Why All The Squeamishness?

Rating: 8/10 (8 March 2010)

I watched this movie last night on the SyFy channel. I enjoy a good horror/slasher movie now and again and I was quite impressed with this one. A much more elaborate story than you usually get with movies in this genre. So I came to IMDb and slapped an 8 on it.
Then I checked some reviews and saw comments ranging from "impressed with the utter carnage" to "This is an absolutely horrible film that only sick people would watch". Having just watched it on SyFy I wondered how much horror I must have missed due to editing for TV. So I dash up and rent the unrated version (not the R rated) to see all the good stuff I missed.
Silly me. There was about 3 seconds more movie in the unrated version than the version I had just watched on basic cable. One second involving an ankle and two seconds involving puss coming out of a wound. Frankly, the stuff they DID show was much worse than the stuff they DIDN'T. And, of course, they blurred the boobies on cable. Good movie, but I didn't see more gore than has been shown in other movies long before this.
On a side note, how about our American morals? It's OK for kids to see limbs chopped off with a chain saw on basic cable, but by god, don't let them see a woman's breast.