", when it first came out in early 1972. I saw it with some friends who were just over 18 years old at the time, and so I accompanied with them.
Later that summer, I visited Japan, and me and some relatives of mine who were living there went to see the 1971 movie "The French Connection", starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. That was also R-rated, but I'm not sure how other countries outside the U.S.A. "rate" their films. The film was shown in the English language but with Japanese subtitles on the screen.
Having grown up with mostly Disney and other "family" or "kiddie" movies up to then, I don't have to tell you what a shock that was to see those two films!
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Posted by The Wizard (Member # 533) on :
In the UK we have an easy set of ratings for films, U (Universal, for all), PG (Parental Guidance), 12, 15, 18.
The first film that I can remember that had a rating older than I was, was Poltergeist (1982), 15 rated film but I'd never seen a horror film like that before ever and I was about 10 I think. Scared the crap outta me, literally couldn't sleep properly for weeks but it got me hooked on scary films. A few years later saw The Amityville Horror (1979) late one night, I used to sneak watch tv in my room cos I was supposed to be asleep, anyway I saw it on a little black&white tv and that still scared the crap outta me.
Thankfully I've got over those films now and it takes a lot to scare me :) till I saw two Japanese films a couple of months back that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end and made me feel so uneasy I had to stay awake till it got light outside before I could sleep! The films? Ring (1998) http://www.imdb.com/Title?0178868 and Ring 2 (1998) http://us.imdb.com/Title?0218553 which were apparently banned in certain parts of Asia. Dreamworks have done a remake of the first one - The Ring (2002) http://www.imdb.com/Title?0298130 , I haven't seen Dreamworks' one but I reccomend you see the original Japanese version first, preferably not alone in the middle of the night like how I watched it.
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
My first R rated movie was An American Werewolf in London. At the time it was a bit scary, but i loved it none the less as I still do today. :)
Posted by CheekiMunki (Member # 101) on :
My first R-rated movie was 1981's Excalibur. I was 6 at the time. There was the educational sex scene in the forest between Gwenivere and Lancelot! =P That was followed closely by American Werewolf in London which gave me nightmares!!
Posted by McFly (Member # 354) on :
Hmm, snuck into so many R-rated films as a kid for only a few minutes. First one I remember is when I was with the YMCA. We would see a couple movies a summer, and I think we were taken to some animated flick ("Secret of NIMH" maybe) and a couple of us kids said we had to go the bathroom. We ended up sneaking into "Purple Rain" for a little bit, having heard about Prince and sex scenes. We were bored after two minutes and went back to the other theater, hehe. Also did the same thing with "Bright Lights, Big City" a few years later.
The first complete feature I remember seeing was Elm Street 5. I was 13 and told my step-dad I'd never seen an R-rated flick in a theater, so he agreed to take me.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
First one I paid to see.... now this is going back a little, but it was "10", with Dudley Moore ad Bo Derek. I remember lying about my age to the woman on the ticket desk, and thinking that I was going to break out in spots under her gaze... then she said "ok" and I was in. Movie was more funny than sexy, but still brings back memories.
Posted by Patrick (Member # 424) on :
My first r-rated movie was "Terminator" and Terminator 2". I remember I saw them when i was about 10. A few weeks later, I fell in love with "An American Warewolf In London". I remember being able to count the R-rated movies i'd seen on my hand!
Posted by C_In_Scotland (Member # 94) on :
My friend and I were supposed to see 1942 (comedy) or Airplane (I can't remember)... and instead she wanted to sneak into an R movie just to see if we could... the movie playing was "Ordinary People" - she was bored, I loved it!! I'll never forget the opening music - choir singing Pachabel's Canon -- I didn't fully understand the movie, but really really enjoyed it.
Posted by scoovan (Member # 1087) on :
Mine was childs play, However when i saw it i was ten so that scared the crap out of me maily because i was still in the phase where i played with dolls.
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
heh, I have no clue. I had cable since I was like 3. I pretty much saw it all..
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Posted by outsider_katt (Member # 1009) on :
My first one was "The Ammityville Horror" It was soooooooooooooooo friggin' scary!
Posted by Gizmo (Member # 206) on :
WOW hmm i remember it like it was yesterday..
me and my twin sister were about 7 and we were at my grandmas my older sister and my cuzin were in the room and they put in a movie they told us 2 come here and we did it started and it said nightmare on Elm Street part 3 and i was like what is it shes like its BigBird in fallow that bird me and my twin started screamin and cryin we were scared eventually we watched it all that was my first R movie i have seen every horror movie in my home towns video store since i was a kid i was the only kid in elementary whos parents let me watch em lol
Posted by gypsyqueen1968 (Member # 799) on :
I just want to defend myself...Gizmo is my sister and she enjoyed every second of that movie....;)
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
This topic may be a few months old, but I'm just posting here to bump this thread. I'm doing it 'cuz I noticed a few members who recently joined here, and I wanted to hear their opinions of the first R-rated movie that you ever saw!
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Posted by SHEGOTGAME (Member # 476) on :
Hey! I'm not totally sure what the first R-rated movie I saw was, but I think it was either Child's Play or Die Hard. I think I was about 7 and Child's Play scared the crap outta me!...And I had one of those My Buddy dolls that looked like Chucky and that freaked me out! I remember watching Die Hard when I was young too and that has become one of my all-time favorite movies!!!!
Posted by Eddie Wilson (Member # 169) on :
My parents let me watch the Exorcist when I was 4. Lets just say I'm still frightened. LOL!
Posted by Janette (Member # 252) on :
Wow almost everyone here saw a horror flick. My first R (I think) was Revenge of the Nerds! We had cable too. My parents pretty much let us watch anything too. They had their limits though, we didn't watch much horror flicks growing up. I think mom knew it would keep us awake all night! :)
Posted by jlynn (Member # 854) on :
My first horror film that I watched at home was "Alice Sweet Alice". The movie of 2 twin girls and of coarse Alice was the bad one. She does plenty of killing for a little girl that is. I must have been 5 years old when I saw it. I had older half sisters who were staying with us who let me watch it. From that point on I watched what ever horror films I could. Halloween, Friday the 13th, now those were horror films. Compared to these scream movies they have today. The first horror film I paid to see was "The people under the stairs". I had to lie about my age though. Since then my favorite movies to watch is Horror movies. There the best, even though they can still scare me!
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Posted by eightiesdude (Member # 752) on :
I had to think about it for awhile and check out certain movies out that i thought were rated R were not on the imdb.com site. I started to see films by myself in 1975. So I finally got the answer after checking out some of the older ones. My first R film was 1979's "10" dont ask me how i got into the theater to see it. I can't remember apparantly they didnt care because I dont remember going with anyone.
Posted by leopardpantsmoodlipstick (Member # 916) on :
I think that the first "R" movie i had snuck into was "Jagged Edge." I bought tickets to "Top Gun" with Tom Cruise but thought it was boring in the beginning. I pretended to head for the bathroom but took a detour. It was good from what i remember.Has anyone else seen this movie? Ya know,I still havn't seen Top Gun till this day,but i hear it was o.k.How good was it?
Posted by richard_grieco (Member # 1054) on :
First Blood.
Posted by Akita (Member # 1257) on :
My first R rated video was 'Christianne F'. It was a dubbed (german?) movie, more shocking for the drug content than any sex stuff. Anyone remember this one??? Of course there was JAWS, 10, what about Amytiville???was that rated R? Posted by kenkobra (Member # 892) on :
quote:...Of course, there was JAWS, 10, what about Amityville??? Was that rated R?
"Jaws" was rated PG. "10" was rated R. I know that the first two "Amityville Horror" movies were rated R. But if I'm not mistaken, the third one (which came out in 1983) was rated PG.
Posted by SteveO (Member # 1309) on :
First R Rated movie I saw was Conan The Barbarian. To this day it still remains a personal favorite.
Posted by Hezibaby (Member # 222) on :
my first R movie was THE TERMINATOR. i loved it!! still a favorite!
Posted by She-Ra (Member # 1359) on :
i think it was american werewolf in london im more scared of it now tho than back then Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
"An American Werewolf In London" was rated R? I never saw that film, but I didn't know it got an R-rating.
Well, since I'm old enough, it doesn't much matter to me. Posted by nothinlikebefore (Member # 1888) on :
gizmo-- i have a twin sister as well. I think NOES 3 was the only one we owned. I wouldn't be suprised if that was my first R movie. Just thought that was strange. It was either that or Aliens. My older sister wanted to be Newt. She got the movie one Christmas... supposedly it was from Santa.
Posted by TuffTurf (Member # 1737) on :
My parents were never strict about what we watched as kids, I pretty much saw everything. The first R rated that really had a effect on me was "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". This movie taught me what sex was. My parents taped it off showtime and it quickly became my brother and mine's favorite movie.
I'm not sure if i saw them before Fast times but also Conan (I dressed up as him for halloween), American Werewolf, and Amityville Horror I saw very young as well. Also a little horror movie called "curtains". Not sure if any of you have seen it.
Posted by shaz (Member # 1886) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Wizard: The first film that I can remember that had a rating older than I was, was Poltergeist (1982), 15 rated film but I'd never seen a horror film like that before ever and I was about 10 I think. Scared the crap outta me, literally couldn't sleep properly for weeks.
Hey Wizard,
This is the same as me. I had a birthday sleepover when I was about 10/11 and me and all my mates watched this before going outside in the garden to sleep in tents. About 4 of the girls woke up having nightmares, one girl was totally in floods of tears and wanted to go home, one ended up top and tailing with my sister in the house because she was too scared to sleep outside.
Ruined my birthday:(
shaz x
Posted by retrohpink (Member # 1832) on :
I dont know if halloween is R but I saw it when I was like 6 or 7.
Posted by MONSOON (Member # 335) on :
Well kiddies Im going to really REALLY date myself now. While Im not certian whether it was R rated or not, going by todays standards it would be. The first R rated movie I seen was when I was 5 or 6. It was at the Drive In and it was the 1968 classic "Night Of The Living Dead" I wasnt supposed to be watching it, I was supposed to be asleep in the back seat of the car while my folks were watching it. The scene that Ill never forget was when they were taking the truck to get gas and it exploded and the zombies were eating the people. I still think that is the most horrifying piece of cinematography ever.
Posted by RiverPhoenix4life (Member # 1719) on :
The first i can remember is when I saw Braveheart in a drive-in, musta benn about 7 or 8. But who knows for sure, we had cable and I have very open minded parents.
Tooltes! Posted by isis9968 (Member # 1780) on :
I can't remember which one was first- I think Silent Scream and The Legacy and He Knows Your Alone, I was in 7th grade when HBO came out, and we used to set the alarm clock and sneek downstairs to watch Rated R movies..I remember seeing Looking For Mr. GoodBar, 10 to Midnight and Silent Rage. One movie that I haven't haerd mentioned yet on here, but we watched in high school, was Monty Python's The Meaning of Life- that was a whacked out movie. I have never seen Night of the Living Dead, it was filmed the year I was born, in my home state- and I saw pictures in a horror magazine that my Uncle had-and that alone scared me so bad, that there was no way I could watch the movie. My Uncle was into horror movies, and had this creepy mask and he would come to our house-and wore this railroad conductor's jumpsuit, and would knock on the door, and scare the heck out of me and my friends. But it was all fun!!
Posted by MONSOON (Member # 335) on :
quote:Originally posted by RiverPhoenix4life: The first i can remember is when I saw Braveheart in a drive-in, musta benn about 7 or 8. But who knows for sure, we had cable and I have very open minded parents.
Tooltes!
Yeah thanks RP4L for making me feel just a little older by naming a movie that was just released a mere 8 years ago. Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
Isis, is that Silent Rage with Chuck Norris that you are talking about???
As for my first R rated movie.
Trading Places and Conan the Barbarian in the same night.
Poltergeist isn't that far off.
We are DEVO and Chuck rules.
Posted by isis9968 (Member # 1780) on :
Devo- Silent Rage with Chuck Norris, yep-that was a scary movie, that murderer was like one of the creepiest killers from a movie- he looked the part.
Wasn't Poltergiest PG or Pg-13? I swear I saw somewhere that Jobeth Williams said they used "real" skeletons in the pool scene she's in-where she slides back down the mud- would that be even legal? It didn't sound like it could be possible. I can never watch the part where the steak slides across the counter, or where the guy pulls the hunks of skin off his face, yucky!
Posted by Samurai Sweetie (Member # 1529) on :
I honestly cannot remember that far back to remember my first "R" movie hehehe
Posted by Banshee (Member # 1829) on :
quote:In the UK we have an easy set of ratings for films, U (Universal, for all), PG (Parental Guidance), 12, 15, 18.
But Wizard, before 1982, the certificates were U, A, AA, X (showing my age here). I grew up in Ireland and we pretty much followed the UK's categorisation. So I guess the equivalent would have been an 'X' - no under 18s.
So to get to the point it was either 'Mad Max' or 'Alien' (but the projectionist mislaid the 3rd or 4th reel so I never got to see the chest-burster sequence until about 1987 - True Story). And their effects well I'm still watching movies...
Posted by luker2323 (Member # 1939) on :
my first.....carnal knowledge. i had troubled walking for days.......
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Luker2323 said:
quote:my first....."Carnal Knowledge". I had troubled walking for days.......
Oh, yes..."Carnal Knowledge" (1971), with Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margaret, and a then-unknown Candice Bergen. Perhaps you probably needed the...um, "therapy" what Rita Moreno gave to Jack Nicholson at the end of that movie?
In all seriousness, that movie was kinda disturbing to watch, especially for guys!
Yet, it seems that guys haven't changed much since that movie came out. There have, there is, and there will always be male "pigs" such as the Jonathan character (played by Nicholson).
I highly recommended it, but only if you have the stomach for it. But it's definitely NOT a "feel good" movie!
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Posted by Jaymi (Member # 1434) on :
I don't quite recall. Funny story though, I convinced my grandparents to take me to see Risky business in the theatre when it was first released. I had never seen them squirm so much!!!! This was hot on the trails of a discussion of old movies from the '40's and there is Tom Cruise in his Hanes doing the 'old time rock-n-roll'....I don't know if they ever told my parents or not but it sure was funny to watch them....somewhat more than the movie!!! Posted by Bobby Keller (Member # 2129) on :
Mine was A nightmare on Elm Street 2, made me laugh as much as anything though.
Posted by Missie (Member # 2186) on :
Hey McFly, mine was Purple Rain, too, at least, the first I paid on my own to see. I was 14 and armed with Aqua Net and eye liner and no one even questioned how old me and my friend, Jennifer, were.
Was Jaws rated R? My mom took me with her on a date to the drive in, and I fell asleep in the back seat, and when I woke up, she was kissing the guy in the front seat and on the movie screen were bloody bits and pieces of the shark sinking in the water. I went back to sleep. I think I was about five.
Once, my parents threw all four of us kids in the Ranchero and we all went to the drive in (I'm starting to see a pattern here!) to see Nice Dreams. I remember that even though I got the humour, I wasn't that interested in it at the time, you know, not being a crack whore and all! LOL
Missie
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Missie asked:
quote:Was "Jaws" rated R? My mom took me with her on a date to the drive in, and I fell asleep in the back seat, and when I woke up, she was kissing the guy in the front seat and on the movie screen were bloody bits and pieces of the shark sinking in the water. I went back to sleep. I think I was about five.
"Jaws" was rated PG. You probably would've been more scared if you saw it inside a theater!
I do love drive-ins, but some films simply aren't meant to be enjoyed there.
Posted by goonie_girl (Member # 1530) on :
my first r-rated movie was the craft. it still freaks me out. lol.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
someone I knew was an extra in FAME so I went to see that with my mother. Im pretty sure that was the first R rated movie I saw.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
...........when I got older...Junior High I had a best friend whose Aunt only spoke Spanish. We would get her to take us to "dirty" movies and she would fall asleep (mostly because she couldnt understand what the people were saying!). The two I most clearly remember going to see with "Auntie" chaperoning were "A Night In Heaven"(Christopher Atkins as a male stripper) and REVENGE OF THE NERDS. oh wait...think we saw BACHELOR PARTY with her too!
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