So I showed my 7 year old son Alien and Aliens..

And he was not fazed or disturbed by any of it, and that includes the John Hurt chest burster scene which he found fascinating. It got me to thinking what I should show him next. Jaws was his first horror movie but he bawled at the end of that because he wanted the shark to live. So anything which involves the death of an animal is probably a no-no (that discounts The Thing then).. He's also seen Gremlins. I guess Predator, The Terminator and T2 would be good ones. Maybe Poltergeist for his first ghost movie, as presumably the gore scene will not disturb him. It's funny because the violence doesn't worry me so much, but I have to cough loudly when I know an F bomb is coming or cover his eyes during a slightly "intimate" scene.

It also got me to wondering what age were you when you saw your first horror (or anything that a young kid should not watch) movie and what was it? Do you remember how it made you feel? Scared? Disturbed? Fascinated? I was quite a bit older when I saw my first "proper" horror movie, which was either Child's Play 3 or Day of the Dead at about the about of 11 or 12. I don't remember exactly. The first movie to truly disturb me though was Robocop, which I saw at about 12-13.