Connerie de la censure : grâce à la liste officielle dite « video nasty », chacun dispose aujourd’hui d’une liste des meilleurs films zarbis à se procurer de toute urgence.
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasties
“Video nasty” was a colloquial term coined in the United Kingdom by 1982[1] which originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as Mary Whitehouse and various religious organizations.
While violence in films released to cinemas had received attention from an official body, the British Board of Film Censorship, for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the claim that any film could fall into children’s hands led to public debate. Many of these “video nasties” were low-budget horror films produced in Italy and the United States. The furore created by the response to video nasties led to the introduction of the Video Recordings Act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release.
Prosecuted Films
– Absurd (original title: Rosso Sangue; AKA Horrible; The Monster Hunter; Anthropophagus 2 — released with 2m 32s cut in 1983, but was withdrawn post VRA, and has never been re-submitted for classification. Has a release in the United States uncut under the title Horrible)
– Anthropophagous: The Beast (original title: Antropophagus; AKA Anthropophagous; Antropofago; Gomia, Terror en el Mar Egeo; Man Beast: Man-Eater; The Savage Island — released with approximately 3m of pre-cuts as “The Grim Reaper” in 2002. Has a release in the United States uncut under the title Antropophagus: The Grim Reaper)
Axe (AKA Lisa, Lisa; California Axe Murder; The Axe Murders — released with 19s cut in 1999, re-released uncut in 2005)
– The Beast in Heat (original title: La Bestia in Calore) (Banned outright)
– Blood Bath (original title: Reazione a Catena; AKA A Bay of Blood; Twitch of the Death Nerve — released with 43s cut in 1994, released uncut in 2010)
– Blood Feast (released with 23s cut in 2001, re-released uncut in 2005)
– Blood Rites (original title: The Ghastly Ones) (Banned outright)
– Bloody Moon (original title: Die Säge des Todes — released with 1m 20s cut in 1993, released uncut November 2008)
– The Burning (released with 19s cut in 1992, re-released uncut in 2001)
– Cannibal Apocalypse (original title: Apocalypse Domani — released with 2s cut in 2005)
– Cannibal Ferox (alternate title: Make Them Die Slowly — released with approximately 6m of pre-cuts plus 6s of additional cuts in 2000)
– Cannibal Holocaust (released in 2001 with 5m 44s cut to remove most animal cruelty and rape scenes, new version approved with 15s cut in 2011[13])
– The Cannibal Man (original title: La Semana del Asesino; AKA The Apartment on the 13th Floor — released with 3s cut in 1993)
– Devil Hunter (original title: Il cacciatore di uomini) (Passed uncut November 2008)
– Don’t Go in the Woods (released uncut in 2007)
– The Driller Killer (released with cuts in 1999 — re-released uncut in 2002, now considered to be public domain[14][15][16][17][18])
– Evilspeak (released with 3m 34s cut in 1987, re-released uncut in 2004)
– Exposé (released with 30s cut in 1997)
– Faces of Death (released with 2m 19s cut in 2003)
– Fight for Your Life (Banned outright)
– Flesh for Frankenstein (AKA Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein — passed with 56s cut in 1996, re-released uncut in 2006)
– Forest of Fear (AKA Toxic Zombies; Bloodeaters — re-released uncut in 2006)
– Gestapo’s Last Orgy (original title: L’ultima orgia del III Reich) (Banned outright)
– The House by the Cemetery (original title: Quella villa accanto al cimitero — passed with over 4 mins cut in 1988, re-released with 33s cut in 2001, released uncut in 2009)
– The House on the Edge of the Park (original title: La casa sperduta nel parco — released with 11m 43s cut in 2002, re-released with 42s cut in 2011)
– I Spit on Your Grave (original title: Day of the Woman — released with 7m 2s cut in 2001, re-released with 3 mins cut in 2010)
– Island of Death (original title: Ta Pedhia tou dhiavolou — released with 4m 9s cut in 2002, released uncut September, 2010)
– The Last House on the Left (refused a video certificate and passed with 31s cut in 2002, passed uncut on the 17th March, 2008)
– Love Camp 7 (refused a certificate in 2002) (Banned outright)
– Madhouse (original title: There Was a Little Girl — released uncut in 2004)
– Mardi Gras Massacre (Banned outright)
– Night of the Bloody Apes (original title: La Horripilante bestia humana — released with approximately 1m of pre-cuts in 1999; later released uncut in 2002)
– Night of the Demon (released with 1m 41s cut in 1994)
– Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (re-released with pre-cuts in 2005)
– Snuff (Passed uncut in 2003, however it has not yet been re-released)
– SS Experiment Camp (original title: Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur — released uncut in 2005)
– Tenebrae (original title: Tenebre — released with 5s cut in 1999, re-released uncut in 2003)
– The Werewolf and the Yeti (original title: La Maldición de la Bestia) (Banned outright)
– Zombie Flesh Eaters (original title: Zombi 2; AKA Zombie — released with 23s cut in 1999, re-released uncut in 2005)
À noter que ce genre de liste (façon liste Pasqua, un peu plus tard) joue sur le même effet de mélange de trucs qui n’ont pas grand chose à voir entre eux. Certains films, là-dedans, sont carrément excellents (y’a tout de même un Mario Bava, un Dario Argento, un Paul Morrissey, du Lucio Fulci, un Joe d’Amato, un Wes Craven… faut le faire…).
