Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38066118-20191115011848/@comment-44629268-20191209035804

Kingasdfg wrote: The reason the Phantom Blood movie was never released was because after opening night Araki forbid the film from ever being shown again. He hated it that much.

That's just not true. It's an internet urban legend, we've proven time and time again via old blogs and archives of theatre schedules that the movie wasn't ever pulled from theatres early. Araki never even said anything ABOUT the movie other than that he was surprised a manga so old was being adapted 20 years later. To make things even more definitive, I personally own a ticket stub for a showing of the film over a week after its initial premiere. So yeah, none of what you just said is true, sorry.