Banned?

who knows.
I thought it was a good film although it seems to have been on the TV about 4 times in the last 2 years.

"aint nothin but a muffin,we got a lotta butter to go"

well, i saw it when i was about 14-15 years old... and it scared the begeesus out of me

We find your American beer like making love in a canoe. It's *beep* close to water!

In addition to the extremely unsettling subject matter which has already been mentioned, I suspect the main character's side job as a producer and peddler of pornography was a little distressing to the censors of the time. The scene in the pornography shop has many pictures of nude girls for several minutes straight--they're in the background of the shots and I don't think details were really too visible or, at any rate, noticeable, but they're still there. I think the film would still probably receive an R rating today due to these scenes and the violent, sexually charged and extremely disturbing subject matter.

But you're right--it's a very dark premise, but it's mostly dealt with very tastefully and without any gratuitous sex or violence.

Well, I was watching it one time on video after i recorded it from tv, and not to sound immature, but I SAW A BOOB!!!! haha idk i think that might have to do with it too...that chick he photographs rite before he kills her....his last victim before himself......u can see her boob, but only if ur looking at her and not mark when hes getting towards her...but this was on at 2am on Turner classic movies...

Suprised no one mentioned it, SNUFF FILM.

Obviously, the film is about a man's obsession with capturing fear on film. There's suicide and a boobie, but these things don't get a movie banned. This guy's obsession is so great that he invents the pop culture reality that is called a "SNUFF FILM". Snuff films are greatly frowned upon. Glorifying a film in which the main character is obsessed with creating such a thing is not appriciated, even in these times. Although banning the piece entirly would be facism since it is a piece of fiction, and film is an art form. (that's REAL terror folks, banning art!)

I just saw it again (first time was Drama class in Junior High!) and was thiking how brilliant it is and started thinking RE-MAKE, and realized that modern Hollywood could never present this in such an eerie way, and would try to offer up a chilling gore flic instead. Leave classics alone I say. Ban re-making classics, not the classics themselves.

Which leads me to pondered a fact: A "REAL" snuff film could never be re-made. It could be re-created, but the one time actor/actress is immortilized in a one-of-a-kind original piece that even transends fiction...

...I need my medication.










just kidding! <@:)

I saw this film the other night and thought it was very much a head of it's time and indeed a masterpiece. I can understand why it may have been banned in some countries in 1959/1960. I don't recall many mainstream films with subjects such as pornography, snuff films and serial killers(except Norman Bates) around that time. I am surprised that it was made in colour as a lot of the British thrillers were in black and white but thought the colour added to suspense and terror.

I also watched the French film "Eyes without a Face" another movie very much ahead of it's time and worth a look.

If Mark (the main character) gets pleasure out of watching people die, how are you not guilty of the same crime he is because you are getting pleasure (all be it from just watching a film) from watching people die on screen too. The film isn't really about a man with a killer camera it's about what you see, thats why the frst thing on screen in a human eye. Critics also took a dislike to the child been tortured by his farther in the films from my childhood sceen, the boy we see is Powels son (some clamied that the boy had no knowldge of this and his farther was actually shining a light on him as he slept) we also see Powel himself for a few seconds at the end of this sceen when Mark says here is my farther, my step mother is holding the camera now (or words to that effect)
The film was banned because it was a little to close for comfort for many people. However there are some true merits too, the film director in the studio where Mark works, is actually a blind man, (Powel's view on film at the time?) the film came out 2 years before phscyo, and yet the only fullyrounded character is the killer everyone else is a crook or to innocent or a drunk. Plus it has the great line "dont worry it's only a Camera."

Well you have to think about when the movie was made. During the 1960s this story was horrible and too scary to shown according to for example Sweden. I mean... Imagine Se7en being made in the 1960s. What do you think would have happened?