Video Nasties

Video nasty was a colloquial term in the United Kingdom popularized by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA)^[1] to refer to a number of films distributed on video cassette in the early 1980s that were criticized for their violent content by the press, social commentators, and various religious organizations. These video releases were not brought before the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC), which could have censored or banned many of the films, due to a loophole in film classification laws. As a result, this produced a glut of potentially censorable video releases, which led to public debate concerning the availability of these films to children due to the unregulated nature of the market... read more

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The Official list of 74 Banned "Video Nasties"

1. Absurd (original/alternate titles: Rosso Sangue, Anthropophagus 2 — released with 2m 32s cut in 1983, but was withdrawn post VRA, and has never been re-submitted for classification.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)
2. Anthropophagous: The Beast (original title: Antropophagus — released with approximately 3m of pre-cuts as “The Grim Reaper” in 2002)
3. Axe! (original title: Lisa, Lisa — re-released uncut in 2005)
4. The Beast in Heat (original title: La bestia in Calore) (Banned outright)
5. The Beyond (original title: E tu vivrai nel terrore – L’Aldilà — re-released uncut in 2001)
6. Blood Feast (re-released uncut in 2005)
7. Blood rites (original title: The Ghastly Ones) (Banned outright)
8. Bloody Moon (original title: Die Säge des Todes — released with 1m 20s cut in 1993, released uncut November 2008)
9. The Boogeyman (re-released uncut in 2000)
10. The Burning (re-released uncut in 2001)
11. Cannibal Apocalypse (original title: Apocalypse Domani — released with 2s cut in 2005)
12. Cannibal Ferox (alternate title: Make them Die Slowly – released with approximately 5m of pre-cuts plus 6s of additional cuts in 2000)
13. Cannibal Holocaust (released in 2001 with 5m 44s cut to remove most animal cruelty and rape scenes)
14. Cannibal Man (original title: La Semana del Asesino — released with 3s cut in 1993)
15. Cannibal Terror (original title: Terror Caníbal — released uncut in 2003)
16. Contamination (released uncut in 2004 with a 15 rating)
17. Dead & Buried (re-released uncut in 2004)
18. Death Trap (original title: Eaten Alive — re-released uncut in 2000)
19. Deep River Savages (original/alternate title: Il paese del sesso selvaggio, Man from Deep River — released with 3m 45s cut in 2003)
20. Delirium (Alternate title: Psycho Puppet – released with 16s cut in 1987)
21. Devil Hunter (original title: Il cacciatore di uomini) (Passed uncut November 2008)
22. Don’t Go in the House (released with 3m 7s cut in 1987)
23. Don’t Go in the Woods (released uncut in 2007)
24. Don’t Go Near the Park (released uncut in 2006)
25. Don’t Look in the Basement (original title: The Forgotten — released uncut in 2005 with a 15 rating)
26. The Dorm That Dripped Blood (Alternate title: Pranks – re-released with 10s cut in 2001)
27. The Driller Killer (released with cuts in 1999 – re-released uncut in 2002, now considered to be public domain)
28. The Evil Dead (re-released uncut in 2001)
29. Evilspeak (re-released uncut in 1999)
30. Exposé (re-released with approximately 30s cut in 2006)
31. Faces of Death (released with 2m 19s cut in 2003)
32. Fight For Your Life (Banned outright)
33. Flesh for Frankenstein (Alternate title: Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein – re-released uncut in 2006)
34. Frozen Scream (Banned outright)
35. The Funhouse (Released uncut in 1987, re-classified 15 in 2007)
36. Gestapo’s Last Orgy (original title: L’ultima orgia del III Reich) (Banned outright)
37. The House by the Cemetery (original title: Quella villa accanto al cimitero — re-released with 33s cut in 2001, released uncut in 2009)
38. House on the Edge of the Park (original title: La casa sperduta nel parco — released with 11m 43s cut in 2002)
39. Human Experiments (released with 26s cut in 1994)
40. I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (released with 1m 6s cut in 1986)
41. I Spit on Your Grave (original title: Day of the Woman — released with 7m 2s cut in 2001)
42. Inferno (re-released with 20s cut in 1993 — re-released uncut in September, 2010)
43. Island of Death (original title: Ta Pedhia tou dhiavolou — released uncut September, 2010)
44. Killer Nun (original title: Suor Omicidi — re-released uncut in 2006)
45. The Last House on the Left (passed uncut on the 17th March, 2008)
46. Late Night Trains (original title: L’ultimo treno della notte — released uncut in 2008)
47. Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (original title: Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti — re-released uncut in 2002)
48. Love Camp 7 (refused a certificate in 2002) (Banned outright)
49. Mardi Gras Massacre (Banned outright)
50. Nightmare in a Damaged Brain (re-released with pre-cuts in 2005)
51. Nightmare Maker (Also known as ‘Butcher/Baker/Nightmare Maker’ and Night Warning on the credits of some versions) (Banned outright)
52. Night of the Bloody Apes (original title: La Horripilante bestia humana — released with approximately 1m of pre-cuts in 1999)
53. Night of the Demon (released with 1m 41s cut in 1994)
54. Possession (released uncut in 1999)
55. Prisoner of the Cannibal God (original title: La montagna del dio cannibale — released with 2m 6s cut in 2001)
56. Revenge of the Bogey Man (original title: Boogeyman II — released with additional footage in 2003)
57. The Slayer (re-released uncut in 2001)
58. Snuff (Passed uncut in 2003, however it has not yet been re-released)
59. SS Experiment Camp (original title: Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur — released uncut in 2005)
60. Tenebrae (original title: Tenebre — re-released uncut in 2003)
61. Terror Eyes (original title: Night School — released with 1m 16s cut in 1987)
62. There Was a Little Girl (1981 film) (UK title: Madhouse – released uncut in 2004)
63. The Toolbox Murders (released with 1m 46s cut in 2000)
64. Toxic Zombies also known as “Forest of Fear and “Bloodeaters” (Banned outright)
65. Twitch of the Death Nerve (original title: Reazione a catena, aka Bay Of Blood aka Carnage aka Last House On The Left Part II — released uncut in 2010)
66. Unhinged (released uncut in 2004)
67. Visiting Hours (released with approximately 2m cut in 1986)
68. The Werewolf and the Yeti (original title: La Maldición de la bestia) (Banned outright)
69. The Witch Who Came From the Sea (released uncut in 2006)
70. Women Behind Bars (original French title: Des diamants pour l’enfer) (Banned outright)
71. Zombie Creeping Flesh (original title: Virus – aka, Hell Of The Living Dead — released uncut in 2002)
72. Zombie Flesh Eaters (original title: Zombi 2 — re-released uncut in 2005) (alternate title: Zombie)

The following titles are not part of the official list, but people thought that they were. I watched them anyway:

1. Shogun Assassin (re-released uncut in 1999)
2. Xtro (Released uncut in 1987, re-classified 15 in 2007; Xtro was a common title seized during police raids in the North of England prior to the official list being published.)

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