Video nasty's banned horror classics

[Karen-bionic-fan]

Anyone collect them Iv got most on the UK banned video nasty list some are fantastic others i am left thinking surely not got this lot as a job lot this week

any opinions on them or what are your personal favourite banned horror from the famous Video nasty List of the 1980s

and from the list shown any opinions on them fantastic? rubbish? do you own them .......

* ones i have seen before ^ just watched really great!!!! prefer funhouse

1. Last house on the left (original version)*
2. I spit on your grave (original version)*
3. Driller killer
4. House on the edge of the park*
5. Death trap ^
6. Cannibal ferox
7. Tool box murder's (original version)
8. Nightmare in a damage brain
9. The Mutilator

[wolfie]

The amazing thing is that 30 years later some of the films on the list are still banned by the British Censors in their uncut version.

Cannibal Holocaust is still the best of them.

[emeraldknight47]

British censors (and society) amaze and fascinate me. Some things they think nothing of (page 3 girls anyone?), but certain horror films are still banned....

Nothing a simple cup of tea couldn't solve, eh, old chap...?

[wolfie]

It's not just horror films. There is a western film called Ulzanas Raid with Burt Lancaster which is banned in the UK in it's uncut version.

[thunderbolt]

Death Trap? as in the Micheal Caine movie?

[samurainoir]

Is there a list of UK banned movies? It would be interesting to see what's on it.

From Karen's list up top it would seem to be things notorious for violence as opposed to the bans on things for sex we were more accustomed to in North America.

[Den82]

Last House on the Left is great. I love the soundtrack by David Hess and how it oddly works so good with the sadism of the film.

I've only watched I Spit On Your Grave once in my life. Like Salo, there is no need to ever watch it twice. I like Cannibal Ferox better than Cannibal Holocaust for the non-intentional humor of it. Only watched House on the Edge of the Park once too, not a fan.

Last House on the Left was the first and best of all the over-the-top horror of the 70s.

[ctc]

>Some things they think nothing of (page 3 girls anyone?), but certain horror films are still banned

Britain seems to be the opposite of us: here, sex is bad violence is okay. There it's kinda the opposite.

Don C.

[Bruce Banner]

The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has always been very inconsistent in its ratings decisions.

At least these days, quite a few previously censored movies have finally been released uncut. Re-Animator and Enter the Dragon to name two.

But it's not just horror movies that they censor...
Here's an example of a few non horror films and TV releases which are cut in the UK:


Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Dragonslayer
Mulan
Judge Dredd
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
The Mummy Returns
Angels and Demons
Darkman
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (various episodes censored on home video)
Doctor Who (yes, amazingly, the BBFC has censored some episodes of DW for home video.)

[wolfie]

A lot of those films were cut with distributor approval in order to get a lower rating and were not censored in the normal fashion.

God i can't believe i'm sticking up for the BBFC.

[wolfie]

Death Trap? as in the Micheal Caine movie?

No, as in Tobe Hooper.

[Mikey]

Britain seems to be the opposite of us: here, sex is bad violence is okay. There it's kinda the opposite.

Don C.

Never thought about it before but that seems true.

[StrangeVisitor]

Death Trap? as in the Micheal Caine movie?

No, as in Tobe Hooper.

Known stateside as Eaten Alive (1977)

Is there a list of UK banned movies? It would be interesting to see what's on it.

Here's the list of 39 "Video Nasties" that were banned.

[thunderbolt]

No, as in Tobe Hooper.

Oh, I was wondering if they were bent out of shape over the Caine/Reeve makeout scene.

[ctc]

>A lot of those films were cut with distributor approval in order to get a lower rating and were not censored in the normal fashion.

Well.... that's the nice way of putting it; but the lower the rating, the wider the audience so a lot of companies "tone it down" so's they can get a lesser rating. It LOOKS entirely voluntary, but it's the execs kowtowing to the ratings board.

Don C.