When did PG-13 Horror flicks start to become popular?

[MartyMcFly]

@Zero im thinking about this now. Little
Tommy had fukking buckets of blood spurt out the water

There’s also someone’s severed leg
And a rotted out zombie head.

Oh and we see a man get eaten.

PG tho.

 

[Zero]

@Zero im thinking about this now. Little
Tommy had fukking buckets of blood spurt out the water

There’s also someone’s severed leg
And a rotted out zombie head.

Oh and we see a man get eaten.

PG tho.

Yup. More than a few moments made me hit the

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

"I know what you did last summer" is on Netflix, I looked at the rating bc of this thread and it's rated R?
I thought it was PG 13. That wasn't even that intense or gory of a movie , looking back. The 90s-early 2000s definition of a horror R ratings description compared to present day ...

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This is the problem with most modern horror. A movie doesn't have to be gory to be scary.

Horror subgenres are based on phases it seems, the time period of the ghost/ paranormal , possession movies all seem PG 13 to me (Blair witch, paranormal activity, etc) . The R rating didn't really match up for me until the slasher/torture movies like Saw, Hostel) because of the graphic images. Just looked up Childs Play..that was R, lol but could easily be in the PG 13 category by today's standards.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I never knew "Jaws" was Rated PG until 5 minutes ago.

It is?? Now I'm surprised by that one. I thought that would be R ...a 7yr old gets eaten by a shark for god sakes. But that shark looks comedically mechanic seeing this compared to today. Even Deep Blue Sea shark with Samuel Jackson is underwhelming, looks animated/cartoonish and that was the late 90s. And lol at Deep Blue Sea having an R rating. That was easily pg 13 level.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Yup. More than a few moments made me hit the

It is?? Now I'm surprised by that one. I thought that would be R ...a 7yr old gets eaten by a shark for god sakes. But that shark looks comedically mechanic seeing this compared to today. Even Deep Blue Sea shark with Samuel Jackson is underwhelming, looks animated/cartoonish and that was the late 90s. And lol at Deep Blue Sea having an R rating. That was easily pg 13 level.

Yo real shyt, the fact that universal had that much clout back in the day to get Spielberg a PG rating on that shyt is insane. Little tommy had a fukking blood geyser that shyt to this day makes me go And that it happens in broad daylight is even more

There are several dozen kids in peril in that movie, including a toddler making a sandcastle and universal had the clout to get a PG rating on it. Spielberg better thank God every night he set up shop at universal because any other studio may not have been able to finesse the MPAA like that

 

[MartyMcFly]

Haleigh Foutch from collider did a list of her favorite pg13 horror flicks a couple months ago. And Haleigh knows her shyt and can talk horror with anyone. @Nicole0416 if you’re looking for some horror movie podcasts to listen to, check out her show, the witching hour, or shockwaves

PG-13 Horror Movies That Prove You Don't Need an R-Rating to Be Creepy AF

 

[Geek Nasty]

YOu can make a great horror movie without gore. I think a lot of those 80s movies started getting lazy with the scares and started relying on jump scares and revolting gore to fill in the blanks.

 

[MenacingMonk]

I’d say that’s the subjective part. And again theyre all classic..

Those PG-13 movies are classic? That's also subjective, sir.

 

[Cladyclad]

escape room is the definition of this thread

Movie was mediocre af

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

There are several dozen kids in peril in that movie, including a toddler making a sandcastle and universal had the clout to get a PG rating on it

"kids in peril".. lmao.. you are so right. I don't think I was more than 8 or 9 myself when my brother let me watch his Jaws dvd, yup, the sandcastle, kid was like 3 and they had to nerve to zoom in and linger on the moment . Ohhh ok. Spielberg had some leverage.. that explains it.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

YOu can make a great horror movie without gore. I think a lot of those 80s movies started getting lazy with the scares and started relying on jump scares and revolting gore to fill in the blanks.

that describes the horror movies from the past 6 yrs or so, I don't mind the gore- it's the unnecessarily loud creepy sound effects not relevant to the moment- *cue secondary character walking across the bedroom opening the closet door (makes audience think there's a monster lurking) and Boom! pulls out a shirt . Or *main teenage character is waiting to drive the car talking to best friend on a rainy stormy night, music build up in the background while camera pans in..Bam! (random loud knocking on car window)... it's their mother or father "here honey, you forgot to...... "

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Haleigh Foutch from collider did a list of her favorite pg13 horror flicks a couple months ago. And Haleigh knows her shyt and can talk horror with anyone. @Nicole0416 if you’re looking for some horror movie podcasts to listen to, check out her show, the witching hour, or shockwaves

PG-13 Horror Movies That Prove You Don't Need an R-Rating to Be Creepy AF

Thanks!! and she's a female that's a horror aficionado- that's rare. I'll check out her show. Not too many of us that are real fans of the genre..

 

[MartyMcFly]

Thanks!! and she's a female that's a horror aficionado- that's rare. I'll check out her show. Not too many of us that are real fans of the genre..

Yeah it’s her and another woman who works for collider. Shockwaves has one female co host but she’s a director and just loves horror. She also used to write for fangoria and she’s into weird shyt and has no problem telling you about it. Respect the hell out of her for that.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

escape room is the definition of this thread

Movie was mediocre af

Panic Room too...way overrated. any horror movie with "room" in it just have low expectations. Room 6, The Killing Room.....