It appears that the Alexandre Aja remake of The Hills Have Eyes is just too strong and has received an NC-17 rating prompting the makers to work on editing it down to an R.
From Empire Online comes the worrying information of forced cuts.
At the moment, the new Hills…is so intense and gory that the American ratings board, the MPAA, have given it the dreaded NC-17, aka commercial suicide.
“It’s a very strong picture and we’re trying to figure out what to do with that, without ruining it,” says a perplexed Craven…“We have to deliver an R rating. We looked at it last night in the screening room and before we started, we said to Alex ‘what do you think?’ And he said ‘this is a PG-13 now’. And one of our producers said ‘Alex, can we commit you to an insane asylum if this isn’t an R?’ and then he showed it to us and ohmigod, there’s no way you would get an R for that.”
What’s all the fuss about? A horror film that delivers an NC-17? What’s wrong with that? Are they saying that the demographic for this movie is under 17? A movie about a family being terrorised by a band of sadistic and twisted killers in the middle of nowhere is for under 17’s? Oh, and if it get’s an R rating do they really expect parents to take their kids to see it? Well perhaps they do.
There is light though, apparently the talk is that the DVD release will feature either the full version or a stronger one than the movies. That spells one thing for me, rent the DVD, and don’t go to see the movie.
