“Gay Zombie Porn Gets Festival Flick” – just one of the many creative headlines following the announcement that LA Zombie, a film directed by queer art house auteur Bruce LaBruce, would be pulled from 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival after being refused an exemption from the Australian Classification Board.
The Board made its decision on the basis that the film fit the “Refused Classification” or “RC” category under the federal government’s guidelines for the classification of films.
Reportedly, its many obscenities included depicting “necrophilia” (the gorgeous porn star François Sagat performing in red and green corpse paint) and scenes “which are offensive or abhorrent” from the perspective of “reasonable adults” (one assumes the orgy at the end).