I don't normally rant about stuff like this on here but this is IMPORTANT!!!!!
Would you believe this:
This HORROR film is........ did you catch that......is RATED G! Yep. General, suitable for viewing by all ages.
Guess what else! It is on Netflix right now! (Update, they have since changed the rating to not rated despite the fact that many other companies have rated it R). Yep. Your child whom you think is safe because you put all those parental controls onto your TV's and devices may have already selected this and watched it. Boom! Easy as that, because you guessed it. It has a G rating. Even though it is listed in the HORROR section!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE:
I would also LOVE IT if you would CALL NETFLIX CUSTOMER SERVICE (1-888-811-9842) and tell them like I did that despite the GENERAL RATING of this movie by the MPA (see info below) that they have a moral and even possibly a legal responsibility to either re-rate this movie themselves or to choose NOT TO CARRY IT in their movie selections to protect their customers from accidental viewing by their children!
I myself am and artist, I completely understand free speech, freedom to create HOWEVER this is plain absolute NEGLIGENCE on THEIR PART to have NOT RATED this movie appropriately. They (at least someone should!!!) have a responsibility to the public to appropriately rate films for the protection of young children and to see them put a rating saying that this is appropriate viewing for ALL AGES, You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. I am going to make it a personal VENDETTA to make sure that I post everywhere I possibly can to ask people to LET THE APPROPRIATE PARTIES KNOW JUST WHAT THEY THINK of the rating system. Sick, disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, garbage like that, in my opinion, should not even be produced let alone viewed.
UPDATE. I checked out Jen's link and sure enough that link associated with the mpaa says it is rated R HOWEVER, When I spoke to Netflix they in fact said that it was rated G and that I should contact the mpaa........ also, if you go into itunes to actually purchase it, not just google it, you get that screen above, rated G. So I wanna know now if it was rated incorrectly and they have since changed it but itunes and Netflix are unaware of it.
Another update. I have in fact heard back from mpa-Canada and they advised that they did give this movie and 18-A rating but it seems that because this movie was produced by an independant film company IFC films and Six Entertainment " Neither IFC Films or Six Entertainment is a member of MPA-Canada, nor do they participate in the Canadian Home Video Rating System. "
So it seems that there is some kind of loop hole where some film companies don't have to participate in the ratings systems and it is thier responsibility to appropriately rate them themselves! The representative who emailed me is going to make sure I know where I need to focus my attention to perhaps change policy here.
I want to share this comment the representative sent to me:
"If we can provide any further assistance to you to ensure your complaint reaches the appropriate people please let us know. We share your concerns and firmly believe that classifications need to be a tool that parents can rely on to ensure that their children are seeing age appropriate content."
Will keep you posted.
