A lot of titty for PG

A millimeter away? I recall there being plenty of bared chests in the movie, both at Arcane's orgy and then Ms Cable in the swamp. Mayb the one I saw was an uncut version.

I dunno I saw no nipples and it is rated PG. Maybe they have changed the dvd around from the original movie 20 years ago. they seem to do that a lot with old movies for some reason.

RAYLE ARCHIVE I responded a year ago to this issue on another thread, but it evidently got buried and few saw it. So, here is the story once again in a nutshell:

I worked on Swamp Thing as an on-set Effects Technician (fog, fire, bullet-hits) and was present at the filming of both 'nude' scenes that were shot for the film. I had to do 'light fog' floating in front of Adrienne in her bathing scene (it was a closed set at Magnolia Gardens in Charleston, SC; only Wes, the DP, the 1st AD, myself, and another Effects Assist. were present). Two versions were shot --- one for U.S. audiences {Adrienne (in close-up) on her knees underwater with the surface of the water 'above' her breasts}; and one for the overseas release {with Adrienne (in close-up) standing up and the surface of the water 'below' her breasts}. (A side-angle, distant shot of 'partial-nudity' was also filmed that appears in both versions.) I was called in from the swamp a week later to supply 'light cigarette haze' in the interior of the Aiken House (Arcane's Mansion) for the so-called 'orgy' scene. (Neither of these two nude scenes were in the original shooting script --I still have my copy of the script.) When I arrived at the Aiken House (another closed set), I asked Wes why we were filming an 'orgy' scene. He said that United Artists was handling the overseas release of the film, and since the film would get an adult certificate in Europe and South America for the violence (and kids would not be admitted), the UA execs needed something 'adult' to spice it up a bit. (By the way, the girls in the 'orgy' scene were all local Charleston-area strippers hired at the last minute to do the scene. The commando "extras" had not expected to be doing a scene with nude girls, so they got an extra 'thrill'.)

MGM made the goof a couple of years ago when they grabbed the Europeon negative (UA logo instead of Avco-Embassy logo) to release on DVD. I knew when I saw the UA logo exactly what had happened and chapter-stopped down to where I knew the nude scenes would be, and sure enough, there they were. It was amazing to me that it took MGM nearly a full year to realize their mistake and recall the remaining DVDs and then later reissue the original PG version.
By the way, the PG version is how it was originally released in theatres in the U.S. and on home VHS video (which does contain the very-brief, nude, side-long-shot from-a-distance of Adrienne).
I never thought I would see the European version in this country. Glad MGM made the mistake !

Realistically, however, the film works better without the nude footage, as it seems out-of-place in the atmosphere and style of this particular picture. (And, as I said earlier, neither of the two scenes were in the original shooting script anyway.)

Geoffrey Rayle (F/X --Swamp Thing)

i know the 80's were awesome when it came to boobs in movies, I thought it was awesome when i first seen tits in pg13 movies but the pg boob is even sweeter

Yeah the uncut version was the European version that gave viewers a rare glimpse of Adrienne Barbeau's cazongas....I don't know why they figured foreigners deserve a look at them more than Americans but, nevertheless, that's the way it was. They mistakenly started releasing the cazongas version in America with a PG rating on the back. That was a huge error. Or should I say "two HUGE errors?" BA DOOP PAH.

by jeffbirch12 (Sat Jun 7 2008 14:31:55) Ignore this User | Report Abuse
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Well i was watching this last night because i have netflix and I remember there being a cartoon of swamp thing when i was little and i was curious about the movie but anyways, don't you guy think there was a pretty good amount of boobs shown for this to be pg. I mean they had to be about a millimeter away from showing a nipple in the water. I don't really care either way but I thought it was kind of funny. Maybe because its from 82. Also, this movie pretty much sucked but I didn't really expect much ha ha.


My response:


Lol, hilarious! Yeah, there was some serious cleavage on display, but it wasn't going to distract me from my assessment of this movie. This could easily be Wes Craven's worst film he ever directed!











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Another thing to remember is that PG-13 didn't come about until 1984. So you will occasionally find pre-84 PG movies that contain some heavier swearing and some nudity because, while present, they just weren't strong enough to warrant an R rating. I've seen quite a number of PG movies from the early-80s that have at least topless nudity. And not just the blink-and-you-miss it kind.

The VHS tape I got of it years ago had the nude scenes in it. It's not just the dvd.

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