I won tickets from the radio to see the premiere of Seven when I was 12. Glad I saw such a high quality high impact thriller so early. Watching Pitts character struggle with his decision at the end and trying to work out if his choice was right. Or consider the possibility there was no such a thing as a right choice. Amazing experience.
That being said, I wouldn't recommend that 12 year olds go see Seven.
Probably not what you had in mind but West Side Story. I didn’t care about musicals or romance. My dad made me watch it. He was a tough guy who liked kung fu movies and football. But he wasn’t afraid to be soft either. He liked musicals as much as he liked Bruce Lee. Glad we watched it together though. I appreciate that stuff now.
Hellraiser? Phantasm?
Requiem for a dream. I have still not used opiates.
This was a tough one to watch.
I saw Midnight Cowboy when I was a little kid at the drive in theater with my parents. Didn't really understand it and I was unsettling, but I lived the song and Dustin Hoffman's "I'm walking here!"
It depends on the 9 and 11 year old, but I saw Interview With The Vampire when it came out when I was 10, and I read the book at 12...
Are the nieces interested in spooky shit, or scifi, or fantasy? That might help you refine your picks.
Good recc! Yeah they're both pretty morbid. The older one is going to have a goth phase, no doubt. The younger one wants as many details as she can get on whatever true crime stories I know. Which is a lot.
I had to hide my EMT training book from her because she was so curious about the pictures. She wants to be a cop.
I can't believe I forgot about that gay goth masterpiece. They'll love Interview With The Vampire.
Wednesday might be a good show to watch with them, if they haven't already seen it.
They LOVE Wednesday. Used that to show them Edward scissorhands etc.
What about Leon: the Professional? I don't know if that has been posted yet. But I saw that when I was however old you are in seventh grade. 12? 13? There's some cop stuff for the bb cop.
The first and second Crow movies are good for the goth one.
Five Million Years to Earth
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Ever seen 'Time Bandits?' The original, not the one with Kudrow
There's nothing particularly nsfw in it, but I think a couple of young girls would find it very cool.
I love Terry Gilliam, I've tried time bandits with them but they check out pretty early.
12 monkeys though..... 🤔
Little Shop of Horrors and Beetlejuice.
The dynamic of Murray and Martin as the masochist and the sadist was fucking brilliant!
I'm gonna get a candy bar I'm gonna get a candy bar!
Fire in the Sky. Oh wait, maybe I shouldn't have. I haven't watched it again since because I was so traumatized as a kid watching it. Maybe I have the guts to watch it now decades later.
Spaceballs, The Matrix trilogy (I was born in 1996), What Dreams May Come (possibly; I was too young to realize that he was dead and in the afterlife for the entire thing)
Honestly I can't think of any from my childhood other than those that might have been "bad" for a kid, other than shows that went right over my head like Family Guy and the like. I know I wasn't allowed to watch South Park until I just decided to start watching it when I was around 13.
Other movies that I really liked as a kid (other than Spaceballs cause it was kinda like Star Wars, and The Matrix) that may be kinda suggestive were Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, and Titan A.E. They may like Lord of The Rings (Arwen and Eowyn + magic and swords) and possibly Star Wars (Padmé and Princess Leia, plus Ahsoka from Clone Wars and Hera from Rebels). Although I'm a man and had an older brother that liked a lot of this stuff, so I ended up liking a lot of it too, you may get better results from other people.
Way of the Gun
Mean Guns
I watched the wall when I was 7
And it fucked me.up form years.. constant nightmares and panic attacks..
Why am I thankful for? Not sure..the memories?
Kiss of the Spider Woman. Back I the 80s our parents left us to fend for ourselves. I was around 10 years old and my parents were at a job site in northern Canada where the only channel was CBC. Definitely an intense movie, I'd say more than the Exorcism which aired another night. My brother missed the first, but had serious nightmares from the Exorcism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_(1985_film)
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