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Kenyan Horror Movie Banned

Posted by John Karanja on May 10th, 2009 and filed under Africa, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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The Kenyan government was so scared by a Kenyan made horror movie they decided to ban it.  When producer Joseph Kinuthia created his movie he only wanted to give people a taste of horror Kenyan Style.

His movie titled Otto the blood bath is a story about an Old man who comes back to haunt his children after they do not honour his death bed wishes. Watch a snippet here.

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The question is with the government allowing literary hundreds of Movies (including horror ones) to enter the country from Hollywood and Nollywood why should it stifle its own homegrown industry.

Perhaps because the censorship board which banned the movie must have been completely horrified by Kinuthia’s production, which may have felt more closer to home than the normal western movies which exaggarate horror to unbelievable extremes.

This is my theory. What is yours?

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5 Responses for “Kenyan Horror Movie Banned”

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  2. True Kenyan says:

    This is a very good movie. I do not know why we do not support our own intiatives. I also ask like him? What is horror?

    http://www.kenyafocus.com

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  4. Oira Bonface says:

    too cool they should learn English.the term horror does not mean good looking!or normalcy!
    I want it where can i get it?
    Am Kenyan,I want Kenyan

  5. Kisila2k2 says:

    It’s ridiculous how the government is killing creativity. Kwani they want guys us to make movies dealing with social morality only! We need to be able to freely explore various themes, genres and ideas in our movies so we be at the very least an African movie powerhouse.

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