This is either one amaizng publicity stunt or a major probolem developing, but word hit the web today that Dimension Films' Grindhouse just got slapped with a craptacular NC-17, just weeks away from it's April 6 release. What does this mean for the film? Well, if they pull a Kill Bill we might see some black and white - or maybe Grind will be the first ever "Hard-R" film - any takers?! Read on for the story adn watch this spot for any developments.
THE people who dole out ratings at the Motion Picture Assn. of America just might flip out when they see "Grindhouse," Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's tribute to the ultraviolent, nudity-drenched pictures that once screened 'round the clock in the grungy movie palaces of 42nd Street.
The Weinstein Company, which is releasing the picture April 6 through its Dimension Films arm, needs an R rating for the flick to get into mainstream theaters. But, "some of it is so graphic and outrageous for a major Hollywood studio, there's no question it's headed for an NC-17 without big cuts," says a Page Six operative, who got a sneak peek at the most over-the-top footage.
"Grindhouse" is actually two short movies - one directed by Tarantino, the other by Rodriguez - with an intermission between them. During the break, a series of fake trailers will be shown for such fictitious titles as "Werewolf Women of the SS," directed by Rob Zombie.
"In one scene, a cute, topless girl is roughly tied down on a table by evil female Nazi experimenters who begin draining her blood and, as she screams in agony, they brand her like livestock with a coal-hot steel swastika," our source said. "And every girl in the Nazi concentration camp is topless."
Another trailer, directed by Eli Roth, of "Hostel" fame, is called "Thanksgiving," in which a town's celebration of Turkey Day is interrupted by a mad slasher.
"There's a part where Jordan Ladd [daughter of Cheryl Ladd of 'Charlie's Angels'] is in a car with her boyfriend and giving him [oral sex] when she lovingly reaches to stroke his hair and discovers his neck is just a bloody stump - some maniac had just cut off his head while she was in the act."
Later, a frisky cheerleader climbs onto a trampoline and begins stripping naked as she jumps up and down until she does a split and her skirt blows up without panties underneath. "You get the full 'Britney Spears-getting-out-of-the-limo view,' " our source says. Another jolting scene shows a grossly obese man chewing on a baby.
How much of these moviegoers will end up seeing is anybody's guess. "Some cuts definitely will have to be made. There's no question," conceded one studio insider. A Dimension rep declined comment.
I say go for the NC-17 (or the potential new rating) I'm there either way, I would like to see the film without being chopped to bits too so if it bombs that sucks for the studio (and I wouldn't want it to happen) but at this point, my tickets are bought!
As much as I'd like to see the film intact, I was this film to be a success and lead to more Grindhouse type movies, so if they have to cut I won't hold it against them.
I don't understand how movies like these are still being filmed and produced.Didn' t Tarantino get bored of all the disturbing sequences in "hostel" and "Hostel part II " ?If this is the new direction of the horror genre(no more horror just senseless pain),well I think Horror is dead
they shouldn't cut the movie they should come out with a new rating like H-R for hard rated R rather than chop the movie untill it bombs at the box office
At this point I don't really care at all what it get's rated as long as neither of the aforementioned "major cuts" are made.This is a tribute to the exploitative fare that ran in drive-ins and grindhouses, which I think from the sound of things is pretty much exceeding on that element which to me is amazing and that Grindhouse will be no kiddy-show.
No matter what Grindhouse is rated, They won't dissapoint with a kick ass DVD. They know who their fans are, and they know what we are expecting...So I'll think they'll go for that NC-17, It will just get played in less theaters. Which will generate more of a buzz...Watch...
I saw the poster over at my local cinema in town when I saw Zodiac. NC-17 or not, I still hope it plays in my area. Enough of these PG-13 horror films.
I remember hearing the MPAA saying that they would start embracing the NC-17 rating...was that all bullshit? I would be slightly offended if they cut up Grindhouse, the whole point of Grindhouse is to be subversive and fucked up. If you cut up Grindhouse, it's not Grindhouse! Besides I want to see Jordan Ladd simulate oral sex on a dead guy, that's hot as Hell!
Don't cut one fucking second of this film. PLEASE.
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THE people who dole out ratings at the Motion Picture Assn. of America just might flip out when they see "Grindhouse," Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's tribute to the ultraviolent, nudity-drenched pictures that once screened 'round the clock in the grungy movie palaces of 42nd Street. 
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