Banned films that were shit

[Echo Base]

Goodbye Uncle Tom - just an amazing, amazing thing.

 

[rutabowa]

Driller Killer. Tedious and all the kills were exactly the same. The drill to the torso murder technique isn't even varied enough to make this a shock/gore hit.

Driller Killer is ace! it's not a gore/horror film at all tho, more a new york 70s punk scene film. i love the band.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Driller Killer is ace! it's not a gore/horror film at all tho, more a new york 70s punk scene film. i love the band.

How do you feel about 80s punk film Suburbia?

 

[RaverDrew]

Driller Killer. Tedious and all the kills were exactly the same. The drill to the torso murder technique isn't even varied enough to make this a shock/gore hit.

Driller Killer was class. The Roosters.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was utter shit.

 

[rutabowa]

How do you feel about 80s punk film Suburbia?

don't know looks intriguing tho, i've put it in my lovefilm queue

 

[rutabowa]

Driller Killer was class. The Roosters.

yeah the roosters! don't think they were a real band tho unfortunately, i would have bought a record.

 

[krtek a houby]

How do you feel about 80s punk film Suburbia?

I remember it being kind of grim, IIRC...

 

[rutabowa]

the Roosters!
i like the rehearsal scenes best

 

[Griff]

SS Experiment Camp

What a pile of shite that was.

 

[Orang Utan]

I was just perusing the DPP's video nasty list. I've only seen a handful of them (Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit On Your Grave, Driller Killer, The Evil Dead); are any of the others particularly worth catching?

check out my mate's blog: http://videonastyproject.blogspot.com/
i've seen most of them with him
ones that i think are worth a watch are
tenebrae
fight for your life
the new york ripper
the burning
the witch who came from the sea
zombie flesh eaters
don't go near the park
evilspeak
the toolbox murders
nightmare in a damaged brain

 

[DaveCinzano]

check out my mate's blog: http://videonastyproject.blogspot.com/

Perfect! I do like a good bit of project work

Tell her/him to get on and finish it though!

ones that i think are worth a watch are...

Ta for the recommendations

 

[DaveCinzano]

don't know looks intriguing tho, i've put it in my lovefilm queue

Story- and performance-wise I thought it was really rather decent; but as I caught a rather grimy, dark, muffled DivX copy from one of the old sites a while back, I couldn't attest to much else.

 

[Orang Utan]

Perfect! I do like a good bit of project work

Tell her/him to get on and finish it though!

he's got a new piece on i spit on your grave in prep, but yeah he needs to get on with it!

 

[dylans]

Cannibal Holocaust. Not so much shit but fiercely gross

Not only was it banned but it was actually mistaken for a real snuff movie and the director Ruggero Deodato prosecuted. It was fiction and he was acquitted but the movie remained banned in several countries for years.

 

[chico enrico]

I've always wanted to see that film - island of death - devils of mykonos or whatever it's also known as. Sounds well funny. Does anyone have a copy?

 

[D'wards]

SS Experiment Camp

What a pile of shite that was.

I dunno, when i was 14 it had its certain uses

 

[D'wards]

Cannibal Holocaust is brilliant, apart from the animal mutilation scenes

I had to turn off Cannibal Ferox, as there was some material in it i would construe as being all-but child porn - anyone know what i mean?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Wasn't that "Crash" film banned for a while?

that was utter bollocks.

More delayed than banned. An excellent film IMO.

Is this crash J G Ballard book or that other crash which was shit ?

JG Ballard book

I saw Cronenberg's adaption of the JG Ballard book at the Cornerhouse in Manchester, hadn't realised it had been banned down south. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)

I thought it was quite interesting and disturbing in an intriguing way, from what I vaguely recall.

I thought Clockwork Orange was awful, though, especially the rape scene, I wanted to walk out at that point, but didn't, because I didn't want to get up and walk out in the middle of the film, would have felt foolish and embarrassed, but wished I had.

 

[dylans]

I saw Cronenberg's adaption of the JG Ballard book at the Cornerhouse in Manchester, hadn't realised it had been banned down south. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)

I thought it was quite interesting and disturbing in an intriguing way, from what I vaguely recall.

I thought Clockwork Orange was awful, though, especially the rape scene, I wanted to walk out at that point, but didn't, because I didn't want to get up and walk out in the middle of the film, would have felt foolish and embarrassed, but wished I had.

Clockwork orange wasn't actually banned. It was withdrawn by Kubrick. It was claimed that Kubrick agreed that the film inspired copycat violence but his widow gives another reason

Popular belief was that those copycat attacks led Kubrick to withdraw the film from distribution in the United Kingdom, however, in a television documentary, made after his death, widow Christiane confirmed rumours that he withdrew A Clockwork Orange on police advice, after threats against him and family (the source of those threats are undiscussed). That Warner Bros. acceded to his withdrawal request indicates the good business relations the director had with the studio, especially the executive Terry Semel. The ban was vigorously pursued in Kubrick’s lifetime. One art house cinema that defied the ban in 1993, and was sued and lost, is the Scala cinema at Kings Cross, London; the same premises of present-day Scala nightclub. Unable to meet the cost of the defence, the cinema club was forced into receivership.[19]

I guess the irony of making threats of violence in protest at a violent movie is lost on some.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Driller Killer. Tedious and all the kills were exactly the same. The drill to the torso murder technique isn't even varied enough to make this a shock/gore hit.

I don't understand what you mean by 'banned' films.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I don't think I've actually seen any of these!...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_films#United_Kingdom

Oh, I see.

Bizarre.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I like how Clockwork Orange was banned for 26 years. It's about England, ffs!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Sometimes I have to wonder just what sort of a place England is.

 

[dylans]

I don't understand what you mean by 'banned' films.

Films that the DPP considered obscene and considered for prosecution under the "obscene publications act" During the early 80s the choice was arbitrary and let to absurd raids on video shops and the siezure of random movies at the whim of the local constabularies. The Dolly Parton movie "The best little whorehouse in Texas was siezed under the mistaken belief that it was a porno.

If the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) felt that a certain video might be in breach the Act then a prosecution could be brought against the film's producers, distributors and retailers. Prosecutions had to be fought on a case by case basis and a backlog of prosecutions built up. However, under the terms of the Act the police were empowered to seize videos from retailers if they were of the opinion that the material was in breach of the Act. In the early 1980s, in certain police constabularies, notably Greater Manchester Police which was at that time run by the devout Christian Chief Constable James Anderton, police raids on video hire shops increased.

Faced with this, the DPP tried to put some order into the system of declaring a movie obscene

The Video Retailers Association were alarmed by the apparently random seizures and asked the DPP to provide a guideline for the industry so that stockists could be made aware of what was liable to be confiscated and what they could legitimately keep on their shelves. The DPP recognized that the current system, where the interpretation of obscenity was down to individual Chief Constables, was inconsistent and decided to publish a list that contained names of films that had already resulted in a successful prosecutions or where the DPP had already filed charges against the video's distributors.

This was the so called "video nasties" list

The DPP list of 'video nasties' was first made public in June 1983. The list was modified monthly as prosecutions failed or were dropped. In total, 72 separate films appeared on the list at one time or another. Thirty-nine films were successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act but some of these films have been subsequently cut and then approved for release by the BBFC. The remaining 35 were either not prosecuted or had unsuccessful prosecutions

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[Johnny Canuck3]

Films that the DPP considered obscene and considered for prosecution under the "obscene publications act" During the early 80s the choice was arbitrary and let to absurd raids on video shops and the siezure of random movies at the whim of the local constabularies. The Dolly Parton movie "The best little whorehouse in Texas was siezed under the mistaken belief that it was a porno.



Faced with this, the DPP tried to put some order into the system of declaring a movie obscene



This was the so called "video nasties" list

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But......Black Sunday? The Trip? The Exorcist?

It just seems a bit Nanny State is all.

 

[dylans]

I like how Clockwork Orange was banned for 26 years. It's about England, ffs!

As I pointed out earlier. It wasn't banned. The director withdrew it.

 

[dylans]

But......Black Sunday? The Trip? The Exorcist?

It just seems a bit Nanny State is all.

Remember James Anderton? He was a bible bashing loony who became chief of the Greater Manchester Police. He was a grade A cunt who tried to turn Manchester into something resembling Taliban Afganistan. He even looked like Moses

This was the time of the rise of the Video cassette player. The panic was partly about new technology (in a similar way to the present panic over violent video games such as GTA or the panic over "internet pedo's grooming our kids on facebook. )Society seems to have a panic based reaction to new tech.

This was also the time of Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers and Listeners Association. Laughably the makers of Cannibal Holocaust actually wrote to her complaining about their own movie in the hope that she would move against it thus raising the profile of their movie.LOL

Of course, it was absurd like all attempts to legislate on taste ( echoes of the thread on obscene cartoons here) and ultimately most of the movies were released uncut after it proved impossible to legislate on

The absurdities of those days still stand as a warning to those who wish to legislate on matters of taste and a good example of why freedom of expression is so important

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

As I pointed out earlier. It wasn't banned. The director withdrew it.

According to the wiki article, it was because he received death threats. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.

 

[dylans]

According to the wiki article, it was because he received death threats. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.

Yes. as I pointed out, the irony of making death threats over a violent movie is laughable

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wasn't that "Crash" film banned for a while?

that was utter bollocks.

I assume you mean the earlier one. I don't think it got ban did it? Just some finger wagging.