The Curse – The Origin : The prequel becomes clearer
Nearly 50 years after the first film, the saga The curse is preparing to return to the cinema with the prequel The curse: the origin. The story will tell the birth of Damien, who in the first work is adopted by an ambassador and turns out to be the Antichrist. We then follow Margaret, a young nun sent to an orphanage in Rome in the 1970s, where she will discover a conspiracy aimed at giving birth to the incarnation of Evil.
From the first trailer, we understood it The curse: the origin it could be an intense proposition. But sometimes promotional videos are much more powerful than the final result. However, in the case of this next horror film, everything suggests that the audience will have to have a strong stomach. The test with the classification that the film received in the United States, and that could have been even stronger.
In fact, The curse: the origin was classify. This means that children under 17 will need to be accompanied by an adult to see the film in theaters. A rating given due to a “Violent content, macabre/disturbing images and brief graphic nudity“. But according to director Arkasha Stevenson in an interview given to Fangoriathe horror movie it could have been rated NC-17. Or the ban on children under 17, even if accompanied by an adult.
One birth scene was problematic
The reason for this classification, the strongest in the United States, would be a birth scene who would disturb the Film Association (MPA). A visibly intense sequence, but necessary according to the filmmaker, who expressed her opinion on the matter, and which thus clarified the theme of her film around the dehumanization of the female body.
The horror of this situation is the dehumanization of this woman. A year and a half of my life was spent fighting for this plan. Because that’s the whole theme of the movie. It is the female body that is violated from the inside. Because we wanted to talk about female body horror, we had to talk about forced reproduction and we had to show the female body without it being sexualized. I am very proud of this plan.
As the American media point out, the director therefore had to fight to impose this sequence. But she was able to be supported by her producers, David Goyer and Keith Levine, who presented five versions From The curse: the origin to the classification committee before avoiding NC-17. While they managed to keep this scene, it was still necessary reduce it to 13 seconds. But according to David Goyer, the decisions made by the MPA can sometimes be surprising, even unfair.
The film, by its nature, deals with the theme of female body horror. But during negotiations with the classification committee we saw that double standards exist. I think there is more leniency when it comes to male protagonists, especially in body horror.
The manufacturer claims it the birth scene remains”very intense“ and totally in line with the purpose of the film. Furthermore, according to him, the changes made to accommodate the R rating would actually have helped The curse: the origin to be even more powerful. This is promising!
The curse: the origin will be discovered in theaters April 10.
Source: Cine Serie
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