PG-13?

Same here. I didn't think it was as violent as it could have been. You can hear the stabbing and slashing, but most of the gore is left to our imagination.

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There are many good PG-13 films in crime, drama, scifi, action and even thrillers but in horror films PG-13 usually hurts the film. Zombies eat people and die when they get shot or stabbed to the head. It's messy stuff and you can't show that in PG-13 films. Some films have people getting shot, stabbed or even decapitated without any blood because of the rating and that's just sacrificing realism and the impact of violence for some cash. PG-13 is fine if the story and it's elements approve but it's really annoying how many studios and directors decide to tone down the gore, sex or language just for the PG-13 rating.

Of course there are many great PG-13 films. The issue is that this type of movie should be a wildly bloody and fun splatterfest. That's essential for a film that consists of slaying zombies. Gore adds so much impact, style, and personality to these types of films, and truly sets the tone of the movie.

I am one who prefers that a movie is played out naturally and doesn't force content to please outside audiences. Whether it is a psychological horror film that unnessecarily adds gore to please gorehounds or a slasher flick that takes away the actual slashing to achieve a PG-13 (which isn't even really beneficial anymore because R-rated horror does very well at the box-office nowadays), it is pointless to try to have a certain type of movie appeal to an audience that it isn't meant for.

This is an adult film that is being watered down for young teens/tweens. What if Fifty Shades of Grey sanitized itself for a PG-13? Or oppositely if Disney's Inside Out had explicit content randomly placed in certain places. A movie should never limit itself by turning away from and cutting down its most exciting moments in an obviously unnatural way.

Yes, I've seen a lot of good PG-13 movies but when I go see a horror movie most moviegoers like me are there for the escapist violence and gore. If I want to see a PG-13 movie I'll look under suspense or melodrama, not under horror. Besides that, very few people can really do decent zombie effects except for maybe Greg Nicotero or Tom Savini. Most of the so called zombie movies and series have rubbish laughable effects except for maybe The Walking Dead. That particular show incorporates top notch effects and truly depicts the horror, agony, pain, suffering, sickening and repulsive consequence of being devoured alive. A horror movie should never be PG-13, horror was never meant for kids.....suspense maybe.

Why is everyone against PG-13? Everyone likes The Dark Knight, James Bond, and Indiana Jones, and those are PG-13. Why is it so bad when OTHER movies are PG-13?

As far as the gore goes, I have only seen the trailer, but the gore looks very CGI and superimposed in, so perhaps it's PG-13 cause it's not so real looking gore?

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Yeah, I think there were two shots of zombie heads being blown off by guns (albeit very quickly edited) and also those shots of brains taken out of the soldiers heads were pretty graphic.

While certain fight sequences no doubt would have been different with an R, they went further than I expected with the PG-13. But even if the rating wasn't a big issue, I felt it was a film which only worked in moments, and much of it was a slog.

I was a bit surprised by how gory this film got. I also hope this is how PG-13 films are in the future.