*EDIT* ******** you, Showtime! I found the episode on youtube.com, in seven 10-minute increments. Here is the link to part 1, if you are interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmerjYfF5zc&mode=related&search=Hurry up and watch it before it gets flagged. But be warned. The acting is far scarier than the show. And to be quite honest with you, it wasn't nearly as scary or disturbing as I thought it would be (maybe I'm just jaded from all the horror movies I've watched ever since I was a kid.) It isn't for the squeemish, however. It contains incest, child molestation, spousal abuse, torture, murder, a deformed, androgynous midget with a rooster on his/her head, and a talking hand growing out of some woman's head. Oh, and the characters are pretty much up to their eyeballs in aborted fetuses. All in all, I didn't think it was really all that bad. I assure you, I shall sleep soundly tonight.
with all the lights on...Now on to the original post!
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I was reading the latest issue of Fangoria recently, a magazine dedicated to horror movie connoisseurs, and there was an article about a show on Showtime called "Masters of Horror." That show was my favorite, I used to watch it all the time...well, until the cable company learned about my illegal black box and I stopped getting that channel.
sweatdrop Anyways, This particular article was talking about an episode that was banned in the U.S., and it will only be available on dvd in September. The episode in question was directed by Takeshi Miike (known for such crazy s**t as
Audition and
Ichi the Killer) and was described by one of the show's creators as, "the most disturbing film I've ever seen." My interest piqued, I realized I couldn't possibly wait until September to find out what was so damned disturbing about this episode, so I enlisted the help of the internet.
Apparently, the episode entitled "Imprint" is about some American journalist who goes to Japan in search of some woman he fell in love with. He ends up on some creepy-a** island surrounded by the fetid corpses of pregnant women floating in the water, and learns from some deformed prostitute that his woman is dead. Thus begins the search to discover how she died while also trying to find out what's going on on this ******** up island. Some of the issues that are dealt with in this episode are incest, prostitution, killing, torture, yada yada yada. The reason this episode was pulled? A disturbing, gory abortion scene.
Does anyone else but me find this to be somewhat hypocritical? On this same show, there was an episode entitled "Jenifer", which has a scene in which the deformed, monstrous title character eats a small child. It's pretty graphic, too. The hero walks into the blood-spattered room to find Jenifer bent over the half-eaten remains of the little girl she encountered earlier in the episode...the little girl was cut in half black Dahlia style, with her organs and spine spilling out of her. It was pretty sick, yet this episode had no problem being aired.
You know something else? "Imprint" was shown in the U.K. without a problem, and it is going to have a theatrical release in Japan. Why is the U.S. so squeemish about this subject matter, especially when you take into account the fact that far more grotesque things are shown on t.v. all the time (*coughflavoroflovecough*)? And why, for that matter, are other countries not so uptight about it? And what the ******** happened to that whole "freedom of speech" thing? Alright, so it's a gross and disturbing episode. Guess what? It's a HORROR show! I don't know about you guys, but when I want to watch a horror movie, I expect there to be gallons of blood, mountains of dead bodies, and s**t so disturbing it gives me nightmares. That's what the genre is all
about.
scream Anyways, please discuss how America has a stick up it's a** when it comes to abortion, and how much cooler other countries are in comparison. If you would like to watch a trailer of "Imprint", click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OyR5xyLuuw
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