People tend to fall into three separate groups where Borowczyk is concerned:
1) People who've never heard of him;
2) People who've only seen or heard of films like Immoral Tales and The Beast, and so pigeonhole (and often dismiss) him as a soft-porn/horror filmmaker;
3) People who have seen a wide cross-section of his work, and know that he's one of the most original and innovative European filmmakers of the past half-century.
Naturally, group (3) is by far the smallest - but it includes people like Terry Gilliam and the Quay Brothers.
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