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Originally Posted by JAMIOUSE  How flithy is Immoral Tales as a matter of interest? |
It depends on how you define "filthy" - and also on whether you're watching the four or five-episode version.
The four-episode version (i.e. the more familiar one) is strictly softcore (although it often feels stronger than that, thanks to the force of Borowczyk's erotic imagination), but the five-episode version features the short film that ultimately became the dream sequence of
The Beast.
That isn't "hardcore" in the literal sense of the term (in that it doesn't feature actual sexual intercourse at any point), but given that this features a man in a bear costume with a gigantic erection that at several points seems hell-bent on doing regular impressions of the Old Faithful geyser, this might be a distinction that's lost on some people.
And the supporting short
A Private Collection still has to be censored for legal reasons - and even though we had to black out a few seconds of genuine bestiality, what's left was still enough to make me concerned that the BBFC might slap an R18 on it: after all, they rejected it outright back in the 1970s. (Fortunately, they didn't.)