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(UPDATED: Friday, November 19, 2010 22:00 )
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CHRISTIAN FAMILY VALUES POLITICAL PARTY FAILED TO BAN TRANSGRESSIVE
HORROR FILM NOW ACCEPTED FOR SWITZERLAND'S LAUSANNE UNDERGROUND
FILM FESTIVAL
Family First in New Zealand called for David Blyth's new horror film
Wound to be banned prior to its screening at the Incredibly Strange Film Festival in 2010.
Billed as a “supernatural tale of mental illness, bondage, incest, revenge and explicit graphic violence” Christian values political party Family First objected, their representative Bob McCoskrie in particular objecting to scene of pregnant woman hit in stomach to cause a miscarriage though he did not see the film before calling for its ban. Director Blyth responded by suggesting Wound was a comment on sexual abuse in New Zealand, in response to the way ACC reforms impact upon victim safety. Blyth, retrospective of the conservative creep since the late 1970s, told the New Zealand media:
"I like to think that my film is about the horror of the everyday I see around me, an increasingly uncaring society and it's all put down to ‘oh we don't have the money to spend but we have to spend the money on our vulnerable women and children... Perhaps the one thing that has changed between 1978 and today is that while Angel Mine was funded by the Film Commission, Mr Blyth believes today's commission would not have touched either Angel Mine or
Wound with a barge pole. “
The film, however, was eventually passed uncut by the New Zealand censor, their verdict being that the film's impact was diluted by the film's low budget and “unrealistic” special effects. It was rated R18+ for “graphic violence and sexual violence”. Following its New Zealand festival run, the film had its European Premiere at the London Fright Film Festival (27th and 29th August) and selected for the Horror Zone section of FANCINE, XX fantastic Film festival of university of Malaga (Spain) before being accepted into the prestigious November 2010 Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland as part of the international feature film competition.
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