In the early 1980's for every holiday there was a slasher flick. Yes 99% of them are not worth re-watching or even remaking. By the time "My Bloody Valentine" was Horror/slasher movies were coming under attack. Paramount a year earlier released "Friday the 13th" and was about to release the sequel "Friday the 13th Part 2". They didn't want a movie they couldn't release.
You'll make cash when your movies slash. That was belief. According to a documentary the MPAA president was mad that PARAMOUNT PICTURES (a major motion picture company) was releasing low budget Canadian made horror movies. The MPAA was cracking down on hard on horror movies.
This led to the producers of "My Bloody Valentine" to cut 9 minutes of gore. To this day it hasn't been seen by the public. "MBV" has a smallish cult following. There is a market however for this movie in its unrated form. Paramount however doesn't release unrated movies. The producers of "MBV" own the deleted footage. That want to release an unrated edition of their movie. But I don't think Paramount will not allow them to buy back the movie. These are the same producers that made the horror movie "Happy Birthday to Me".
It was rumored/reported that the producers wanted to make sequels to these movies using some or all of the deleted footage from the originals. However I herd nothing more of these sequels.
Now what gets me mad is that these movies were rated "R". Children under 17 were not permitted without a parent or adult guardian. However PARENTS again were complaining that these movies were to violent. Well yes they are violent but these movies were not made for children. So why were these parents complaints even valid. These horror movies were made for 17 year olds, not 7 years old. If their child saw these violent movies it was the parents fault not the movie studios.
However the horror movie cycle seem to end when FOX released "PORKY'S". By the following year TEEN SEX COMEDIES replaced horror. Those teen sex movies came under attack from the same people. You have to remember this was the Reagan era.
Now that horror movies are very popular again we are getting remakes of horror movies. This time they are remaking them as PG-13 movies. The reason the studio do this is because a PG-13 rated horror movie called "The Ring" did $130,000,000 at the box office. Horror was back but this time there was no blood and not as fun. Recent horror movies that were rated PG-13 were "When a Stranger Calls" and "The Fog". They were not money makers. They were also remakes. The originals were rated "R". However "The Fog" and "When a Stranger Calls" were released on DVD they came with unrated editions. Those edition out sold their PG-13 Editions.
However the fans of 1980's horror are still waiting for the unrated editions of "My Bloody Valentine", "The Friday the 13th Series", "Halloween VI", "The Burning" and "Happy Birthday to Me". Maybe the new horror movie channel will get the ball rolling and air these movies and others in all their intended & unrated bloody glory!
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