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Censorship must die and be buried ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!


I confess from the bottom of my heart that i truly HATE censorship. Cutting parts from a movie is not only a scorn against the director wich wanted to express the movie in its true original form, but also a scorn to US, who wants to see the movie and experience it the way it was meant to be. We have the rights to choose what we want to see for ourselves, and some city-hall guys in dresses don`t have any rights to sit there in their offices and decide what we want to see or not. Thats not their business at all.

Many of those category III-films were cut and therefore they lost some of the impact, which lower the movie-experiences the movies could have given us.
The Untold Story and Story Of Ricky slipped through, but others, like Ebola Syndrome, Daughter of Darkness and this one, Dr Lam were cut badly.

The uncut print of ES and DOD are possible lost for good, and therefore we will perhaps never get the full experience of the movies, thanks to our "wonderful" censorship-systems.
The uncut print of Dr Lam still exists as Spanish rentals and maybe some old HK-releases, but I doubt that this movie will see the light in its uncut form, at least not in a long, long time. I find it very sad, that we just sit on our butts and just LET the censorship ruin our movie-experiences, but I won`t accept this any longer. I HAD ENOUGH!!! But I can`t make any difference by myself. We who all dislike censorship must together stand up for whats our rights. Censorship must die. NOW!!!

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Amen brother. To be sure censorship does serve one legitimate purpose (to protect children), which is fair enough but if proper ratings-for-adults are enforced then why shouldn't "adults" be able to make their own decisions on what they wish to view? and to what level (of filth and depravity).

Unfortunately(?) I think the new wave of horror and exploitation film makers are going to be forced to stay away from the MPAA or any ratings boards entirely and keep their work underground as "unrated" films.

With our support they can earn enough money from word-of-mouth promotion and DVD sales to keep the underground and the types of cult cinema we love, alive.

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