54 Years Later, Banned NC-17 Thriller Masterpiece Extends New Release Due to Popular Demand
The NC-17 rating — once a death knell for films seeking wide release — has found an exception. A range of modern movies — Scream, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Kill Bill, and Wolf of Wall Street — cut or trimmed scenes to keep an R-rating. The reason being that major theater chains would not book a movie with an NC-17 rating. That’s changed recently as the controversial classic, The Devils (1971), has made a surprising theatrical return.
