My 14-year-old daughter is a fan of horror movies....she likes the Saw movies, the Ring, Hostel, The Strangers, The Amityville Horror remake, etc. Disturbing, I know...but she likes to watch them, understands that they are only movies, and likes the special effects/makeup.
Is this movie ok for her to watch?
Also, does anyone have any other horror movies to recommend?
Any that I should make sure she stays away from?
"Say hello to my little friend"
Obviously, you should decide, but even when its a 1972 I think that the moral violence, over the graphic one, is too strong to let her see it at her age.
sharei'm 13 and i watched this movie
shareNone of the films your daughter has watched are suitable for a 14 year old. That is why they are rated 18 in the UK and R in the USA. Kids grow up too fast these days anyway without watching torture porn for entertainment.
Andyprendy1 is a perfect example of a mindless follower.
Who cares if it is rated 18 in the UK, and R in the USA; those are pathetic suggestions from panels of people you don't know - who aren't even a part of a government organization - who decide what they think your child should be seeing. The MPAA is not a federally funded organization; do you think it matters if they say it should be Rated R, or not?
People mindlessly follow these pathetic ratings way too closely. Be your own parent, and quit letting people parent for you. People like you need to get your heads out of your a***** and get some formal thinking on how you want to be a parent, instead of watching the latest news report and deciding you think no kids should be aloud to _____________ <--FILL IN THE BLANK BECAUSE I KNOW YOU HAVE MULTIPLE EXAMPLES, FOOL.
Anyway,
Let the 14 year old girl watch the stupid badly filmed movie. Hopefully she enjoys it, hopefully it gives her a sense of being pissed off, and moreover a strong sense of wanting to be one of those few females that carries a loaded firearm (when she's of age and licensed, of course - but that is a federally mandated law).
Moreover, hopefully she enjoys the way the movie was filmed. The badly made movie is a cult classic because of it's bad film, techniques, etc; but oh so good at the same time. Hopefully she is a movie lover, and appreciates these things. If she does appreciate them, then hell; let her watch whatever the hell she wants, because I assure you that she is going to anyway.
Let the 14 year old watch the movie. I watched way worse movies than this when I was 14; that's for sure, and now I am a very successful member of society, living dreams that more than 80% of you could never achieve (because you are unintelligent peons who spend too much time mindlessly regurgitating pathetic ideals like not letting kids be human; you people should be rid from the gene pool. . . You're probably ugly, too).
Anyway. . .
P.S. I forgot to mention that kids grow up in Africa and Russia all the time, did you know that? I know, I was pretty surprised when I found that out myself; but it's true. Kids grow up in Africa quite a bit, which is kind of amazing considering how many dead bodies you'll come across on a daily basis.
I think our wimpy American kids can handle a violent movie. You people have no thinking skills.
ddhix_2002, I agree.
I still think it's a bit much for a fourteen year old, but that's just my preconceived notions showing through.
But the MPAA are irrelevant.
My parents are strict Christians, and they used to go bananas at the though of seeing an R rated flick.
Then I showed them movies like Misery, and now they don't judge by the rating.
But ironically, all they care about is nudity and sex.
(Except for Suspiria...my mom freaked out during the gore scenes in that.)
Gay people...robots in disguise!
Then I showed them movies like Misery, and now they don't judge by the rating.
But ironically, all they care about is nudity and sex.
My parents would never in a millions years let me watch Last House.
I watch whatever the hell I want anyway, and now that I'm 18 they know it, and they know they can do nothing about it.
So yeah, I saw it about three or four months ago.
I have to say, I liked it.
I know people are going to shoot me for saying this, but it was a lot of fun to watch.
That's just me.
Hell, I had fun watching Irreversible (accomplishment).
Last House was about as good as it could have been on its low budget.
Also, it's a remake of a great Bergman film called The Virgin Spring, which is far superior.
I saw Virgin Spring before last house, but they have two very different feels, and don't seem very related other than general plot.
Well, they're very related in general plot, but they feel so different.
So yeah, I guess you could say I liked Last House for what it is.
Gay people...robots in disguise!
Thanks for the reply, :-)
I accept that it's a flawed film (I believe this was the first narrative film Craven and Cunningham made that wasn't a porn masquerading as a documentary) but I appreciate Last House and can see its pivotal and crucial place in the history of horror exploitation films.
Maybe it's just me but I tend to ignore the Comic Book Guy-esque whingers who crop up here and say this movie is "the... worst... ever" and then follow it up with "Rob Zombie ruuullllz", it's really not worth entering into debate with these sort of people.
You allowed a 14 y/o to see Hostel. That is parental abuse. She liked Amityville Horror well there is another strike against the parental units. I could see letting her watch the Scream movies, The Messengers and the Saw movies are comical. But not Hostel.
For the record I have 3 daughters 21, 17 and 14
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Wait...what?
Dolfanatic314, you've missed the point of this thread.
Or maybe you never read it.
So you would let a 14 year old see Saw, which is brutal as hell (and a great movie as well), but you wouldn't let her see Amityville Horror?
Wtf?
That movie isn't that violent (lots of people would even call it boring.)
Let me guess: You're concerned about the sex.
That's just silly.
I see where this is going.
Scream, The Messengers, and Saw had no sex whatsoever...
But Amityville and Hostel did.
Your thinking is warped beyond belief.
You would let your child see brutal murder and violence on screen, yet naked bodies and sex are no-nos?
p.s.: The Messengers was a TERRIBLE movie. I wouldn't let her see it because of how god-awful it was.
Now who's the bad parent?
Gay people...robots in disguise!
It all depends on the maturity of the child. There is no "right way" to parent, because every kid is different. Some kids can handle movies like this, others can't.
My mom just sort of gave up on trying to have an input on what I watch. I've been watching gory horror movies since the fourth grade, and I'm doing okay. It comes down to this: It doesn't really matter whether you allow your kid to watch this movie. They'll go to a friend's house with lenient parents and watch it anyway.
I've seen the original and the remake, both very disturbing, and I'm pretty sure I'm okay. No nightmares, no impulses to murder small animals. Don't worry about it.
T~O
KBitch
Does that make me an accessory to cat rape?
The Sex vs Violence thing is classic. It's more than typical that the frontal lobe impaired would disregard the bloodshed, but get all up in arms about a boob.
People are sexually uncomfortable, afraid of any sort of exposure whatsoever, and want to shelter their children from it as much as possible, by any means possible; resulting in whore children who become mom's and dad's at 14 :)
Anyway. . .
Yeah, kids are going to watch what the hell they want to watch anyway; as long as you have stupid parents who are going to 'limit' their child's mental intake, they will starve for more. Good job on breaking your kids, people; you are effectively making them even more cognitively dull than yourselves.
My 4 year old & I watched Cannibal Holocaust together; how many strikes is that against me, as a parent, in your ridiculously sheltering opinion? Suck it; because my 4 year old can read, write, and recite his ABC's at will; count to 50; ride a skateboard and motorcycle (with an actual motor, by the way) freely; doesn't piss his bed or himself; doesn't cry in the store (ever! if he did I would kill him); doesn't suck his thumb; knows 13 true facts about Abraham Lincoln; and knows at least fifty very large words (and their proper usage) that most ten year old's have no concept of. My 4 year old and I have watched Cannibal Holocaust, Suspiria, Last House on the Left, he has seen every single Friday the 13th (I even took him to the theater for the new one), Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and quite a bit of the Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Now compare my 4 year old, who obviously has his *beep* together, to your whining, crying in the store, thumb sucking, afraid of everything, vaginized (a male that has had way too much female attachment) 4 year old.
Now, is it so bad to let your kids see violent, insane crap at a young age? Obviously not; my kid isn't demented, he cries when the commercial comes on of the sad abused dogs; so obviously he's not a sociopath (that one thing proves against it). No, it's not. Kids have grown up for hundreds of years seeing dead bodies in streets; a movie isn't going to hurt them. Just because we don't see dead bodies in streets all the time in the U.S. - that doesn't mean that kids haven't grown up in the past few hundred years seeing rotting corpses; did it effect them tremendously? Probably not, because back only a short time ago, kids weren't made into little breakable objects; and people like everyone we know so well didn't have Child Fetishes (and I don't mean that sexually) where they believe they should protect their children from all of life that we live in.
Raise your kids as realists and you'll succeed. Raise your kids "protecting" them from anything and everything - especially movies; which for the most part do convey reality in story-format - and I can assure you that something will be wrong.
I am a perfect example; I'm a productive member in the U.S. Air Force, I have a family, very nice cars, all kinds of very expensive motion picture equipment, I'm a PADI certified Master Scuba Diver, and I have a chemistry as a second hobby. I watched this awesome crap from a very young age; I didn't piss my bed, or cry in the middle of the night; why? Because my parents didn't turn me into a boy-woman.
The point is, you people suck.
Except for those of you who agree with me, ya'll are awesome.
Let's all (intelligent people) make it a point to rant when some idiot posts crap like this in our favorite violent movie boards. I'm getting sick and tired of this being the #1 brought up topic on these boards; it ruins the fun of loving the movie for the rest of us who actually do appreciate good cinema fun. Why should we have to sit here and defend over - and over - and over - and over again why the hell we like this movie, and the dynamics of why these people are such stupid parents in the first place?
I like movies, kids like movies, so shut up; loser.
Kids grow up in Africa all the time; a movie isn't that bad.
Amen to that!
Sheltering kids is what *beep* them up in the future.
Prime example: homeschoolers.
No social skills whatsoever.
You really want your kids to turn out like that?
Besides, they're going to see these movies anyway, with or without your permission.
DeMented Forever!
I agree with you entirely!!!!! but it is the rape scene, and only that scene, that makes me not want to let my young daughter watch it. maybe you would have a different opinion, if you had a 12 yr old girl. it would make uncomfortable veiwing i'm sure. but yea, good for you. they will watch it if they want, and whats forbidden is only more attractive. they are just pictures. nothing is real. my daughter likes nothing more than watching someone get their heads chopped off whilst eating her spag bol. power to you.
sharei also have a daughter, that is very young and understands the concept, that horror movies are just movies, but i wouldn't let her watch this film. it is horrific, there is a rape scene that i feel young girls do not need to see. also the atrocities are committed by 'people' and not monsters in maske if you know what i mean. i am currently sitting through the re-make, and the jury is still out. hope this helps.
shareI understand where you are coming from with the rape scene, and the natural protectiveness you have over your daughter (I'm assuming you are male like I).
I have to tell you, though, my wife and I went to see the new Last House on the Left when it came out, and I have never seen her squirm when watching a movie (I'm referring to the rape scene; she squirmed). Even she was uncomfortable while watching that scene; and she is a grown woman.
My point is that your daughter will have an uncomfortable time watching that scene whether she is 10 or 50; rape scenes are uncomfortable; they are supposed to be. Rape scenes in film have a special place; they are there to upset you and piss you off, never shown in a good light at all. Emphasis was put on the new Last House on the Left to make the scene as uncomfortable as humanly possible. Did you notice the sound edits in the new one when she is screaming while being raped? The microphone is abnormally close to her mouth, so you can hear the crackle of her scream; very, very brutal.
Now, keeping that in mind, and keeping in mind that girls now-a-days are pampered too much, I ask you if you want your daughter to see that there is a very large reality of rape in the real world? In my rant earlier I complained about how movies are really just stories, true or not, they derive from reality in some form or another. Well, this story derives from reality to a halfway decent degree (it doesn't use monsters, is what I'm saying). You said it yourself, the atrocities are commited by people. Why shelter your daughter from viewing something that people can be capable of?
Perhaps the film would, instead of scaring her (which I doubt it would; no girl would slit her wrists after watching a rape sequence), encourage her to learn how to kick men in the nuts properly in the event of an attack. Or, like my wife, buy a gun (and we all like women who carry pink guns in their purses, now don't we?). My wife carries her pink gun out of empowerment and knowing that women do get raped, and attacked.
Monsters are good and all, but real horror films induce true emotions. In "The Shining," the real monster is Jack Nicholson trying to kill his family with an axe. It's all how you look at it, really.
What I'm trying to say, though, is the rape aspect of this movie shouldn't deter a 14 year old from seeing the movie. Whether or not you want to be in the room watching her watch a movie where the girl is forced to fellate a guy is up to you - I doubt you would want to be there for that. But, you would definitely be the cooler parent if you let your daughter and her friends watch the movie while you said the words "I don't care, whatever" and drank a beer or ten.
Women need empowerment and no B.S.. Kill Bill is a good example, too; female empowerment movie.
Now, in Last House on the Left, there probably isn't as much empowerment as others (like I Spit On Your Grave), but it does have some.
Your choice.
Please tell me bogwart means fourTEEN.
But yeah, rape/revenge movies have always been profoundly empowering.
I Spit on your Grave is probably the best example.
It's so brutal, and she gets raped so many times, but the bloody revenge is so satisfying.
Especially when she's just running around in that boat at the end.
The cover and everything makes it look like just a crappy B movie, but it's not.
Another example is Thriller: a Cruel Picture, which is an A-grade film as well.
And I have to somewhat correct you about the Shining...
Jack isn't the monster.
It's the hotel.
Well, at least it was supposed to be in king's novel and his POS miniseries, but a lot of people think Kubrick intentionally changed that aspect and made it more ghost-oriented.
But still, I don't think Jack is technically the monster.
DeMented Forever!
Let me detach myself from my premise of cultural freedom and allowing the horror genre to be reaching out to young minds.I truly feel there are far worse horrors out there than movies,and movies just allow you a vicarious pleasure of seeing something more horrific than the going ons in your own life.But,let me detach myself.
If you think I spit on your grave is about female empowerment,you're so wrong bro.In kill bill,Uma Thurman kills more females than males(infact the only important male dies the most dignified death).I guess you would feel the guinea pig series is ultra liberating for the female.
Next point.The internet is a place for advice.As is newspapers and the TV.So taking parenting hints about the internet is not wrong.Furthermore no one should decide who's right or wrong,or comment on a person's intelligence.Only intelligent people know their fallings,dumb ***ses feel they are the best.Some people are satisfied after owning a car,some others cannot get the same satisfaction from material things.
Also the extent of showing your kids the "real world" shouldn't just stop at films I presume.Why not show them actual dead bodies,kill a dog or a cat and show them how its done, potray live sex to educate them,and of course to call everyone else fools and dumb if they do not confer with their view.Add to that a pleasure trip to some torture cell,or a one on one with a person on death row would surely make a child attain Nirvana.
Do not judge for you shall be judged.
Peace Bro.
I'd say a strong NO. I've been watching horror movies since I was ten (not with my parents consent!) and am now thirty and I think had I seen this at an early age it would have screwed my head up for quite a while. It deals with rape and sexual degredation and to me this is not what horror/gore/splatter is about. Other movies I can think to avoid are "Cannibal Holocaust" and more recently "Wolf Creek". Most fans of the horror genre appreciate special effects and an element of macabre comedy, this is not what these films contain. Well done for asking the question and well done for inspiring me to post my first reply on IMDB.
shareNot well done for not reading my previous rants about how wimpy people make wimpy kids.
To shame on your first IMDB post.
I would show this movie to a 14 year old. It would teach the kid to stay out of danger.
shareMore power to you!
shareIf you consider you have such a compelling and obviously correct (to you) argument then why do you feel the need to repeat it, while insulting everyone around you, dozens of times in one thread?
For what it's worth I believe that any so-called parent who allows a four-year old to watch a film like Cannibal Holocaust is not a fit person to have that responsibility.
No $hit.
shareI'm not interested on all the arguments on this board.
I'll give you my opinion. I feel like a hypocrite but I wouldn't let my 14-year-old see it (she's 12 now, eventhough I saw it when I was younger than her. My own daughter wouldn't want to see it to begin with-- not the exploitation/horror buff her old man is.
The movie is either too cheesy and dated at times, or too gritty. The remake might not be too hard for her to take because there's only about ten minutes of sexual abuse whereas the original seemed to go on for an hour.
If she's into horror flicks, I would give her a couple of years to see this one.
No.
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