http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thehillshaveeyes/trailera/
I just read on IMDB how the remake was submitted to the MPAA and immediately got slapped with an NC-17 and it looks like it's violent enough that it'll need a lot of cuts to get an R rating... which was also true of High Tension. Aja is bringing the edge back to horror films, he's a man to watch. Even Craven - who served as a producer - is fully behind the remake.
From IMDB:
"According to producer Wes Craven, the remake of The Hills Have Eyes is more shocking, intense and gory than his original 1977 horror classic - enough that the MPAA have given it the dreaded NC-17 rating. "It's a very strong picture and we're trying to figure out what to do with that, without ruining it. We have to deliver an R rating," Craven has told Empire Magazine. The original film featured a grueling sequence where the family is attacked in their trailer; this remains in the remake. "The attack in the film was horrible, but it was over fairly fast. This one goes on almost ten full minutes. It's fairly faithful to the original, but (director Alexandre Aja) added other things that also make it worse, what's happening to these people. It's protracted. It's a long, slow process rather than being a chaotic, relatively fast process. It's just too much for people that have to rate it, by a mile." Craven confirmed that Aja is still cutting the movie, but says "We can put it all full strength on the DVD, though. We'll be able to do that."
I just read on IMDB how the remake was submitted to the MPAA and immediately got slapped with an NC-17 and it looks like it's violent enough that it'll need a lot of cuts to get an R rating... which was also true of High Tension. Aja is bringing the edge back to horror films, he's a man to watch. Even Craven - who served as a producer - is fully behind the remake.
From IMDB:
"According to producer Wes Craven, the remake of The Hills Have Eyes is more shocking, intense and gory than his original 1977 horror classic - enough that the MPAA have given it the dreaded NC-17 rating. "It's a very strong picture and we're trying to figure out what to do with that, without ruining it. We have to deliver an R rating," Craven has told Empire Magazine. The original film featured a grueling sequence where the family is attacked in their trailer; this remains in the remake. "The attack in the film was horrible, but it was over fairly fast. This one goes on almost ten full minutes. It's fairly faithful to the original, but (director Alexandre Aja) added other things that also make it worse, what's happening to these people. It's protracted. It's a long, slow process rather than being a chaotic, relatively fast process. It's just too much for people that have to rate it, by a mile." Craven confirmed that Aja is still cutting the movie, but says "We can put it all full strength on the DVD, though. We'll be able to do that."
