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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  Certainly 'Nekromantik', its sequel and 'Der Todesking' have played various places in the UK over the last 25 years. Actually, wasn't 'Der Todesking' distributed on VHS in the early nineties with BBFC certification? So obviously no legal problem there.
I don't know why the Leeds festival took the precaution of involving the BBFC, but I wonder whether people in these times might be more nervous about material containing references to necrophilia in the wake of legislation around so called 'extreme pornography' which obviously came into being with the 'Dangerous Pictures Act' around four years ago, and which does after all mention necrophilia as one of several target categories. Having said this, prior to 2009 the Obscene Publications Act probably would've done the same job where distributors and exhibitors were concerned. |
You might be right about the extreme porn situation - better safe that sorry I guess, though as the BBFC haven't formally passed the film, that still wouldn't help if the cops did turn up.
Der Todesking WAS released in the UK, but in a version trimmed (by Buttgereit) to remove the castration scene, which wouldn't have passed the censors at that time.