I’m a film, not a fish!

I’m always fascinated when I come across old Australian ads for films of this sort, cos I always think of the Commonwealth Film Censorship Board (as it then was) as having been particularly censorious back in those Good Old Days, mostly because it was, of course… so I’m always a bit surprised to see local theatre ads for them (don’t know anything about this Metro cinema, but I daresay a cinema up the Cross would be the sort of place that would show this sort of thing). In this case, though, I wasn’t, cos I remember the old video shop on Maroubra Road having it on VHS back in the 90s, but it still feels a bit striking to see a local cinema ad for it even so… incidentally, Refused Classification notes that the video release was cut even more than the cinema print, though doesn’t clarify why. Ironically, you can now get the thing uncut on Youtube’s paid movies and TV channel where it’s only rated MA, so it’s technically OK for older teenagers… how times change, eh.