‘Evil Dead’ Rated NC-17 By MPAA
An interesting tweet today from Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez revealed (unsurprisingly) that the film received an NC-17 rating when submitted to the MPAA.
NC-17, of course, is the most extreme rating that the MPAA will give. It replaced the X rating in 1990, and since then only a handful of films have been released as NC-17.
The description of the rating is as follows:
NC-17 — No One 17 and Under Admitted. An NC-17 rated motion picture is one that, in the view of the Rating Board, most parents would consider patently too adult for their children 17 and under. No children will be admitted. NC-17 does not mean “obscene” or “pornographic” in the common or legal meaning of those words, and should not be construed as a negative judgment in any sense. The rating simply signals that the content is appropriate only for an adult audience. An NC-17 rating can be based on violence, sex, aberrational behavior, drug abuse or any other element that most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children.
Evil Dead won’t hit theatres like this of course. The tweet confirmed that Alvarez recut the film to achieve the less extreme R rating.
@woozytribe Was proud of scoring a NC17 when submitted! But we had to cut stuff out to get an R and get the film into theaters.
— Fede Alvarez(@fedalvar) January 28, 2013
Does this mean we’ll be getting an unrated cut of the film when it hits Blu-Ray? You have seen the Red Band trailer for Evil Dead, haven’t you?
Evil Dead hits theatres on April 12th.
