10 Best PG-13 Horror Films
8. Drag Me to Hell
From the sublime and sad to the agreeably ridiculous and anarchically madcap...
Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi’s funhouse horror comedy Drag Me To Hell doesn't pull any punches despite its rating, and it's actually a surprise the filmmakers secured the kid friendlier PG-13 in the first place.
The darkly funny story sees Big Fish's Alison Lohman star as a mild mannered bank teller who simply can't see why she should be cursed for evicting an old lady unable to pay her mortgage, and the flick's anarchically gory and gleefully sick satire sees her reduced to gradually darker depths to shake this hex.
Cue all manner of kitten-sacrificing, human eyes appearing in slices of cake, an anvil to the head worthy of the Looney Tunes, and so much vomit (including a puked up cat which viewers really didn't see coming). Somehow, despite this violent and gruesome EC-comics-inspired fun and a hysterically brutal ending, the film somehow managed to wrangle a PG-13 rating upon release.
Maybe someone in the MPAA was annoyed at bankers. Anything happen around 2009 to prompt that?