• Der Heiße Tod
• 99 donne
• 99 mujeres
• Island of Despair
• Isle of Lost Women
• Prostitutes in Prison
• Sex im Frauengefängnis
• The Hot Death
• Women's Penitentiary XII

See review from IMDb: A bit disappointing

The newest batch of detainees arrives at a remote women's prison. The fortress-like prison is ruled with an iron hand by Thelma Diaz (Mercedes McCambridge), a woman who has no qualms against death or torture. But when a new state official takes notice of the body count coming out of the prison, Diaz must prove her ability and hide the truth. As the powers that be turn up the pressure it sets up a daring escape by several of the ladies.

"Women in prison" flicks can be a mixed bag. Many offer the usual softcore action (usually of the lesbian variety) and / or nasty torture sequences that often exploit. But 99 Women doesn't really offer too much of either. 99 is actually more artistic than most of the "W.I.P." films that I've seen and as a result it comes off as a bit bland. The photography is fine but with most of the action taking place indoors the camera-work is not flashy. The acting is pretty decent but the script is a bit "talky" in an unnecessary way.

The softcore action is not awfully titillating since many of the scenes are shot in an "artistic" fashion the X-rated version does offer some hardcore inserts but you can easily tell they were added much latter since they don't match. "99 Women" has some style but not a lot of substance. A bit disappointing.

The 2007 Redemption video was cut by 1:00s for animal cruelty

Current UK Status: Passed 18 with 1:00s of cuts

There are two 'uncut' versions doing the rounds:

• An official unrated Director's Cut as approved as the preferred version by Franco
• A French local version with nearly irrelevant hardcore added in by another director shooting new footage. This is generally referred to as the X rated version

The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The X rated region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon
The X rated region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Nu ji zhong ying
• Bamboo House of Dolls

An escape attempt in a Japanese women's POW camp.

• Women Behind Bars
• Frauengefängnis
• Caged Women
• Women's Penitentiary IV

The cinema certificate was rejected in 1976 under the title Caged Women.

See review from IMDb: Comical, disorienting and depressing

Women in Prison movies come in several styles, ranging from tongue-in-cheek camp to disturbingly sadistic shockfests. Barbed Wire Dolls is a Jess Franco flick, so, as expected, it doesn't really fit into any pigeonhole. Overall, it feels like watching a repressed old man's secret fantasies, re-enacted half-assedly over the course of a three-day weekend by Franco's friends in exchange for a free flight ticket. The extremely low budget is clearly visible in every aspect of the movie, including the film quality, which is barely a step above that of a Mexican soap opera or 80s late-night infomercial.

Watching Frauengefangnis is like performing an experiment on yourself. The painfully slow pace, downbeat soundtrack, eternal scenes of pointless verbal abuse, mock torture, and idiotic dialog gradually turn your brain into glue. The movie is so sleazy, depressing, and confusing, that it's almost unwatchable in one sitting.

The creepy effect of this movie doesn't come from graphic violence, as there is none. What's disturbing is how tame and lifeless everything feels, given what's supposed to be taking place. For example, it's unnerving to watch a woman laugh while she gets tortured. The laughing isn't part of the script, but on more than one occasion, actresses in this movie unintentionally crack up throughout what's supposed to be a torture or a rape scene. The effect it at once comical, disorienting and depressing. It really has to be seen to be believed.

A 2nd attempt saw a cut cinema release in 1977 as Caged Women.

The censors cut this video by 41s when submitted by Anchor Bay in 2004

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 41s cuts

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• The Best of the New York Film Festival

Cinema certificate rejected in April 1975

Resubmitted and cut for cinema in August 1975

The Moira Maher video was cut when submitted in 1987

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 5:00s cuts

• Il Grande Racket
• Racket

A cinema certificate was refused in 1977

Review from imdb: Good Script

My interest in Italian cinema is usually limited to horror films, but I made an exception for this crime flick - and I'm certainly glad that I did! Actually, The Big Racket isn't a world away from the popular Italian Giallo styling, only instead of having a vicious murderer on the loose; we have a small town at the mercy of a group of organised thugs. For a film with this sort of plot, it's surprising just how good The Big Racket is. Italian films from the seventies have a bad reputation for not making a lot of sense, but not only does this one make sense - it benefits from a great, multi-angled story as well.

The film sees a bunch of criminals sabotaging local businesses and asking for protection money from the owners to make them stop. The police presence in the town is largely ineffective, with the exception of one man - Inspector Nico Palmieri.

The Big Racket benefits immensely from a strong leading performance courtesy of Fabio Testi. Testi's portrayal of the angry police officer is perfectly judged to fit the movie, and I don't think there is an actor who could be better suited to playing the lead in this movie.

The script is really good, and finds time to flesh out its characters as well as deliver witty dialogue that is always a part of this movie's bigger budget American cousins.  It all boils down to a fabulous conclusion which serves in ensuring the movie gets the bloody end it deserves, as well as rounding off the story perfectly.

Passed 18 after 14s cuts for DVD submitted by Michael Lee in 2002

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 14s cuts

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Rejected in 1984

The 1984 cinema release was banned in 1984

Current UK Status: Banned

• Blutiger Freitag
• Freies Geleit oder die Geiseln sterben
• Violent Offender
• Violenza contro violenza

Current UK Status: Banned

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: Classic exploitation

The Candy Snatchers is a totally awesome movie. There is nothing to hate in this classic exploitation. Fantastic plot with fine one liner dialogue and a wicked black sense of humour!

The acting is way above average for a 70's low budget pic. I was thrilled from start to finish, dare I even say that this is probably the best exploitation movie I have seen to date!

Tarantino must have seen this movie countless times, there are at least two scenes in the candy snatchers which reminded me of Kill Bill 2 and Reservoir Dogs!

The Candy Snatchers is the way to go if you REALLY want to see a classic from an era that will undoubtedly ever come again!

Although this is an exploitation movie, this movie is very light on violence and nudity, and I am glad it is! You don't need to be extreme to make a great exploitation movie.

The Candy Snatchers stands proud in my dvd collection. 10/10

Current UK Status: Banned in the UK

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Blue Movie Star
• Evolution of Snuff

The BBFC passed the 1978 cinema release X after cuts. This cut version was then passed 18 doe the 1986 Sheptonhurst video

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts

• Il Paese del sesso selvaggio
• The Man from Deep River
• Nel Paese del Sesso Selvaggi
• Au Pays del'Exorcisme
• Mondo Cannibale
• sacrifice

Review from imdb: Not much gore

I liked this one strictly for its exoticness. Me Me Lay looks great dressed or naked. She has a great face. I have the Prism edition video. That one is missing a brief cannibal scene that later showed up in Lenzi's Eaten Alive by the Cannibals. The cinematography was well done and I may catch some heat for this but I actually liked the music.

The love scene in the river came very close to XXX. A well placed bush (no pun intended) kept it soft-core. Not much gore, so jungle flick fans should like it. I know I did.

Derann released the uncut version on video in November 1982. It was listed as a video nasty in March 1984 but it was dropped from the list in September 1985

Re-released on DVD in 2003 after 3:45s cuts for animal cruelty for an 18 certificate

Current UK Status: Passed 18 with 3:45s cuts

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Deported Women of the SS Special Section
• SS Girls

Rejected in 1977.

A classic of Nazi filth & degradation according to one enthusiastic website. A particularly inventive scene involves a prisoner who knowing that she is going to be raped inserts a razor blade in her vagina. The commandant inevitably gets to suffer from a cleft shaft!

Available on video from the US

The BBFC banned the 1980 cinema release

The film was rejected on the grounds of abusive overuse of the swear words; Fuck & Cunt. (No F***ing PC asterisking out of swearwords on this site!)

Review from UK Amazon: Wallowing in vulgarity

Look... this isn't for everyone. It's Peter Cook and Dudley Moore going back for one last excursion into the world of Derek and Clive. For the uninitiated, Pete and Dud hit on an unsurpassed comic concept of wallowing in vulgarity and absurdity which knew no bounds. Fortunately, Cook was a brilliant comic who was at his best at improvisation. Moore could not have been a better foil and was able to keep up with Cook's ideas and helped taking them all the way to their - sometimes very clever or dreadful - end.

This is the only filmed document (that I'm aware) of their collaboration on this particular comic endeavor - and its priceless. There's been a lot of talk about how they were at odds at this time, and the humour (and their relationship) was strained. Well, I've watched this countless times, and can't help finding the material and chemistry absolutely magic.

They did reunite for the release of this video (which had only been available for years as a bootleg). So all the noise about them disagreeing on the final product is up for debate.

What's not debatable (OK - for some folks it might be) is this is great fun and highly recommeded to anyone who appreciates extremely ribald, imaginitive comedy.

Oh, and some of the compalints about the 16mm film stock and poor lighting, etc... Please. This isn't a George Lucas epic. Its two well-matched, talented comics having some fun in a studio somewhere in London.

The BBFC passed the 1983 Polygram video 18 uncut

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 2 DVD is available via US Amazon

• Jack 'n' Jill, Part 2

• Escape
• Hellfire on Ice 2: Escape from Hell
• Savage Island

Warden and guards dole out the punishment in a women's prison in the jungle.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

This is a documentary about French porno star Claudine Beccarie, containing several staged hardcore scenes.

• Fantale

Sex comedy in which a professor (John Bluthal) delivers an illustrated lecture discussing the ten most common female sexual fantasies.

Now available on Australian DVD uncut (with OFLC cuts made at the time reinstated) from Umbrella Entertainment, on a disc with its sequel Fantasm Comes Again.

• Bloodbath at 1313 Fury Drive
• Getting Even
• Held Hostage
• I Hate Your Guts
• Staying Alive

From www.imdb.com: Disturbing Scenes

Three escaped convicts seek refuge at the home of a black minister and his family, there the family is humiliated and beaten. When his daughter is violated the family begin to embark on some vengeance.

A film which has very little to offer other than racial hatred and some rather disturbing scenes of violence.

The 1982 uncut video release was banned in September 1984 as a video nasty and remained on the DPP list throughout the panic

Current UK Status: still banned

The uncut region 0 DVD is available from US Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available from via UK Amazon

• Intimate Entry

Review from Amazon US

Forced Entry is a sexually explicit and violent film dealing with a crazed Vietnam vet and his psychopathic tendencies to rape and kill women.

It is a prime example of early seventies adult and grindhouse films. The sex scenes are of the hardcore variety and according to the liner notes by the director, the rest of the film was created to allow for compliance with the then current obscenity laws of the country.

Forced Entry is really nothing more than a porn film masquerading as a "socially relevant" study of a war damaged individual. The low budget roots of this film are evident as there are multiple instances of things like the microphone being clearly visible. Check out the initial gas station sequence and a much more humorous hardcore segment later on where the mic slides into the frame.

The DVD print is ravaged, lines, blotches and many other imperfections throughout the whole film. This is probably the best that could be expected from this type of film but if you are looking for some sort of pristine print you will be disappointed. I would not recommend paying a premium price for this film on DVD. However, it is a film worth seeing if you are into the history of subversive film. I don't believe this disc is worth the asking price but it is worth seeing once.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The BBFC banned the 1967 cinema release

Review from US Amazon: Pre-Easy Rider Nicholson

I've seen this one three or four times on Speedvision. Kind of ruthless toward the women but conveys the style of the Hell's Angels.

Too bad about Adam Roarke. He was a good guy, a pretty good actor, stunt man and.... well he died a little before his time.  Somehow Jack Nicholson just doesn't fit in. Sonny Ralph Barger sure does!

The BBFC cut 2:14s from the 1977 cinema release

The BBFC laid into the 1988 MIA video with 10:59s of cuts

The BBFC noted the 15 rated 2005 Cinema Club DVD as a re-edited version. Some previous cuts waived.

Current UK Status: Passed 15 after pre-cuts

• Heisser Sex in Bangkok

• Je t'aime...moi non plus
• I Love You No More

Concerns a bisexual triangle involving Joe Dallesandro, Hugues Quester and Jane Birkin.

Rejected in 1975 and 1976

Review from US Amazon: Brutal

This film takes place in a Nazi concentration camp dedicated to pseudo medical experimentation on its prisoners. Ilsa, the commandant is portrayed in ruthless fashion by the stunning Dyanne Thorne. Thorne designs and carries out the most excruciatingly painful and torturous experiments on her helpless victims for the sheer whimsy of impressing Nazi ideology and the gratification of her own views on the endurance of the female of the species. The buxom beauty and haughtiness of the barbarous Thorne perversely fixates the viewer as she doles out tortures in nonchalant and indifferent fashion.

Thorne is the essence of cruelty for cruelty's sake. Thorne is the screen's incarnation of pure evil. I can think of no other film that is as disturbing as this one. The explicit sadism portrayed in this film may or may not have actually occurred as depicted. But unthinkable sadism, torture, cruelty and debauchery did actually occur in Nazi camps.

The power of this film is that it shocks the viewer. It puts the viewer in the place of the helpless victim. And the viewer does feel helpless. The viewer gets the idea of what it may have been like to be subjugated twenty-four a day to unspeakable fears and horrors. What form of corporal suffering and humiliation for the mere amusement and pleasure of these Nazi captors is next?

This is an unbelievably difficult film to watch because the brutality depicted is extremely graphic. After viewing this film I was shocked and I had a feeling of just how brutal the Nazis actually were.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via US Amazon

• Justine och Juliette
• Swedish Minx

• Death's Ecstacy
• The Beast
• The Beast in Heat

The 1978 cinema release was banned by the BBFC but it did get a reduced distribution via local authority X certificates and cinema clubs

Review from US Amazon: Most controversial film of the decade

This DVD has been a highly sought after film in the Walerian Borowczyk catalogue, and is considered by some to be ...the most controversial film of the decade. An insane adult reworking of The Beauty and the Beast tale. This erotic fable was originally to be part of the Immoral Tales (1974) anthology, yet was put aside due to it's controversial subject matter then later transformed into this film.

The opening close-up of a horse's throbbing vagina gave me a bit of a shock, and I soon realized that I was in for a very interesting ride.

The financially unstable son, Mathurin (Pierre Benedtti), and very rich, and horny Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) are soon to be arranged in marriage at the failing Mathurin estate. The home is full of history relating to the families most famous ancestor, Romilda. Lucy immediately becomes fascinated with Romilda, and stumbles upon her diary.

The tale is told of the day she was brutally attacked in the woods by a comical man / beast creature with a extra large penis. This scene is both shockingly powerful and hilariously funny all at once. Combining black humour, with graphic sexuality.

My mouth was left a gasp from beginning to end with this outrageous film.

The distributor, Global Sales, pre-cut about 9 minutes from the 1988 video titled Death's Ecstacy

11 minutes of pre-cuts have been restored for a cinema certificate gained in February 2001. This version is accepted as the Director's Cut and is generally preferred over the Complete Version. All sex scenes are intact but there are a couple of scenes missing (for pacing reasons). Thanks to Marc:

The Director's Cut was passed uncut for the Nouveaux Pictures DVD of 2001

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The Director's Cut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The longer Complete Version region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

• Charlotte
• Una Vita bruciata
• Ein Wildes Leben

• Krug & Company
• The Men's Room
• Night of vengeance
• Sex Crime of the Century

Two girls are kidnapped by escaped prisoners and are subjected to sexual humiliation, razor torture, rape, disembowelments and shooting. The parents of one girl avenge their death by chainsaw, throat cutting and castration.

Review from imdb: Brutal Realist Tragedy

While I think that people tend to get a bit hyperbolic when they talk about The Last House on the Left, I do think it's a fairly good film, especially given what the filmmakers were trying to do and considering their lack of experience, the era and the budget. Also, despite a filmic precursor, it just may be the earliest example of the horror subgenre of brutal, realist tragedy. However, it has flaws that would be difficult to overlook in a distanced assessment of the film.

But again, focusing on that amounts to hype now, and shouldn't be taken too seriously, lest it lead to inflated expectations. Just as surprising on a first viewing is that The Last House on the Left has an intermittent goofy sense of humor and a groovy attitude that is firmly mired in the early 1970s. The two policemen are really comic relief characters (and very funny at that), but there is also a lot of humor surrounding the criminal quartet--this almost becomes a black comedy at times. These sensibilities even extend to the music, which has a frequent hillbilly edge and lyrics that supply ex-positional material. Surprisingly, Hess, who plays Krug, wrote the music.

The video was released by Replay in June 1982. It was an early casualty of the video nasty panic and got banned in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout and so became one of the collectible DPP39s

A cinema release was banned again in 2000. However it achieved an cinema club circuit release in 2000.

A subsequent video release was rejected in 2001

The video was again submitted in 2002 but this time the BBFC offered cuts. An appeal against the cuts proved unsuccessful and in fact resulted in additional cuts to those originally requested by the BBFC. The resulting Blue Underground video/DVD release of 2002 suffered 31s of censor cuts.

Further 2003 video/DVD releases (including one titled Krug & Company) from Anchor Bay have been edited differently but maintained the previous BBFC 2002 cuts

Finally passed 18 uncut by the BBFC in 2008

No cuts are noted to the 2008 Metrodome DVD identified as The Krug Edit

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• L'Ultimo Treno della Notte
• Don't Ride on Late Night Trains
• Night Train Murders
• Torture Train
• L'ultimo treno della notte
• Night Train - Der Letzte Zug in der Nacht
• The New House on the Left

The BBC rejected the cinema release in 1976 under the title Late Night Trains.

Review from US Amazon

I agree that while this film borrowed heavily from Last House on the Left, Night Train Murders is the better of the two. Good production values, excellent cinematography, an Ennio Morricone score, decent acting and a tight script, set Night Train Murders above Last House and other films of this type.

The first third of the film introduces the main characters and then gets them on a train (the night before Christmas) that is full of odd, quirky travelers - most of whom seem to be prone to indulging in one perversion or another.

The "defilement" section of the film is a gripping, harrowing affair that escalates in viciousness before climaxing in a very brutal fashion.

The final act does not live up to the scenes that precede it.  I was expecting a truly grisly and horrific conclusion. However, the director's desire to keep from glamorizing violence is probably why the ending feels somewhat restrained.

Video Warehouse International released a cut video as Late Night Trains in 1981.

Cinehollywood released an uncut video in November 1981 under the title Night Train Murders. This version was listed as a video nasty in July 1983. This was dropped from the list in March 1984

Passed 18 uncut in 2008 as Night Train Murders

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 1 DVD is available from US Amazon

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
• Leatherface
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• TCM 3
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

Review from UK Amazon: Unique and interesting

The 2004 UK DVD is absolutely packed with extra features, including an outstanding, in-depth "making of" type documentary, as well as some pretty shocking deleted scenes.

The film itself is extremely well-acted, especially by the lead, Kate Hodge. It is however, not the most pleasant film you will ever see and if the filmmakers intended it to be a gruelling and punishing experience, they definitely succeeded.

The film doesn't entirely gel, probably due to the many cuts and all of the editing to comply with the censors, in order to secure a more mainstream release. Unfortunately, despite featuring several strong performances, excellent (and very gruesome) special make-up effects, the completed film is left damaged and confused in several key places. But, it is still one of the better entries in this particular series and is well-worth a look as a unique and interesting horror film.

The DVD gives you the option of watching either the unrated version or the cut version.

The BBFC passed the cut US R rated version with no BBFC cuts for an 18 certificate for the 2004 Entertainment in video DVD.

The BBFC passed the US unrated version with an uncut 18 certificate for the 2004 Entertainment in video DVD.

Note that other cuts were implemented at an early stage of editing. These scenes were never completed and the unprocessed rough cuts have become DVD extras.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Documentary about sex change which includes controversial footage of the operation

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Libesbriefe einer Portugiesischen Nonne

A clue to the reasons for the ban may lie in the synopsis: She describes herself as a naked prisoner in a windowless, doorless room from which she is finally delivered to hooded men with naked cocks in cock rings. With her head in stocks, she is whipped, fucked and humiliated.

Horror comedy from Troma. A loving mother trains her sons to kidnap and torture innocent victims.

Review from Amazon US

Wow! Words can hardly express how much I love this movie! This is a true 80's horror classic, with a little bit of camp thrown in for fun! I can't say enough about this under seen little gem! For it's time and genre, the gore and killings are just fantastic. I really dig the script as well. I say that in my opinion, the acting is absolutely fantastic (contrary to other reviews).

The three actresses (Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce) that star in this movie seem to have a great chemistry amongst themselves. Their laughing and playing comes off smoothly and they are quite convincing as old college pals. Their scenes together flow naturally throughout the film and do not come off as contrived in the slightest bit.

The brothers Ike (Holden McGuire) and Addley (Michael McCleery) are SUPERB in their roles!! They truly give off the creepiest vibe with such ease that it's hard to tell that they are acting. Lastly, Rose Ross is fantastic in her role as Momma. She can be sweet, demanding, scary, demented, and creepy without batting an eyelash. People have criticized this film for years but it is a film that really entertains the serious horror fan. I have been watching these movies for 25 years and this is definitely one in my top 5!

Shown on The Horror Channel in 2005

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Living Nightmare
• La Svastica nel Ventre

Sirpa Lane heads a Nazi brothel but she has a secret to hide, she's Jewish

• Lo Squartatore di New York
• Psycho Ripper
• The Ripper

Rejected in 1984. Lucio Fulci's film was  not only banned but all prints were escorted out of the country.

See review from US Amazon:  Darkest and goriest

The New York Ripper was a great Italian horror film from Lucio Fulci, the film was filled with plenty of gruesome death scenes and lots of sleaze, sex and nudity in fact its probably one of the sleaziest Italian horror flicks I've ever seen. It was also notorious for being banned in the U.K. This is easily one of Lucio Fulci's darkest and goriest films out there (O.K. maybe not THE goriest, I still think that Cat In The Brain holds that title), there is one scene that was quite sick and perverse that's guaranteed to make you squirm, yes I'm talking about the "Golden Toes" scene.

When an old man finds a prostitute's severed hand under the Brooklyn Bridge the police decide to do a little investigating. It seems that the victim was heard speaking to a strange duck-voiced man. As the murders add up the police detective who's investigating the case recruits a psychology professor to help find out who this Donald Duck voiced maniac could be

This is a typical Fulci flick which means that the plot gets thinner during the course of the film and the bad acting which was adequate especially for this type of film could have been better but that's not important, if your a hardcore Fulci or exploitation fan then you'll obviously love this as the death scenes were quite brutal and very nasty.

I have to admit that I really liked this film a lot and it was one of Fulci's best, while not a classic like Zombi 2, it was still great and enjoyable.

The video version was submitted by Protected and passed 18 in 2002 after 22s cuts.

When submitted in 2007 for an Argent Films DVD release, the film was shorn of 34s

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts of 34s

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut all regions Blu-ray is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut all regions Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

The 1978 cinema release was passed uncut

The 2008 Revelation DVD was passed 18 uncut.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

A hardcore classic based upon Pygmalion.

This was on Palace Video pre-VRA. It's a reconstruction
of the Manson "family" murders 'in realistic detail', to quote the sleeve. It's not very violent at all and could easily be cut today. It was rejected for largely political reasons within the BBFC. It's actually a rather good film.

• Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann

Rejected in 1977

Hardcore classic

Horror parody about a novelist whose dinner party is continually interrupted by psychotic women.

• Le Lunghe notti della Gestapo
• The Red Nights of the Gestapo

The BBFC rejected the cinema release of 1979

Review from US Amazon: Sexually-centric

The picture quality is highly impressive, jaw-droppingly so, and sound is clear, you can hear every sexual moan.

I'm not a fan of most nasty Nazi films, I find them to be cheap and boring lacking in what they promise as fantasy sex and gore pictures. Having read about this one being more sexually-centric than nasty I decided to make one last foray into this most reviled of cinema's exploitation sub-genres. I make no apologies for finding sexy women dressed up in Nazi uniforms titillating, which is where this fabulous trash succeeds above and so far beyond anything I've witnessed before.

The actresses here are the stars, both beautiful and plenty, everything else just gets in their way.

Thankfully the director had fantastic zeal and extracted the most lucidly lascivious performances I have ever seen. Though I must say that erotica is my personal bent, so perhaps what is on show here would be considered tame by today's purveyors of porn.

The BBFC relented on their cinema ban in 1981 but only after having inflicted 12 minutes of cuts

Current UK Status: Passed 18 for the cinema after ~12:00s cuts

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Vierges et vampires
• Caged Vampires
• Caged Virgins
• The Crazed Vampire
• Crazed Virgins
• Dungeon of Terror
• Requiem pour un vampire
• Sex Vampires
• Virgins and Vampires
• Virgins and the Vampires

The cinema release of 1972 was banned by the BBFC

See review from IMDb:  Highly recommended

No one would be expecting a meaningful social commentary from a film with this title, but please bear in mind when watching that this a Jean Rollin film, so don't expect a meaningful story either. My guess is that you're probably expecting some mad nonsense with kinky lesbian vampires. You won't be disappointed. This is mad, it has kinky lesbians and they're vampires. Happy days!

It's quite light hearted for a Rollin flick and is at the fast end of his snail like pacing, but that isn't saying much on either count. It's no Daughters of Darkness either, so don't try to make sense of it, you'll end up as bonkers as Rollin.

Instead laugh at crap vampires and revel in the kink fest in the dungeon. It's bloody great and is a bona fide Eurotrash classic. Highly recommended.

Video cut by 6:55s when submitted in 1993 by Redemption Films

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts of 6:15s

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
• Salo ou les 120 journees de Sodome
• 120 Days of Sodom

Rejected for a cinema certificate in 1976

From Salò and censorship: a history

It was refused a certificate on the legal grounds of gross indecency. Gross indecency was defined in British law as anything which an ordinary decent man or woman would find to be shocking, disgusting and revolting, or, which offended against recognised standards of propriety.

Unlike the Obscene Publications Act - which at that stage did not apply to films - gross indecency allowed for no defence of artistic or cultural merit to be mounted on the film's behalf. Furthermore, there was no requirement to consider the film - or the film's purpose - as a whole. If any part of the film was indecent then the whole film was illegal.

Review from UK Amazon: Not for the Faint-Hearted

There are few movies out there, if any, that can generate as much ire and disgust as Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.

Over the years, the film has created this almost mythical quality around itself, if mostly for the fact that it's still banned / badly cut in many countries around the World. Not so for us lucky Brits - The BBFC has passed the uncut edition since the Halcyon Days of 2000. Make no mistakes, if any film has the ability to transform you into a gibbering, crying mess, it's this one.

Not for the Faint-Hearted? You'd better believe it.

And thus, it's hard to really "recommend" this film to anyone, as you wouldn't really "recommend" divorce - But it's a life experience you can gain valuable knowledge from. The film takes it's inspiration / Modus Operandi from the Marquis De Sade's notorious novel The 120 Days of Sodom, which, if you have read it, you will know perfectly well what you can expect from the film. Transporting the setting to Mussolini-Era Fascist Italy, four Aristocratic Libertines subject their young subjects to Sexual Manipulation and Torture, both physical and psychological. Pasolini does not shun from showing these in all their brightest colours, and considering that the great man was murdered mere months after the film's premiere, it can be surmised that it raised much anger amongst those artistically inclined.

Watch at your peril, without Mother and Children preferably.

After the 1976 (public) cinema ban but a DPP approved version was personally edited by James Ferman for exhibition in (private) cinema clubs.

An uncut version was however screened in 1995 at the NFT. It was also briefly shown uncut in a Soho cinema club in 1977 but that resulted in a police raid.

Cinema version & BFI DVD passed uncut in 2000

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Rejected for a cinema release in 1984

Linda Blair armed with a crossbow (a forbidden weapon at the BBFC) avenges a deaf friend who was gang-raped. The leader of the rapists gets shot with the crossbow and then set ablaze.

Review from US Amazon: Gratuitous Nudity

Definitely of major significance in Linda Blair's post-Exorcist career, this sleazy tale of high school revenge is a must for bad film fans everywhere.

This sympathetic tale tells the story of Brenda (Blair), a tough high school gal who spends her nights drinking peach brandy on the streets of LA with her equally tough friends. One night, they make the mistake of puttering with a gang called the Scars ("careful Brenda, these dudes look dangerous"), and before you know it, the Scars have raped and beaten Brenda's deaf, mute sister. Once Brenda learns the truth of what transpired, she vows revenge on those responsible.

This is the pre-eminent 80's high school movie - terrible music, awful acting, questionable violence and gratuitous nudity.

Rejected for a video release in 1986

The video versions of 1987 (Lazer Films) and 1991 (Channel 5) had 11:28s pre-cut and a further 1:04s cut by the BBFC

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after extensive cuts

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Probably offended due to its S&M scene with Jamie Gillis & Serena which features anal & vulva whipping.

• Dansk sexualitet
• Sensual Freedom in Denmark

The cinema release was banned by the BBFC in 1972

See review from IMDb: Insightful

This movie is about the morality, education, and responsibilities pertaining to sexual freedom. Not only that, it has the most amazing child birth sequence that could and should be used as a training tool and viewed by anyone that is interested in the miracle of child birth.

This very insightful movie should be shown in school sex education programs internationally along with material already being presented in that forum, and is and all around must see for anyone deemed mature enough. It is a great introduction to various pertinent aspects in the sexual arena. It's delightful!

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Histoire d'O: Chapitre 2
• Histoire d'O: Numero 2
• Historia de O, II parte

Much softer and more light hearted than the original but was still rejected.

Shown widely across Europe on broadcast TV (eg M6)

Rejected in 1975. Was one of Stephen Murphy's last acts before resigning as chief censor

Review from IMDb

There are some films that are designed to shock, some designed to titillate, some that delight in disgusting the view. For Makavejev, shock, disgust and titillation are never the purpose, but a means to a form of psycho-liberation. Makavejev in Sweet Movie hurtles us head first into the confronting theses of Post-Freudian Wilhelm Reich. We are forced to confront our relationship to our primal beings. He literally smears our consciousness with faeces, vomit and carnality.

We cannot watch orgiastic scenes of regressive acts, a sensual striptease played out inches from the faces of young boys, Carol Laure masturbating in a pool of molten chocolate without a visceral reaction. We are forced to confront our own repressed desires and shine a light in the dark recesses of our own psyche.

Here is revolution at it's most personal, montaged together with lashings of wild humour. Allow your head to give up control and come along for the ride. Recommended to anyone who is willing to put their concept of themselves on the line a risk a flirtation with prurient madness.

See also insightful  review on DVD Times

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The 1975 cinema release was famously banned.

The film was shown in some towns with a local authority certificate overruling the BBFC ban.

The ban persisted until 1999. An official BBFC comment from their website just before the granting of the cinema certificate in 1999 read:

Most questions about THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (and sequels) assume that the problem is one of violence or horror. In fact the reason that the film was refused certification was the result of the perceived degree of terrorisation of women and threat to defenceless women. The Board has for many years operated a very strict policy with regard to sexual violence, based on the incidence of this sort of behaviour in real life and the fact that a great deal of research does indicate that this is the one area where media representations do seem to have quite direct effects on attitudes and behaviour. The film was rejected by the Board on film and is most unlikely to be classified on video, where the law demands a stricter test, under amendments to the Video Recording Act 1984 contained in the Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994.

The BBFC finally relented on their ban in 1999 when they passed the cinema release and subsequent video/DVD versions 18 uncut with the following comment:

The notoriety of the film may owe a lot to its original rejection by the BBFC in 1975. It was passed for viewing in Europe, the USA, Australia and other countries. It received a GLC licence in the 1970s and was most recently shown in central London in 1998 under a licence from Camden Council. There is, so far as the Board is aware, no evidence that harm has ever arisen as a consequence of viewing the film. For modern young adults, accustomed to the macabre shocks of horror films through the 1980s and 1990s, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is unlikely to be  particularly challenging. Unlike more recent examples of the genre, violence in THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is throughout implied rather than explicit. By today's standards, its visual effects may seem relatively unconvincing.

Possibly the most notorious feature is the relentless pursuit of the 'Final Girl' throughout the last half hour or so of the film. The heroine in peril is a staple of the cinema since the earliest days. It is nonetheless legitimate to question the unusual emphasis THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE places on the pursuit of a defenceless and screaming female  over such an extended period. The Board's conclusion, after careful consideration, was that any possible harm that might arise in terms of the effect upon a modern audience would be more than sufficiently countered by the unrealistic, even absurd, nature of the action itself. It is worth emphasising that there is no explicit sexual element in the film, and relatively little visible violence.

Review from UK Amazon: Classic of its generation

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is undoubtedly one of the scariest films ever made and its raw power remains undiminished to this very day. Made in the hot wastelands of Texas in 1974 with an incredibly low budget, director Tobe Hooper has somehow created a genuine fright machine which changed the face of the horror genre completely.

The story revolves around a group of teenagers being chased, terrified and murdered when they stumble upon a canabilistic family in the countryside. The main character, Leatherface, has become one of the most notable villians in cinema history; his remorseless killings were loosely based on real life 1950's Texan murderer Ed Gein.

You will know already whether this sort of film is for you - if you enjoy slasher thrillers and behind-the-seat suspense, this is the ticket. I stress however that this does not come beautifully presented or has special effects - it is filmed much similar to that of a documentary and is often described as gritty. But don't let this put you off - this actually adds to the realism of the situation and makes it a much scarier experience.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic of its generation and deserves to be part of any respectable film collection. Just don't watch it alone.

The film was shown in some towns with a local authority certificate overruling the BBFC ban.

The BBFC finally relented on their ban in 1999 when they passed the cinema release and subsequent video/DVD versions 18 uncut.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

• Le Malizie di Venere
• Devil in the Flesh
• Venere nuda
• Venus im Pelz

The BBFC rejected the 1970 cinema release

Review from UK Amazon: Skilfully Made

In my opinion the movie is made skilfully, with crafted pictures and scenes. It reflects an atmosphere of early seventies also. If you have read the book by Sacher-Masoch you can find out this movie is trying to be a translation of the classic work of literature to modern film. Story, idea or course of action in the movie wants to be similar to book, just played in modern time. But that was not successfully accomplished.

Despite it, this movie is worth to see and be in your collection, especially if you like the movies from seventies. The performance of Laura Antonelli and Regis Vallee is not bad. The scenes are played and all film is made as erotic, not pornography.

The cinema release of 1971 was cut by the BBFC

The Redemption Films video release was cut by 2:32s in 1993

Cut by 1:05s when Shameless DVD submitted in 2007

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 1:05s cuts

• Okasareta A Hakui

Rape/revenge saga.

• Angels for Kicks

The AVR Entertainment video was banned by the BBFC in 1987

The DVD was passed in 2003 with 32s of cuts but was never actually released.

Current UK Status: passed 18 after 32s but unreleased

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon