I remember when I was little my parents were watching The Exorcist on TV (so it would have been heavily edited, but still)

"Your mother sews socks in heck!"

I don't remember how old I was, but I was freaked out by some version of A Christmas Carol when Scrooge goes to hell.

I'll be it's the Albert Finney musical version because a) I saw that in the theater (that and YELLOW SUBMARINE are the first two movies I remember seeing in a theater my life) and remember that sequence vividly, and b) they always, always, ALWAYS cut that scene out when they showed it on television.

That said, it was the reveal of the ghost of Xmas future as a skeleton that really freaked me out with that one.

oh, yeah, I totally grok that the parent should be able to decide what is appropriate for their child, but if the kid is clearly frightened, or disturbing other patrons, they should leave.

With sex I don't mind them watching sex in movies when presented in a "normal" manner.

::makes note to send porn to Laura's boys::

::makes note to send porn to Laura's boys::

Hee. I showed them the "Internet is for Porn" video and I thought they would split a gut. [link] That was made for my boys.

There were kids at the theater when we saw PotC that were too young. Stupid parents. Like the 3 year old kid that cried half the film.

I just told a nobel lauriat that "Everything's 5x5, the check went out on Thursday."

The Buffyisms sometimes come out of nowhere, like a burp or my Boston accent.

ION, in Minneapolis, Signs of the Cephalopod Underground

A reader discovered this fascinating graffiti in downtown Minneapolis, near the transit center on Hennepin Avenue.

With violence I tend to not mind them watching the obviously fictional stuff like SciFi while I shy away from graphic violence in a realistic setting like war. With sex I don't mind them watching sex in movies when presented in a "normal" manner. It's all very subjective.

You make a lot of sense -- I know I was way more freaked out by Platoon, which was several years later (and I saw it in a second-run theater), than any of the ridiculous horror movies. Horror movies are good clean fun!

I recall getting spooked by The Exorcist on cable when I was 14 ish. But that may have been more because I was babysitting late at night, it was storming pretty badly, branches kept falling against the house and there was a high school party down the street which meant random people would occasionally wander drunkenly into the yard, lit up by the strobing lightning.

I saw a lot of the Elm Street and Halloween flicks around 9-13 because my best friend at the time loved that stuff, and when her older brothers' watched us, they'd totally let us rent those. In retrospect, I recall more how stupid and gross they were than scary.

I don't like horror much at all.

I recall getting spooked by The Exorcist on cable when I was 14 ish.

I watched with hands over eyes in my 20s. Different stuff pushes the buttons.

Signs of the Cephalopod Underground

That would make an excellent album title.