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Jamie Lee Curtis condemns parents who show their kids Halloween

Jamie Lee Curtis thinks parents who show their kids John Carpenter's Halloween are the worst human beings on the planet.

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Jamie Lee Curtis is best known around these parts - and always will be - for her role as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN. And today we've learned that Curtis thinks that parents who show their kids HALLOWEEN are the worst human beings on the planet. Ouch.
Specifically, during a recent podcast appearance she said:

I’m not demeaning children or saying they can’t handle (violence), but it’s the truth… When I go out to talk about Halloween, even when I was doing book tours for books for children, I would have people come… They will stand there with their five-year-old kid, and say to me, ‘My Bobby loves Halloween, Don’t you Bobby?’… and I look at them and I have the meanest, meanest JLC are-you-out-of-your-fucking-mind look of you are the worst human being on the planet that you would show your child Halloween. I have kind of a strong opinion, as you can tell, about when is correct and incorrect to expose a child to that stuff.

 

[America's Giggling Gigolo]

The drug addict loves to moralize, now that she's been welcomed back into Hollywood.

 

[The Last Stand]

Halloween (2019) is rated R. We have rating systems for a reason. What people do with that is their choice.

 

[Marco Fucko]

See, growing up in the 90s and 00s all of the classic slasher movies were such a part of the cultural zeitgeist I basically saw Halloween through osmosis. In fact, I found some sperg's faithful shot-for-shot lego adaptation on youtube before I saw the actual movie. That's not to mention I was one of those kids obsessed with horror.

So I guess society is the worst human being for showing me Halloween. Damn you, society.

 

[Spastic Colon]

Halloween (2019) is rated R. We have rating systems for a reason. What people do with that is their choice.

I think parents underestimate how much a scary movie can impact a child, though. I was 5 when my dad took me to see Jaws. I am still deathly afraid of sharks and won't do more than stick my feet in the ocean. I know it is unlikely I'll get attacked by a shark, but that fear was permanently set by that movie. Maybe some young kids can handle it, but why take the chance? Just wait until you know they are old enough to handle it.

 

[Travoltron]

I mostly agree with Jamie Lee Curtis.

 

[Damn Near]

Friendly reminder that she said she and her father Tony Curtis did drugs together. I don't doubt that it's true, but come on bitch, don't put your old man on blast like that when he's too dead to defend himself

 

[The Last Stand]

I think parents underestimate how much a scary movie can impact a child, though. I was 5 when my dad took me to see Jaws. I am still deathly afraid of sharks and won't do more than stick my feet in the ocean. I know it is unlikely I'll get attacked by a shark, but that fear was permanently set by that movie. Maybe some young kids can handle it, but why take the chance? Just wait until you know they are old enough to handle it.

You're right. That's why I was empathizing we have the rating system for a reason. There are Halloween themed movies for kids. This is not one of them. If you take your kid to a movie like that, expect the consequences. Not everything is for kids.

 

[Truthboi]

While I disagree with JLC on some things, I agree on this. It's generally dumb of parents to take children to horror movies or R-rated films in general considering children could get easily traumatized by them.

 

[Rice Is Ready]

While I disagree with JLC on some things, I agree on this. It's generally dumb of parents to take children to horror movies or R-rated films in general considering children could get easily traumatized by them.

People give children as young as 2 years old smart phones with no restrictions. That is what's going to doom future generations not a spooky movie.

 

[Judge Holden]

Technically the first horror movie I ever watched was I Know What You Did Last Summer when I was 7 and I dont think it had any negative effects on my psychology.....mostly because it was so generic and forgettable I lost interest after about an hour. That being said at age 8 I saw Night of the Living Dead, and at age 9 I saw Texas Chain Saw Massacre and those movies scared the absolute fuck out of me, and even today i can still feel that childhood fear while watching them, albeit in an enjoyable nostalgic way, though I still doubt that there were any serious lingering effects.

Honestly I think parents should just engage their brains with this shit and not intentionally put young kids in front of anything resembling hardcore horror, even if there are no negative psychological impacts, since it could still pointlessly upset them and scare them off horror movies for life. They wont get any enjoyment out of it given how little they will understand anything they are watching, and there are plenty of spoopy shit for kids that you can throw at them if they say they want to say a scary film.

Speakin of Night of the Living Dead though, a fun bit of trivia is that when it first came out, the lack of age ratings and the popular view of horror as "fun cheesy movies great to entertain kids" meant the theatres were packed with preteens. Roger Ebert had this amusing recollection of how children in the audience reacted to the birth of the zombie apocalypse genre

The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying ... It's hard to remember what sort of effect this movie might have had on you when you were six or seven. But try to remember. At that age, kids take the events on the screen seriously, and they identify fiercely with the hero. When the hero is killed, that's not an unhappy ending but a tragic one: Nobody got out alive. It's just over, that's all.

 

[Arctic Fox]

I think parents underestimate how much a scary movie can impact a child, though. I was 5 when my dad took me to see Jaws. I am still deathly afraid of sharks and won't do more than stick my feet in the ocean. I know it is unlikely I'll get attacked by a shark, but that fear was permanently set by that movie. Maybe some young kids can handle it, but why take the chance? Just wait until you know they are old enough to handle it.

It's a fucking shark. Of course you should be weary of them. Only idiots aren't afraid of sharks.

 

[Revo]

People give children as young as 2 years old smart phones with no restrictions. That is what's going to doom future generations not a spooky movie.

For me one of the scariest irl part is that there exist some parents who let kids have accounts on social media and emails with fullkidsname@mainstreamemail.com.

 

[ZehnBoat]

While I disagree with JLC on some things, I agree on this. It's generally dumb of parents to take children to horror movies or R-rated films in general considering children could get easily traumatized by them.

depends on the R-rated film
there are some that are so over the top that kids would be okay with it
hell i watched true lies as a kid, it was great
although maybe one should wait until they're like... 7 or 8... before doing that

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

Jamie Lee Curtis is going through that derangement that old people have where they think movies like the Exorcist and Halloween are still scary/gory/shocking, if anything those movies should be ridiculed for being awful softcore porn since horror directors had 60 minutes of movie to fill.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

It's a lot more reasonable to say "Don't let your kids watch Halloween/slasher films" than something like Jurassic Park because while you can say both are "too scary", you can't always say it's "too scary for children" and it'd have the same connotation since you can't entirely rate them on the scale of horror and get the same results. Perhaps for some children, JP is too much for them, but one's a sci-fi thriller, the other's a slasher film although it's one of the tamer examples in terms of gore. You'd have a better chance of proving your point by comparing Halloween to another slasher film, or to other horror films like Alien and The Thing, even though you could argue the latter two being sci-fi films means it's total fiction because unlike the true horror of serial killers, there's no aliens out to rape kill you or mutate you into amorphous monsters.

Oh wait, is this about the newest Halloween from last year? Oh, hell no, kids shouldn't be watching that. There's a reason movie theaters constantly stress about "read the box", although it's possibly to stave off those shitty parents who take their kid(s) to see an R-rated movie only to then barge out some minutes later demanding a refund in spite of the warnings beforehand. The comments in the link make good points in that kids will sneak around their parents and watch stuff behind their backs, but as a parent, you should make the judgment call of when such-and-such is appropriate for your child, and to ensure they can tell the difference between fiction and reality.

 

[cypocraphy]

When I was a little kid I would watch Halloween 1 and 2 on TV without my parents even knowing.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

Despite her acting like an exceptional "won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!" pearl clutcher, I kinda agree with her to an extent. Ratings exist for a reason. Parents should have an idea what their kids are capable or incapable of handling. You take a toddler to go see a gorefest horror flick expecting him/her to giggle and enjoy the movie, you're just straight up re.tarded. If you take an impressionable kid to go see a raunchy adult comedy, don't start REEEE'ing if he starts repeating the dirty jokes/curse words.

That said, she is being a bit too reactionary. Some kids can handle horror fine. I watched Halloween around age 8, Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 9 and The Shining when I was around 10. I got creeped out, but it didn't traumatize me or turn me into another Klebold/Harris. Parents need to actually be fucking parents, know their kids and what they're mature enough to handle before just plopping them down in front of the TV to babysit.

 

[MrTroll]

The original Halloween is tame as fuck, come on. Any 10-year-old who's not a total weenie could handle that. It's not The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Saw.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Isn't she the one who kept pushing Activia in order to "keep you regular"?

I shat like a motherfucker because of that yogurt, like holyshit worst time to eat it was on the bus trip and the bus was full of chinese foreigners and they all used the bus bathroom every two minutes and never cleaned anything.

For that I will forever fucking hate that women I hope she burns in Hell.