IRREVERSIBLE & KEN PARK Censorship Drama in New Zealand

When we tried to show IRREVERSIBLE in New Zealand, the proverbial hit the fan and the SUNDAY show did a full investigation into the surrounding controversy.

After this aired SPCS accused me of collusion with the broadcaster about doing a secret screening for the unsuspecting public. We ended up in Court in Wellington to watch the case unfold. We arrived with umbrellas, trenchcoats and had a sketch artist lampoon the SPCS.

The Judge dismissed their case, basically saying they were wasting everyones time and the film went ahead and screened.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• censorship
• irreversible
• ken park
• rape film
• rape crisis
• court
• film festival
• ant timpson
• bill hastings
• peter brown
• TVNZ
• film
• movie
• horror
• underage sex
• teen sex
• teen suicide
• trash film
• vhs collection
• gasper noe
• film classification
• video nasty

[TheGamerOfNewZealand]

6:50 shame out

[TheGamerOfNewZealand]

if any one find the rape in the film porn they should be in prison.

[strawberrysatine]

"I really felt like she was being raped"

No shit Sherlock.

[grindhouseguru]

Both are great films- Peter Brown & Roger McClay are both incompetant morons.

[HanKSN101]

how you spell that: Bens Wav?

[eatmungbeans]

the apparent contrast in intelligence between the pro ban and the no ban camps seems pretty telling

[CleaningTool]

Give Bill a knighthood! Saint Ant!