Today when I see PG13 attached to any horror movie it automatically becomes a non watch I come from the Rob Bottin Tom Savini prosthetics mannequin blood packs PG13 era lol
As a 10yr old girl raised on horror, Temple of Doom and Gremlins was like heaven for me! 1984 was one of THE best years for classic and fun horror, done by smart and talented people. I was all for them! Tho do admit, Doom was indeed a spiritually dark vibe...but still watched it A LOT. I was obsessed with Dreamscape, I cant tell you how many times I watched that movie...along with Night of the Comet. Ghoulies, to this day is one of my all time favorite horror classics...again watched a million times over! Every film you mentioned here I could go on and on about for days! Thanks for the streamline!!! ❤️ Great list!! 👍
Damn 1984 Was A great Year For A lot Of Movies GHOSTBUSTERS, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, THE TERMINATOR, GREMLINS, AND GHOULIES. It's A Shame I Wasn't Born In '84 I Was Born In '87 And I Had To Wait TIll All Of These Movies Came Out On TV Years Later. P.S. JOBLO Can You Cover The Movie Skinner (1993).
No no i dont see it as an excuse to be lazy. I see it as an entry way, to get younger people into the horror genre. My all time favorites from my childhood were PG13 movies that were dark comedies like Beetlejuice, Gremlins and even Ghostbusters scared me when I was little. Even giving me nightmares. But they are still very much beloved by me and always will be. My official first horror was Scream in the mid 90s and I was still under 13. My parents also showed me Army of Dakrness around that time, my sisters and I enjoy that one a lot. :)
I always find it odd on people complain about Temple being so violent! Yes, it is quite a bit darker then the first, but Raiders is so much gorier! I mean look at the climax of that film.
The reason for that is that the gore and the bleak, dark tone permeated throughout the whole film of Doom. While Raiders' gore and darkness were backloaded in the final minutes of its climax. Plus, nobody cares about Nazis getting annihilated in a gory fashion.
FUN FACT: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the film that sparked the PG13 rating, specifically the scene where they are eating dinner. By todays standards it would be seen as a joke, how times have changed.
Troll (the first one only!) is an entertaining film, lol. But, yeah, I get it. When I see PG13 attached to a horror film, I roll my eyes out of wariness. Thanks for another supreme edition of this series.
Another fantastic episode in this excellent series! With respect to ratings, I am also interested to learn more about what led to the creation of the "AA" rating ("Adult Accompaniment" for kids under 14 years) and "NC-17" (which I believe was originally "X").
hi there dear, I love this series so keep it up....one small note not related, I really like Italian horror so why don't you cover these as well. Many thanks and God bless!
I see the PG13 rating as an entry way, to get younger people into the horror genre. 😊 My all time favorites from my childhood were PG13 movies that were dark comedies like Beetlejuice, Gremlins and even Ghostbusters scared me when I was little. Even giving me nightmares. But they are still very much beloved by me and always will be. My official first horror was Scream in the mid 90s and I was still under 13. My parents also showed me Army of Dakrness around that time, my sisters and I enjoy that one a lot. 😁
In the 80’s my dad had a prank war with the lady who owned our local video store. To get back at him, about once a month she would switch one of our movies out for “Troll” in the case of the movie we actually wanted. I could not tell you how many times we watched that stupid movie. At the time we were 30 miles from town and you couldn’t get cable out there, so you just watched what he came home with and he would drop them off on his way to work the following Monday.
Dude, me too!!! I begged my dad to rent it for me, when i was only 3 or 4, & it absolutely scared the shit outta me! Scared me so bad, that i begged my dad to turn it off, right at the part, where Sonny Bono's character starts transforming, lmao!! I didn't even finish the movie, until i caught it on tv, many years later, when i was 19! I now own it on dvd, a rare copy autographed by Charles Band.
@@dr.snakesThe PMRC was nothing more than politically motivated showboating. Today's clueless, entitled, inept, whole-grain, half-caff, grass-fed, social media-obsessed generation is a disease. These clown-haired, flag-waving buffoons are too stupid to boil water and only rant about social justice and such for internet attention. Take that away from them and they are nothing and amount to nothing.
Not quite how I remember it, but sure bro...nobody cried about shit that didn't concern them in the 80s. No satanic panic, no stranger danger, no fear of rap or punk or metal, no militarization of the "pro-life" movement, no queer fear defense, no AIDS/HIV related politics...
The clever thing they do in Temple of Doom where you think they're being eaten by croccodiles , the horrifying imagery is created in your mind by you. Okay having your heart ripped out by Muderam is a bit more graphic than I remember . But it actually lacks the blood and guts that I remember some how. That must be a creation of my mind. That's probably no accident.
Holy crap I've never heard of Runaway. Ghoulies is one of those movies you expect to be gorey, because the creatures are grotesque, but I remember it being pretty tame.
Animals eating humans onscreen. Severed body parts. Dude's heart torn from his chest (somehow bypassing his ribcage). Human sacrifice incinerated alive. The best part is that both Jaws and Temple of Doom are *still* rated PG. 😁
I know that Temple of Doom & Gremlins were the main cause of the PG-13 but i think Cloak & Dagger is too. A Hitchcockian thriller for kids lol what a time to have been alive
My dad took me to see it in the theater, I rented it later on and my mom was appalled with the kids in peril element and had forbidden us from renting it again
I was lucky enough to see Indian Jones 2 on the big screen... I'm OK... Sort of!. I was 5 when I seen that but the 1st film I ever seen, was ET at 3 yoa. Wat a brilliant time to be alive... Sort of!.
❤✌️I think the movie "They Live" with Roddy Piper WWF wrestler came out too in 1984 with PG13 rating. Gremlins. Return to Oz😮oh that was only PG. Still Dark and Scary, Creepy Cool ✌️💞Horror 1982 film One Dark Night, with Meg Tilly only has a PG rating and really should be PG13, it's Scary!! 🎉
12A (UK) was the worst thing to happen to a dedicated hard core horror fan, when studios would apply "Bums on Seats" logic to water down movies to attract more people, I come from the view if a film series is meant to be horrific then just lower the budget and give us what we want, not compromised watered down rubbish that satisfies no one, I like 18 (NC-17) movies.
I love dune 2021 and I love lynch dune;) pg13 is no surprise for that one. lots of horrible looking things and people, the baron is a horror monster, the navigator is revolting, lots of homoerotic undertones, sting gets stab through the chin, a lot of people get knifed and do a good job of dying people by knife, paul´s hand getting cooked by the witch
I was born in the 83 but obviously remember the 90's more and here in the UK at the time we had 5 ratings. U (universal) for everyone PG generally for everyone but some scenes may be unsuitable for children so Parental Guidance needed 12 Suitable for 12 and above 15 same as above 18 for 18 and above only. I was allowed to watch films from all of these ranges growing but for the more adult rated films my parents had to watch them first.
I was born in '72, and I could rent any certificate from when we got our first VHS around '82 so when I was 10, the rental stores did not give a monkeys here in the UK then ... Evil Dead (My favour), Dawn of the Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Friday 13th, and I did not turn out bad, I've only killed a couple of people .... haha
1984 nightmare fuel of a book but a surprisingly excellent year for entertainment Orwell was off by a few years but he wasn't wrong about a tyrant government
Can you do a video on Hard R, Hard PG-13 80s movies? I remember watching Sixteen Candles with my child daughter and I heard the F word and I think I saw boobs. I think it was PG at first right?
Yeah I dont like Jaws Revenge either. I think it was unnecessary brutal how they killed off the younger Brody kid Shawn. He didnt deserve that fate after what he went through in Jaws 2. Like come on! :(
