TERRIFIER 3 Banned to Minors Under 18 in France
If you're under the age of 18 in France and you were itching to see Terrifier 3 in the cinemateques, looks like you're shit outta luck.
The Classification Committee over in France has recommended a ban on the film for minors under 18. Well, not a ban as it's been put out there but an age appropriate rating on the film, the equivlant of an NC-17 here in North America, the death knell for distributors.
This means, according to the film's distributor, that tens of thousands of fans (read ticket sales) will not be able to watch the third installment of the extreme horror franchise in cinemas.
The distributor is crying foul about it, deploring the decision as they put it. They're talking about defending "free, creative and radical genre cinema" and that "Restricting access to audiences will always be a serious decision with a disturbing message, isolating authors and distancing them from their public" but we all know why they're upset, bums in seats.
Come on, we can see through this sanctamonious twiddle. I'm not taking the committee's side on this one. Just. We can see you what you're doing, we know what you're really crying about. Lost revenue. You also don't buy an extreme horror film like Terrifier 3 and act surprised that someone in the governing body has objections to it being shown to children.
Distribution deals vary but typically distributors get about half of the ticket sales. Take tens of thousands of unsold tickets, divided by half? That's a lot of lost dough out of the distributor's pockets. Hopefully for them, bitching about it draws more attention to the theatrical release from more than just the diehard fans.
As one friend in distribution put it, free marketing.
In the wake of Damien Leone’s slasher sequel Terrifier 3 making waves over in the United Kingdom after multiple people walked out of the premiere, the Classification Committee over in France is drawing a line and quite literally banning minors from seeing Terrifier 3.
A first for the horror genre since the release of director Darren Lynn Bousman’s Saw 3 back in 2006, the Classification Committee in France has recommended a ban on the film for minors under 18.
This particular rating is very rarely used, and it’s the equivalent of the MPA’s NC-17 rating here in the United States. In the States, Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters fully UNRATED.
The film’s French distributors tell Bloody Disgusting, “We can only deplore this unexpected final decision, which will seriously hamper the release of the film, awaited by tens of thousands of French viewers and scheduled for October 9 (and of course maintained). Terrifier 3 is a film d’auteur in the purest tradition of the slasher genre, with perfectly “grand-guignolesque” and unrealistic violence. The film never takes itself too seriously, and we know that viewers will have the necessary distance and maturity to understand and appreciate this artistic approach.”
“In addition, for over 2 years now, we’ve been working daily and tirelessly to defend free, creative and radical genre cinema, systematically acclaimed by the press and audiences alike,” the teams continued. “The audience for these films, even teenagers, is a passionate cinephile, respectful of the works and the cinemas that show them.
“The history of genre cinema, its excesses and outrages, is intimately linked to the history of cinema itself. Restricting access to audiences will always be a serious decision with a disturbing message, isolating authors and distancing them from their public.”
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