We've just heard the news that the British Board of Film Classificate has banned the DVD release of low budget indie horror from Frightflix Murder Set Pieces. Surprising perhaps, but this really doesn't happen very often. I haven't had the dubious pleasure of seeing this movie but from the reviews I've read it's pretty nasty stuff, with frequent scenes of brutal rape and murder and a particularly unpleasant section featuring the director's 18 month old kid - a child surely too young to understand the nature of film making and what the hell's going on. Check out the full story over at Variety.

So not a nice movie at all. But censorship - is it a good thing? Isn't there an argument that it's up to each adult viewer to decide what sort of depravity to expose themselves to? The DVD Review jury (What? We can be a jury if we want to be, even if there are only six of us...) is out on the matter so we'd like to know what you think. Head on over to the forum and discuss...

UPDATED 29 February

We've recently reviewed this movie - thought you might be interested to hear our reviewer's thoughts:

Murder Set Pieces 18

Film ** Extras *

Released 10 March

Director Nick Palumbo Starring Sven Garrett, Gunnar Hansen, Cerina Vincent

1 disc; £14.99; TLA Releasing; 2004

Special features

None

"The ultimate serial-killer movie", as this slight film has the temerity to call itself, has neither the gritty relentlessness of the Saw and Hostel torture franchises nor the grainy realism of classic '70s horror. Instead, it's slicker than an MTV promo clip, all oblique angles, soft-focus pools of light and stylised violence. The Photographer (Garrett) stalks Las Vegas in search of prostitutes to butcher, all the while leaving glaring clues as to his activities. In between throttling and dismembering said unfortunate females, he delivers clumsy lines like, "Women suck all of a man's blood out... and then it leaks out of them every month." It's cheap, watch-once-and-discard nonsense for juveniles, with the Photographer's eventual fate a major cop-out. Avoid unless desperate.

So there you go. Nevermind censorship, it's just rubbish....

New gore flick on the block Untraceable has had its Facebook fan page shut down, deemed "Hateful", "Threatening" and "Obscene". We can see its point - it's a pretty horrible concept. Pretty cool piece of online marketing though...