Australia has banned the release of North American horror comedy Father’s Day, about a man intent on avenging his father’s killing. The film was directed by Adam Brooks and produced by Canada’s Astron-6, with global distribution by Troma Entertainment.

The Australian Classification Board gave the film a “refused classification” notice on 31 Oct, denying it permission to screen commercially or at the Monster Fest organised last week by its Australian distributor Monster Pictures.

The ACB put the film into the category of those that “depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.”