Amityville: The Awakening was supposed to be released in April 2016 (or June, I don't quite remember). I was looking forward to this movie so much. It looks totally awesome and creepy to me. Then all of a sudden they postponed the release. Anyone know why?
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Test screenings led to re-shoots, which then led to more violent scenes being dropped and the film was edited from an R to a PG-13.
shareIt's a real shame they had to cut down the rating :( I guess they want to gain more profit. I certainly hope they will release the R-rated version for Blu-Ray/DVD. Franck Khalfoun is known to be the director who likes to push the envelope, so expect a lot of violence and disturbing stuff in his films.
shareDo you think this film will be classified as "hard PG-13"? I read your earlier post in another board and you mentioned how there are some films with PG-13 rating that were "allowed" to include violence and profanity, which are usually in R-rated films. The new rating for this film is PG-13 for disturbing horror violence & terror, suggestive images, brief language and thematic material. I wonder if this is another example for "hard PG-13".
shareI think it'll be as hard as a PG-13 can get, considering they took what was an R-rated film and just removed the more explicit parts for the PG-13. It's just so stupid. I wish they would've left it alone. They just recently did the same thing to an upcoming horror release "The Bye Bye Man".
To me, it's one thing to take a script that could've been R-rated and work it into a PG-13 by the time filming happens. That's fine, I guess. But when you take a movie that was shot, edited and finalized as an R-rated film and censor it for a new rating, you're ruining a director's vision.
But yeah, there's lots of debate about "hard PG-13/R" movies and if that's a legitimate term, and I most definitely think it is. The MPAA is a strange company, and their process is very wishy-washy.
Thanks for your answer. It's a shame that they cut all the good stuff. I love horror movies and they are suppose to be scary and over the top violent. I hope they'll release a directors cut on this. Can't wait to see it though. Looks awesome.
shareThey delayed to change and cut everything out to make it lame a tamed PG-13. I hate to say it but not just me are not going to support the PG-13. Looks like more a teeny bop way of money they want and feel sorry for adults that like PG-13 horror. Real horror fans stick with rated R.
Rated R Horror movies are better, no matter the argument.
Because the movie is sh!t and the studio is trying to release at a time where it will go unnoticed the most. Everybody who is involved with this excuse of a film should be embarrassed.
shareIf they would have stuck with the R rated version instead of "horror" for children I think this movie would be both brilliant and scary. The trailer is awesome and I'm so disappointed the they're cutting all the good stuff to make it pg 13. Bastards.
I don't think so. If it's trash, it's trash. A few seconds of gore won't make me like it. The Green Inferno is violent and I still thought it was a laughable awful piece of trash.
shareStudio terrified of losing money so they went back and reshot scenes removing gore etc. dropping it to PG-13 to rake in more cash.
If follows a systematic formula to make money and January is the best month for simple horror as the holidays are over.
I Just don't get how they are thinking. Why make a horror movie then cut the scary stuff out to make it PG-13? I don't think they would have lost any money at all if the'd stuck to the uncut version. As I said before, the trailer is awesome and it looks really scary and we'll made. I would have loved to see the uncut version. Hope it leaks out somehow.
shareI'm wondering if this will ever be released in the UK & I'm hoping it's not rated 12 & rated a 15 in our country! I like 15s or 18s which you hardly ever see anymore due to crap like this with wider audiences! They ruin the quality down to money it's bloody greed! This film is WAAAAAY over due! It was meant to be released in Friday 13th Feb or Mar 2015! I wonder if a UK release will ever happen for this as I want to see it. Though I don't get why they keep re-shooting it over & over, I just wish they'd release the damn film already!
shareDo you really think a higher rating would make this any better? The movie doesn't seem so good from the trailer.
shareWell that's not exactly what I'm saying. I've seen 15s & 18s that have been *beep* in comparison to this. Plus that's a matter of of opinion. I personally think the film looks good & the trailer makes me think so. It should be a higher rating anyway, because it's a horror & that I prefer them to be higher than that of 12. I'm not talking about it being better, I'm saying that I'd prefer it to be higher as that's what I like. I didn't mention anything about the quality of the film, I was pretty much talking about the BBFC Certificate.
shareThis was filmed almost 3 years ago, and still not released. I can't think of a single film with such a long post-production period lol.
shareCase 39 had six release dates: February 8, 2008 -- February 22, 2008 -- August 22, 2008 --April 10, 2009 -- January 1, 2010 -- October 1, 2010
Take Me Home Tonight also finished filming in mid-2007 and wasn't released into theaters until 2011.
Actually it first went into production in 2014 and was pushed back to January 2015, then May 2015, then April 2016...now June 2017! It went through reshoots after a disappointing response from test audiences. It must really be bad!
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wrong dates, 27 January 2012, 3 January 2014 (during pre-production), 2 January 2015, 15 April and 1 April 2016, then 6 January 2017 and now 30 June 2017
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