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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Local horror marathon to feature film board says posed risk to viewers
The Little Art’s fifth and final Horror Movie Marathon Saturday will feature the local theatrical premiere of one of the grossest and most graphic movies I have ever heard about.
Yep, the description of Tom Six’s controversial horror movie “The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)” is enough to make me gag.
The movie marathon’s doors open at 9 p.m., and the first of seven horrifying films begin at 9:30 p.m. at 247 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs.
There will be a costume contest, and 50 classic trailers will be screened.
The marathon includes three area theatrical premieres: “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,” “Attack the Block,” and the above-mentioned film.
The The Human Centipede 2 is the follow-up to Six’s cult hit “The Human Centipede (First Sequence).”
British Board of Film Classification in June refused to give the movie a rating, calling it “sexually violent, and potentially obscene,” according to the “New York Times.”
The board, the equivalent of our own Motion Picture Association, said the flick “poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk” of harm to viewers.
The film tells the story of a crazy kidnapper who well, er, attaches people to each other with a stapler in the most unbecoming way. He dreams of creating a human centipede.
The Dutch filmmaker made a bunch of cuts and the BBFC removed its ban.
The Yellow Springs marathon will show much tamer films as well (it wouldn’t be hard to be tamer).
Films include Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie,” Ridley Scott’s director’s cut of “Alien,” and rare 35mm prints of “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.”
Tickets to the all-night marathon are a steal at just $20.
For more information, visit http://horrorfest.littleart.com or call (937) 767-7671.
Find out how to go >> What do you think? Is it right to ban a movie?
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