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- From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
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- Subject: Re: Braindead (More Awards, Info on US, French release)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.100613.13452@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:06:13 +1300
- References: <1993Jan25.113556.8211@actrix.gen.nz> <16B628009.PETERC@YaleADS.CIS.Yale.Edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <16B628009.PETERC@YaleADS.CIS.Yale.Edu>, PETERC@YaleADS.CIS.Yale.Edu (Peter Correnty) writes:
- > I had the opportunity to buy BRAINDEAD on videotape at Fangoria's
- > Weekend of Horrors ... but passed it up because I knew nothing about
- > the film. It was reportedly the uncut version. I was able to squeeze
- > through the crowd and see the opening hand-severing scene. Now I'm
- > kicking myself for not buying it. Do you know if the US release will
- > be the uncut version? I suspect we'll get an R-rated version along
- > with that stupid retitling.
- >
- > Thanks... -Pete.
-
- I find this a little amusing. In New Zealand BRAIN DEAD was released, if
- memory serves, with an "R 16" rating, which, not surprisingly, means you
- had to be 16 to see it. There was relatively little fuss over the
- censorship, presumably because it was a "comedy" and a New Zealand one at that.
-
- A few weeks earlier, however, our chief censor had decided to ban - out right -
- HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. This was the first "main stream" film
- banned in this country in a very long time, and the decision caused something
- of an uproar, although not as loud a one as there should have been in my
- opinion (I did my bit in a small way). The appeal against the censorship
- ruling was turned down, and for the most pathetic reasons imaginable (I talked
- to the woman who headed the appeals board - an alleged academic from my own
- university).
-
- As several newspaper editorials pointed out these two rulings, taken together,
- had very little consistency, to say nothing of the fact that SILENCE OF THE
- LAMBS (which it can be argued glamorises Lector) was released without a single
- protest.
-
- I find it somehow sickly funny that the USA has reversed the process with
- regard the Jackson/McNaughton films. Perhaps a little national prejudice is
- always involved in these supposedly "moral" decisions.
-
- Richard.
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