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Are there any R-rated movies you think children should see?

I don't. As a child, I was forced to watch The Passion of the Christ on multiple occasions.
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hartfire · 61-69
Absolutely not.
Young minds don't have the emotional maturity to deal with the violence, cruelty and other forms of horror that occur in R-rated films. Even one exposure can lead to nightmares as happened to my younger sister when she was 13.
MethDozer · M
@hartfire IDK. I was wicked into horror even as a little kid and watched a lot of rated ones. I never had nightmares or scares from it. It was just curiosity in the taboo spooky and dark sides of life.

That said though graffic "torture porn" and "goreporn" like Saw and Hostile wasn't a thing yet so the bar has kinda been moved.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@MethDozer I used to watch horror movies right before bed with the lights out in the hopes that I would have nightmares. Sometimes I even did.

Of course, as you say, horror today is different.