MovieChat Forums > Condenados a vivir (1973) Discussion > Code Red DVD recently come out...

Code Red DVD recently come out...


... and astonishingly, it's kept the R rating. I saw this many years ago and completely forgot all about it until I picked up Robin Bougie's Cinema Sewer - Volume 3 and read an article he wrote about this one in which he makes the - in my opinion - slightly hyperbolic statement:

It nearly approaches the shock level of such infamous Grindhouse classics as Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox, and even - dare I say it - Last House On Dead End Street.
Maybe he's right, but I don't remember it having that impact on me, though one statement the Boug makes that I agree with is how this has been released with its original R rating and even Boug writes that it wouldn't have a "snowball's chance of hell of doing that in today's lame market". Well well, it seems it has.

Definitely going to pick up this one to see if it's a unrelentingly grim and gory as I remember.

The DVD also comes with a bonus feature the Fred Williamson penned Joshua


What we see as spectacle is in fact a ceremony

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I just watched it on the Code Red DVD tonight and it impressed me as being a pretty bleak and nasty movie and I really loved the wintry setting.

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I'm pretty sure they just use the same rating from when it comes out. They don't usually re-rate films because it costs money to submit it again.

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I meant from when the movie originally came out in theaters.

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