According to the poster for the movie, it was rated: "PG".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_Creatures
How is this possible since it was released to television, not theaters. According to the "Wikipedia", the movie was released to TV in 1965 and the "PG" rating did not exist for certain theatrical movies until 1972.
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.........It doesn't really matter if a movie was on TV or not. If a movie is shown in a theater the MPAA still insists it have a rating. "Rebel Without a Cause" was made in 1955 and appeared on TV, since the early sixties, but it was rated PG-13 when it was re-released to theaters..........HBO and other pay cable movies usually have MPAA ratings presumably so they can be shown in theaters. Also the MPAA system is more reasonable then the ultra puritanical TV rating system where even PG classics, of the seventies and eighties, like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" are rated TV-MA (seventeen and older)..........."The Eye Creatures" was apparently screened in a theater so it was rated PG. I'm not sure who would pay to see a TV movie like this; long available on the home screen and cheep bin DVDs. I guess there are some theaters with "bad" horror movie nights where the audience talks back to the movie dialogue and throws popcorn at the screen.
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Thanks for the info "andrewwjohnson". It was very informative. So, "The Eye Creatures" was a "made for TV" movie that premiered on television. However, it was shown in theaters several years later and the MPAA gave it a "PG" rating. This makes sense. I seem to recall reading somewhere years ago that "Psycho" ('60) was re-released to theaters in the '70's and was given an "R" rating (by the MPAA).
I posted my question on a different IMDB page (the "Monster" page). One poster gave different information.
The poster said:
"When films are placed on videotape/DVD for purchase (or for video rental stores), they are assigned a rating for parents to see when renting the tape/DVD. That's what happened here."
I guess what the poster was trying to say is when renting/buying movies, parents want to find out more about the content of the films and decide whether they are "family friendly", or not. As a result, many films that premiered before the "MPAA" rating system came out in the late '60's/early '70's are now given current ratings by the companies that release them on DVD.
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Yeah, apperently the world of televsion is still in the grip of the MPAA monster. If only it plyed out in the movies and somone find a way to kill it.
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So if this was a "TV movie", did it have a broadcast date? Was it "syndicated", to be aired at a time of syndicat-ee station's discretion (or perhaps lack thereof)?
shareBoth the IMDB and "Wikipedia" categorize: "The Eye Creatures" as a "Made for TV" movie that aired on television in 1965. However, neither sites mention a broadcast date. :(
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