KILLER BITCH was released in the UK and Ireland last week and became No 6 in HMV high street stores’ top-selling DVDs. Some animated family film called Avatar pipped us to the post.
The HMV placing came after Killer BItch was banned by the Asda, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Tesco supermarket chains.. and YouTube also banned the trailer.
iTunes did sell it last week… for two days... then they suddenly withdrew it from sale because their "global policy is not to have extra violence and frontal nudity within the store".
This is a tad surprising because, although Killer BItch is a merry British romp through an OTT plot with OTT characters and OTT violence, it features pantomime violence - really, honestly, how many times have you seen someone killed with a fish or threatened by a topless female dwarf with a large handgun and are these scenes likely to deprave, corrupt, incite copycat killings and topple British cultural values?
This is a description of Willem Dafoe's recent film Antichrist which was passed uncut by the BBFC and sold by iTunes:
"After knocking him unconscious, Gainsbourg bores a hole in Dafoe's leg with a hand drill and bolts him to a grindstone to keep him from escaping. Then, she smashes his scrotum with some sort of blunt object (the moment of impact happens slightly below the frame). We don't actually see his testicles become disengaged from this body, though it's implied. Next, she brings him to a climax with her hands and he ejaculates blood (yes, it's shown). But that's not all! Later, in an extreme closeup — lensed by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle! — Gainsbourg cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors."
Sadly Killer BItch violence fades into insignificance in comparison to this though I think we may have a chance in the Rocky Horror Show market.
At the Killer Bitch cinema premiere in Mayfair - attended by sundry policemen and surreally with two machine-gun-wielding policemen standing at the end of the street watching the comings-and-goings - Alex Reid’s sex scene was mightily popular. Sections of the audience started imitating his audible grunting and he got a round of applause halfway through the scene. I can see future screenings possibly being attended by people dressed as Alex who join in the fun by inter-acting with what’s on screen.
First there were Rocky Horror Picture Show nights; then Sound of Music nights; can Killer Bitch nights be far behind?
www.killerbitch.co.uk
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