Why Are Parents Taking their Children to Watch R - Rated Horror Movies?

I thought I was the only one with a bad theater experience when it came to the horror movie Buddy, but apparently, there were a lot of stories with other people who came to watch this movie. I was stuck with a pretty terrible audience for this film, and while that was already bad enough, I was in shock when I saw there were several kids watching this movie. 

Parents had brough their children to watch Buddy, and something tells me that they did not bother to check the rating for this movie. I was so confused with why some parents got so mad about taking their kids to see this movie online. The rating to this movie was pretty clear, and the trailer was so disturbing. How the parents were completely oblivious about what Buddy actually was about baffled me. 

Surely no parent would be this naive about not knowing what sort of movie they were about to expose to their child?

And Buddy was 100% not meant for children. There were several disturbing scenes in this movie, and I can’t believe children had been exposed to such a film at a young age. 

This had also happened with another movie, called Sausage Party. It wasn’t a horror movie, but after witnessing that insane ending, I can see how it would be viewed as a horror movie later. I had literally seen a parent take their kid to go watch this movie, and I wondered if the dad had run out of the theater with his kid at some point during the movie. 

This movie SHOULD NEVER be shown to any child. 

And again, just like with Buddy, parents got mad at the theaters, instead of blaming themselves for making such a terrible mistake. 

I don’t understand how parents aren’t aware of the rating to some of these movies in theaters. Phones exist now, so it shouldn’t be hard to search up the rating online and read about the warnings with these movies. 

And this could be a little hypocritical, but some R — rated movies can sometimes be fine for kids to watch, depending on the material that takes place in these specific movies. One movie that I had seen with several children recently was the new Resident Evil. Honestly, this movie would be entertaining for anyone, and kids could even play these Resident Evil games if they wanted to. The games are pretty violent, but it’s not as bad as other horror stuff I have seen. You’re just killing zombies, and the new movie followed that exact formula. 

Like the horror franchise Terrifier. No way in hell any child should be exposed to that killer clown yet. The kills are extremely violent, and I think every kid should wait until they are in high school to watch this movie. Or even until they are 18 or older. The movie Scream is also pretty violent, but movies like Resident Evil I think would be fine for a kid to watch. 

The only downside to the new film is that the bad language is pretty crazy, but again, it’s about a random survivor full on panicking in his situation, so it’s not as bad some people would think. 

I know I got sort of off topic here, but parents should be very careful on what movies they want to show their children. Some horror movies are sort of fine to show children, but too many of them depict very disturbing sequences that no child should ever be exposed to. 

It’s a shame that not all parents are responsible with their kids, and I wish they would take the time to search up these R — rated films, because just trusting the image of the poster is a bad idea, and the main thing to look at is the rating to these movies. 

Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn