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Post by progressiveelement on Nov 4, 2019 23:50:25 GMT
These often caused more trouble than the movies themselves.
These are the official nasties
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Post by lowtacks86 on Nov 4, 2019 23:55:12 GMT
Those were all banned in the UK right? Or were they just heavily censored?
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Post by progressiveelement on Nov 5, 2019 0:08:55 GMT
Those were all banned in the UK right? Or were they just heavily censored?
All of them were banned when the Director of Public Prosecutions deemed them obscene.
A couple of them (notably The Evil Dead which the ban-happy lot were obsessed with) were acquitted of obscenity though, and many of those were re-released (often censored at first).
A very few of those that were cleared have yet to be passed (Nightmare Maker was dropped from the nasties list - but the BBFC refused to pass it). 39 in total were found guilty of obscenity, and many of those are now available uncut. A few titles were released on DVD with 15 ratings (Contamination, Don't Look in the Basement, Don't Go in the Woods) Only a couple still remain banned. Some are understandable (two of the Nazi-themed ones), a few others are down to simply never being re-released, or the rights wound up in legal limbo (Forest of Fear).
And in Snuff's case - it's no longer banned, the censors passed a DVD uncut, but its release was pulled.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 5, 2019 0:12:21 GMT
The poster for Inferno doesn't look that bad.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Nov 5, 2019 0:16:00 GMT
Those were all banned in the UK right? Or were they just heavily censored?
All of them were banned when the Director of Public Prosecutions deemed them obscene.
A couple of them (notably The Evil Dead which the ban-happy lot were obsessed with) were acquitted of obscenity though, and many of those were re-released (often censored at first).
A very few of those that were cleared have yet to be passed (Nightmare Maker was dropped from the nasties list - but the BBFC refused to pass it). 39 in total were found guilty of obscenity, and many of those are now available uncut. A few titles were released on DVD with 15 ratings (Contamination, Don't Look in the Basement, Don't Go in the Woods) Only a couple still remain banned. Some are understandable (two of the Nazi-themed ones), a few others are down to simply never being re-released, or the rights wound up in legal limbo (Forest of Fear).
And in Snuff's case - it's no longer banned, the censors passed a DVD uncut, but its release was pulled.
I see, I'm guessing there was a black market for them?
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Post by gadreel on Nov 5, 2019 0:20:49 GMT
Watchlist intensifies
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Post by Zos on Nov 5, 2019 12:05:48 GMT
I remember that period very well (in my late 50's now) You could still see The Evil Dead in London cinemas even though you couldn't on video. Like America's "Satanic panic", tabloid newspapers and trash TV built videos up as a cause of all society's ills. So silly when you look back. Most of the bans were placed more because of video cover art than anything else, the list was utterly arbitrary.
10 years later it's rap music or video games that get the blame, so much easier than actually looking for real causes such as poverty etc.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Nov 7, 2019 17:32:59 GMT
I had "The Toolbox Murders" once. I think I had it on Beta. It was on a list of horror films recommended by Stephen King, so either mail-ordered it or bought it at a video store.
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Post by Power Ranger on Nov 9, 2019 23:16:47 GMT
There is a better cover of The Witch Who Came From the Sea. The one with a witch holding a man’s head. That’s a great film, and doesn’t deserve to be on the Nasty list.
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Post by Vegas on Nov 10, 2019 13:23:18 GMT
In the US... Some of those were considered a rite of passage.  |
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Post by theauxphou on Nov 11, 2019 8:45:15 GMT
I saw bits of Cannibal Ferox when I was a kid.  |
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