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John McNaughton had worked for the Ali brothers ( Waleed B.
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At this point, the Ali brothers realized they had something unique on their hands, and set about promoting the film for theatrical release.īizarrely, the origins of this film are to be found in a never-made documentary about professional wrestling. He convinced them to let it be screened at the Chicago Film Festival in 1989, where, after getting a glowing review from the Chicago Tribune's Rick Kogan, the film was accepted into the 1989 Telluride Festival and subsequently the 1990 Splatterfest Festival, becoming the sensation of both festivals. Parello was working for the Ali brothers at the time, and he began to lobby them to do something with it. As McNaughton himself says, "They just put it on the shelf." Several years later, Chuck Parello, who would go on to direct Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 (1996), saw the film, and was deeply impressed. Ali were somewhat underwhelmed by the film turned in by John McNaughton, and weren't sure it was even worth their time releasing it on VHS, let alone releasing theatrically.
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It is often mistakenly claimed that this was due to its being tied up in censorship issues with the MPAA, and although this is true to a degree, the majority of the delay occurred because the Executive Producers, Malik B. Although completed in 1986, the film didn't get a theatrical release until 1989.