Which movie would you consider to be traumitizing for kids?

Question

For kids ages 13-15?

And why?

Answer 1

I think it depends on the kid and what they are afraid of...

Answer 2

let me just say one thing not to be offensive to anyone this is just my opinion!!!! ok???? most kids are not scared by R movies!!! they think they r funny!!

Answer 3

The Exorcist! I watched it when i was 10 and now im 16 and even when i hear that song 'tubular bells' i think its called i get so freaked out. Uhh for 13 year olds i think anything real like Hotel Rwanda. NO scariest movies for kids even 13 and over are those ones where the toys come alive! The creepy dolls and stuff i really dont know why - i have only ever seen snippets of those kind of movies im too scared to watch them lol. But theres something about dolls killing people that is so horribly traumitizing!

Answer 4

SAW

if the kid hasnt seen anything like it before

Answer 5

the exorcist i still have nightmares

Answer 6

Really it depends on the kid.  What one may see as being traumatizing the next one might think is the best movie they ever saw.  My daughter is a Saw finatic along with her father but her best friend can not stand the thought of the movie much less watching it.  Some kids handle things better than others, some are exposed to more at home than others so you cant single it out by age.  Wish it was that simple.

Answer 7

i don't think that there are any movies that are traumatizing for my kids my 7 year love return of the living dead that is the movie where the dead come alive and eat peoples brains

Answer 8

When I was 14 at a friends house they rented a movie (low budget) called KIDS. Oh.. my... gawd.

Talk about traumatizing. It shows teens doing sexual things and a one time s*x thing (a virgin) gets Aids. it then shows the trail of AIDS and how easy it is to get. Scary!!! It shows how the boys would sleep with girls and go talk about it to their friends. Oh my. it's bad.

Answer 9

it depends on the kids, and how seriously they will take the movie. some may be able to relate to something scary because it happened to them. i would not let my child watch a movie that i knew contained something that had happened them. such as a break in, or child abuse, or something like that (if i in fact, had a kid that had something bad happen to them). if they can relate to it, they probably shouldnt watch it. although i think some scary movies could be used as a tool to reinforce what is real and what isnt/ "see, this happened because it's a movie, but that would not happen in real life".

or explain that the purpose of a scary movie is to be scared.

or if you're really worried about scary things that could traumatize your kids, dont let them watch anything scary, and never the news. that's full of scary terrible things.. and it's all real.

Answer 10

Any rated R movie, and anything scary. It also depends on the kids, I have a friend whose child is the same age as my daughter and he loves scary movies and my daughter is scared to death of the cartoon "Monster House"!

Answer 11

hostel

Answer 12

bambi.

i was 30 yoa when i saw bambi for the first time and the momma gets shot. it was traumatizing for me even as an adult. that was so sad.

Answer 13

Okay, proving that I'm old, I saw "Full Metal Jacket" when I was that age and I was seriously traumatized.

Of course it depends on the kid.

Answer 14

The problem with many movies today are not that they are traumatizing to teens---it is that they desenitize our children and they think all that killing and crime is OK.   All the video games for teens for example-although rated for teens , I believe are wrong for anyone.  So are many movies.  Call me a fuddy duddy-that's OK!

Answer 15

any movie rated R or 18A

and a majority of the movies rated 13A or 14A

Answer 16

None - we can take it at that age.

And I've never heard of a 13A movie...