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Monday, 30 August 2010 16:05 |
THE illegal screening of a banned zombie porn film went ahead last night after police failed to arrive at the viewing.
LA Zombie played to a crowd of about 200 people at 1000 £ Bend - a cafe-bar in the city - as part of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
The audience cheered as some of the more shocking scenes, including a zombie sexually penetrating a dying man's open chest wound, played out on the big screen.
Scenes such as this prompted the Classification Board last month to refuse the movie classification as the Melbourne International Film Festival prepared to show it.
The refusal made screening the movie illegal but festival director Richard Wolstencroft said he was defying the ban to support freedom of speech.
''When MIFF dropped the ball [by not showing it] we felt we had to do something,'' he said. ''This is about freedom of speech … I believe in it. You can't just protect speech you agree with.''
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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