Horror:PG-13 or R? (which is better)?

[choptop2]

Maybe you've just got a thing for Michael Landon??

Story and entertainment are important to me. Doesn't matter what the rating is.

[pastor_ice43]

It really does just all depend...

Does a horror film have to be gory to be good? Absolutely not...the original Halloween is a prime example of that, (even though it was rated R)..but can it make some movies better? Sure. If I go to see a Zombie movie...the last thing I want to notice before I sit down is that it's rated PG-13, because in a zombie movie...gore is a MUST. EVERY zombie movie should have Romero style gore. However, certain movies that are going to follow the Halloween formula of suspense rather then blood and guts can skate by with a PG-13 rating and still be good. In any event, I personally just wish the MPAA would require all horror movies to be rated R. This would keep some (not all) but some of the little kiddies out that ruin it for the rest of us...plus, this would allow the film makers to have the freedom to do what they want without having to worry about trimming up the film. I don't believe horror NEEDS blood and guts (all the time..sometimes it does..) but I do agree with WarBeast that a touch of nudity can only help a movie be good. The proper rating extends outside the horror genre....Live Free or Die Hard should have been R just like the other three...and thank god Stallone is sticking to his "guns" and creating John Rambo for an R rating.

[pastor_ice43]

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Best scene in a PG-13 horror flick: Gremlins 2, with the old guy wrestling the cement covered gremlin bat.

Gremlins 2 was comedy my man.

[slimeisacharacter]

Gremlins 2 was comedy my man.

Depends on who you ask. Many places label it as horror, Comcast's Fearnet service a prime example of poorly marked 'horor' films with gremlins movies...heck even hocus pocus marked as 'horror'...

[steelba]

Gremlins 2 is a comedy.

[slimeisacharacter]

Not disagreeing myself, then again I think alot of flims are mislabeled cause some idiot read the back of the box and saw the words witch, monster, ect and said HORROR! without seeing the flick... Fact remains, gremlins is listed as horror on several sites...including fearnet. I still laugh my ass off every time I see 'the Craft' in movie store horror sections. :shakehead

[Godfatha]

If a movie can be effective with a PG rating, then I don't care.
A movie like Jaws which is PG is much more effective, infinitely so, than a movie like Hostel, which is R, but by no means effective as a scary film.

Some subgenres wouldn't work, like a zombie film, others it doesn't really matter to me

[steelba]

Jaws would get an R today, because of the Gore and Terror throughout.

[slimeisacharacter]

Jaws would get an R today, because of the Gore and Terror throughout.

I miss the relaxed rating system of days gone by...

[ASoron0424]

I miss the relaxed rating system of days gone by...

I miss the days of giving movies a fair rating in accordance to content and not just pre-set standards. The whole, more-than-one-"fuck"-and-it's-R rule is bullshit. On Ebert and Roeper they were talking about how that movie "Once" is one of those movies that, after seeing it, any teenager will pretty much be a better person, and then encouraged young teens to sneak in. Films should be evaluated and rated in accordance to their purpose and their potential impact. You should see the documentary This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated about the MPAA, all of the raters are just working class parents. The people rating these movies shouldn't be the ones who go home to a five year old every day and therefore freak out about some other five year old seeing boobs, so instead of a PG-13, they give it an R rating. Titanic and Across The Universe got away w/ nudity, but only because it's used in an art form. Fuck the MPAA, I hate this shit. ONLY buy Unrated DVDs.
Maybe the people rating these movies should have some idea of film in general and know what the fuck they're doing before they absent-mindedly forbid probably 40% of the movie's potential audience from seeing it.

[slimeisacharacter]

Aye, I keep up on the subject. Last 20 years or so the people that rate films seem to be the same people that classify films into genre. They see the words 'sex scene', no matter how many times or content and boom: autorated. They see the word witch and boom: labeled horror. Pathetic...

[ASoron0424]

Can't say I've seen an R rated witch movie in a while.

[Late For Reality]

Has there been any good witch horror movies?

[holdmycock]

Gremlins 2 is a comedy.

Gremlins 2 is of the super genre Comedy/Horror.

[hackerslacker]

very interesting handle....hold my cock...

[Chief Falling Rock]

Gore, sex and bad language are rated R. Not good storytelling. Certain movies like say slasher flicks and werewolf movies need an R rating. And I do hate when something gets watered down from what it should be just to get the PG-13. But just because its not R doesnt mean its going to suck.

[choptop2]

Has there been any good witch horror movies?

horror hotel

[Late For Reality]

horror hotel

The 1960 film that's getting a 2008 remake?

[choptop2]

The 1960 film that's getting a 2008 remake?

didn't know about a remake, but yes.

[Late For Reality]

According to IMDB, the remake will be released next year.