Japanese horror movie Grotesque banned by BBFC

1)      Do you agree or disagree that this film should have been banned? Why?

I agree with BBFC for sure because horror movies can be dangerous for somehow. Movies, songs, celebrities, ads etc have great impacts on the viewers such as ads for advertisers with the good promotions  there is nothing that can make us to do. We can buy the things that we really don't need, it is all about the magic of the white screen whoever of us didn't? Or very well known superstar  Lady Gaga after she released in the market with her fancy, crazy dresses whoever of us can refuse that the people dress like monsters like just Lady Gaga increased in a huge amount. It is obvious that media is one of the most powerful dictator in the whole world. As a little reminder the cartoon series 'Pokemon' was banned in many countries just because of the bad influence on children, in some of the countries the number of broken legs, arms and deaths in the younger ages increased just because of the children thought that they were 'pokemons' so they could fly. Or because of the many songs crime and murder also increased. They are all real things happened, in my opinion there is no need to be that tough but taking precautions is always good and safe.

2)      In the future, many analysts predict that horror movies will continue to become gorier and more sadistic. Do you believe this is true? 

Yes, frankly Grotesque the movie is a good example for that. We can see the changes from Le Manoir Du Diable (1896- the very first horror movie-) to Grotesque. The vampires, witches, psychopath killers even the paranormal things are already cliche. We as viewers are consumers we consume the characters and the topics and want more, as a result gory and sadism take the place.


3)      What do you think Stephen King’s point of view would be on horror movies being banned? How do you know?

Stephen King as a huge horror writer would be so death against banning horror movies because he is in this industry he owes his life to this industry. Although he is huge in the horror industry, he would want some challenge and new rivals. However, on the contrary as a person who has many weird phobias like fear of deformity or squishy things, he would so agree with banning these kind of movies. So this point of view could be a dilemma for him and if I were him I would choose to say 'No comment !'