Listen, it's easy enough to be pissed off that the executives for making Pg13 horror (especially when they're originally shot Rated R) but we as adults can't blame anyone but our fellow movie going adults for them pandering to teenagers.. If more adults went they wouldn't have to set the bar so exceptionally low.
Normally I don't post, but reading thru this thread at least 12 people said the same thing..
Yea Lights Out was PG13 and pretty good.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
I disagree, people go see rated R horror movies when they come out in theaters! Look at how many The Purge movies they make! Don't Breathe made a slaying when it hit theaters as well... PG-13 horror films are just a cop out!
shareI usually don't care, but this was officially rated R until they edited it and rerated it, so it's kind of disappointing that they'd censor it for a wider audience.
shareI agree with you on this one, it should've stayed rated R... To the other poster, I agree with you as well.. There's only a few main stream rated R these days that people will go running out to see. Conjuring, Purge, Don't Breathe, etc, but you look at Oculus (which was amazing) it didn't do overly well (44m) if they made that movie pg13, it would've been worse, but done slightly better..
I agree! If a film deserves a rated R it shouldn't be edited to a PG-13 cut.
Sorry my english grammar, but I'm portuguese.
I've seen The Bye Bye Man and it's horrendous (as I expected). There are plenty of moments in it that made me laugh at how much it failed to be scary but what was really odd was when people would get shot right in the chest and there was absolutely no blood at all. It was very jarring. Even though the movie still would've sucked if it was rated R, it at least would have benefited from not feeling like an edited for cable TV version.
shareI don't like to waste my time with films where everybody dies in the ending! Can you only say if anyone of the characters live? Don't say who.
Thanks :)
Sorry my english grammar, but I'm portuguese.
The part about getting shot in the chest and there not being a lot of blood is actually medically sound. I am a doctor, and most blood to the torso (depending on the type of bullets and closeness of the gun) pools in the pericardium and/or parietal membrane(s) (upper chest/heart-lung wounds) or in the peritoneum (membrane surrounding the intestines- abdominal shots). The time it takes to bleed out, or even pass out from such wounds is soooooooo much longer than what is ever shown in movies or TV. Even people with head shots (including ones to the brain, except when delivered to the brain stem) don't just die, as is always shown.
shareSo, that scene from Sherlock where he mentally tells himself to fall just right to stop the bullet from doing more damage and keep from bleeding out was accurate? Score one for the BBC!
shareI have no problem with a PG-13 horror film. But if it was written and directed as an R and then re-edited to be PG-13, I have a huge problem.
shareWell, perhaps if the R-rated horror of past decade had been more than just glorified torture and gore porn, more adults would pay to see it.
But when it's only for fetishists, no one not insane is going to want to watch.
PG13 horror movies suck, name one that doesn't.
shareAll three insidious films, Lights Out, the new Ouija film, The Others, Drag Me To Hell, Krampus, The Sixth Sense, 1408, The Ring, Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Hole, Fire In The Sky, The Last Exorcism, The Grudge, among others, are all PG-13 horror films. One of those you'd have to find at least somewhat good, they all are in their own ways
shareI forgot about The Grudge being only PG-13! That movie scared the crap out of me!
Then I watched the original, and it was, of course, better.
There's also The Shallows, if that counts.
So what else is new?
I don't mind a horror that is either PG-13 or R, as long as the movie itself turns out good. From the ads, this movie doesn't really look to be the case. It seems cliche imo. Now I can't really speak much about the last minute studio interference for this movie, but it sounds like the movie would turn out bad either way. Movies are really rated by content, not quality. I'm not sure how there's even a mentality for believing that all R rated movies in horror, comedy, and sci-fi would instantly translate out to good films.
So what else is new?
If pg-13 suits the story and tone, then by all means the creators should go with that rating. However, in the case of this movie and many others, they're cut down from r to achieve a pg-13 rating. All of these little comprises add up and negatively impact the editing and tone, and the overall pace in some more drastic cases.
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