Tallulah Givehead asks what the big deal is over that one minute that’s gonna be missing from “High Tension.” The big deal (for me anyway) is that the tone of the movie will be effected. One minute of blood and guts is a lot of screen time to be trimmed. Especially since Lions Gate has been promoting the film as being a “hardcore slasher flick.” To me the trimming shows no faith on the part of the studio in the horror movie genre or the fans that go see them.
Just think … what would the original “Dawn of the Dead” have been like if Romero has bowed to pressure and originally released the film with an “R” instead of risking releasing it unrated?
There are so many horror films out there that have been trimmed to get an “R” and then released “Unrated” on video. It’s just annoying because LGF has been saying for over a year that the film would be NC-17. I think that I can speak for those of us that have been interested in “High Tension.” The slasher film has been done a bazillion times already. What was going to be so great about “High Tension” was they weren’t gonna edit it. It was gonna get the NC-17 for the violence (and not for any sexual content).
Yeah. I know that eventually we will get it on video. But, it’s just not the same as sitting in a darkened movie theater with a bunch of strangers who are getting the crap scared out of them as well.~
My bet is the majority of the cut will be the severed head / oral sex scene.
Mmmm. Oral sex.
severed head/oral sex???!!! now i’m reeeaaallllly intrested.
i think the problem in chopping the minute of footage, in addition to everything chas has said, is that the film already exists. that is, it’s been relased in its complete, filmmaker approved state in other parts of the world, including its country of origin. what we’ll be getting in north america is an altered version of the flick. sure, the dvd will most likely be intact, but you can only see a movie for the first time once (thought i’d state the obvious).