On August 1, 1982, a law was passed that forbade Swedish video stores to rent movies with violence to children under the age of 15. The law also proclaimed that adults too should be spared from »prolonged and detailed scenes of cruel and sadistic violence«. But how should zombie movies be categorized?
The whole debate started with the VHS recorder becoming a common commodity. TV reports showed scenes from »Texas Chain Saw Massacre« and people were upset that youths and adults alike were victims of the senselessness. The government had do to something and they banished films with violence in them. A federal censorship bureau was established that removed sensitive scenes from films that could be released apart from those specific depictions.
Yesterday, I read on a slasher movie forum that the case of a video renter went to court following the renter’s refusal to remove zombie films from his shelves. The judge then had to decide whether or not zombie films fell into the category the legislator had meant.
And, yes. According to the court’s verdict, zombies are equal to humans.
I know thousands of victims who would’ve protested that decision had they not already been torn apart and eaten.
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