The essay also compares and contrasts the grounds for assessment used by critical and lay audience members. By codifying 1,338 publicly available reviews into a series of response matrices, this essay demonstrates how proportionately significant the question of morality was for these two film’s audiences. Such moral opprobrium is simultaneously dismissed as exaggerated – hysterical, even – by others. Both films were heavily cut by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) prior to their release and both continue to provoke impassioned moral objections. The aesthetic appreciation of horror film remains inseparable from concerns with personal and public morality: the reception of A Serbian Film and The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence offers two compelling cases in point.
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