SS Experiment Camp (1976) not released until 2006 in the UK, without cuts.
Sexual experimentation (consensual) in a concentration camp near the end of WWII to perfect the Aryan race.
A film that was banned mainly due to the marketing campaign as much as the film itself, the poster caused an uproar, even after they painter on the G string! The film is terrible, the only redeeming feature is the fact that the camp commander has got no balls and needs a testicle transplant!
Tenebrae (1982) the 1983 cinema release was cut by 4 seconds, upon video release it was added to the other 38 nasties prosecuted (due to the highly sexualised violence), release on video in 1999 with 5 secs of cuts, and then uncut in 2003.
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer whilst those associated with him are killed off.
The only cut was to the scene where Jane's arm is chopped off with an axe.
I'm a big fan of Dario Argento and it is such a shame that a classic of the Giallo genre should get banned, Agento makes some of the most stylish and stunning thrillers around, and of course the wonderful score by Goblin a feast for the senses. You owe it to yourself to watch almost everything that he has done, though I would avoid his version of Dracula, and probably his film actually called Giallo!
The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975) not sure how or why this ever ended up on the nasties list, but it did, has never been released in the UK.
Adventurer Count Daninsky travels to Tibet in search of the Yeti, he is captured by 2 vampire women and turned in a werewolf!
This is Count Daninskys, played by Paul Naschy, 8th outing as a werewolf, though this film ignores all previous versions! It's a fun movie, like most of Paul Naschy's films, it's got action, bad dialogue and earnest acting and it's worth checking out Naschy's other work, he's quite prolific.
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) was released in 1988 with nearly 2 minutes of cuts and given a cinema certificate of X, presented for video classification and was banned, censors don't like gut munchers! A reedited and cut version was given an 18 certificate in 1992, finally released uncut in 2005 and now widely available.
A yacht drifts into New York, upon investigation flesh eating zombies are discovered onboard, the daughter of the yacht's owner (Tisa Farrow, remember her?) decides she need to find out how it got there so teams up with journalist to travel to the Antilles, on the way they team up with an ethnologist and his girlfriend. They arrive at Matul Island and she finds her dad, who s battling a terrible disease that appears to be turning the islanders into unstoppable flesh eating zombies!
One of the major cuts was the splinter in the eye scene, and then the amount of gore.
I love this Lucio Fulci zombie flick, it works on so many levels, it's a good movie, well scripted and directed, you can almost feel the tension, the effects are great for the time, often copied, rarely bettered! I might have to do a blog on either Fulci or zombies, or even both, they are both important players in movie history.
So that's the 39 films successfully prosecuted by the DPP under the Obscene Publications Act in the UK, I'll follow this with the 33 that weren't successfully prosecuted in later blogs, there's some classics in those as well.
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