WOULD you let a 10 yr old see this?

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no.

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls079023906/

Never. I watched this and part 2 and had nightmares and scary thoughts for years.

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My best friend at school bragged his parents let him watch this and I just wondered is that normal for a kid to watch this is it violent? gory?

I was 10 when HELLRAISER was released at cinemas and probably 11 or 12 when it came out on VHS. I saw it then (via its VHS release) and didn't find it particularly frightening. It's become more frightening to me as time has gone on and I 'understand' it differently - seeing that it's about human cruelty and sadism more than the monsters, which were the 'draw' to me as a ten year old who saw the publicity stills in magazines, etc.

That said, I don't think I'd let my own children watch this until they were at least in their mid-teens.

'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).

I watched it the first time when I was about 11. Granted, I was only able to get permission to watch it because it was on cable and thus heavily edited. (This was back in the 90's, when cable channels actually put effort into editing violence out of films... whereas nowadays they just seem to mute out any f-bombs and blur any breasts, and leave 90% of the gore intact, which makes no sense at all.)

I probably should have waited a year or two.

10 is way too young, though.

I would say 12 or 13 if the child is mature enough, and you pre-screen it or watch it with them.

And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?

I was watching R rated action movies with my dad at 5 years old like Rambo or Terminator. I started watching horror at age 9 and always understood it was fake. I think most Parents were different in the 80s/90's. parents today over protect the kids on everything.