Ever since the Saw movies sort-of introduced ‘torture horror’ to the mainstream (it had been done before, but for smaller audiences) there have been many pretenders – the Hostel movies for example – but there is a new guy in town.

This weekend a shocked audience at the Cannes film festival saw the latest addition to the genre,  ‘Antichrist’ starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. As far as I can make out from this summary by NYMag, it doesn’t sound particularly pleasant, unless you like sexual mutilation of course.

It’s doubtful if all the dubious scenes will make the final cinema version in various countries around the world, but that’s moot if you have a BitTorrent client and know how to search for the movie.

A decent quality DVD Screener of ‘Antichrist’ has been leaked (with an on-screen timer for those very picky downloaders) which is claiming to be completely uncensored.

Having read the review, and having seen a sample of another very recent Japanese movie called ‘Grotesque’ – which is also very sickening and yes, also available uncensored via BitTorrent, i’m wondering if bypassing the censors in this way is always a good thing.

In years gone by and mainly out of curiosity, i’ve seen many a grisly movie courtesy of awful VHS tapes and more recently P2P networks, including the notorious Guinea Pig series, Faces of Death series and others along those lines. I couldn’t resist the temptation – call it a symptom of a mis-spent youth.

But now, older and hopefully wiser, i’m sort of glad that there are people out there who can filter out some of the more extreme stuff since to be honest, I can’t un-see some of the things I viewed in those films. At the time I didn’t mind, but now I realize I really could’ve done without it – my life hasn’t be enriched by seeing those scenes.

That said, younger and more enthusiastic folk than I will likely flood to see the uncensored Antichrist to see what all the fuss is about. Let’s hope it’s not that bad after all, and no-one regrets it.

Can censorship sometimes be a good thing? For me, yes, sometimes. But only when i’ve had a chance to review the stuff myself first before someone makes the decision for me, which makes it kind of tricky.

Article from: FreakBits