Corporate bullshit. You just know they will not enforce these policies on major studio fare, Amazon already has their “Star System” of viewer rankings skewed, it’s common knowledge that they throw out ratings on indie movies to favor a higher rating for studio fare on their IMDB site. This is only going to bring indies together to unite. At American Horrors, we’re revamping our website & creating an online horror super store for original content. Cannot get Amazon to distribute your horror? Fine. Forget them, bring your material to me at American Horrors. Its’ time for horror creators to come together under a common banner of free expression, uncut content & pushing the bleeding edge. Amazon is cutting their own throats, I say let them. Hart D. Fisher
This looks like less of a protest and more of an advertisement for the service you’ve been trying to peddling for years.
Harvest Lake wasn’t worth watching anyway, except by basement dwellers…as for the policy, I’m certainly against censorship, however any film that A) has little to no plot with only sex or violence as it’s driving force B) is nothing less than “Torture Porn”, or C) is demeaning in content to women Should be banned, and furthermore, in my opinion not supported..
So if it’s demeaning in content to Men, it’s ok? Are you the one to decide if something is torture porn? If someone wants to watch something deemed “torture porn” then how is that any less valid than something you’d want to watch? Same goes for your comment on little to no plot other than sex or violence. Matter of opinion and preference of the viewer. You’re “against censorship” unless, of course, it falls into certain categories that you deem should not be watched. That is censorship you fucking idiot. Get off your moral high horse. Just go watch what you want too watch and don’t worry about what other people are watching. Oh and then go fucking kill yourself.
Nothing should be BANNED. And, of course, Amazon isn’t banning anything. But there’s nothing wrong with reasonable viewing controls for adult content. Amazon is under no obligation to subsidize the viewing of a particular movie — or in this case, a particular sub-genre — for their Prime customers.
they probably just removed Dustin mills because everything he makes is garbage. Seriously. How did he even manage to trick them into putting that crap up to begin with?
There are other streaming/PPV services. Amazon isn’t motivated by religious extremism, their not jihadists; they simply want to maximize profit (which likely includes avoiding the wrath of conservatives now controlling government in the USA). The best way to fight back is economically. Don’t give Amazon your money. Subscribe to Shudder, iBleedindie or other services. If Amazon’s revenue decline exceeds the anticipated gain of the current policy, the policy will be reversed. And in the mean time, you’ll be supporting companies that are more closely aligned with your tastes and viewing policies.
Son of a bitch. So I guess all those sweet Giallos are out, every ovscure Slasher is out, guess Prime will end up just being used for free 2 day delivery again only.
Nothing is being banned. It’s just not FREE to Prime consumers. It’s still available for rent, right? Actually, I have no problem with having some sort of opt-in to view “hard-R” films on a free-to-view service. Maybe Amazon Prime needs a “parental controls” panel, like all cable companies and satellite services have (if they don’t have one already) so parents can control, at least to a point, what their kids can freely watch.
“In other words, most horror films in general.” Do you have anything to back this up? I mean, I have to imagine anyone who has Harvest Lake in their queue also has a pile of other horror movies in their queue as well.
Vimeo did the same thing with my private password protected screener of Faces of Snuff, even though they carry Gasper Noe’s Love publicly (cum shots and all). Amazon Prime made us censor Samurai fucking Cop 2 for some tits. They didn’t even approve one of my films simply because of the trailers we had attached for my other films which contained a nipple shot. Fuckin’ Nazis. Bring back video stores. Never had this problem with real stores.
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