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Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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Anchor Bay are releasing an interesting video nasties boxset - The Box of the Banned:
| Quote: | Synopsis...
For the first time ever together - six of the most shocking, depraved and corrupt movies which were banned under the Obscene Publications Act during 1983/4 - Along with an all-new feature length documentary Ban The Sadist Videos which was a headline for the Daily Mail at the height of the frenzy. Films include:
# I Spit on Your Grave
# Zombie Flesh-Eaters
# The Driller Killer
# The Evil Dead
# Last House on the Left
# Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
DVD Extras...
# Ban the Sadist Videos: A new documentary on the video nasties
# Fear, Panic and Censorshp |
www.anchorbay.co.uk/perl/search.pl?CO=ABD4437
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ALVT36/revenantmagaz-21
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Good overview:
| Quote: | Who's nasty now?
They were the films that would corrupt a generation with their depravity - or so said Mary Whitehouse. But were the video nasties, with their comedy cannibals and terrible effects, really that bad? Steve Rose reports
Friday September 9, 2005
The Guardian
Along with attempting to breakdance, sharing an illicit John Player Special, and drenching yourself in Kouros, a common rite of passage for teenage boys in early-1980s Britain involved sitting in a bedroom watching, and rewatching, gruesome low-grade horror movies. A generation of young males (it was almost exclusively a male thing) thrilled to the sight of bright red blood spurting out of freshly created orifices, psychos on the rampage with domestic hardware and undead monsters feasting on human sashimi. Their parents, meanwhile, were likely to be downstairs reading newspaper stories with titles like "Rape of Our Children's Minds" that listed in prurient detail the exact same scenes their offspring were playing back in slow motion upstairs.
As a cultural phenomenon, video nasties followed a similar pattern to moral panics over new media. Just like computer games or the internet, the explosion in popularity of the video format in the late 1970s outpaced government measures to regulate it. And back in the days when you had to pay a substantial fee to join a mainstream video club, hundreds of independent companies sprang up, producing and distributing cheap video movies to which cinema's rules of censorship didn't yet apply. Under these conditions, grisly horror movies thrived like maggots on a severed limb.
Between the bouffant-haired pincer movement of Mary Whitehouse and Margaret Thatcher, the golden age of disgusting filmic gore was destined to be brief, though the increasingly conspicuous and rapacious video companies could have hastened the end themselves. In 1982, Vipco put out a full page colour ad for Abel Ferrara's Driller Killer - the notorious drill-bit-entering-forehead shot that would become the defining image of the video nasty era. Shortly after, the distributors of Cannibal Holocaust allegedly wrote a bogus complaint letter to Whitehouse hoping to generate some free publicity.
One of the most remarkable aspects, looking back, is the way the meaning of the term "video nasty" started off vague but was forced to become preposterously precise. It was first used by a Sunday Times journalist in 1982, and as the media frenzy gained momentum, Whitehouse and the other moral custodians each put forward their own definition of what a video nasty was. The then-termed British Board of Film Censors defined obscenity as that which may "tend to corrupt and deprave", which hardly clarified matters. So when the police took action, and started conducting raids on video shops, not only were different titles seized in different parts of the country, comical errors were committed by film-illiterate coppers. Some confiscated the innocuous Dolly Parton musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; others saw pornographic connotations in the title of Sam Fuller's second world war drama, The Big Red One. Finally, an official list of 39 titles was settled on, so prosecutors and collectors knew what to look for.
To be fair, "video nasty" is a fairly accurate description of most of the titles on the list. Of course, they were on video, but most of them really were pretty nasty - in terms of quality as much as content. Italian horror movies, especially, are wearyingly derivative, as the interchangeable titles suggest (pick any combination of the words "zombie", "cannibal", "apocalypse", "blood" and "dead" and it's probably been made). You can imagine Mrs Whitehouse (who admitted she'd never actually watched a video nasty) being shocked out of her pop sox by descriptions of a cannibal beast eating its own entrails, or a woman's eye being impaled by a shard of glass - but had she seen the real thing, she would more likely have laughed. The acts were unspeakable, but the special effects were even worse. They're the sort of thing that could only be have been appreciated by an audience of excitable adolescents.
In the quest to break new taboos, though, many go beyond simple gore. Violence against women seems to be an overriding theme. Some depicted rape, torture, racial murder, bestiality and beyond - with no apparent objective beyond simply putting it on the screen. It's hard to imagine there was a substantial market for the most extreme titles, but as a result of their inclusion on the list, movies such as Don't Go in the Woods or The Gestapo's Last Orgy, have endured far longer than they would have otherwise.
But for every negligible exploitationer on the list, there was a classic. Dario Argento's Tenebrae and Inferno, for example, display a visual finesse and operatic bravery that lift them above the other Italian entries. One of the most notorious titles on the list, Cannibal Holocaust, combines its gruesome imagery with an intelligent, politically motivated plot in which sensation-seeking film-makers enter the Amazon jungle, and slide from ethnographic inquiry to colonialist oppression before ending up as lunch. The theme, and the way the movie is constructed from the explorers' "found" footage, were directly borrowed by The Blair Witch Project.
Many of the superior blacklisted US horrors took pains to put their horror into some sort of social context. Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, for example, which inspired a slew of similar rape-revenge movies, transposed Bergman's Virgin Spring to post-hippie, post-Manson American suburbia. Sam Raimi's comically gory The Evil Dead is still regarded as one of the finest horror movies in existence, and even Ferrara's Driller Killer, for all its notoriety, mapped out some plausible triggers for its protagonist's pathology: artistic impotence, sexual frustration, punk rock. Who could have foreseen that 20-odd years on, Craven would have a mainstream thriller raking it in at the box office (Red Eye), or that Raimi would go on to direct Spider-Man and its sequel, two of the highest-grossing movies of all time?
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· The Box of the Banned DVD collection (Anchor Bay, £29.99) is released on September 26 |
www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1565174,00.html
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I alos hear Grindhouse are going to be releasing new fancy versions of The Beyond and Cannibal Holocaust which should be interesting:
www.houseofhorrors.com/grindhouse.htm |
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| AsamiYamazaki I was Dora Suarez
Great Old One Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Total posts: 342 Location: In the aeroplane over the sea Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 12-09-2005 20:48 Post subject: |
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The box set is a really fun idea, but I really don't think the world needs any more copies of I Spit on Your Grave. That's one crappy movie. I ended up having to watch the dvd on 4x speed so I could still tick it off my banned movies to watch list.
Driller Killer looks its age so profoundly that it's looking fairly cool once again. Last House on the Left is horribly lame (although slightly more acceptable than Deodato's House on the Edge of the Park which is plain wrong) and although the scene with the girls walking down to the water is pretty charged I hate the comedic bungling cops etc.
From a very nasty point of view, New York Ripper is utterly unforgiveable, Fulci at his worst. Weren't all prints of the movie police-escorted out of England? Fulci's Cat in the Brain film is absolutely splendid though, particularly as he plays himself (ish). One of my all time faves, especially as he manages to recycle so many bits from others of his movies including the gem When Alice Broke the Mirror starring the affable Brett Halsey who eats his ugly girlfriends and feeds the remains of them to pigs in a most amiable fashion.
And I'm actually rather partial to Cannibal Holocaust. It generates a genuine reaction rather than a tedious gross-out cheap shot. Yep the animal scenes are vile, as are the real life killings slipped into the 'documentary', but it still honestly shocks.
I can't believe Tenebre was classed as a nasty though. It looks incredibly tame (if lovely) now. |
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| MaxMolyneux Photography Ninja Of The Night!
Great Old One Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Total posts: 1649 Location: Liverpool England United Kingdom Age: 24 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2005 03:45 Post subject: |
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Some of them are good movies but alot of them are trashy too so I'll go with there over hyped. Not many cases of them influncing people to kill.
| Quote: | | The Burning, I don't care what Craven says this film was the inspiration for Freddy Krueger. |
Most likely right since both got badly burned, came back for revenge and killed mostly kids or teenagers inthe film. Difference is in Nightmare in Elm street, Freddy gets burned by an angry mob of Adults and the guy in the Burning wasn't playing a peadophile, just a burn victum out for revenge. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 24-09-2005 03:06 Post subject: |
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| Mighty_Emperor wrote: | I also hear Grindhouse are going to be releasing new fancy versions of The Beyond and Cannibal Holocaust which should be interesting:
www.houseofhorrors.com/grindhouse.htm |
They have a site up promoting CH:
Warning contains some still from the film that some may find offensive.
www.cannibalholocaust.net
Same site at Grind House's homepage (although I assume they'll have more stuff on there over time as they release more films):
www.grindhousereleasing.com
Seems the cover of their 25th anniversary release has been rejected by printers around the world - nice bit of extra publicity. 
They are also doing a limited cinema run:
| Quote: | August 17: Experience big-screen CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
If you’ve never had the opportunity to see the notorious cult shocker CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST on the big screen, you’ll have a chance in certain cities thanks to Grindhouse Releasing. The company, which is gearing up for HOLOCAUST’s DVD release (see item here), has secured the following theatrical playdates:
September 9-10, 16-17
Tivoli Theater
6350 Delmar Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63130
(314) 802-0127
October 1
Landmark’s Uptown Theater
2906 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55408
October 14-15
Landmark's Sunshine Theater
143 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
October 22
Esquire Theater
590 Downing Street
Denver, CO 80218
The theatrical dates can also be found on HOLOCAUST’s official website. Click on “Exhibition,” then “Screenings” to read regularly updated info. —Jennifer Morrow |
www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=4567
Their own screening page has a bigger list
www.cannibalholocaust.net/screening.htm |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 24-09-2005 04:01 Post subject: |
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| AsamiYamazaki wrote: | ... I ended up having to watch the dvd on 4x speed so I could still tick it off my banned movies to watch list.
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That's exactly how I managed to get through Videodrome. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Quote: | Box of the Banned 2 in March
Anchor Bay have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Box of the Banned 2 for 13th March 2006 priced at £24.99. Following on from Anchor Bay UK's Box Of The Banned DVD collection comes a second collection featuring five more of the most shocking and notorious "video nasties" ever to see the light of day, plus a bonus disc featuring the second part of David Gregory's brand new documentary Ban the Sadist Videos.
This specially priced (£24.99) six-disc collection brings together, for the first time ever, five of the movies which were originally banned in the UK under the Obscene Publications Act during the years 1983-84 – Matt Cimber's The Witch Who Came From The Sea, Dario Argento's Tenebrae, Eric Weston's Evilspeak, Lawrence D. Foldes' Don’t Go Near The Park and Luigi Cozzi's Contamination. |
www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=60206
Pre-order:
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000EAT174/revenantmagaz-21
The films:
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 619 Gender: Male |
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3257530.ece
| Quote: | From The Sunday Times
January 27, 2008
MPs press for ban on SS camp ‘video nasty’
FILMS with graphic violence, including one simulating the rape, torture and incineration of concentration camp victims, are being freely sold on the high street, prompting demands by MPs for a reform of the censorship laws.
SS Experiment Camp is one of a clutch of violent films banned 20 years ago by the director of public prosecutions that have been approved for general release by Britain’s film censors and are on sale in shops.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) said there was no evidence that the film causes harm to viewers, adding that “there is nothing in this film that anybody should have any concerns about”. The board claims that sensibilities toward on-screen violence have changed since the film was banned.
However, MPs have questioned the censors’ judgment and their greater tolerance of films and video games containing graphic violence. They want Gordon Brown to give the public more power to appeal against the board’s decisions. The prime minister is set to meet a cross-party coalition of MPs to discuss toughening the laws on “video nasties”.
MPs are concerned that films previously considered so shocking that they were banned have been approved for general sale and are desensitising the public to extreme violence.
They are particularly worried by the decision of censors to grant a general release certificate to SS Experiment Camp, a 1970s low-budget movie that is sold alongside family films at high-street shops and online.
Jewish groups fear such films trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims, who in the film are forced to have sex with Nazi commandants and are boiled alive if they refuse to “collaborate”. The blonde camp commandant forces a Jewish doctor to perform sadistic experiments on women prisoners, including live ovary transplants.
Women dressed in striped prison uniforms are forced to become prostitutes, tortured, hung upside down and electrocuted. They are injected and incinerated after refusing to declare allegiance “to the supreme Führer”.
The film’s cover prominently displays the Nazi SS emblem and the words “Previously banned! Legally available for the first time”. Because it has an 18 certificate, it can be sold on the same shelves as U and PG certificate films.
SS Experiment Camp was approved for release by David Cooke, director of the BBFC, Sir Quentin Thomas, the president, and two vice-presidents, Janet Lewis-Jones and Lord Taylor of Warwick. Thomas is a former senior civil servant; Lewis-Jones and Taylor are lawyers. Though it went on sale in October 2006, it has only just come to the attention of MPs, who are shocked by its contents.
A spokeswoman for the BBFC said SS Experiment Camp had been given a certificate with no cuts because “we have no concerns about it”. Although she accepted it contained sexual violence, she said the board did not believe it was harmful to viewers. “It is tasteless – but then I find most Mel Gibson films tasteless,” she said. “We do not believe that anyone watching this title is going to become antisemitic as a result. It is not going to create an attitude towards Jewish women that is harmful.”
A private member’s bill to be introduced by Julian Brazier, the Conservative MP for Canterbury, with support from senior MPs of all parties, would make it easier to challenge the release of “video nasties”.
Brazier strongly disputed the board’s claims and said the release of SS Experiment Camp was a clear case of the BBFC failing to protect the public.
“We live in a country where half of all males think forced sex is justified under some circumstances and it’s this kind of film that glamorises the torture of women,” Brazier said. “This film may have an 18 certificate but in practice, whatever its classification, it will rapidly find its way into the hands of under18s.”
A motion by 50 MPs asking for a film’s release to be reconsidered would trigger an instant appeal, under the plans to be debated by parliament next month. Other video nasties previously banned but recently released include Snuff, based on the Manson murders, and The Driller Killer, which was the Hollywood director Abel Ferrara’s first movie.
The move is backed by Keith Vaz, the former Labour minister, who heads the powerful Commons home affairs committee.
Commemorations around the country today will mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Yesterday the Holocaust Educational Trust called on the film censors to think again about their decision to release SS Experiment Camp, which was made in Italy by Sergio Garrone in 1976. |
And the Melon Farmers response: http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/parl.htm#Experimental_Nonsense |
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| BlackRiverFalls Sketchy arm
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| Posted: 28-01-2008 23:44 Post subject: |
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ss experiment camp was a bit shit too, and nasty with it  |
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| stuneville Quite decent really...
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| Posted: 29-01-2008 23:00 Post subject: |
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| sherbetbizarre wrote: |
| Quote: | From The Sunday Times
....A private member’s bill to be introduced by Julian Brazier, the Conservative MP for Canterbury, with support from senior MPs of all parties, would make it easier to challenge the release of “video nasties”. ...
“We live in a country where half of all males think forced sex is justified under some circumstances... |
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Hang on a minute.. since when did a full 50% of the male population think it acceptable to ever force someone into sex?
OK, so he's on a bit of a crusade to prevent corruptible youth from being exposed to frankly rubbish exploitative tripe, and just maybe get himself noticed while he's about it, but throwing in hysterical and totally un-verifiable "statistics" such as that aren't going to earn him any points. |
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| ttaarraass Justified/Ancient
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| Posted: 31-01-2008 04:40 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | From The Sunday Times“We live in a country where half of all males think forced sex is justified under some circumstances... |
Huh, I must have missed that question on the last census.... |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 619 Gender: Male |
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| megadeth16 Great Old One Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Total posts: 1269 Location: london uk Age: 32 Gender: Male |
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quote. to disregard the effect of films, television and video games is to ignore a substantial amount of evidence – especially as this is something we actually can do something about.quote
im sorry but ther is no evidence on the effect of films television and video games just more bs from an mp. |
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| CarlosTheDJ Dazed and confused for so long its not true
Great Old One Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Total posts: 912 Location: Lewes Age: 33 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-02-2008 23:12 Post subject: |
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| megadeth16 wrote: | quote. to disregard the effect of films, television and video games is to ignore a substantial amount of evidence – especially as this is something we actually can do something about.quote
im sorry but ther is no evidence on the effect of films television and video games just more bs from an mp. |
 Are you sure?
NO evidence at all? |
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