Originally NC-17 Rated

It was submitted 4 times before the MPAA gave it an R rating.

The movie was rated NC-17, mostly due to the scene where Bateman has a three-way with 2 prostitutes. The scene was trimmed by 18 seconds to get an R rating.

40 seconds of the film had to be cut to get an R rating.

Was originally rated NC-17, but was slightly edited in order to get an R.

It was originally rated NC-17 for being too violent. Almost every death scene had to be altered in some way in order to get the film to be rated R.

It was originally rated NC-17, which Tom Green described as "porn with murder." It was edited to get an R.

Was originally rated NC-17, but after the torture scenes got cut a couple of frames, and some implications of pedophilia were cut, it got an R rating.

Was originally rated NC-17 for sexuality, but after trims, it got an R rating.

Had to be sent to the MPAA 10 times before they avoided the NC-17 rating. They requested that Wes Craven make lots of cuts, and at one point Wes Craven lied to the MPAA that the opening Barrymore scene had only one take, and thus couldn't be edited. Eventually Bob Weinstein had to step in and personally told them not to view the film as a straight up slasher film, but as a satire of the genre. They reconsidered and very quickly gave it an R rating.