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So... this isn't really a big deal or even something anybody cares about, but what is up with some of the MPAA ratings for these movies? A few of them, like Taste the Blood of Dracula and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed in particular, apparently got resubmitted to the MPAA in recentish years (former went from PG to R, latter went from "M" to PG-13), but I'm unsure what the story behind that was; it seems a little odd that they'd just resubmit a couple Hammer movies for the sake of it.
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Nov 23, 2016 05:48
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That's tangential to what I was asking about, though. In the US, you don't actually have to resubmit movies to release them on home video, even if it's a different cut; had they released the uncut version of Taste the Blood... with the original PG rating on it, they might've gotten in trouble, but releasing it unrated would have been totally fine (and is generally the option distributors go with in this type of situation; hell, Horror of Dracula and Dracula: Prince of Darkness are unrated in the US to this day). Ditto with Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed's original rating no longer existing; releasing it unrated would have been perfectly okay. What I'm curious about is why they went out of their way to resubmit the movies and get new ratings on them, when they could have simply released them as unrated and avoided the expense and hassle. The only obvious answer would seem to be that they were doing a theatrical rerelease of the movies (the only situation in which they'd have to resubmit them, and even then not necessarily since most repertory theaters don't care), but Taste the Blood of Dracula and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed seem like pretty odd choices for that, particularly the former.
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Nov 23, 2016 07:18
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