The Aussie OFLC rating is gross and I tend to prioritise skipping local releases just because of how dumb it looks.
I visited the OFLC in Sydney two decades ago to enquire about a horror tape they'd been sent by customs (for a Japanese film which later came out uncut from Synapse). Very rude, unhelpful, and angry that I'd bothered to show up. Eventually some guy showed me the VHS box over a counter but I had to stand a metre back and wasn't allowed to touch it, like I might abscond with it and they were dealing with national security matters or something. I was later given the VHS of the sequel with a big tracking mark where they'd clearly switched off the tape playing on their old VHS machine after they'd become bored of the movie.
I should phone them up and ask, do these OFLC rating apply if I watch the same film on Youtube?
Curious as to what Imprint (a name which seems very inspired by Indicator) have coming up, but I suspect I'm down for just the horror films, and only a few of those.
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