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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  Do we need this debate again? |
Not a debate, only an observation and as companies are presently releasing these type of films again, relevant to the topic. Kierarts had the most pertinent response along the lines of, "There are plenty of other films they could release." Everyone knows these titles are aimed at a small niche of cult film collectors, and being so, are nit picky bastards that always want the most complete uncut version available. Every time one of these films comes out everyone knows the most asked question will be, "Is it uncut?" before shouting loudly that they will refuse to buy it. So why put out titles they know will never pass the censors when it is as Kierarts said? Guess there is no such thing as bad publicity, eh?
And all this claptrap about stuff that was just happening at the time or slaughter versus torture is bollocks! It's an excuse to excuse the inexcusable. Try saying that fast 5 times... I first saw Deodato back in the early 90's and when he spoke about Cannibal Holocaust he explained that the animal violence was a device to shock the audience so that when the human "deaths" occurred they would appear more shocking due to the state of mind of the viewer who had been primed by the previous. Fast forward 20 years with changed attitudes and suddenly there are a wealth of reasons to justify the footage.
Take Argento, the lizard pinned to the wall, wriggling. Is it Deep Red, I'm just doing this from memory? BBFC had a problem with it anyway, Dario says, "Oh no, that was a prop, not a real lizard, wriggling and gasping, we wouldn't hurt a live lizard." Fine! No problem! Big hairy bollocks is what that is. I refuse to believe they spent how much on an animated lizard for that one brief scene. Hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Thankfully there are very few cult movies with this sort of footage and most of them have had releases somewhere if you have to have an uncut version. Yes, that's me in that group. The next furore will be when Cannibal Apocalypse gets released and they want that 1 second of burning rat, damnit!
