Maniac & New york ripper were refused certification i think, new york ripper is still unavailable ( no great shame ) i imported my copy of Maniac from the states.

Ive seen a few that are on the nasty list, but the 1st I saw that I would consider is Suspiria. Not sure if it was o the list or not, or wether it was in the right time frame....

"Maniac" was released but only in a butchered version, so escaped.

"Pieces" was also cut, but not that much. It seems to have slipped under the radar.

And "New York Ripper" was refused a release full stop.


Don't forget also that the actual 'Nasties' ended after 1984 as all videos after that had to have BBFc certificates.
So after 1984 films were either cut or refused a release. So there were no more new potential 'Nasties' available.

"TCM", despite what many people think was never on the 'Nasties' list and did infact have an uncut 'X' cinema certificate for showing in London (when the 'Greater London Council' still existed and could approve it's own certificates).

"Suspiria" was never on the list...but was briefly released uncut. But as the fuss started up 'Thorn EMI' withdrew them and replaced the print with the censored 'X' cert cinema print.

On the 'Nasties' section on my site there is a section on some of the titles that escaped the list...but i can't get any of the links to work on the home page.

if anyone would try some of the links to see if they work i would be grateful.

Let me know if they work. Thanks.

the exorcist.

Another oft mistaken title. It was never a 'Nasty'.
It was released uncut in the very early days of video, but was simply refused a certificate for video once the 'Video Recordings Act' came in which said all videos MUST have a certificate.

So the uncertified releases were withdrawn, no new release was allowed and it was not to be released on video again for many many years.

Once the BBFC head James Ferman died things changed and "The Exorcist" was re-submitted and past uncut for home viewing.

the guy said that the exorcist was one of the movies that were called ''NASTIES'' and halloween was the first horror movie i saw and the exorcist was the second and halloween barely had blood so i know that was'nt one so i said the exorcist.

but if what you are saying is right then i guess the first ''naisty'' i saw was Evil Dead.

"The Exorcist" was simply withdrawn and then refused a certificate. It was never on the DPP (Dept of Public Prosecutions) 'Nasty' list.

"The Evil Dead" indeed was, despite the print being a slightly cut BBFC cinema approved print.
Something that caused a lot of fuss because the film HAD been seen and censored by the BBFC but was all of a sudden an illegal item on video.

i was wondering how you knew so much about this but i just saw that you're from england yourself.

since you do know about it i was wondering-are these movie catagorized as nasties completely illegal?

They were illegal to sell or rent.

ANY film, no matter what it was, after 1984/5 had to have a BBFC Video Certificate and any that did not had to be withdrawn and not sold or rented.

Which put many video firms in financial trouble (as well as video shop owners) as they now had to pay for the BBFC to certicy their films.
Even a 'Disney' film that would obviously get a 'U' HAD to go through the process to get that 'U'.

But it meant that many of the smaller video labels could never afford to pay for their films to be certified, or knew they had no chance of getting a certificate (at least without massive cuts at best) so they simply folded.

Some of the 'Nasties' were taken to Court as 'Obscene'. And if they were found guilty you could find yourself receiving more extreme fines or even a prison term.
The distributer of "Nightmares in a Damaged Brain" (despite it being a cut print) was sentenced to 6 months in prison.

You could own them. But you could not sell or rent them.

Shame my site is down, as I have all the info (and titles) on there.

that's fucked up people should be allowed to watch what the hell they want.(no offense i wasnt bashing your country or anything)

:D Don't worry...i think exactly the same way.

I was raided by Trading Standards myself years back (with a freakin Police riot van parked outside and a police escort) when i was selling off some old vids (not 'Nasties', just pre-certification titles).

they took some stuff away, we had crap printed in the local paper etc etc...
In the end they kept 3 films (one action film from Hong Kong, one very tame horror film and the Carradine martial arts flick "The Silent Flute"!!!!) and gave me a caution.

One of my County's many silly attiudes.

I never said Exorcist was banned i said along with many other films it was unfairly labelled a nastie, tcm, evil dead,dotd they all fell foul of the media hysteria of the day. By the way mr 42nd you owe me £12, i bought jungle holocaust after reading your review i was'nt impressed.

I can't be held responsible for your bad taste and misgiuded views! :p

"JH" is a damn fine exploitation film.

I totally agreed with your review for cannibal holocaust, but just found JH dull. Do you want to buy it off me £8 to you.

I don't know if this would be considered a "nasty" or not but I remember seeing "Mark of the Devil" at the theatre on its first run, and they were handing out barf bags.

Its kinda tame by todays standards.

Nasty?

Well, in the prono called "The Sex Files", a chick gets anal, then blows the guy. And judging by one of the close ups, she was none to clean back in the cellar. That gets logged under "extraordinarily nasty"

I already have it thanks.

Watch it again...feel the love.

Where i work the place is awash with porn, it changes hands like currency, anyway for a laugh i got a really nasty german scat film relabelled it & put it into circulation. I told one guy it was the kind of porn you could watch with the missus - she watched some of it while he was at work & kicked him out.
The dvd went round & round but what surprised me was the amount of guys who said it was disgusting but sat through the whole thing.

Surely if you love it that much you need 2 copies?

Those dirty fucking italians Did'nt feel no love for that poor Crocodile did they?

damn germans, give 'em an inch and they'll shit all over you.

THAT is fucking hilarious.


I used to fuck with people on winmx by giving really disturbing pictures (the face from the exorcist, spider closeups, shit like that) really raunchy names, then laughing as people downloaded it.

Youwould not believe how many people downloaded a picture called "man ass fucks male german shepard then hits it."


i think it was a picture of that old guy holding up his middle fingers that says "FUCK YOU"

Mein schizen smelt gut ja?

Yeah i thought so too but a couple of guys did'nt see the funny side at all.

My site is back up!
Here you go... http://www.beardyfreak.com/Video%20Nasties.htm

here are a few of the films that escaped the list...
http://www.beardyfreak.com/NastyNotOnList.htm

The "Video Nasties" were notoriously hard to get over here. Many were pulled from our shelves outright by up tight video store owners. The first one I saw that's on the list was Evil Dead, then maybe something like the Burning. The banning of TCM2 in the U.K in 1988 showed people were still uptight about these films disrupting "good morals".

I was about 4 years old my older sister who was 16 had a sleep over with all of her friends and they got Last House on the Left. My mom made me go to bed and said I couldn't watch it and had to leave the girls alone, but once she fell asleep I snuck down and of course all of her friends loved me cause I was a cute little boy and she was pissed lol. But that was the first horror movie I have ever watched, and thats the only reason I remeber it at such a young age.

That's a pretty fucked up film to watch when your 4 dude. But I guess I watched a lot pretty messed up shit when I was younger when my brother would be babysitting me.

...

1. pumkinhead
2. pumkinhead II i cired at the end when tommy got it....
3.IT scared the livinmg hell out of me when i was a kid (god damn clowns) now it does not have any affect on me..

i can still vividly remember the can opener scene in bloodbath in the house of death.

and then there's gates of hell.

one of the first horror movies i saw was either halloween or dracula.

the coolest thing i ever seen was the ending to day of the dead when the zombie shoots the army dude and he gets riped appart by the zombies

I think that is why I love horror movies it did something to my mind at that age.

I was scared to death, when i first watched "Nightmare On Elm Street". I could'nt fear more... :eek: