China Bans Horror! - HorrorMovies.ca

I think this is something that all of us have feared at one point. Can you imagine waking up one day and being told that you had to throw away all of your horror DVDs? That you could never order them online or even watch them in the confines of your own home. Well this is a reality in China.

With the upcoming Beijing Olympics, China is looking to clean up it's "vulgar" video and audio content. Producers only have three weeks to look through their tapes for horror related material and hand it over to the authorities.

According to Reuters, offending content included "wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror," the administration said.

The new guidelines aim to "control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents' psychological health."

This is by far the worst kind of censorship I have seen in a very very long time. To me this is even worse than the video nasties in the UK. This is a complete ban of all things horror. We want to hear your opinion on this so sound off on the boards.

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