You cant make a PG-13 horror movie. it just doesn't work. horror is not PG-13. Life for that matter, is not PG-13. PG is
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dglover26 — 9 years ago(April 06, 2016 09:05 PM)
Dude finally! Finally someone understands what Ive been saying for years. Horror movies that are PG-13 I usually don't even bother watching. A good horror film deserves a rated R rating. But then again they're trying to target the teenagers
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MaximumMadness — 9 years ago(April 10, 2016 03:11 PM)
Robert Wise's
The Haunting
Rated G.
1982's
Poltergeist
PG (but probably wouldn't be more than a PG-13 nowadays)
The Ring
PG-13 (And the original which is way better would probably be rated the same, if not PG because there's exceedingly little violence/profanity)
The Others
PG-13
The Sixth Sense
PG-13
Just the first five examples to pop into my head within five seconds. So please tell me exactly why PG-13 horror can't work? You're confusing gore with horror. Big difference.
How about we, as a fanbase, stop obsessing over ratings? Let's focus on the real issue, which is sub-par filmmakers who don't respect the genre and clueless studios who tamper with the films and only greenlight stupid, written-by-committee garbage for teens 99% of the time. I'll take a PG-13 horror flick by a quality filmmaker over an R-rated dud from a studio hack any day of the week, thank you very much
This obsession and tunnel-vision with the R-rating only serves to undermine horror as a whole and creates a frankly troubling point-of-view that portrays horror fans as nothing more than shallow gore-hounds.
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Strazdamonas — 9 years ago(May 15, 2016 11:30 AM)
Ech, i dont think Poltergeist is a good example. Back then movies that would get R rating now were getting PG rating. The rating board got filled with people that dont even know what PG-13 should be.
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buffalobenji — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 10:47 PM)
The rating is never the problem, the content is. Some horror films only have a higher rating due to language or a bit of sex. You take the graphic sex seen out of Don't Look Now you would still have a good film. Halloween and Psycho maybe could have been rated lower and would still be good.
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iSkyWalKing — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 09:24 PM)
Completely agree. I've always said this as wellI'll generally skip over a dark movie that is rated PG-13..because what's the point? Why go 'half-dark'? If it weren't for Natalie, I would never have watched this film either.