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Is IFC Midnight's Brutal Pick-Up Kill List the Dogtooth of SXSW '11?

Is IFC Midnight's Brutal Pick-Up Kill List the Dogtooth of SXSW '11?

The psycho-sexual anthology Little Deaths made a minor splash at SXSW as the Serbian Film of this year's fest, leaving many searching for the film most analogous to Ben Wheatley's even better-loved SXFantastic buzz film Kill List. But while parallels to previous SXSW hits like Monsters and Wheatley's own Down Terrace have been drawn, another entry from last year's festival circuit instead comes to mind: Yorgos Lanthimos' crazypants domestic drama Dogtooth.

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About Those Serbian Film Child Porn Charges

About Those  Serbian Film Child Porn Charges

Anyone who's been tracking the controversial 2010 horror pic A Serbian Film along the film festival circuit knows to expect something either artfully transgressive, dreadfully offensive, or something in between; even critics who liked it seem to agree that life would be better without having seen the acts depicted onscreen. But does anything in A Serbian Film warrant the child pornography charges reportedly lobbied at the Sitges Film Festival for merely screening the film?

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