There’s plenty of debate over whether the upcoming remake of The Evil Dead will live up Sam Raimi’s originals, but it will match their legacy in one important way — the MPAA has slapped the new Evil Dead with it’s harshest possible rating, the dreaded NC-17.
The Evil Dead and its sequel Evil Dead II predated the NC-17 rating, but both received X ratings. Unfortunately unlike the originals, which just quietly ignored the X and hit theatres unrated, the Evil Dead remake will be going through a round of cuts to get down to an R rating.
I just wish I could have been there to see the reactions of the kids who snuck into the original Evil Dead movies, hoping for softcore porn due to the X-rating, only to get something very, very different.
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Some bullshit. Hopefully the NC-17 gets released onto VHS when it gets released.
We may be waiting a while for a VHS release.
VHS is the weaker format, everyone knows Beta-max is where its at!
The cassettes are so small and cute!
Now they don’t have to re-cut it for the eventual “UNRATED EXTENDED CUT” release on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy
THE CUT YOU COULDN’T SEE IN THEATERS.
Honestly, I hope they have the sense to tour the NC-17 cut to horror conventions and indie theaters.
I agree Dan, they should just give theaters both copies and let the fans decide what they want to go see.
i’m not particularly squeamish when it comes to movies, but the 2 minute Evil Dead red band trailer was some extremely disturbing shit. i dont know if i can take this one on the big screen.
It was pretty extreme. I should take a girl to the movie. One I don’t like all that well.
or you can find out of a long term lady friend is really the one by subjecting her to just over 2 hours of torture porn ultra-violence.
ah, l’amour.
Take a girl you know is way out your league. 95% she is going to think you’re a disgusting human being and never talk to you again. But there is a 5% chance that she get in incredibly turned on by tree rape, takes you home, dresses you up like an Ent and has the most amazing, perverted, kinky sex you have ever had.
This poll has a 4.99999% margin of error.
I remember seeing a few months ago that some filmmakers were going to fight the NC-17 rating and the stigma it holds. They wanted to get more education out there about it so that it doesn’t become a stamp of death and instead is just a rating that says “we won’t allow kids in, even with a parent or guardian.” That seems better to me than theaters being scared to show NC-17 films, than films releasing unrated, or films being re-cut because everyone wants to avoid the rating.
So what happened to that advocacy group? It would be nice to see them actually fix everything so that NC-17 is no longer the kiss of death for a film, basically.
That would involve breaking the stranglehold the MPAA has on film ratings. The MPAA likes having an NC-17, because it means they can club anything they don’t like to death like a baby seal.
From a business standpoint, especially for a medium that’s being ravaged by piracy as it is, NC-17 means even less tickets being sold because dumbass parents aren’t allowed to bring their 3 year old in when they can’t get a sitter. Or the teenage demo can’t have a group of friends go in while the parents either leave or sit somewhere else. Cutting down that rating isn’t really about stigma, but about actually making money. To keep the rating as is they might as well not release it in theaters and just go the direct to DVD/ vod route.
@Dan: I’ve seen “This Film is Not Yet Rated” so I do understand the strange way in which the MPAA and the raters work. It makes no sense. That was partially what my comment was about. Some filmmakers had decided to launch a campaign against the way things are rated, mostly focusing on the NC-17 rating and how absurd it is currently. That movement disappeared as quickly as it launched apparently.
@choad: The business isn’t being ravaged by piracy, that is just what the studios and MPAA want everyone to believe. What is hurting them is the fact that they seem to be focused on making 99% crap and audiences are finally getting sick of it. The other thing hurting it is the crackdown on piracy and then pushing their draconian views upon people that obtain films through legal methods. This makes them sick and drives them towards piracy rather than away. So they are the ones hurting themselves.
I also don’t think piracy is really hurting them that much. Most people would prefer to see a movie in theaters if it seems worth it instead of some cam, or waiting for the dvd rip. I think it would have a bigger impact on DVD/Blu-Ray sales. However, the size of the files and lack of availability for Blu-Ray rips still helps keep Blu-Ray sales up. Also, plenty of people are still too scared/too lazy to actually pirate movies.
What are the odds they cut the tree rape scene?
But that’s the soul of the movie!
They should just cut the lesbian kiss near the end of the trailer. That’s probably what gave them the NC-17 rating. The ED will keep cutting shit thinking it’s the violence, but in reality, it’s that kiss. It’s kind of a Don Mattingly cutting his sideburns type of deal.
I guess the MPAA board members don’t take kindly to tree rape scenes. Now we’ll likely get the watered down version. Boo. I wanted to see this movie in all if it’s gory glory.
Yet they give graphic rape scenes in other films an R rating. Someone in the MPAA must have a phobia of trees.
They’re evil and they’re dead.
They’re the evil deeeeaaaaad.
**another SNL sketch just wrote itself**
Good News, this means the remake will 30 different versions on DVD/Blue Ray just like the original!
*will get…
I think I’ve owned at least 3 versions, and probably another 3 of Evil Dead II.
The MPAA is fascist and I’m not speaking in hyperbole. Those assholes are far too out of touch with modern reality to be given the right to judge movies like this. Somebody needs to Che Guevara their ass.
No hyperbole at all.
I’m not exaggerating even a little bit here, guy. I feel very strongly about this.
Heres hoping some theater in LA has the balls to do an NC-17 screening at midnight. I’m looking at you Vista.
Yes!
The trailer looked pretty funny because it looked so fake. Are the people who rate this stuff 80 or something? I could see if the movie seemed realistic or something, but, this is as stupid (in a good way) as it gets.
I got carded when kill bill vol. 1 was released. thankfully i had just turned 17, so i got in, but that film had an R-rating, so what’s the difference?
either way, this movie will be the ultimate experience in grueling terror!
Verified
The MPAA is an outdated and flawed institution, but it wouldn’t matter as much if the major theater chains didn’t give their ratings legitimacy. The fact is, an NC-17 EVIL DEAD would probably do very well, given that it’s aimed squarely at hardcore horror fans — if chains like AMC weren’t scared of the stigma. So the problem isn’t so much the bullshit ratings system, but the lame, lawsuit-averse theater companies that allow the ratings to become meaningful. This probably won’t change anytime soon, so the moral is: if those few extra seconds of tree-rape and dick mutilation are super meaningful to you, wait for home video.
I’ll wait
I want more dick mutilation!! More!
Verified
If Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, I Spit On Your Grave, Teeth, and Hostel 2 taught us anything, it’s to value dick mutilation above all things.
Yeah, I dunno, I always put more blame on the movie theaters who just won’t show NC-17 rated movies. If people were actually willing to show NC-17 movies, there’d be no issue.
They should do what they did up here in Canada. Our ratings board made “R” the strongest rating — the equivalent of an NC-17, then created a new rating, 18a, that sits *below* an R, that encompasses the majority of movies that get “R” ratings in the States.
If you replace the NC-17 with some new rating it will just immediately get associated with porn and theaters won’t run movies with the new rating. But if you make R the new NC-17 and create a new, “soft R” rating, you’ll probably be able to sneak it past theaters.
This movie gets and NC-17 while the graphic anal rape scene in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo gets that film an R? There is no justice.
If the Hobbit gets SIX DIFFERENT VERSIONS in the theater, I think they should play both cuts of Evil Dead
@GroovyBruce: “@TheChasPorter: How do you feel about the new Evil Dead getting the NC-17 rating on the first cut?” Like ol’ Times– pic.twitter.com/eAiU6jM3
Bruce Campbell approves, any argument against is invalid