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PG-13 Horror vs Rated R Horror
Topic Started: Sep 26 2012, 10:16 AM (309 Views)
WickedBitch
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i am going with rated R, because you get all of this:

1. you get all the uncut action
2. more blood
3. more sex
4. drinking
5. kills are better
6. more profanity
7. better story
8. better atmosphere

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WoodsboroKiller
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Was kidding about the PG-13 thing. R is 10x better. :P
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Is this even a contest? R.

...but allow me to play devil's advocate and defend PG-13 horror. Kids have to get interested in horror somehow, and if they have parents that don't let them see R-rated movies and strictly supervise their TV viewing habits, then PG-13 is the only way to go. Also, some great horror movies have had PG-13 or even PG ratings -- Poltergeist comes to mind, as Drag Me to Hell and some of the better episodes of the horror series Fear Itself. Not to mention the old Universal horror movies of the '30s and '40s, which had the even tougher restrictions of the Hays Code to deal with and are still rightly revered as classics.

PG-13 horror isn't bad in and of itself; it's when it tries to imitate violent R-rated horror films that it stumbles, because it can't measure up to their main selling points. Some PG-13 suspense films and thrillers can be scarier than any splatfest, but a PG-13 slasher flick is, with few exceptions, almost guaranteed to suck. (Take My Super Psycho Sweet 16, one of the exceptions that proves the rule. It was more about skewering MTV's infamous bratfest than about skewering flesh, and was all the better for it.)
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R is the better choice, of course, but I agree that if the only way to get kids interested in horror in the beginning is PG-13, that's fine. I don't have a problem with PG-13. Shoot, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had a villain that ripped the heart out of his victims, and it was rated PG!
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