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Whats scarier than any of the horror movie monsters you can think of? Try the Motion Picture Association (MPA) giving one of their respective movies the dreaded NC-17 rating, where the theater audience will be severely affected. This is what director Wes Craven had to deal with when he made one of his most famous films. By the time he wrapped production on Scream (1996), it was 24 years since he made the brutal The Last House on the Left, which the director also had to re-edit to gain approval from the MPA. In the ’90s, like in the ’70s, the depiction of violence in the horror genre was intensely scrutinized. While Scream is the meta-slasher where Craven again reinvented what the genre could be, it would face an uphill battle due to concerns over how the fake violence could affect the movie’s audience. But the edits the director had to make risked diminishing how fearsome Ghostface could be.
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