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Massacre Video TV brings Murder-Set-Pieces to Roku, complete and uncut

After lab refusals, festival rejections, and years of controversy, Nick Palumbo’s notorious film is available without cuts or censorship.

Sven Garrett in Nick Palumbo’s Murder-Set-Pieces (2004). Image supplied by Massacre Video.

Massacre Video TV is now available on Roku, with Nick Palumbo’s Murder-Set-Pieces streaming exclusively in its complete, uncut, and uncensored form.

Set in Las Vegas, the 2004 film follows a photographer, played by Sven Garrett, whose ordinary public life conceals a murderous obsession. Tony Todd and Gunnar Hansen also appear. The film received an NC-17 rating in the United States, and the British Board of Film Classification refused classification to a submitted home video version in 2008.

The resistance went beyond ratings and classification. Palumbo has described multiple film labs refusing to print the 35mm production and police being called over concerns that its effects were real. He has also said that festivals rejected the film because they considered it too violent and feared a backlash. Parts of the horror press declined substantial coverage. In Palumbo’s account, objections spread through the industry before many people had a chance to see the film for themselves.

That kind of pressure has become easier to apply in the digital era. A small number of platforms, festivals, publications, and distributors control much of what audiences can find. They do not need to announce a ban. They can leave a film out of the catalog, decline to discuss it, or allow its reputation to close the door. The result is the same. The audience never gets to decide.

Massacre Video has stood against that part of the industry for years, preserving and releasing films that others ignored, rejected, or tried to bury. Massacre Video TV brings that work into streaming. The service keeps controversial films available in the form their filmmakers intended. It gives audiences the chance to see the work and make up their own minds.

The constantly growing catalog spans regional American shot on video horror, Japanese underground cinema, German splatter, exploitation, mondo, and outsider filmmaking. It includes Chester Novell Turner’s Black Devil Doll from Hell and Tales from the Quadead Zone, Jimmy ScreamerClauz’s Where the Dead Go to Die, Hack-O-Lantern, Last House on Dead End Street, Snuff 102, Tumbling Doll of Flesh, Mondo Magic, Orozco the Embalmer, and Junk Films. Curated collections and Massacre TV Live give viewers additional ways to explore the library.

With Murder-Set-Pieces now available uncut on Roku, a film that spent years being discussed, rejected, and judged can finally be placed directly in front of the audience.

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