Margaret Pomeranz, chair of the Film Critics' Circle, spoke to Petria Wallace. Well I'm very disappointed, actually, because I think the Classification's Board made a pretty sensible decision. It's the sort of gross-out comic horror genre that children actually lap up more than adults, so I just sort of worry about the implications of this decision more than anything else, because I feel that we're already living in a society where there's more and more repression about what we are able to see and hear and read, and I just sort of feel this is just another little notch in the wood. The Classification Review Board has made its decision because of the depictions of high impact violence in the film. Do you know, I think that, you know, more and more responsibility is taken away from parents.
Parents have to be responsible for their children.
I just do think that what people want more than anything else is information about the film they're going to see. I think that's what the Classification Board ought to do. I think they ought to give very detailed information about what people are likely to see so people can make up their own mind about whether they want to see it or not. It's rated for high level violence. And so children under 15 cannot get in to see it without an accompanying adult.