Omar Khan, the director of Pakistan's horror film HELL'S GROUND, informs us that despite the hideous repression in Pakistan right now, the movie is still on track to open before December. HELL'S GROUND will play late night shows in all three major cities in Pakistan, and will expand to other screenings if there's a demand. There hasn't been a new movie released in Pakistan since THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, and distributors have so little new product that they've even dusted off M:I:3 and KING KONG prints and started showing them again. So it's a perfect time for HELL'S GROUND to strike.

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He goes on to write that radio stations in Pakistan have stepped into a time warp, broadcasting Woodstock-era agitprop tunes and he's painted protest murals on his stores. Writing that he's "reeling in shock and horror" he invites concerned readers to sign up for the FaceBook group "We Oppose Emergency in Pakistan." Omar is risking arrest for treason and "inciting hatred" just by allowing us to post this, so the least we can do is head over to We Oppose Emergency in Pakistan and sign the online petition.�

Politics aren't really my bag, and you probably came to Kaiju Shakedown to read about movies not political protests, but it sickens me that Omar could be arrested for speaking his mind. Teenagers are being rounded up and tortured in Pakistan. Peaceful protests are being broken up by the military and riot police. President Musharraf recently banned CNN, the BBC and Al Jazeera because, "...they show us evil things that are unacceptable and obscene to us here in Pakistan, like gay marriage."

Pakistan deserves better.�

In 1979, Pakistan produced AURAT RAJ, a movie about militant feminists who take over the country and drop a bomb that transforms all the men into drag queens and all the women into butch lesbians. Pakistan made the movie ADAM KHOR which features a monkey that throws hand grenades. Pakistan made HASEENA ATOM BOMB which sees drug dealers get all their blood sucked out by giant hypodermic needles. Pakistan is a storehouse of awesome cinematic treasures and it should be cherished and adored, not torn apart.

Because wouldn't we all rather see more of this:

And less of this?

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