It appears that the Alexandre Aja remake of The Hills Have Eyes is just too strong and has received an NC-17 rating prompting the makers to work on editing it down to an R.
From Empire Online comes the worrying information of forced cuts.
At the moment, the new Hills…is so intense and gory that the American ratings board, the MPAA, have given it the dreaded NC-17, aka commercial suicide.
“It’s a very strong picture and we’re trying to figure out what to do with that, without ruining it,” says a perplexed Craven…“We have to deliver an R rating. We looked at it last night in the screening room and before we started, we said to Alex ‘what do you think?’ And he said ‘this is a PG-13 now’. And one of our producers said ‘Alex, can we commit you to an insane asylum if this isn’t an R?’ and then he showed it to us and ohmigod, there’s no way you would get an R for that.”
What’s all the fuss about? A horror film that delivers an NC-17? What’s wrong with that? Are they saying that the demographic for this movie is under 17? A movie about a family being terrorised by a band of sadistic and twisted killers in the middle of nowhere is for under 17’s? Oh, and if it get’s an R rating do they really expect parents to take their kids to see it? Well perhaps they do.
There is light though, apparently the talk is that the DVD release will feature either the full version or a stronger one than the movies. That spells one thing for me, rent the DVD, and don’t go to see the movie.
I REALY DONT CARE ABOUT THE RATING THE ONLY THING THAT MATERS IS THAT MY PARENTS TAKE ME AND SEE IT AND WOULT HAVE TO KEPP BOTHERING THEM TO GO SEE IT. THE RATING FOR ME IT DOES NOT COUNT THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS IS THAT I DONT MISS THE PREMIER OF THE FILM LIKE THE OUTHERS LIKE….HIGH TENSION, HOUSE OF WAX, DARKNESS, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, WOLF CREEK, AND MORE .SO WHO REALLY CARES OF THE RATING I KNOW I DONT from foamy ur lord and master
The thing with the NC-17 rating, becoming R isn’t so much about making availability for a younger audience. Rather, if a film is NC-17, it becomes a bitch for the studio to market, they lose a lot of there advertising. Think about it? I can’t recall ever really seeing a trailer for a film that was NC-17.
It’s not so much a matter of the people who see it, the fact is that a lot of theaters won’t even show NC-17 films, and places like Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, and etc. won’t carry them for retail. There’s no problem with Unrated cuts of movies that have already proven to be a good sale, seeing as most of these “unrated” versions would just be R anyways, if the producers submitted them to the MPAA.
Would a parent take their child to this? My wife and I saw a parent with what had to be at most a 10 year old child at 8mm when we saw it in the theaters. If ever there was an R movie NOT to take your young child to, that was it. I’m sure lots of parents would let teens into a horror movie regardless of how disturbing it might be.
then i will skip it and wait for the uncut dvd