If you're like me, you often wonder why there aren't more erotic thrillers about car crashes. OK, maybe I don't ever wonder that, but after David Cronenberg's largely forgotten 1996 masterpiece Crash just screened at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles County, it's hard to shake the turnt-up feeling you get after watching the original NC-17 version. Wait, did it get the new MPAA rating because new scenes were since added? No, they were there in the first place, but the producers at the time held the key to the nude scenes that were removed from the finished product in order to get a more audience-suited R-rating — for the sake of box-office success, of course.
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