Parents are taking their children to see R-rated horror film Buddy thinking it’s a kids movie

[u/Financial-Painter689]

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/parents-are-taking-their-children-to-see-r-rated-horror-film-buddy-thinking-its-a-kids-movie-3406819/

[u/Dida_D]

I don’t think that they are.

[u/mandatorypanda9317 → u/Dida_D]

I've seen this same headline for the past two weeks and I also dont think this many people are doing this lol

[u/sLeeeeTo → u/mandatorypanda9317]

some marketing firm keeps making posts like this (and in my comment i link to another post they made of the same kind with different wording)

[u/Kryptosis → u/sLeeeeTo]

Those two posts were from the same account too

[u/badcrass → u/mandatorypanda9317]

Same people giving our weed laced candy at Halloween?

[u/no_yeah_ok → u/Dida_D]

They are. Saw it last weekend. Saw one very small child about 3 apples tall.

[u/Retrolovin → u/no_yeah_ok]

That was no child! That was Hello Kitty!

[u/IAmTheDeliTroll → u/Retrolovin]

Hello Kitty is 5 apples tall!

[u/DELINQ → u/IAmTheDeliTroll]

Yup, 5 apples tall and weighs 3 apples, and is a human girl, not a cat. The Smurfs are 3 apples tall.

[u/BEEEELEEEE → u/DELINQ]

Hello Kitty is less dense than an apple

[u/steffgoldblum → u/BEEEELEEEE]

How many bites did it take for you to figure this out

[u/RealHousewiveology → u/Retrolovin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7H5jZq2TmpnRBdOE

[u/AltTea94 → u/Retrolovin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZuZViSv5LF3mdPctrr

[u/Rizzanthrope → u/no_yeah_ok]

did the child have blue skin and a weird white cap?

[u/Austinpowerstwo → u/no_yeah_ok]

It's Smurfs that are 3 apples tall 

[u/AlienSamuraiXXV → u/no_yeah_ok]

I had a similar experience. I saw the movie last weekend too. I thought it was just me and an other guy who sit a few seats away from me. That is until a kid just walk past with his mother trying to catch him and apologizing.

[u/-big-fat-meanie- → u/no_yeah_ok]

That was actually a 48 year old 3rd grader!

[u/throwawtphone → u/no_yeah_ok]

I saw Blade in the theater. A couple had their 2 kids with them. Both under 8 years old or so. Unfuckingbelievable. So the movie gets to the blood bath scene and the little boy comes tear asssing up the isle screaming im scared im scared with the mom running after him handing on to the other kid. Dad stays seated.

Movie ends. Me and my husband come out. Mom and kids are sitting on a bench waiting for dad.

My husband is like that dude is a low life mutherfucker and his wife is stupid for putting up with that bullshit. I was like he probably beats her.

So i totally can believe people bring their kids to inappropriate shit. But the vast majority of them do it on purpose they are still stupid but they know what they are doing.

[u/HoaryPuffleg → u/Dida_D]

This is probably an ad, but I worked in the movie theater when Natural Born Killers came out in the 90s and I remember parents bringing school aged kids to it and then being angry when a movie called Natural Born Killers was a violent movie. People can be stupid.

[u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad → u/HoaryPuffleg]

my ex went to fast x and was upset because it was stupid and didn't make any sense. he was confused and upset when I went "isn't it just like all the other fast and the furious movies? what did you expect?" that's when he found out that there were other fast and the furious movies. 

so yeah, I believe that there are people like this.

[u/AllTheReservations → u/HoaryPuffleg]

I think this is the natural answer. Moral panic and upset families have always been a sales tactic for horrors, especially one with a subject matter like this. Buddy's marketing team is using that. But equally there's a whole lot of unobservant or plain stupid people out there.

It's a real "two things can be true at once" situation

[u/Friendly-World-5273 → u/HoaryPuffleg]

I don’t believe people are taking their kids to this movie thinking it’s a kids movie. I think they’re taking their kids to this movie because they take their kids to any movie, regardless of rating.

[u/Inner-Astronomer-256 → u/HoaryPuffleg]

A couple brought a baby to a screening of Paranormal Activity I went to. Granted the baby was too young to understand the movie but the soundtrack upset them and started them off crying. They didn't bring the baby out to soothe them either 🫠

[u/drunkcowofdeath → u/Dida_D]

Yeah, this is an ad

[u/hauntingvacay96 → u/Dida_D]

This may happen occasionally, but not enough for a headline. It’s just advertising.

[u/damiannereddits → u/Dida_D]

If you read the article it's like "yeah but also people drag their kids to lots of horror movies and R rated films because they're not paying any attention this happens a lot and isn't happening particularly more here"

[u/throwthatoneawaydawg → u/Dida_D]

I think it happened one time and now people are running with the headline for clickbait.

[u/moon_blisser → u/Dida_D]

That was my thought, too. Either it’s marketing or like one parent took their kid and went on Twitter (X?) to post, and someone wrote an article about it.

[u/CemeteryHounds → u/Dida_D]

I could see it because an adult took two under 13 kids to the showing of I Heart Huckabees I was at when it came out on theaters.They left during the opening monologue.

[u/HonestNectarine7080 → u/CemeteryHounds]

That's so funny because I was a very prudish child and saw I Heart Huckabees when I was 12 and remember being scandalized by the sex scene in the woods. I don't remember anything else about the movie.

[u/dai-the-flu → u/Dida_D]

While it seems unlikely and the post is still probably partially marketing, my bf works at a movie theater. Parents are definitely not paying attention to what movies they take their kids to based on the stories he tells me.

They have entire groups of kids from summer camps that come in and the people supervising the kids just stay out of the theater most of the time.

A lot of people aren’t attentive to what goes on with the children in their lives, so they sure as hell aren’t looking further into the movies they take them to.

[u/realitea1234 → u/Dida_D]

https://giphy.com/gifs/puOukoEvH4uAw

[u/wafflepopcorn → u/Dida_D]

Right? I took my two teenage nieces to a rated r movie and they had to check my id and remind me it was rated r…I feel like someone would have said something to them

[u/sarcastic_patriot]

Because a lot of people are dumb as shit.

Just like the parents bringing their kids to Sausage Party or Ted.

[u/Agitated-Branch8038 → u/sarcastic_patriot]

Can confirm. Went to a friends birthday in 5th grade and her mom bought ten, ten year old girls movie tickets to see Scary Movie (1). Safe to say we learned a lot that day. Also had a friend who couldn’t play with dolls because her dad took her to see Chuckie. Some parents are just I have no idea like not all there?

[u/AmyXBlue → u/Agitated-Branch8038]

The Chuckie one, I am reminded of an old friend who's mom made her watch Chuckie as a kid because her mom wanted my friend to be afraid of dolls like her. So dad was possibly being a sick to put in that fear for his kid

[u/um_-_no → u/Agitated-Branch8038]

They let you in???

[u/whatwhatwhat82 → u/Agitated-Branch8038]

Haha did you like the movie? I secretly watched that movie when I was like 11 and I loved it actually

[u/SilverRaincoat → u/sarcastic_patriot]

I worked at a movie theatre during Sausage Party. Parents were NOT happy lol I hated that movie so much

[u/here_involuntarily → u/sarcastic_patriot]

Hey so when you say "taking them to" are they actually seeing this in the cinema? 

In the UK you need ID for tickets for age restricted movies. Do movie theatre people not say "oh hey so this is R rated and your child is clearly a child please leave?"

[u/XxxGoldDustWomanxxX]

Sausage Party all over again lmao

[u/WowThisIsAwkward_ → u/XxxGoldDustWomanxxX]

When I first heard of Sausage Party, I originally thought it was the title of a gay porno that for some reason became a meme. I was surprised when finding out it is a mainstream film with animated foods fucking.

[u/NotAQueefAKhaleesi → u/WowThisIsAwkward_]

I was similarly confused as a teen when Midnight Meat Train was in the horror section on our cable’s on-demand system, and even more surprised that it was actually a horror movie (and Bradley Cooper’s in it?). It’s now one of my favorite things to get people to look up because it’s weird as hell.

[u/AltTea94 → u/NotAQueefAKhaleesi]

i love that film so much, a friend put it on when we were on acid in our teens (i know)

what the hell is that ending?!

[u/IfEverWasIfNever → u/XxxGoldDustWomanxxX]

I remember being in the theater with my boyfriend and when it got to the orgy scene a dad stood up and said, "That's enough!" and he and the mom dragged a pre-teen out of the theater so yeah people absolutely brought their kids. Not many, but enough.

[u/notalem0n → u/IfEverWasIfNever]

..isn’t that near the end of the movie???

[u/bath-lady → u/notalem0n]

they really watched a douche rape a juice box (I think?) and were like "yeah this is fine for my kid'

[u/Commercial-Cut-111]

Don’t worry, the same parents (with total lack of media comprehension) took them to see Five Nights at Freddy’s first to ease them in.

[u/Luxxielisbon → u/Commercial-Cut-111]

Tbh only a child would’ve been able to stand that film

[u/Tiny-Jicama-9148]

I worked the box office year The Watchmen came out.

So many parents upset thinking they were bringing their kids to a super hero movie with just a couple F bombs in it.

[u/Thabrianking → u/Tiny-Jicama-9148]

Oh boy I watched that movie when I was 10 and I was shocked at how graphic it was but I’ve come to appreciate it. Same with Kick-Ass in 2010. I genuinely think those R rated superhero movies were ahead of their time

[u/Tiny-Jicama-9148 → u/Thabrianking]

There was one lady I swore was going to stroke out because she insisted on bringing her 7 year old spider-man-loving son and ignoring all the verbal warnings we gave her at the box office. I've never seen someone literal foam at the mouth in rage.

[u/FrontButtPlug → u/Tiny-Jicama-9148]

You mean, the movie with the dirtiest soft core fuck scene in the owl isn’t kid approved?

[u/Tiny-Jicama-9148 → u/FrontButtPlug]

And the flaccid blue penis on-screen, yes. Thats the one.

[u/FrontButtPlug → u/Tiny-Jicama-9148]

Totally forgot dr manhattan had eyes in that movie

[u/Snarkybaboon → u/Tiny-Jicama-9148]

Lmao I was the kid in this scenario, my dad was so embarrassed when the big blue penis showed up on screen

[u/angrybox1842]

This isn't a real thing that's happening. This is razor blades in the candy.

[u/funkdatship → u/angrybox1842]

I saw Buddy the day it opened. There were kids in there with their parents. One mother even had an infant with her. Didn’t make any sense to my wife and I.

[u/um_-_no → u/funkdatship]

Sorry where the fuck is this happening? In the UK you're just not allowed in without proof of age. Why is that not the system everywhere??

[u/Correct_Doctor_1502 → u/angrybox1842]

It happened with Sausage Party, so maybe

[u/heroheadlines]

I believe it. The number of people at my job every single day who say/ask shit that could be solved by simply reading and/or paying attention for two seconds depresses me.

[u/Sufficient_Food1878 → u/heroheadlines]

My dad thought it'd be a great idea to put "Team American - World Police" on for the family when I was like 9 and all my sisters were even younger lmao. Turned it off pretty damn quickly

[u/TheDLBinc]

I'm sure there are some parents dumb enough take their kids to this without looking at the rating but this just feels like PR for the movie

[u/bliip666]

So much information, so easily accessible, so little will to look anything up.

[u/i40west]

The second time I saw Book of Mormon on Broadway, a midwestern family sat down next to me with a boy of perhaps 9 or 10. They were so excited to see a real show! I knew what was coming, but I didn't have the heart to tell them they were going to be having some difficult conversations in a few hours.

[u/ophaus]

Fuck it, I'm making my kids watch Death to Smoochie tomorrow.

[u/junepath → u/ophaus]

It’s a rocket ship!

[u/Low_Kitchen_9995 → u/junepath]

“We’re going on a safari motherfucker. Sa-far-iiiiiiii!!!” (Robin williams elephant noise)

[u/ThatDamnedMelodyLee]

Obviously the world is filled with all different kinds of people and that’s so beautiful but WHO THE HELL doesn’t know the basics of the movie they just paid $40 to see? Do they just close their eyes, point at the marquee and pay? Someone needs to do something about this

[u/manasseater3000 → u/ThatDamnedMelodyLee]

do movie tickets cost $40…?

[u/ThatDamnedMelodyLee → u/manasseater3000]

I mean one adult plus one kid plus snacks… im guessing at least that?

[u/Enygmatic_Gent → u/manasseater3000]

General admission tickets at the theater near me can cost upwards of $18 each, so $40 is definitely feasible for multiple tickets

[u/shokittyo]

I mean, my mom thought Requiem For A Dream was a good anti-drug movie to show me and my siblings. I was eight lol.

[u/Low_Kitchen_9995 → u/shokittyo]

I just said eight outloud in the same cadence and shock as New York saying BEYONCE
https://giphy.com/gifs/DlZk4AKGpsC1W

[u/yvettesaysyatta]

These same parents let their kids watch Squid Game at home.

[u/starvinartist]

I'm pretty sure it's guerilla marketing. But also I know based off of the state of the world, people are legitimately stupid.

[u/Enygmatic_Gent → u/starvinartist]

That’s what I was thinking too

[u/Cute-Sun-8535]

I saw it last weekend and there was a kid there with his mom. He wouldn’t stop talking

[u/PeaUpbeat3732]

This is like when Ted came out people used the excuse that it was for kids because it was a teddy bear talking.

Parenting 101 is check the rating of the movie before you take your kids to it.

[u/2high4thisshyt]

I watched Chucky when I was 5 and my dad fell asleep with the TV on. They'll be fiiiiine

[u/FlaBeachyCheeks]

I came across a woman who was talking to her mother about taking her kids to see it this weekend because her daughter loves unicorns. They don't pay attention at all

[u/Enygmatic_Gent → u/FlaBeachyCheeks]

Even looking at the trailer for ten seconds provides the context that its a horror movie, some people are just hopeless

[u/JuiceAlternative4633]

Second BS article i've seen from the website Dexerto

[u/Nervous_Insect5976]

The rating system may be ridiculous and R is "An R rating means "Restricted," indicating that a film contains adult material and that anyone under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian."

This is on the parents.

[u/DrFranFine]

More evidence that it’s not just Gen Z that’s media illiterate I guess?

[u/Salt-Ad-885]

https://giphy.com/gifs/m8YSEg64aUlVfWrixw

[u/Low_Kitchen_9995 → u/Salt-Ad-885]

I’m glad Frank Zabotka got off the docks

[u/SleepingInNJ]

My 8 year old kids friends are going. They also went to 5 nights at Freddie’s and the digital circus movie. We nope out of all of it.

[u/Essjex87]

Do people not look at age ratings when going to see a movie or buy a video game?

[u/grousebear]

You wouldn't believe the amount of very young kids who watched The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones with their parents. Legit 5 year olds watching walking dead and not understanding it and then trying to bite other kids.

[u/Specific_Cash_5538]

That’s awesome

[u/ElBorracho2000]

Amazing how stupid many parents are

[u/Pretty_Pass8930]

Recordatorio siempre ver la clasificación de la MPA

[u/Dry-Yak5277]

Yeah this is absolutely not happening 😭

[u/HonestNectarine7080]

Genuine question, do theaters not have ticket sellers and ticket takers anymore? Because the ones around me do and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let young children into an R-rated horror movie.

[u/Enygmatic_Gent → u/HonestNectarine7080]

The movie being R Rated just means they need a parent with them. Some places may ban younger kids (6 and under) but other than that I don’t think employees can stop them

[u/bath-lady → u/HonestNectarine7080]

It's on the parents. They can't refuse tickets to adults buying tickets for their kids because it's not on the theater to raise their kids. It's illegal, however, to sell R rated tickets directly to minors

[u/mrskel1]

Some kids like horror movies. If they are mature enough to handle it and it doesn’t scare them I don’t really see the harm. Just know your kid. (Also by kid I’m thinking pre teen at the youngest.)

[u/cultural-orca → u/mrskel1]

A seven year old was in my screening. Her older siblings and parents didn’t seem to like it as much as she did!

[u/cultural-orca]

I mean, a seven year old was in the screening I went to, but she and her ten year old sister loved it, and their parents seemed cool…they def knew what they were getting into

[u/sLeeeeTo]

no they aren’t

[u/LothartheDestroyer]

I don’t know what to tell you. Some people are fucking stupid.

[u/montycuddles]

Most horror movies I see have at least some kids in the audience so I wouldn't be surprised if some parents are taking their kids to see Buddy. There were kids in the theater when I saw Infinity Pool. They did not have a good time

[u/akawendals]

Parents let their kids look at all kinds of crap it's quite frightening (maybe they don't even know what they're looking at...)

I take the mobile library to primary schools (ages 5-10) and they love Five Nights at Freddy's, Pennywise and all kinds of scary shit and they aren't bothered by it at all?

They wanna take the books out and I'm like "uh I'm not the book police but what will your mum say if you bring this home? Do you think this is an appropriate choice?" And they're like "oh she doesn't care I watch whatever I want" 😮 We only had Goosebumps when I was a kid haha until we got to about 13yrs old and graduated up to Stephen King 😄

Currently they are all obsessed with whether I have The Cat in the Hat book because apparently he's coming to murder us all... We have come to the agreement that if he comes around I will run him over with the library van and then they can finish him off 🤣

[u/iheartlungs]

Brought to you by the same marketing team who does those “this movie is so scary someone puked during a viewing and we had to medically evacuate someone” cmon now

[u/daniellehmusic]

There were several kids in the showing I went to.

[u/jvsm_est]

While this is clearly an ad, I totally believe this can happe, because a lot of parents don't care.

I was 10-11, when my dad suddenly wanted to go to the movie theater and the only movie available was John Tucker Must Die. We went in anyway. Watched it for about 30 minutes then left, coz while PG-13, it was (a shit movie, but also) most definitely not suited for a child my age lol

[u/BookishHobbit]

How can this be possible? Wouldn’t cinemas block people taking kids into an R?

[u/Waste_Jump_6629]

As a kid who liked Barney until like age 3 or 4 this film looks hilarious but why tf are parents bringing their little ones to this

[u/ohyoshimi]

Yeah, no. lol

[u/32Wicky]

It’s giving KATSEYE concerts.

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

That's really unfortunate and that kinda thing could be genuinely scarring for a kid, tbh idk how I feel about this whole wave of these types of movies and I think this specific movie's poster does the least to tell people that (at least the ones that are in cinemas, there are alt posters that are way more obviously horror), I am a big horror fan but children in horror kinda bug me, though this one intrigued me but it also feels derivative of other movies that already exist that have almost the same idea of a barny/mascot type show...but its horror. There was one with a monkey and also one that parodied Mr Rodgers, all with in the last few years. Anyways, obviously to SOME degree parents should be more aware of what they take their kids to but I can totally see why this would happen purely on accident, some people DO just go to the theater without a movie in mind and just click on whatever poster looks the most interesting to them/their family.

[u/CPTBenjaminWillard]

Good. Kids should see horror movies. I watched the Friday the 13th movies when I was six or seven (meme number!)

Jeez, no one can take a joke

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk → u/CPTBenjaminWillard]

no.

[u/CPTBenjaminWillard → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

You’re right, better to have them watch movies like The Brave Little Toaster