My son and I have been watching 'guy' flicks after the girls go off to bed on the weekends and I thought he was ready for The Thing; was I ever wrong. While he managed to watch the entire movie without any apparent duress, he woke up shuddering about every half hour during the rest of the night. At least it will be remembered. What a great flick, it is one of the few that I can watch repeatedly.

My son and I have been watching 'guy' flicks after the girls go off to bed on the weekends and I thought he was ready for The Thing; was I ever wrong. While he managed to watch the entire movie without any apparent duress, he woke up shuddering about every half hour during the rest of the night. At least it will be remembered. What a great flick, it is one of the few that I can watch repeatedly.

John Carpenter's The Thing? That's...scary!

Before JC's "The Thing", your son should see Christian Nyby's "The Thing". If he was okay, then, see JC's The Thing.

Which version of "The Thing" did you watch? Both were creepy, but Carpenter's was a tad more haunting IMHO.

Which version of "The Thing" did you watch? Both were creepy, but Carpenter's was a tad more haunting IMHO.

It was Carpenter's; like most kids his age, black and white is a tough sell. He's already told me he wants to watch it again to get the order of the victims so he can't be too horribly scarred. I'm flabbergasted as to where this interest in the macabre comes from?

How old is your son?

How old is your son?

He's almost 10, a bit young I know but I don't think it is that much more intense than the Terminator movies, or Tremors, or The Mummy which we've watched together.

BTW, he did sleep through the night last night so he's on the road to recovery.

He's almost 10, a bit young I know but I don't think it is that much more intense than the Terminator movies, or Tremors, or The Mummy which we've watched together.

BTW, he did sleep through the night last night so he's on the road to recovery.

I'd say THE EXORCIST was the scariest movie I've seen. That 360 degree head turn...

I'd say THE EXORCIST was the scariest movie I've seen. That 360 degree head turn...

Jaws for me. It so profoundly disturbed me that after I saw it I spent an entire summer on dry land. I figure most people see the scariest, funniest, the whateveriest movies when they're young and impressionable so I want to introduce him to what I consider to be quality horror before his peers start telling him how great The House of 1000 Corpses is.

Jaws for me. It so profoundly disturbed me that after I saw it I spent an entire summer on dry land. I figure most people see the scariest, funniest, the whateveriest movies when they're young and impressionable so I want to introduce him to what I consider to be quality horror before his peers start telling him how great The House of 1000 Corpses is.

I'd say you're a good father, Scott--I mean, after 700 corpses or so, you gotta be sick to keep counting. Ain't I right?

He's almost 10, a bit young I know but I don't think it is that much more intense than the Terminator movies, or Tremors, or The Mummy which we've watched together.

BTW, he did sleep through the night last night so he's on the road to recovery.

It's around about that age that he'd start to sneakily watch those sorts of films anyway. Watching them with him is going to help him handle them better than if he watched them thinking he was doing something naughty.

I remember when I was about that age my father watched Mississippi Burning with me. We lived in a very racist area, and he wanted me to start thinking about the issue before me mates started influencing me in a negative way.