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Horrorphile - March 2007

Pushing Hollywood's SLEAZY BLOODY boundaries!

March 16th 2007 00:08

Fangoria online (a great horror movie magazine I used to collect religiously in my geekier days) have run a short article on the current censorship rating woes plaguing Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez and their double whammy exploitation horror opus Grindhouse. The horror magazine have pointed out a report from the The New York Post speculating how the specially-designed double feature may have a tough time securing a wide release in the States, due to the high level of sex, nudity and ultra-violence.

Doh! It’s an exploitation flick, made in the style of the infamous adult flicks that used to play NYC’s seedy cinemas in downtown Manhattan during the late 60s and well into the 70s. Grindhouse even sports trailers to non-existent features, such as Machete, which play between the two main movies, Rodriguez’ Planet Terror and Tarantino’s Death Proof.
What in hell were the executive producers thinking? “Um, Quentin … um … Robert, kinda hoping you might deliver us a pleasant little PG-13 version we can push out over the school holidays …? Y’know, something where the girls are actually wearing brassieries and panties and instead of using an axe or shotgun, the bad guys could perhaps throw an insult instead, like “Go jump in a lake!” or if they have to they could make a soft slap to the face?”
Sheeeesh! I can just imagine the expressions on the directors’ faces.

If the film is hit with an NC-17 rating it will suffer from heavily restricted advertising (many cinema chains don’t run ads for NC-17 flicks). No doubt the film will go out unrated initially. I just hope to hell the directors don’t buckle under the weight of the Weinstein brothers who control Dimension Films, the major distributor, and have the film cut back to get an R rating. That is like the equivalent of an Australian MA.

According to the columnist at The New York Post who got to see some of the movies’ more grindier, over-the-top footage says the film is too “graphic and outrageous for a major Hollywood studio [to release with an R rating and] there’s no question it’s heading for an NC-17 without big cuts.”

Grindhouse has had major hype and is hugely anticipated by hordes of Tarantino and Rodriguez fans as well as fans of the horror and exploitation genres. There will be hell to pay if Grindhouse comes out all soft and mellow around the edges.

In a scene from Rob Zombie’s faux trailer for Werewolf Women of the S.S. (one of the fabricated movie trailers), “A cute, topless girl is roughly tied down on a table by evil female Nazi experimenters who begin draining her blood and, as she screams in agony, they brand her like livestock with a coal-hot steel swastika,” states the columnist, “And every girl in the Nazi concentration camp is topless.”

According to the same lucky viewer, in a scene from another of the trailers, directed by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) called Thanksgiving, in which a town's celebration of Turkey Day is interrupted by a mad slasher, "There's a part where Jordan Ladd (daughter of Cheryl Ladd of Charlie's Angels fame) is in a car with her boyfriend and giving him [oral sex] when she lovingly reaches to stroke his hair and discovers his neck is just a bloody stump - some maniac had just cut off his head while she was in the act." Later, a frisky cheerleader climbs onto a trampoline and begins stripping naked as she jumps up and down until she does a split and her skirt blows up without panties underneath. "You get the full 'Britney Spears-getting-out-of-the-limo view!” says the source.

Another in your face scene shows a grossly obese man chewing on a baby. Mmmm-mmm!

One studio insider glumly stated that some cuts will definitely have to be made, no question. My bloodied heart beats furiously in hope that Tarantino and Roderiguez will stick to their grindhouse guns …even if the clout of Weinstein’s blunderbuss might be a bigger, brassier and bitchier weapon.

Grindhouse will be released in the States on April 6 and released in Australia on May 31st.

Here's the final trailer to get the blood and adrenalin really pumpin'!:

* images on this pages are courtesy of www.moviezine.se

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Comment by JohnDoe

March 16th 2007 00:42

Film & TV on DVD

LOL. it seems we were both on a Grindhouse kick today....damn you for showing me up

Comment by Bryn

March 16th 2007 01:20

Horrorphile

LMFAO!
I just "snapped" you at your place ....
Word.

Comment by JohnDoe

March 16th 2007 01:34

Film & TV on DVD

You beat me by two minutes, "Snap" is the right word.

Now go fish.

Comment by Bryn

March 16th 2007 02:46

Horrorphile

Eeek! I got the Black Bitch!

Comment by KylieW

March 16th 2007 04:01

Celebrity Obsession

Noooooooo, they can't cut it. I'm so looking forward to it!!! I hope Rodriguez and Tarantino have strong backs. That Harvey Weinsten is an awful big fella!

Comment by Adrienne

March 16th 2007 23:05

Celebrity Fox

You have the cutest comments!

Comment by Bryn

March 17th 2007 01:16

Horrorphile

Fingers crossed Kylie, fingers crossed!!

Adrienne,
That's a cute comment of yours.

Comment by JohnDoe

March 17th 2007 02:14

Film & TV on DVD

You know either way there will be an uncut DVD version out at some time, even if they hack it to shreads.

Comment by katyzzz

March 17th 2007 07:05

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Bryn

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Comment by Francis

March 17th 2007 23:33

Passionate Apathy

They didn't want over-the-top violence... yet they signed Tarantino to direct the movie??

I agree with JohnDoe: The studio will ~~hack and slash~~ sanitize the flick for the theater bucks, then fater miling the DVD sales release the "Director's Cut" DVD for even more sales.

Comment by Bryn

March 19th 2007 05:11

Horrorphile

Yup.
Sounds about right.

Comment by Anonymous

March 26th 2007 19:55

Let's see, although I'm looking forward to it also, I'm sure it'll be the DVD that wins out. Damn. That said, here's some other thoughts:

Who knew Josh Brolin could act?

WTF was Manson thinking?

Bless them for Savini, Fergie and Fahey. About time he got beyond Lawnmower Man.

I'd do Danny Trejo.

Quentin as a rapist huh? Heh.

Glad they shoe horned a Zombie in too.

Comment by Bryn

March 27th 2007 06:28

Horrorphile

I just hope the actual features' retain that gritty, weathered print look that the trailers suggest ... Apparently they've secured a hard R rating with only a few seconds cut, and apparently the cut isn't of any violence ... knowing the MPAA it's probably a sexually related sequence, they can be so damn prudish!

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