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A New Cut of ‘Amityville: The Awakening’ Receives PG-13 Rating
Back in January Dimension Films committed to a full theatrical release for Amityville: The Awakening, the official new sequel to The Amityville Horror.
Dimension will release the sequel, directed by P2 and Maniac‘s Franck Khalfoun, on April 1, 2016.
There’s been a ton of tinkering going on, but at the time it had received an R-rating by the MPAA for ”for strong horror violence and for language.”
We’ve been told that last week Dimension tested another new cut of the film, and with it comes news that it has been resubmitted and approved for a PG-13 rating for “horror violence and terror, suggestive images, brief language and thematic material.” (Thanks to @leonardvaxx21 for the heads up.)
There’s nothing telling in that information, and typically it’s important for a film to get a PG-13 over an R for better box office results. I’m not a huge fan of a film being pigeon-holed into a rating, but we need to remember that a PG-13 isn’t always bad. Amityville is a supernatural horror film, and the odds that there was something important edited out to receive the PG-13 is slim to none. This isn’t Friday the 13th…
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In Amityville: The Awakening, “Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, McKenna Grace, Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Spreitler, Thomas Mann and Jennifer Morrison star.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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