As a kid I intensely remember the first rated R movies I ever saw. I’m not sure at what point my father thought I was old or mature enough to let me watch rated R movies but it was somewhere around 1997. Here is a list of the first rated R movies I ever saw. I remember the night clearly. My obsession with the Dinosaurs and the film “Jurassic Park” was at such a point that I knew every actor and actress in the movie and I knew their real names and followed their ever cinematic move. It was 1997 and I had just seen the television trailer for “Event Horizon,” a science fiction/horror film starring Sam Neill who played paleontologist Alan Grant in “Jurassic Park” so I begged my father to take me to see the rated R film. He hastily agreed and we drove in his new Mustang hood convertible to the Mall of America theater to see the movie. Neither of us knew what we were in for with that film. It was, and still is, one of the most terrifying films I’ve ever seen with a few cinematic moments that I still see in my nightmares. My dad probably didn’t want to be one of those uptight fathers and drag me out of the theater, so we stayed for the entire film. After the film we were both initially silent, but eventually began to have a good discussion about the film’s theme of hell and eternal torment. The other early rated R film I saw was before “Event Horizon” and I believe I saw because my dad was watching it and was too laizze-faire to turn away my request to watch it with him. The film was “Tombstone,” the 1993 Western starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. I remember specifically one of the early shoot out scenes being very bloody to my then young mind. I was a bit shocked by the violence and sexual themes in the film but I don’t think they had any negative effect on those formative years of mine. Those are the two earliest rated R films I can remember seeing as a boy. I believe I was lucky enough to have seen both of these rated R films with my father, which allowed me to ask questions about life, violence, death and sexuality in a safe and understanding environment.

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