Best Video Nasty

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #1 24th July 2008, 06:08 PM

Hello! So everyone knows what a video nasty is! (If you don't look it up

!) But what is your favs? Pick as many as you want - theirs plenty to choose from! lol!

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #2 24th July 2008, 06:29 PM

This is oficially the BIGGEST POLL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!

The Reaper Man@Cult Labs · #3 24th July 2008, 06:33 PM

When were Shogun Assasin and XTRO video nasties?
Or is this films which MAY have been tampered with by the DPP at one point?

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #4 24th July 2008, 06:58 PM

They were both once on the list. I know Xtro was taken off it (but was still on it) not sure if 'Shogun Assassin' came off it. But it was on it

The Reaper Man@Cult Labs · #5 24th July 2008, 07:01 PM

Shogun Assasin was taken from VIPCO'S warehouse and then returned which prompted the slycat marketing dept at VIPCO to splatter PREVIOUSLY BANNED on their videos!
So it is any film which faced prosecution at some point or another right enough?

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #6 24th July 2008, 07:03 PM

Erm... yeah. I thought they were all video nasties LOL! I'm pretty sure 'Shogun Assassin' was on the list but removed too. Check out it's imdb page

goatboy · #7 3rd October 2008, 08:31 PM

Given the name i registered here with, i felt the need to vote for "Island of Death", even though Last House would probably get my vote.

Wasn't there 76 films on the list though in total, i know Sam Fullers "Big Red One" was accidentally put on it and i am sure a dire John Carradine western called "Cain's Cutthroats" was on it very briefly, not that it would have got my vote anyay.

vincenzo · #8 3rd October 2008, 09:22 PM

It was a list of 74 which was finally wittled down to 39. The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas and Apocalypse Now were also confiscated at one time by the police (who obviously had limited film knowledge).

goatboy · #9 3rd October 2008, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by vincenzo

It was a list of 74 which was finally wittled down to 39. The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas and Apocalypse Now were also confiscated at one time by the police (who obviously had limited film knowledge).

They were confiscated but never on the list whereas "Big Red One" actually was listed as was "Cains Cutthroats".

"Cain's Cutthroats appeared briefly on the listing of banned and suspect titels in theVTA (Video Trade Press), a fact which has largely been forgotten by collectors and genre historians, possibly due to the film being a western as oppossed to a horror picture"

- "See No Evil" - Kerekes and Slater (Headpress)

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:j...lnk&cd=4&gl=uk

this Danish guy mentions it also, although he quotes the above book as well

"Some films which for some reason had fallen into the media spotlight, was known as' Video Nasties' whether they had figured on the DPPs list - which incidentally long had the weakness that it included both the film as successful had been prosecuted and movies are awaiting prosecution. Local authorities, who understandably were perplexed by this lack of information, used not only the official lists during their raids, but judged free press guidelines inspired by what they saw as being necessary to seize. DPPs list included (depending on the source Monday consults) up to 76 titles (See No Evil, p. 67) which at one time or another had come to turn on the list, but only 39 of these were successfully prosecuted in order ban.

http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...GB228%26sa%3DN