My dads brother visited us one time - when I was around 7 years old - and they sent me to bed and watched a movie together on TV. I’m not sure where my mom was, perhaps taking care of my little brother, but I quietly went down the stairs and saw them watching the movie, and I stayed very quietly so they would not know I’m there.

It was a Bruce Lee movie, “The Big Boss (1971)”. In that movie Bruce works at a ice factory and his boss kills some people and puts them into the ice. That’s not the worst of it. They then have those big ice blocks and a big blade saw and that saw cuts the big blocks into smaller peaces. It also cuts those bodies in the ice blocks into smaller pieces.

I couldn’t believe what I saw and went back upstairs and couldn’t fall asleep. I never told my parents.

  • bean
    16•3 months ago

    Terminator 2. Also Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Oh and a glimpse of Silence of the lambs before I got caught by mum that time.

    The heart part in Indiana Jones haunted me. as did the idea of a killer robot that you can’t reason with or plead mercy to.

    • DeconceptualistEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      Yeah Temple of Doom and T2 for me as well.

      ToD was somehow approved by my parents (I think it was rated PG-13, not R) and we even owned it on VHS but I definitely lost some sleep over the heart scene and also the monkey brains.

      T2 was definitely not approved, but I watched it at a friend’s house.

      • bean
        2•3 months ago

        Same!! I watched it at a friends house ahaha 😂 Mum was not pleased. Ah well. Now it’s funny.

        • DeconceptualistEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          Oh wow haha, I didn’t know that!

          It probably would have been closer to 1990 when I first saw it though so it would’ve been PG-13 by then. Still, an interesting factoid.