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Some pg-13 movies pull it off, but theu rely on what all good horror movies rely on: (and i have said this a thousand times before.....)
Atmosphere. The Ring was pg 13. it didnt need gore (no pun intended), or swearing, or nudity, and still managed to be an extremely effective movie.
The scariest parts in the exorcist could easily make it into a tv viewing of it, because it is "Your mother sucks cocks in hell, karras!" that is scary, it's the moaning, the death face, reagan's head rotaing 180 degrees, her face morphoing just before grabbing the psychologit's package, so on.
Jesus, the scariest part of most horror video games is the sound, not the action.
I haoppen to think that an R rating is necesarry for most of them though. Se7en misses way too much of it's atmosphere if swearing is missing. how do you shotw the dirty underside of society without it? And the guy who is forced to kill the hooker? How much impact would that scene have had if he was freaking out and said "He made me screw her!"
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Or John Doe's speeches at the end? Honestly, without the word fuck, what he said would not have had the same impact or show his disgust well enough (Even though it is kevin spacey...)
What would alien be without gore? That movie is alos all about atmosphere, but ther chestburster scene required gore. That is a good, effective use of gore. it was shocking and unexpected. In a lot of other movies (puppet master anyone?) it is there as the POINT of the movie. it didnt push the story foward, it was the sdtory.
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