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Old 03-21-2012, 09:51 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I've admittedly never seen any of the more violent pre-code films, but how much more profane/violent were they than the films made after? Any really big differences?
they weren't graphic, but the innuendo and insinuation were pretty bad, there was something akin to "torture" porn in The Black Cat (1934), with talk of flaying and stripping flesh to bone

compare that with horror movies made under the Hays Code - which were often just usage of shadows or monsters that would only frighten children
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