10 Smutty Movies Which Somehow Got Rated PG In The 1980s

9. Ghostbusters (1984)

There are of course any number of grounds on which director Ivan Reitman's supernatural comedy classic would almost certainly be slapped with nothing less than a 12A/PG-13 today. The scares (though comparatively mild next to those of the same year's Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) are fairly intense, and there's the small matter of the scientists swearing like sailors - not to mention all that smoking, which our heroes aren't generally allowed to do these days. But there are at least two key sexual moments that, by today's standards, would surely obliterate that PG rating faster than crossing the streams. First off, there's the brief dream sequence in which Dan Aykroyd appears to be getting a blow job from an invisible woman; then, of course, there's Sigourney Weaver's eye-opening transformation from the reserved Dana Barrett to the intensely provocative Zuul, AKA the Gatekeeper (awaiting the Keymaster - and you don't need a PhD in Freudian psychology to figure that one out). Her overt sexuality alone would have today's censors on their toes, but lines like "I want you inside me" and "take me now, subcreature" would surely send them flying.