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'Prom Night' Remake Scores Big, Puts Pressure on R-rating
Sunday, April 13, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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PG-13 horror rules the land and it hurts. I have no problem with a PG-13 film being made, or being successful for that matter, but what bothers me is that the studio execs gets the idea in their head that PG-13 horror is the ONLY way to go and trim R-rated genre pics into bland, useless films just to score an extra buck. Back in the '90s all of the popular teen films like SCREAM and URBAN LEGEND were all R-rated, so why the sudden change? Anyways, this weekend Sony Screen Gems' PG-13 horror film Prom Night (which really didn't need to be R) took the top spot in the box office pulling in an estimated $22.7 million. While I am happy to see a genre film succeed, I dread the reaction across the board to it's success and have to ask the question, what R-rated horror film will be the first to be cut just to get a few more teens into the theater?



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Kaname Tousen
1:46pm, April 13, 2008

Mr.d I've been addressing you alot like this lately and I see this trend of good at the box office PG-13 horror movies is four things. <p> 1.13-21 year old MTV watching "The Hills" loving wearing boots in the middle of summer and flipflops in winter blonde blue/green/teal eyed girls. <p> 2.girls that want to be the girls in number 1 who think they're ugly and want to conform into number 1 <p> 3.Pedos looking for the girls in number 1 and 2 especially number 2 girls <p> 4.Horror fans especially of the original version who actually think that it might not be that bad


Kaname Tousen
1:46pm, April 13, 2008

damn nothing works to make new lines on this thing not even html code


youarethedishes
2:06pm, April 13, 2008

nothing looks redeeming about this movie, if companies insist on releasing watered down horror movies, can we atleast get a good story? Is it too much to ask?


djblack1313
2:17pm, April 13, 2008

this sucks!! (no suprise i guess). i have nothing against GOOD PG-13 movies (i.e. Cloverfield), but this doesn't bode well for horror films aimed towards ADULTS--not tweens.


thephantomk
2:29pm, April 13, 2008

Here's how I figure the PG-13 rating worked. It all depends heavily on the time frame of the films release. As we near summer, or in this instance Spring Break. You have tons of under aged juveniles who are not in school. The parents want alone time..... They drop these little bastards off at the cinema and they tell them to go entertain themselves. Well no respectable ticket seller is going to risk their job a fine or a possible arrest, by selling minors a rated R ticket... So there is your answer!!! For fuck sakes- If the film comes out during the summer- Your better off making it PG-13, but if it comes out when schools are packed then you should insure it has an R rating. That way the adults and older teens go, AKA people who will actually be capable of getting out to see it. Better not PG-13 Friday the 13th! This film did gangbusters cause it came out during Spring Break!!! That is all... Damn it BD think about things before you get all uppity


thephantomk
2:34pm, April 13, 2008

But then again the casting list for the new Friday The 13th screams "pre teen orgasm" basically every low end Disney teen kid knows one of those cast members. So I guess we are fucked... fucked good.... It figures though you hired those hack FVSJ scribes to write it and then you hired the wrong faces for the cast minus Derek Mears... He's the only good thing going for that film so far! Wish Bob Shaye or Sean S. Cunningham could stop this thing from happening until it had the right screenplay and cast...


jmacgrath
2:42pm, April 13, 2008

Bob Shaye has NOTHING to do with this. He was fired from New Line Cinema. Anyway, this will be R rated, all of Platinum Dunes films are rated R. I have no fear of this being full of violence, cursing, gore, and T&A.


thephantomk
2:52pm, April 13, 2008

I hope the kills are realistic. Those writer make the victims flesh seem like Jello/Vampire flesh. Read the original FVSJ script it's a joke... The machete and glove kills are not realistic. These damn weapons go all the way through bones like the head- Freddy's glove goes through JAsons eye and it comes out the otherside of the head. Hahahaha. The Machete impale people to stuff. Bullshit! I was pissed that Rob Zombie stuck Bob to the wall with the knife like John did in the original Halloween. It wasn't believable then and it isn't now. I've yet too see a victim get their arms brutally slashed while defending themselves from a knife attack. Or manage to run away after being slashed up, Lot of people survive knife attacks, 40 or more stab wounds in some cases, but not in Hollywood horror films. I'm so tired of the glorified bullshit kills if anything Friday should redeem itself with very good creative kills but ones that don't seem unbelievable or hokey..


Slice
2:59pm, April 13, 2008

It's kind of funny that this turned into a Friday the 13th discussion, is it poised to be horror's saving grace? On the topic, it's definetely going to be Rated R. Also, don't hold your breath for realistic kills, I see where you're coming from but the one tool that that series and ones similar have at their disposal is to see how creative they can get with the kills. Do you really want to see Jason just using his machete the whole time?


thephantomk
3:02pm, April 13, 2008

Shit I'd love to see a victim kill themselves while trying to flee the killer. Have them trip while running down the stairs- and they break all there shit and remain helplessly paralyzed at the bottom of the staircase- That or they fall while running away and they impale themselves on the weapon they are carrying. they get back up wincing in pain crying about the while thing moving much more slower then they were before. Cut to a POV shot of them going into a mild shock. We see that funky dancing black white and grey multi square tile visual effect that folks see when they go into shock combined with all the various background sounds sounding like shattering glass- The victim screams at the top of they're lungs for help, their vision starts to clear- Jason magically appears right in front of them- Whack Axe hit to there head still seeing this in POV knocking us down to the ground violently. Everything goes blindingly white. Goddamn this movie is gonna Suck!!!! Way to fuck up a Re-Launch!


thephantomk
3:20pm, April 13, 2008

You can still get very creative with the kills and keep it real. The above is such an example. Really you want the kills to be scary more than anything else. Maybe going into a POV shot is the answer for one of the kills. I went into shock when i ripped my knee wide open. Let me tell ya thats some scarry shit.. I know exactly what you see (crazy square shaped dots) and how the sound gets all fuzzy and shatter'like Sounds like all sounds are comprised of glassy like sharpness and they echo as if they were broken in some big empty room. It's some fucked up shit.. I got another one. Cut someones front face completely off with- have their hands digging into their exposed nasal and brain cavity area. How to do that with a regular axe or machete is pretty much impossible, but a Chainsaw could work, maybe they have the Chainsaw and they charge Jason with it. Jason dodges the attack- He grabs the Chainsaws handle/bar, and he pushes it into their face. They fall down to the ground into the spinning chains, and it cuts right trough their face. They roll over, their hands shoot up and they start clawing away at the exposed brain nasal and tongue area literally digging their own brain out of their skull- Meanwhile half the face remains folded over on the other side. It's hangs from remaining flesh/skin and muscle still attached- The eyes roll back and twitch as the other hand grabs at the lips pulling them wide open too extreme measures some of the front teeth and gums are still attached to this lip area (think about it flesh and bones) So it's pretty fucking raunchy as far as gross out gore goes. The teeth literarily fold out and expose themselves when the lips are pulled open. This mouth area can't move on it's own since most of the jaw area is still attached to the remaining head, but that jaw area on the head can still open and shut- So maybe it's spazing out- opening and shutting like crazy. Would be cool to see that happen to Jason and not his victim but I doubt they have the balls to do that since he would most certainly be dead. Sorta reminds me of Pamela's death and how her hands raced up to her severed neck.


cpanthers
3:29pm, April 13, 2008

Can't disagree more Slice The wolfman will make more money than the friday the 13th remake.


thephantomk
3:47pm, April 13, 2008

Another Cool Kill. The victim is running away from Jason. Jason grabs his hair, he swings him around. With his finger still clenched onto the guys hair. Jason slams them into a tree. (Think sleeping bag scene) Jason keeps slamming the guys face into the tree. Upon the second pull away- We see the victims front teeth imbedded into the tree bark. Jason uses his free hand to break some of the branches off. He slams the side of this guys face against broken branch segments- They tear into his cheek area- leaving a huge gash. Jason slams the victims head into branch segments. The branch goes into the guys eye tearing it out, he turns the head again. This time he slams it ear first into a much larger broken branch it goes into the ear. Jason pull him off this branch segment, he grabs the back of the guys neck. He slams it into the larger branch segment once more- It break off in the guys neck. The guy is still alive, just barely- He makes gurgling sounds as blood bubbles form from his lips. Jason releases his grip. the victim falls too the ground. Jason gently steps on the exposed broken branch segment in the guys neck pushing it at an angle it breaks through. Finally killing him outright.


happy Horror Hard On
3:54pm, April 13, 2008

I reckon MY BLODDY VALENTINE will get tweened. I think FRIDAY i safe because of the numbers those guys got on TEXAS CHAINSAW


thephantomk
4:00pm, April 13, 2008

The female orders her German Shepard too attack Jason. It rushes for his face. it gets a hold of the hockey mask. Jason grabs the snot- He tears the animals jaws open, He pulls down on the jaw breaking it, the dog screams in pain. It paws away at it's mouth area as it crawls along the ground. It starts pissing all over itself. Jason bend over. He reaches into the collar bone area near the dogs neck. He steps down on the dogs hind leg- He pulls the collar bone till it snaps. Jason jerks the broken bone up and down until it pierces hole in the flesh. Jason removes the bone through the hole. The girl starts running. Jason takes chase. He stabs her in the back with the dogs collar bone it breaks in half. She turns around she and grabs a large rock laying next to her. Jason grabs her hand he breaks her fingers, he twists the hand around snapping her wrist she is screaming in extreme pain. He holds her limp hand and the stone. He makes her slam the rock into her face. again and again until she's dead.


jhowington32
4:01pm, April 13, 2008

friday the 13th would never ever ever ever be pg-13! if that was the case freddy vs jason would have been pg-13.. fuck this movie fuck april fools day, and my bloody valentine will not be pg-13 i can promise you that happy horror hard on! love the screen name.. pump up the volume rules!lol


Saturdaythe13th
4:07pm, April 13, 2008

So now Mr. D is saying that the Prom Night remake "really didn't need to be R", even though he spent the last three months bashing it for NOT being R. Basically, I think you guys should stop simply looking at ratings. A movie is either good or it isn't. I've seen a lot of bad R-rated horror, especially recently. Halloween remake, Hills Have Eyes 2, Captivity, etc... I didn't even care for the Prom Night remake very much, BUT I actually felt that it was more competently made and more enjoyable than the R-RATED Halloween remake.


mfcmk
4:13pm, April 13, 2008

Fuck Prom Night being remade and being PG 13!! WTF!! Fangoria butchered this film in their review section.


amberXzydrate
4:27pm, April 13, 2008

Thank god for Repo! The Genetic Opera. That'll never be PG-13


The180Curse
5:40pm, April 13, 2008

I just hope Final Destination 4 sticks to it's predecessors R rated blood n guts. And if thats a PG-13, then yes, we are fucked.


Zombie Hell
5:59pm, April 13, 2008

Is anyone really all that surprised? Teens support garbage, always have and always will. Look back at the crap you supported back when you were a teen, and are now completely ashamed of. We've all got those skeletons. Besides, any movie that shit shit really effects, rating wise, in the future was never worth seeing anyway. A REAL filmmaker will fight to keep his/her film the way it was intended. They may not win, but you'll eventually hear about the fight on one of these sites. Anyway, final words of wisdom... don't support crap, no matter the rating.


Slasher Freak
6:15pm, April 13, 2008

I saw this garbage today! ....2/10


jkrouskop
6:34pm, April 13, 2008

I love this quote: "Is anyone really all that surprised? Teens support garbage, always have and always will." Why is it such a great quote? Because it sounds exactly like what adults were saying about R-rated slasher films (which were still aimed at teen audiences) in the '80s. Face it, ladies & gents - our day is done, and their day is here. You could sit around and bitch about it until you sound exactly like your parents did when you were a kid, or you could just get over it and let this generation of teens have their horror films. You'll still get the R-rated and unrated versions on DVD, and plenty of R-rated horror in theaters apart from the teeny bopper remakes.


slapyou
6:43pm, April 13, 2008

Good job America. Fuck you.


halloweenfan
7:58pm, April 13, 2008

This sucks. As simple as that. PG-13 is just a sign that hey the directors and the producers have no balls. One day I hope to make movies and If I do I will never make a PG-13 movie. I don't care how much complaining teens give from not being able to get in but I don't give a shit because if you want to see it so bad you should be creative and trick your ass into a seat in the theater. If you can't get in any possible way than just sit your ass down and watch The "I am just a young pussy that can't see a R horror movie" channel on tv. That is what I wish it was like now but hey I guess I'll just have to act like this PG-13 craze will end soon.


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