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- From: kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec)
- Subject: Re: MOST GROSS MOVIE EVER AWARD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.190624.25486@agouron.com>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:06:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.165416.17474@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
- donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
- |>
- |> It wasn't sent to the MPAA because Reed couldn't afford to pay the fee.
- |> It was only shown in three theaters in America. At a midnight show in
- |> New York, it was picketed by Feminists, and removed. At a theater in
- |> St. Paul, Mn., it was picketed by Parents and removed. At a showing
- |> in San Francisco, it was picketed by Feminists and fundamentalists, and
- |> the print was stolen from the theatre and burned in a trashcan in front of
- |> the theatre.
- |>
- |> Why is it deemed so offensive by some? Probably because the only women in
- |> the film are crazed savages who have reverted to primitivism, and they are
- |> always nude. Sure there is a ballerina character, but she too is just a
- |> plaything of the men, and she is drugged and tortured until she too is
- |> half crazed. The Men are definately in control with this film.
- |>
- |>
- |> Regardless, this is a film made for almost nothing, that is still being
- |> watched and discussed years later. Joel Reed hit the nail on the head, and
- |> by giving audiences something they couldn't get from Hollywood, he deserves
- |> his <admittedly minor> place in Cinema History. He has done several other
- |> films, but nothing this noteworthy.
- |>
- |> Have a New Year!
- |> Pax
- |> --Judex--
- |>
-
- I saw Blood Sucking Freaks ("BSF" to me and my projectionist buddy) at an
- Austin, Texas drive-in theater somewhere around 1985 or so. Truly memorable
- even through a beer haze.
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