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Absolutely any subject - fictional or non-fictional, possible or impossible - should be covered by film.

The handling of it is down to the makers themselves of course, and mostly they will play into the paying hands of the moral majority with a clear message denouncing any frowned upon act. Except for exploitation movie makers of course, but even they will draw the line at glamourising paedophilia, which quite rightly is the only real cinematic taboo. Even with older actors, depicting a child sex scene has worrying implications to the paedophile viewer who is bound to be interested in such subject matter. Without sending a clear negative message about such a heinous crime, these men have for once not been attacked but instead titilated - and that cannot be a good thing. It is probably the only subject I would ask that filmmakers take responsibility for, for this reason as well as very, very dubious taste.

Some strange people say: "...they watch all that sex and violence... what about child porn!?" as if this might be the next natural step from Nekromantik and Cannibal Holocaust. It is baffling that it still has to be pointed out that the network of people sharing paedophile material is entirely seperate from cult and extreme horror movie fans. Snuff is a myth, adult 'rape' films are restricted to a few questionable staged 'roughies' of the 1970s and some Asian CAT 3 genres that are impossible to take seriously, and alleged child porn tapes (who's ever seen one?) are completely illegal and desired and obtainable only by deviant perverts.

The moralists also ask why on earth you might want to watch Nekromantik, Cannibal Holocaust, The Untold Story etc. unless you are 'into' necrophelia, cannibalism, child murder and so on... To which I would reply if you really have to ask yourself that question, then don't you think your own mind is on somewhat shaky ground? While that does not necessarily make you any more likely an offender of this nature, knowledge of the darker crimes of mankind through only filtered news reports and the man in the pub hardly gives you the right to shoot down the exposure and viewpoints offered by some filmmakers... exploitative or not.