Ratings (MPAA / BBFC)

Actually, Coscarelli kicked me off the set that night because I wouldn't do it. But he got over it and we went to the Dodger game the next week. Yeah, we're still buddies. It wasn't in my job description. I just want to point out, you have those PAs in your mouth, Bill. That was in my job description. If we got this film rated today, you would not be able to get that past the rating board, which I thought is ridiculous.

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just scored the stuff up as he was. Now here for the first time, you can see the urine that comes out of the guy's leg, which most of the other video transfers, you can never see any of that. But in fact, that's how we got the R rating. So I think if the ratings board had ever really seen what that was, they never would have asked us. This is a nice shot. Well, it's beautiful, beautiful acting.

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was one of the films that, if I'm not mistaken, started a wave of modern horror films in the late 70s and early 80s. It was really a golden age. And it may have come to an end with the ratings. Because worldwide, they're just cracking down. It's become to a temporary low. It will never be stamped out. It goes through ages and ages of history.

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Let's make it 50. Make it three yards, motherfucker, and we'll have an automobile race. That's one of my favorite lines in the movie. Well, that nearly got us an X rating. We had to fight, you know, the ratings board to get an R because that one line was enough to qualify as an X at the time. Wow. And now it's like, you know, every other line in a movie is...

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Robert Sommer

I think the rating of this trans scene, which we will see in a moment.

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