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First 'NC-17' movie?

posted 16 years ago by SleuthoundSeburo
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I remember when this movie first came, I could of sworn it had a NC-17 rating.
Does anyone else remember that?
I saw this movie at theater that normally showed double feature martial arts movies every week (luckily this theatre never checked id because we were definitely underage). This movie was being showed with after a martial arts movie. I remember my friends and I running out of the theatre after the first few minutes of this movie...lol
Even the tv commercial for this movie was scary.
This movie got me into to the whole Zombie genre of movies and video games.
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Gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge....

[–] phantasm17 16 years ago

The NC-17 rating wasn't introduced until 1990. When ZOMBIE originally made its way across the US as released by the Jerry Gross Organization, it was done so as an "unrated" movie. It may have been cut for an 'R' rating in some markets but the version I saw was simply unrated.

Those were the days...

[–] XtroTerrestial 15 years ago

Yup. I say bring those days back and stop playing that PG13 rated crap in the multiplexes. At least something like SAW (even if it was cut) had some of the vicious intensity that movies from 1978 had.

[–] BaiNst 15 years ago

Philip Kaufman's Henry & June was the first film to receive the NC-17 rating.

[–] kkevinn6 13 years ago

it got an X rating, not NC17

[–] FascistAnarchist999 12 years ago

Yes, it did get the X-rating, but was released with the NC-17 when the MPAA changed their rating system.

[–] LoneWolfAttack 12 years ago

It was never rated by the MPAA period. Jerry Gross treated it like an "X" (theater owners were instructed not to admit children under 17) -- which is obviously the rating CARA chairman Richard Heffner would have given it -- but it was released unrated.

[–] FascistAnarchist999 12 years ago

Yes, "Zombie" was released unrated, just like "Dawn Of The Dead." I said that "Henry And June" was the first movie to get an NC-17 rating. But if you want to get technical about it, "Tie Me Up Tie Me Down" was the first movie to get the NC-17, but it got that rating when it was released to video. At the movies, it was unrated. Henry And June was the first NC-17 movie released to theaters.