R rated movies you remember seeing as a kid

[Hell Puppy]

Originally posted by SykkBoy@Mar 8 2005, 02:11 PM
Jaws was rated PG, although Spielberg was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating after outcry from Gremlins (which he produced and Joe Dante directed) and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (which he directed). The first movie released with a PG-13 was Red Dawn if I remember right....

Good memory, you nailed it!

Red Dawn was the first movie released with the new rating, but Temple of Doom was the cause of the creation of the PG-13 rating. Spielberg made sure that he didn't put anything in the movie that would draw an R-rating, but the violence and such inspired the MPAA to create a rating between PG and R.

And horror movies have largely sucked ever since!

There's no way to do a PG rated horror movie. So the studios used to go with buckets of blood and bouncing naked teenage boobies. If you're gonna have an R-rating, might as well go for it!

However, teens love horror movies and to not pass up those dollars, the vast majority of horror movies that come out today are PG-13. Which means no real nudity and nothing that would truly constitute gore.