A scene of Venom biting off somebody’s head and eating their brains certainly qualifies as dark, violent, and vicious, though how you portray that in a way that still feels dark and violent but also fits within a PG-13 rating is beyond me.
Early reports indicated that the Venom movie would follow in the footsteps of Deadpool and Logan and become an R-rated superhero movie.
We know how many F-words you can use in a PG-13 movie (one) but has anybody figured out how many brains you can consume before getting an R-rating?
Reuben Fleisher’s comments to Comicbook.com give us some indication of what specifically we might see that will run up against the limits of the rating.