Movies rated X/NC-17 or "No One Under 17 Admitted" thread!

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More trivia:
STREET TRASH (1987)
-The manufacturer of Drakes Cakes provided the crew with boxes of snacks.  When they finished with them, they used the empty boxes to fill the fat bum that explodes.
-Star Mike Lackey (Fred) also did make-up for the film and created the prosthetic penis (that appears in the "keep away" scene).
-Co-writer Roy Frunkes cameos as a businessman who gets his face burned under the fire escape.

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD/GATES OF HELL (1980)
-Christopher George and director Lucio Fulci did not get along (Fulci was often short-tempered/impatient).  George was rumored to have pranked Fulci by putting maggots in his pipe/tobacco bag.
-GATES OF HELL is not only the film's alternate title, but is also the name of the trilogy of Fulci's films including CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE BEYOND and HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY.  Catriona MaCColl appeared in all of them.
-Filmed during a very hot summer in triple digits.
-Director Fulci cameos as a doctor examining Emily's corpse.
-Actress Daniela Doria had to consume and then vomit a plate of tripe for her infamous intestine-spewing scene.

A CAT IN THE BRAIN (1990)
-Director Lucio Fulci used footage from 6 other films in this.
-Fulci (who also stars) had his own voice dubbed.
-Much of the film is (loosely) based on Fulci's experiences as a director.

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS/THE INCREDIBLE TORTURE SHOW (1976)
-Originally titled THE INCREDIBLE TORTURE SHOW and rated X.  Troma re-named it BLOOD SUCKING FREAKS in the 80s and dubbed it Unrated.
-Inspired by an actual S&M nude ballet company, as well as the ILSA films' torture scenes.
-A script for a sequel was started but not finished.
-The brain in the brain-sucking scene was comprised of oatmeal.
-Director Joel M. Reed and co-star Luis de Jesus (Ralphus) had been involved with hardcore porn.  Though a dwarf, de Jesus was apparently "big in other departments".

FUTURE-KILL (1985)
-Filmed in Austin with no permits.
-The film poster was designed by H.R. Giger.
-Initially rated X for extreme gore, and slightly edited for an R rating.

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Also:

BENT (1997)
-Rainer Werner Fassbinder was interested in adapting the late 70s play of BENT into a film in the early 80s, but got caught up with other projects. 
-Richard Gere, who played Max in the play, was approached by this film's producers for the same role, but he was busy with other projects (THE JACKAL, RED CORNER).
-Sir Ian McKellen (Freddie) starred as Max in the British production of the play.

CANTERBURY TALES (1972)
-The only film to date involving Geoffrey Chauser's titular tales.
-Released by a United Artists subsidiary called Aidart, in order to distance UA from any ensuing controversy from the film's content.
-The music was scored by Ennio Morricone, who also worked with the film's producer and cinematographer on THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.
-Director Pier Paolo Pasolini plays Chaucer.  At one point he is reading the book The Decameron, which was the previous film in Pasolini's "Trilogy Of Life" series.

THE DAMNED (1969)
-Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite film.
-Real life Nazi war criminal Karl Hass plays an extra in the film.
-Charlotte Rampling plays a mother of an 11-year old daughter, though she was only 22 at the time of the film.
-12 minutes were cut after its initial X-rating in the US.  It was the first X-rated film to eventually air on television (obviously, the edited version).
-B-horror star Al Cliver has a brief appearance (uncredited).
-Based on an actual steel and armament manufacturing family, the Krupps.

DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)
-Director George Romero initially intended a much more nihilistic ending.  Peter would shoot himself and Fran would kill herself via the helicopter blades.
-The 2 zombie children that try to attack Peter are SFX master Tom Savini's niece and nephew.  Ken Foree (Peter) was not told the zombies would be children, and he was upset that he had to "kill" them.
-Filmed at Monroeville Mall, near Pittsburgh.  Shooting took place right after closing till well before it opened.
-The bikers that invade the mall were mostly from an actual motorcycle chapter (Pagans Motorcycle Club) and provided their own bikes.
-The announcer addressing the shoppers on the PA was Romero's then-wife Christine Forrest.  She also plays a couple other minor roles in the film (Romero himself appears as a TV station manager).
-The gun store and the hideout of the protagonists were not part of the mall and had to filmed elsewhere.

THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968)
-The titular character was inspired by a real-life racer, Anka Eve Goldmann, who was a friend of the writer of the book.
-Star Marianne Faithfull was chosen to replace the originally chosen actress, a Playboy centerfold who was fired for a drug overdose.  Faithfull herself would struggle with substance abuse which led to the dissolution of her and Mick Jagger's relationship.
-Filmed in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.
-Many scenes of Faithfull driving on the motorcycle are actually the motorcycle being idle and pulled on a platform by a moving vehicle.  Her stand-in rider was Grand Prix racer Billy Ivy.  Ivy died in a crash the following year.

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Don't Deliver Us from Evil was originally rated X dude to showing adolescent crime and sexuality.  (The actresses were over 18, but they looked a lot younger.)

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Don't Deliver Us from Evil was originally rated X dude to showing adolescent crime and sexuality.  (The actresses were over 18, but they looked a lot younger.)

I don't think it got a US rating (X in the UK and initially banned in its native France).  Looks interesting though!

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More trivia:

SHOWGIRLS (1995)
-Director Paul Verhoeven was the first in Razzie Award history to show up to collect their awards (Worst Director and Worst Picture).
-Denise Richards auditioned for the role of Nomi.  She would star in Verhoeven's next film STARSHIP TROOPERS.
-The failure of this film and CUTTHROAT ISLAND led to distributor Carolco's demise.
-A sequel was planned called BIMBOS: NOMI DOES HOLLYWOOD, but was scrapped after SHOWGIRLS flopped.
-The character Nomi is named after writer Joe Esterhaus' wife Naomi.

THE STREET FIGHTER (1974)
-Though not related to this film, Capcom's video game STREET FIGHTER is named as such to honor it.
-The film fell into public domain after its copyright wasn't renewed.
-Shinichi Chiba was named Sonny Chiba for this film.  He would later add the initials JJ to his name as "JJ Sonny Chiba".  The letters "JJ" stood for "Justice Japan".

SWEARNET (2014)
-Set the world record for most times using the word "f*ck" in a film.
-Released during Labor Day Weekend-- a holiday often spent traveling and not at the movies-- which helped to torpedo the film's box office profits.
-Despite the film's colossal failure, the TV series TRAILER PARK BOYS that it is based on (2001-2007, 2014-18) is scheduled to resume production in 2025 for a 14th season.

TENEMENT (1985)
-John Fasano, who directed ROCK 'N ROLL NIGHTMARE and BLACK ROSES, painted the film's poster.
-Director Roberta Findlay based many aspects of the film on her own experiences growing up in a grimy New York apartment dwelling surrounded by crime/drugs.
-A sample of music from the film DR. BUTCHER, M.D./ZOMBI HOLOCAUST is heard during a scene of drug use.

THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984)
-Marisa Tomei has a bit part.
-At one point during filming a homeless man stole a prop gun and threatened the crew with it.
-Vincent D'Onofrio was set to play Bozo in the film, but wanted more money than the producers were willing to part with, so they fired him.
-The Mexican restaurant in the film called "The Mexican Place" was an actual restaurant with that actual (rather generic) title.

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More:

THE KILLER (1989)
-Director John Woo took inspiration from Martin Scorcese and Sam Peckinpah, and even Spy Vs. Spy from Mad Magazine for his film.
-Producer Tsui Hark was very dissatisfied with the finished film.  He and Woo had several disagreements.
-One of many Woo films featuring doves in a scene.
-Music from the films RED HEAT and HERO AND THE TERROR is used in this film.
-An American remake was planned by Walter Hill but never completed.

DE SADE (1969)
-Keir Dullea's father Robert plays De Sade at the end.
-Roger Corman replaced Cy Endfield as director.
-John Huston worked as a consultant to the producers, and the 1st Assistant Director Alex von Richtofen was a descendant of the German WWI pilot Baron von Richtofen.

THE DREAMERS (2003)
-Lonardo DiCaprio was offered the lead role of Matthew but was busy with THE AVIATOR.  Jake Gyllenhaal screentested for the same role but dropped out over the sexual content.
-Re-creates scenes from TO CATCH A THIEF and SUNSET BOULEVARD.  A scene from the film FREAKS is referenced.
-The scene where Eva's hair catches fire was not scripted.  It actually did catch fire from the candle on the table, when she goes to kiss Matthew goodnight.

EMMANUELLE II (1975)
-The Italian-made BLACK EMANUELLE films starring Laura Gemser (who has an appearance in this film) omitted an "M" from the title so as not to get sued by the French makers of this film.
-Sylvia Kristel developed an eye infection while making this film.
-Director Frances Giacobetti was previously a photographer; this was his only film as director.  He had previously worked with Kristel on nude/fashion shoots.

FEMALE TROUBLE (1974)
-Divine had to take trampoline lessons at a YMCA for the trampoline scene.
-Star David Lochary was to appear in John Waters' next film DESPERATE LIVING (1977), but he died of blood loss under the influence of PCP beforehand.
-During filming of the electric chair scene, Maryland had banned the death penalty.  By the time the film premiered, the death penalty was re-instated.

BONUS!
Due to today being Valentine's Day, the gory scenes that initially caused the MPAA to slap MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981) with an X-rating-- and were included on some home DVD releases-- qualify MBV as a trivia entry.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981)
-Shot in Nova Scotia's Sydney Mines.  Initially chosen by director George Mihalka due to its rustic look.  However, after locals found out it was to be used in a film, they cleaned it up and painted it to look new.  This forced the MBV crew to spend $75,000 to restore it to its rustic/unkempt state.
-Called THE SECRET during filming, which is referenced in the film's final song "The Ballad Of Harry Warden", which plays over the credits.
-The actors in the shower scenes, though shot from above the waist, were genuinely nude.  The water was bitterly cold, and steam was blown in by fans to make it look like the water was hot.
-None of the actors/actresses were told who the killer would be, though Neil Affleck (Axel) figured it out when he saw a severed arm prop for his character.
-Though MBV made more than double its budget, Paramount was disappointed it didn't do remotely as well as its previous slasher FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) and thus turned down a proposed sequel by George Mihalka in 2001.
-Only 3 of the 9 minutes of initially cut footage contains gore; the rest is just expository, according to director George Mihalka.  The 93 minute version of the film is as close as you're going to get to the original vision.
-Neil Affleck would go on to animate/direct in tv in both the US and Canada.

Happy Valentine's Day!

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More trivia:

SANTA SANGRE (1989)
-A family affair: Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the lead actor is his son Axel, another actor playing the lead character's younger self is Alejandro's younger son Adan, and his son Teo plays a pimp.
-The film's writer Roberto Leoni had previously worked in a mental asylum, and patients there with dissociative identity disorder were the inspiration for the lead character Fenix.
-Mexican director Rene Cardona, Jr. (BEAKS: THE MOVIE, TINTORERRA, NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CATS) served as Executive Producer on the film.

TARZOON: SHAME OF THE JUNGLE (1975)
-The comic strip characters Tin Tin and Snowy appear in the film.
-Though a French animated film, it was originally with English-speaking voice actors, with a French-voiced version later released.
-Not originally with "Tarzoon" in the title, as the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of TARZAN) took offense, and it was initially released as just SHAME OF THE JUNGLE.

SHAME (2011)
-The scene where Michael Fassbender's character Brandon is seen peeing was not simulated.
-Fassbender and his co-star Nicole Beharie dated during filming.
-The sex scene with Fassbender and co-star Amy Hargreaves in the Standard Hotel in Manhattan was visible by passengers on the street below.  The nude actors would smile and wave to the shocked public.  The hotel is apparently infamous for purposeful sex in that room's windows where everyone can see.

SUPERVIXENS (1975)
-The "X" rating was self-applied.  It was otherwise Unrated or edited for an R rating.
-Originally director Russ Meyer was going to have his wife Edy Williams in the film, but they split up.  Shari Eubank took her place.
-Colleen Brennan (Super Cherry) detested working with Russ Meyer.
-Meyer, Eubank and Eubank's father all went to the theater to see the film.  Meyer was nervous anticipating her father being disgusted at his daughter's sex/nude scenes, but he stated that he liked the film.
-Made for less than $100,000.

WHORE (1991)
-Ken Russell made this film as a response to the less realistic PRETTY WOMAN.
-Writer David Hines had worked as a cabdriver and heard stories from prostitutes he picked up, forming the basis of this film.
-Sequel: WHORE 2 (1994).  A clip of the film HIGH STAKES appears in this film, whose director helmed WHORE 2.

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Still more:
MANIAC (1980)
-The crew did not always have the proper permits to shoot in New York, and would often shoot then leave quickly before they could be caught.
-Porn actresses were sometimes hired as extras/bit parts to keep costs down.
-Lead actor Joe Spinell, director William Lustig and producer Andrew W. Garroni had all worked in adult films.  Another producer on the film, Judd Hamilton, was then married to lead actress Caroline Munro (she was given the role as a favor for Hamilton's financial backing).
-Spinell wore a wig and/or fake moustache in some scenes, as he cut his hair short for his scenes in NIGHTHAWKS.
-A sequel was planned and a promo was released, but the project fell through when Spinell died.
-The Hotel St. James, where Spinell's character kills a prostitute, was the same location for a real-life murder of a prostitute earlier.
-The headless dummy of Pamela Voorhees from FRIDAY THE 13TH appears near the end.  SFX artist Tom Savini's dummy of himself whose head gets blown off was also used in DAWN OF THE DEAD, and was nicknamed "Boris".  It was retired after MANIAC, and put in the trunk of the car in the scene and sunk in the East River.

2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK (1983)
-Originally rated X by the MPAA and later cut for an R release or released with the NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED blurb.
-In the early 1990s, lead actor Michael Sopkiw entered a video store and the clerk immediately recognized him, stating he was a huge fan of this film.  The clerk was a young Quentin Tarantino.
-The weapon Jane Fonda used in BARBARELLA looks exactly the same as what the government guards use in this film.

BLONDE (2022)
-Cuban actress Ana de Armas had to wear a blonde wig, dental implants and blue contact lenses to look like Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jean.  She also had to spend a long time ditching her accent to sound more like Monroe.  Her singing voice is dubbed.
-As was the case of many films around 2020, production was long-delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
-The Hollywood exec who rapes Marilyn is based on real-life exec Darryl Zanuck, who was infamous for sexual harassment toward actresses.
-Nominated for an Academy Award (de Armas for Best Actress), yet also won Worst Picture at the Razzies.

CARNE (1968)
-Lead actress Isabel Sarli was the long-time lover of director Armando Bo.  She has a sex scene with his son Victor in the film, but he had been around her nude before, so they did not feel uncomfortable during the shoot.
-Sarli's nickname is "Coca" due to her love of Coca-Cola.
-The rape scene among the meat carcasses at the meat-packing plant was enough to largely turn Sarli off from eating meat.  The plant in the film was owned by a friend of the director.

EVIL DEAD (2013)
-Bruce Campbell was not initially enthused about the film until he learned it was to have an all-new cast of characters.  He lends a cameo post-credits, saying "Groovy".
-A good portion of the movie was filmed in New Zealand.
-Practical effects were largely used in lieu of CGI as to mirror the budget constraints of the 1981 original.  Some characters are dressed to reflect the same time period.
-The backstory of the character Natalie was almost completely cut out.

[Trevor]

I think the 2023 movie I was in should have an X rating or at least a "No one will be admitted to this movie" warning 😳😉🐢

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I think the 2023 movie I was in should have an X rating or at least a "No one will be admitted to this movie" warning 😳😉🐢

Which movie?

[Trevor]

I think the 2023 movie I was in should have an X rating or at least a "No one will be admitted to this movie" warning 😳😉🐢

Which movie?

This one: me at 0:48       


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MKdbk2uuI

[retrorussell]

I think the 2023 movie I was in should have an X rating or at least a "No one will be admitted to this movie" warning 😳😉🐢

Which movie?

This one: me at 0:48       


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MKdbk2uuI

Oh wow, no kidding!  Was the 1973 film especially violent or anything, or was ALL the controversy due to an all-black cast (oh heavens!)??

[Trevor]

I think the 2023 movie I was in should have an X rating or at least a "No one will be admitted to this movie" warning 😳😉🐢

Which movie?

This one: me at 0:48       


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MKdbk2uuI

Oh wow, no kidding!  Was the 1973 film especially violent or anything, or was ALL the controversy due to an all-black cast (oh heavens!)??

I'm not sure what kind of threat that movie posed to the apartheid censor board or the government as it is a [very] poor man's version of SHAFT. I met Ken Gampu a few years ago and he said that he didn't like the film because he never got paid for it and the filmmakers used his popularity to promote the film.

Joe Bullet was screened twice, the film was seized, banned, then unbanned and then sent to the SA Film Institute for immediate destruction. Thankfully the people there did not comply with that order (they did this with many films) and it still exists today and can be seen on YouTube. 😊🐢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGFTGDmzcEU

[retrorussell]

I think the 2023 movie I was in should have an X rating or at least a "No one will be admitted to this movie" warning 😳😉🐢

Which movie?

This one: me at 0:48       


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MKdbk2uuI

Oh wow, no kidding!  Was the 1973 film especially violent or anything, or was ALL the controversy due to an all-black cast (oh heavens!)??

I'm not sure what kind of threat that movie posed to the apartheid censor board or the government as it is a [very] poor man's version of SHAFT. I met Ken Gampu a few years ago and he said that he didn't like the film because he never got paid for it and the filmmakers used his popularity to promote the film.

Joe Bullet was screened twice, the film was seized, banned, then unbanned and then sent to the SA Film Institute for immediate destruction. Thankfully the people there did not comply with that order (they did this with many films) and it still exists today and can be seen on YouTube. 😊🐢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGFTGDmzcEU

Cool!  Will have to watch it in its entirety sometime.