First movies made that would still be rated R if rated today
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tyty2790 — 14 years ago(February 20, 2012 12:04 PM)
How far back can we trace movies with what we consider "R rated content? (So, multiple F words, violence with bloody/graphic results, rape, showing breasts and other nudity, showing someone doing drugs like heroin/cocaine, etc)
I know Psycho had its stabbing buteh, I mean is that an R in 2012?
Night of he Living Dead maybe? -
themax-2 — 14 years ago(February 26, 2012 08:18 AM)
A Clockwork Orange would most likely still cause some controversy, if released today. That was 1971.
However, a movie that came out just two years earlier that had similar controversy, Midnight Cowboy (which ended up winning best picture at the Oscars, despite it's rating) would most likely be rated much more mildly today. -
almighty_cinder — 14 years ago(March 06, 2012 05:23 PM)
http://www.imdb.com/board/10024894/board/
I haven't seen it, but this one sounds pretty iffy for a movie that's almost 80 years old. Satanic cults, a serial killer, necrophilia, drugs, torture, flaying, and human sacrifice. On a list of scary movie moments, Wes Craven said that the final scene (a barely off-camera scene where the hero slowly skins the villain alive, shown in shadows) made him feel sick to his stomach. WES CRAVEN!
Psycho is officially an R, but it was rated that YEARS ago.
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thousand_yard_stare — 13 years ago(August 04, 2012 09:25 PM)
Nobuo Nakagawa's 1960 film Jigoku is hard-R stuff nowadays and would have been an NC-17 in the nineties. The level of gore is quite unbelievable, well beyond anything Western cinema was doing at the time. Eyes Without a Face, from the same year, is less extreme but still disturbing enough to rate an R today, or perhaps a tough PG-13.
All HG Lewis films from 1963's Blood Feast onward are at least R level. Repeat that sentence for Jos Mojica Marins' Coffin Joe series.
A Song of Love (Un chant d'amour) is a 1950 silent by Jean Genet that is absolutely 100% guaranteed an NC-17 if the MPAA ever see itwhich they won't.