Horror?

There's a little more gore in the unedited version (you get to see Happy's left eye, I believe, being gorged-out with the pick-axe from behind). The girl who killed with the spike from the shower head is more graphic, as is the lady's death in the laundromat, and the others. This is considered a "Slasher" film. Which is a sub-genre of horror. But I agree that it's more thrilling than horrifying.

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How did this get an R rating

Having lived through the time I can offer my own perspective as to this.

In the 1970s the MPAA had started to get real lax on the ratings and a lot of violence and even some T n A could be seen in PG rated movies. (The original "Logan's Run" comes to mind.) By the time "My Bloody Valentine" came out the MPAA had received significant backlash and had begun tightening standards. By the time "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" barely achieved a PG rating in 1984 it was seen that the new prudishness of the MPAA was hurting the bottom line of films. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas successfully lobbied the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating. Had the PG-13 rating existed when "My Bloody Valentine" was released it surely would have qualified for that rating.

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