Not too long ago we heard wind that the new Friday the 13th would be PG 13. It appears that was a rumor and the film will have an R rating. We get the good news from the gentleman at Bloody-Disgusting:
“None of our remakes have been PG-13,” Producer Brad Fuller tells Bloody-Disgusting. “How do you remake a rated R horror movie and take the guts out literally and figuratively? What is F13 without sex, drugs and really, really long sharp machete? And why would we, horror fans ourselves, produce a movie devoid of the things that made the title so appealing in the first place. So let me say for the record, that the F13 that we start shooting this Thursday is a full bodied, rated R film.”
He elaborates on just how R-rated this film will be. “It has insane kills that will be shown in all their glory- it has a group of college students who drink and even have sex. We are betting that if we don’t hold back that the audience will reward us for being bold in a time when some horror movies are playing the ratings game. So we embrace the R-rating Friday the 13th will have, and hope you (the B-D readers) will too.”
Well this is certainly cause for celebration. I am still not enthused about a remake of the classic film, but at least it will be true to form in R land. I recently saw the PG-13 Prom Night remake and it was brutal (not the good kind of brutal). No blood, horrible kill scenes and just a giant waste of fucking time. Horror films need to be R like Pornography needs to be XXX , some genres demand happenings that only adults should see (and sneaky, resourceful teens).
Jason is among my favorite on screen villains and I certainly don’t want to see him butchered by those that will not butcher. Pensive as I am about the remake, I will be the first to cheer when he kills again on the big screen. Just to kick the nostalgia up a notch, I may even try to catch this at the drive in – that would be a blast.
