Have you seen the HALLOWEEN teaser trailer by chance? Oh crap. You should not have done that. The MPAA – who have taken a noticeable stance recently on horror adverts (see the CAPTIVITY fiasco) – has deemed the teaser all 8 million of you have already seen too violent for your tender sensibilities, and are requiring that all sites hosting the teaser make it available ONLY after 9pm. That’s right. If you’re 40 years old, living in a squalid, roach-infested one bedroom apartment, and your main occupation is looking at explicit, unthinkably degrading pornography all day, you’re still too delicate to handle the teaser for HALLOWEEN in the afternoon/early evening hours.
What exactly is so bad about the trailer? Sure, a little kid touches his sister’s leg, threatens a rat (with a nail file?), batters someone’s brains in with a baseball bat (OFF screen), we get a few glimpses of Laurie Strode running/limping, and some gratuitous shots of Michael Myers breaking through a wall and a window – but is it truly worse than any of the other trailers we see on a weekly basis? How bout when HOSTEL II informs you that torturing an American girl will cost more than lighting a fire under a Russian dude’s ass?
Is this a knee-jerk reaction? Or are young children – having watched and been hypnotized by the trailer – wearing silly-yet-off-putting masks and unceremoniously offing their too-hot-for-comfort siblings? If so, I haven’t read that article, please send it to me.
Personally, I think the CAPTIVITY thing raised the hairs on someone’s neck, and now we’re being subjected to a short period of extra-careful tiptoeing around supposedly harmful movie imagery/advertising. Don’t be surprised if flicks such as HOSTEL II have to undergo similarly strict “don’t scare us too much!” regulations in the near future…
We’ll all become depraved, mute serial murderers on August 31, when Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN is released.
ORRRRR…. you can become that depraved lunatic right now by watching the teaser below! Just cover your eyes during the parts you think the MPAA wouldn’t want you to see (like that close-up of Malcolm McDowell’s face. *shudders*).
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