Scream
Scream is sort of the most infamous horror flick from the 90s when it comes to the MPAA. Wes Craven had to submit the film eight times in order to get the R rating. Just some examples of the cuts according to Wikipedia:
Problematic scenes included the gutting death of Steve Orth (Walls), where he was required to remove any movement of the character’s internal organs; the throat-cutting of Kenny, where he had to trim the end of the scene, as the MPAA felt the actor’s pained expression was too “disturbing”; and they had to shorten the length of time spent viewing the crushed head of Tatum Riley.[9] The MPAA still held issue with a scene from the finale, where the killers (Ulrich and Lillard) stab each other, creating large amounts of visible blood. The MPAA required that the blood could not be seen in motion—falling to the floor from the body.
It doesn’t look like we’ll ever get that unrated cut, but we can still dream, can’t we?
