I will only say this: Stephen King once wrote that The Exorcist was relatively poorly-received in Germany - people did not flock to see it or react so viscerally to it. He goes on to suggest that it might be because Germans at the time were more concerned about 'bomb-throwing radicals than foul-talking young people'.

I am not disposed to treat Mr King as any kind or authority or oracle, but my own studies tend to suggest he might have been right in this instance.

Context, while not necessarily everything, is important when considering the success or otherwise of any given commodity, and film is no exception.