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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
I’m surprised I’ve not seen more of them…
The DPP list was a list of 'video nasties' that were banned during the ridiculous paranoid phase in the 80s whereby everything violent in the world could be easily blamed and scapegoated on violent films, and not the fact that the sad reality is that there are some horrible people out there. In total seventy four separate films appeared on the list at one time or another, and thirty nine films were successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act! This obscene censorship just over 20 years ago sickens me. However, this isn’t a rant about censorship and how repugnant I think it is, it’s actually supposed to be a light-hearted blog!
I have copied and pasted the list from Wilkipedia, and have bolded and reviewed out the ones that I have seen, and invite everyone else who reads this to do so too.
Absurd/The Anthropophagous Beast
Axe
The Beast In Heat
The Beyond
Bloodbath
Blood Feast
An amusingly cheap horror film with a horribly sinister bad guy cannibal. The gore is impressive and pretty gruesome… apparently, the director used real offal. Ew.
***
Blood Rites
Bloody Moon
The Bogeyman
The Burning
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox
Like Cannibal Holocaust, but not as good.
***
Cannibal Holocaust
A truly stunning and darkly brutal film. Violent: yes; valid and a bloody good film: undoubtedly.
*****
Cannibal Man
Cannibal Terror
Contamination
Dead And Buried
Death Trap
Deep River Savages
Delirium
The Devil Hunter
Don't go on the House
Don't go In the Woods ... Alone
Don't go In the Park
Don't look in the Basement
Driller Killer
Possibly the worst film I’ve ever seen. Atrocious acting, beyond lame concept, and the drilling was both laughable and hardly gorey at all.
*
The Evil Dead
Wonderful stuff – Bruce Campbell is hilarious.
****
Evilspeak
Expose
Faces Of Death
Fight For Your Life
Flesh For Frankenstein
Forest Of Fear
Frozen Scream
The Funhouse
Gestapo's Last Orgy
The House By The Cemetery
House On The Edge Of The Park
Human Experiments
Inferno
Island of Death
I Miss You. Hugs and Kisses
I Spit On Your Grave
Truly disturbing scenes of rape and an shocking shot over a woman severing a man’s penis off can’t alter the fact that this was a lame film.
*
Killer Nun
The Last House on the Left
Limited, dated and still horribly mutilated by the censors. Shame really, because it was a pretty good horror film for its day.
***
Last Night Trains
Living Dead At Manchester Morgue
An enjoyable zombie movie that is well worth seeing, but I can’t really see why it was banned.
***
Love Camp 7
Madhouse
Mardi Gras Massacre
Night Of The Bloody Apes
Night Of The Demon
Nightmare Maker
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain
Possession
Pranks
Prisoner Of The Cannibal God
Revenge Of The Bogey Man
Shogun Assassin
Okay, I can see why this got banned. No plot, no characterisation, who cares? He has a katana and gets Ninja on the bad guys!
***
The Slayer
Snuff
SS Experiment Camp
Tenebrae
Terror Eyes
The Toolbox Murders
Unhinged
Visiting Hours
The Werewolf And The Yeti
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
Women Behind Bars
Xtro
Zombie Creeping Flesh
Zombie Flesh Eaters
An excellent zombie film that is pretty gruesome, it’s true, but still worth a look.
***
All the ones that are available in the UK are now on my screenselect list, and I fully expect Alex to reply saying that he’s seen them all!
How much do I want to see Killer Nun?!?!
Have fun,
M x
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