Visiting Hours (1982) cut upon cinema release, subsequent video releases were uncut but reedited.
A misogynistic serial killer gets a bit peeved when a feminist activist puts him down on a talk show so he decides to attack her, but she survives. She's taken to hospital, our serial killer knows he needs to finish her off and make her suffer.
The cuts were to scenes of torture to women.
This is a very good movie, Michael Ironside, who plays the serial killer, is at his best in this movie, he plays a great demented, woman hating serial killer! It also has William Shatner in it, do you need any other reasons to watch this!
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) no cinema release, released uncut to video 2006.
A woman who was abuse as a child tries to cope with it through TV and alcohol but as she falls further down the rabbit hole she ends up going on a murder spree!
You can tell this was made in the 70's, it looks dated, it's quite a confused film and if it wasn't for the scene with the razor blades and the football player then I doubt it would have made it on the nasties list. I watched it out of curiosity and will never watch it again, it's mostly boring.
Zombie Creeping Flesh (1980) cinema release in 1982 was uncut, as was the 2006 video release.
A female reporter and 4 commandos team up in the jungles of New Guinea (it's always New Guinea!) it investigate the story of flesh eating zombies!
Love this movie, one of the better ones around, and one of the few that actually shows how it first all started. Special effects are a bit dated but we can forgive that, the story and score are great, good bit of tension and smatterings of humour as well!
So that completes the 72 films that were prosecuted by the DPP (39 successfully, 33 not) under the Obscene Publication Act, which then led to the Video Recordings Act 1984.
As well as these 72 there were another 82 films that were classed as video nasties, a lot of those were never resubmitted for classification so aren't readily available in the UK, but I'll go through them and see what I can find, most of them are available one way or another.
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