More Wacky Fun with Banned Horror Films: The Burning Moon and Grotesque

It is very hard to know the details of the upcoming Human Centipede 3 film knowing that it has only just begun production no. It will feature both Laurence Harvey who played Martin in the second film and Deiter Laser who played Doctor Heiter in the first. The Human Centipede will be composed of 500 people, apparently, so it is safe to say that exactly the same kinds of controveries that existed with Human Centipede 2 are likely to reoccur. I think the strong likelihood is that Human Centipede 3 will have trouble getting past the censors in at least one country.But since it is a year from now that it will be released, I am intermittently forced to examine other banned horror films. Thus, I am forced here to review Olaf Ittenbach's the Burning Moon from 1992 and the Japanese film Grotesque from 2009. This Burning Moon (shot on video) has been banned in Germany (it's nation of origin) for 20 years. I have no clear sense as to why such an absurd film was taken seriously enough to be banned. While the film depicts extreme acts of rape and murder, the special affects are so bad and the situations depicted are so absurd (man is shot in the head with a small handgun, his head explodes, a woman has been shot in the head, she has an open casket funeral) that I question the German censors that would have viewed this thing and responded with anything but laughter. Watching the Burning Moon I couldn't believe I was really watching The Burning Moon. The plot synopsis is a teenage dug addict is left home to baby sit his baby sister. He tells two bedtime stories. The first is about a woman who goes on a blind date with a psychotic killer that just escaped from a mental hospital. The second story is about a small town in Germany were the local priest goes around killing people. Town folks think that the killer is a local autistic or retarded farmer, and so they kill him. There's a ridiculous bit that takes place in hell. Then we see that the teenager telling his sisters the bedtime stories has killed his sister, and thee film ends with him killing himself. It's a very silly film. The one part of the film that surprised me is when a character loads a revolver properly. The new re-issue on DVD is handled by a company I've written about on here called Intervision Pictures which handles very bottom of the barrel low budget kinds of horror films from the 80's ad 90's, some of them shot on video. Intervision Pictures is on to something in bringing back this aesthetic as a kind of campy thing. The burning Moon has su If you take this film seriously enough to think it needs to be banned, you're an idiot. The Burning Moon is a joke and was probably meant to be. Before the BBFC banned Human Centipede 2 and the Bunny Game from being shown in the UK, The BBFC, they banned Grotesque. The big complaint with the BBFC had with Human Centipede 2, The Bunny Game and Grotesque was sexual violence. i think they must really have some hysterical, screechy feminist on the BBFC board. Of those films Grotesque is actually the most explicit, although for the Bunny Game they supposedly just told the lead actor to beat the female lead and a lot of the gore in Grotesque is really far looking. Grotesque is about this sick doctor who kidnaps this man and woman on their first date who tortures them and sexually assaults them for the duration of the film, using his medical skill to treat their wounds just so he can keep them alive and torture them some more. There's some serious dismemberment in it. The director tried to develop a kind of love story between the victims. What can I say? This is a perverted little Japanese gore flick! However, it's still not REAL or even realistic. There's an interesting thing at the end that the sick doctor does what he does because he has a foul body odor that he himself can't smell, for which reason he has never had a lover. That's appropriate because this film will make you want to take a shower.