David Slade on Eclipse’s Rating and Violence

In a new interview with FEARnet, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse director David Slade reveals what the movie was able to get away with, action and gore-wise, and what the MPAA told them they couldn’t do without getting an R rating:

It wasn’t that hard [to get a PG-13 rating]. We have like six decapitations in Eclipse! We smash people’s heads off, bite people’s heads off, I mean — I was amazed we got the rating we did, the MPAA only threw back one thing: we had this one part in the battle where Emmett just tears someone’s face off. The face kind of breaks off into pieces of crystal that shatter. I was like, ‘Whoa, yeah!’ But the MPAA said ‘No, you can’t do that.’ So the shot’s still in there, but you don’t see the face come off, you just see little bits of stuff breaking off.