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Domenick Fraumeni	THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE rating	Lead	[-]
Jun 14 10 3:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I came across a newspaper ad for THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE which had it listed as being rated R, but I've always remembered it as a PG. Was it ever released with an R, then a PG, as was the case with BARBARELLA?
Dr Stinson		#1	[-]
Jun 14 10 4:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sometimes back in the day unscrupulous theater owners in order to attract a more adult audience would give the films playing at their theaters a phony R rating. I came across an newspaper ad once for THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT that listed it playing at drive in theater with an R rating! I am supposing this was the same case with the ad that you found.
Doc Savage		#2	[-]
Jun 14 10 4:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Believe it or not, my dad took me to see Hell House on a double-bill with The Omen!
Domenick Fraumeni		#3	[-]
Jun 14 10 5:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr Stinson wrote: Sometimes back in the day unscrupulous theater owners in order to attract a more adult audience would give the films playing at their theaters a phony R rating. I came across an newspaper ad once for THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT that listed it playing at drive in theater with an R rating! I am supposing this was the same case with the ad that you found. It's a General Cinemas midnight movies ad. Hmmm, must be a misprint or yes, someone being misleading. Doc Savage, that's a great double bill!
thebrainfollower		#4	[-]
Jun 15 10 10:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Teamed up with Blazing Saddles? A double bill that has it all I guess
Babetician		#5	[-]
Sep 9 12 12:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I still have my original newspaper ads for The Legend of Hell House and they both say PG.
Domenick Fraumeni		#6	[-]
Sep 9 12 1:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Discussing the TCM airing this past weekend, it was mentioned that the DVD is softened in three places. Does anyone know why this would happen, if it were PG to begin with, and if the TCM version is more intact?
hermanthegerm		#7	[-]
Sep 9 12 4:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	All I can think of is the shower scene, and even then there isn't much there. "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING
DamienK		#8	[-]
Sep 9 12 5:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The closest they came to nudity is when Pamela Franklin doffs her nightgown, and that's only in shadows. And since nobody in the film dropped the F bomb they got away with a PG rating. Now had they actually filmed the book....
Victor Frankenstein		#9	[-]
Sep 10 12 9:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I can't remember the last time I saw a "PG" movie, and couple that with PG-13 didn't exist then, I couldn't gauge this film well enough. The one scene where I think we hear a ghost couple having sex(without seeing anything) seemed the most possibly 'objectionable' to me, as mild as it was.
BijouBob8mm		#10	[-]
Sep 10 12 12:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Believe it or not, my dad took me to see Hell House on a double-bill with The Omen! Didn't realize HELL HOUSE was still available to see on the big screen by the time THE OMEN came around. Sounds like a cool double bill, Doc! (Always wondered if it was just coincidence that each AIP founder took a crack at producing a haunted house thriller; James H. Nicholson with LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE and Samuel Z. Arkoff with THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.) Teamed up with Blazing Saddles? A double bill that has it all I guess One of the last gasps from one of our local drive-ins was a double bill of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and DANCES WITH WOLVES! Was it ever released with an R, then a PG, as was the case with BARBARELLA? The original movie MAS*H was available on VHS in both PG and R rated editions. Don't know if cuts were made, or if the standards changed and the movie was allowed a tamer rating. (I was always a little puzzled when a number of old Shirley Temple films came to VHS with a PG rating. What was that little moppet up to, anyway?)
hermanthegerm		#11	[-]
Sep 10 12 11:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING
John Bernhard		#12	[-]
Sep 11 12 8:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BijouBob8mm wrote: Was it ever released with an R, then a PG, as was the case with BARBARELLA? The original movie MAS*H was available on VHS in both PG and R rated editions. Don't know if cuts were made, or if the standards changed and the movie was allowed a tamer rating. (I was always a little puzzled when a number of old Shirley Temple films came to VHS with a PG rating. What was that little moppet up to, anyway?) MASH muted the F bomb during the football game and that was all they had to censor to drop from R to PG.
BijouBob8mm		#13	[-]
Sep 12 12 8:58 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, John. Funny, but when the finale of the MAS*H television series aired, our local CBS affiliate ran the show's debut episode back-to-back with it, then had the 11:00 o'clock news, and then aired (with much hype) the complete and uncut feature film. (And sure enough, the F word actually went out over the air...unheard of for one of the Big 3 Networks, especially back then.)
Mark Hodgson		#14	[-]
Sep 18 12 9:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The original UK poster has it as an 'X' (over 16s only!). Black Hole DVD Reviews
Domenick Fraumeni		#15	[-]
Sep 22 12 4:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For those who have the DVD, I don't have it readily available, in the bedroom attack scene, after the nightgown shot, is there any flash of nudity? There is in the TCM version.
DrHoffman		#16	[-]
Sep 22 12 1:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's an interesting post on IMDB calling out three specific scenes which were supposedly cut after the theatrical release. I saw TLOHH when it first came out (I was 13) and definitely don't recall any of these "cut" scenes. It was definitely rated PG when released. If anyone can provide evidence of these mysterious cut scenes, I'd love to see it. (To me, it's kinda suspect that the IMDB commenter points to a Netflix review as "proof" that these scenes exist- but when you actually read the Netflix review, it seems like the same person has written both the IMDB and Netflix comments.)
Domenick Fraumeni		#17	[-]
Sep 22 12 3:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well the PAL DVD, with English and Spanish tracks, is the same cut. There was an HD version out on Xune and maybe I tunes(?). I suspect it would be the same version.
cosmicjim		#18	[-]
Sep 26 12 3:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It was PG in MI where I saw it, co-billed with Rosemary's Baby, which my mom had heard scuttlebutt about a few years earlier, so she didn't want me seeing that one. LOHH is one of those movies I remember almost nothing about. It sure was PG or I couldn't have gotten in the theater. I have radio spots that were used for the MI audience area, and they also said PG.
Jay Maggio		#19	[-]
Oct 15 12 3:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I believe it was PG when Isaw it, some of the dialogue, (Gayle Hunnicuts suggestions to Roddy McDowall, for instance) were kind of risque,but otherwise I think it had more atmosphere, then eroticism.. some spooky moments, (shadows on the wall, always creep me..).eeek
Here 4 help		#20	[-]
Oct 20 12 5:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The original UK poster has it as an 'X' (over 16s only!). Yes - it was X rated in the UK - actually over 18s only (X rating was over 18's from July 1970 onwards)

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