So many famous films that are widely known today were famously censored for many years. As I had mentioned in my previous blog post, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was banned in the United Kingdom for many decades, yet it is still seen as one of the greatest, and scariest horror film of all time. "despite the film's tongue-in-cheek, genre literate excesses, to juries 'the catalog of onscreen dismemberment which the movie offered was nothing more than unashamed sadism, designed to delight those who revel pain' " (Ross 147). This helps me by giving me an idea of what kind of horror this is, not slasher or supernatural, but in a way, Fantasy and Thriller. These two genres are shown by forcing the audience to see what they've never seen before. And that helps me by proving creative freedom can go a very long way in the film industry.
Leatherface was deemed too terrifying which is one of the reasons the film got banned. I can learn a lot from this for making a classic horror film that stands the test of time
question-is there more of a reason to why the films are banned? why?
correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't censorship of media such as movies determined by government rather than the populous of a country? And to answer your question of if there are other reasons films are banned, some reasons other than gore and horror include propaganda that is believed to be offensive and example being how the movie "The Interview" was banned in North Korea because of how the character of Kim-Jon-Ung was used, and could've been viewed as anti-North Korea propaganda to them.
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