Yeah when my friends and I were kids we rented the faces of death flicks , turning our heads and closing our eyes at what we thought were the worst parts. Did we go and re-rent them over and over again like star wars or lord of the rings, no.

Pushing the envelope sells, it's the forbidden fruit I get it. :thumbsup:

Freedom of expression does have a price. Push the boundaries to far and bad things happen.


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Yea, except this isn't something new....
Back in the 80's and 90's, when I was in the video store biz, with 4 stores in Central PA (Yes, the PA where the Amish are) people went for the same sort of things.

The most popular adult video rental series was "Taboo American Style" volumes 1-4, which is best described as a quality porn series with a Dynasty flavor about incest.

The most popular horror video was "Faces of Death" which morphed into a long series after the popularity of the first one. This series dealt with snuff films, and claimed to show actual grisly murders, maiming, etc around the world . For it's time, quite shocking. Now, that stuff is on the history channel, and Nat Geo.

So while they SAY they don't want to see it again, they're lying. And the dollars prove it. Nothing the public at large does surprises me anymore.

Again, I would point out. In the 80's and 90's in conservative america, I didn't have allot of Male Gay films in the store. The public would not have liked that, and made it clear to us. They did however, have no problem with lesbian videos.

Now a days, there wouldn't be the same outcry about male gay. Primarily because of the advances made in that area in "normalizing" gay culture.