I have sent the BBFC a letter:
Hello there
I'm just emailing you to say I am rather annoyed at your choice to cut the new Arrow release of Dario Argento's Inferno.
I completely understand that you have to cut scenes of animal cruelty and in most cases I totally agree but all this is is a cat eating a mouse! It's a natural phenomenon, it's what cats do. You see a lot worse than this on David Attenborough programmes.
Is it one rule for one director and one for another? I feel if Steven Spielberg or some other "respected" director had made this film it would have been left in. For instance if Dario Argento had made Apocalypse Now exactly the same way as Francis Ford Coppola would it have remained uncut or would the killing of the cow have been censored?
I thought you had come along a long way in recent years, apparently I thought wrong.
It's decisions like this that can sometimes make or break a company, Arrow have my full support in their releases but I have a principal not to buy films that have been censored by yourselves, I feel like I am getting cheated.
Word will and has got about that this release will be cut and it will affect how many people purchase it.
If companies sales are affected because their films are cut I find it rather sad, especially the fact that they have to pay your good selves a ridiculous amount of money for you to cut and potentially ruin their films for them.
Aarron
