A movie like L.A. Zombie is bound to cause controversy wherever it screens. The first thing you may notice is that the cast is mostly male, mostly shirtless and, with a little bit of research, mostly from a pornographic background. The second thing you may notice is that L.A. Zombie isn’t far from being porn itself. Also, necrophilia happens. This is exactly why the Australian censors decided to ban the film from the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in the first place…But people like controversy, and apparently gay zombie action, so they decided to screen it illegally anyway.
According to FilmInk, it looks like police have finally hit back against the festival’s organizers. On what could only be a slow day for the police force, festival director Richard Wolstencroft’s house was raided to seize his copy of L.A. Zombie, presumably to protect Australia from the film’s immoral sentiment and lack of family values that will inevitably lead to the end of humankind as we know it. Seriously though, the censors have exempt fairly controversial fes
A movie like L.A. Zombie is bound to cause controversy wherever it screens. The first thing you may notice is that the cast is mostly male, mostly shirtless and, with a little bit of research, mostly from a pornographic background. The second thing you may notice is that L.A. Zombie isn't far from being porn itself. Also, necrophilia happens. This is exactly why the Australian censors decided to ban the film from the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in the first place…But people like controversy, and apparently gay zombie action, so they decided to screen it illegally anyway.
According to FilmInk, it looks like police have finally hit back against the festival's organizers. On what could only be a slow day for the police force, festival director Richard Wolstencroft's house was raided to seize his copy of L.A. Zombie, presumably to protect Australia from the film's immoral sentiment and lack of family values that will inevitably lead to the end of humankind as we know it. Seriously though, the censors have exempt fairly controversial festival screened films from classification before, was L.A. Zombie so bad it needed to be banned?
I can't say the film will suit my tastes, but as Flixist's self-titled Australian correspondent, I feel robbed of my right to see L.A. Zombie.
[Via FilmInk]