Year: 1999
Rating: PG-13
Tagline: "I see dead people.”
Reasons they shouldn’t see it as a kid: The kid freakin’ sees dead people. During the whole movie. Everyone’s dead, even — spoiler alert/PLOT TWIST! — the young and handsome Bruce Willis. And it’s not, like, regular humans with normal clothes that are just dead, they’re all scary (besides Brucey). Throughout the film this poor 9-year-old kid gets locked in a tiny, dark closet, he’s forced to watch a dead little girl throw up under her bed and then a videotape explaining why, he briefly hangs out with a boy with a bullet-wound in his head who shows him his father’s gun, and ghosts walk around his own home all day, every day. I was scared of the whole world for a while after seeing this movie, thinking that anyone I was actually seeing could, in fact, be dead.
When they should see it: The movie, though brilliant, is extremely traumatizing. It’s rated PG-13, so you can follow the rating if you’d like, but I personally think only mature teenagers should be watching this. Also, the older they are, the more they’ll actually appreciate how intricate this film is.
