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The Original Video Nasty Banned List

By Andrew on Tue July 21 2009

Here we present the list of 75 movies that were wanted by the DPP on the grounds that their content was most likely to 'deprave and corrupt'. The number of films on the list varied, sometimes reaching as many as 83 and other times being as low as 50. There were other films that did not make the list, but were singled out as titles for rental stores to avoid, just in case, including Basket Case, The Thing, Videodrome, Maniac, Friday the 13th and The Hills Have Eyes.

1. Absurd*

2. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein*

3. The Anthropophagous Beast*

4. Axe*

5. The Beast in Heat*

6. The Beyond

7. Blood Bath*

8. Blood Feast*

9. Blood Rites*

10. Bloody Moon*

11. The Bogey Man

12. The Burning*

13. Cannibal Apocalypse*

14. Cannibal Ferox*

15. Cannibal Holocaust*

16. The Cannibal Man*

17. Cannibal Terror

18. Contamination

19. Dead and Buried

20. Death Trap

21. Deep River Savages

22. Delirium

23. The Devil Hunter*

24. Don't Go in the House

25. Don't Go in the Woods…Alone*

26. Don't Go Near the Park

27. Don't Look in the Basement

28. The Driller Killer*

29. The Evil Dead

30. Evilspeak*

31. Expose*

32. Faces of Death*

33. Fight for Your Life*

34. Forest of Fear*

35. Frozen Scream

36. Funhouse

37. Gestapo's Last Orgy

38. The House By the Cemetery*

39. House on the Edge of the Park*

40. Human Experiments

41. I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

42. I Spit on Your Grave*

43. Inferno

44. Island of Death*

45. Killer Nun

46. The Last House on the Left*

47. Late Night Trains

48. The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

49. Love Camp 7*

50. Madhouse*

51. Mardi Gras Massacre*

52. Night of the Bloody Apes*

53. Night of the Demon*

54. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

55. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain*

56. Possession

57. Pranks

58. Prisoner of the Cannibal God

59. Revenge of the Bogey Man

60. The Slayer

61. Shogun Assassin

62. Snuff*

63. SS Experiment*

64. Tenebrae*

65. Terror Eyes

66. The Toolbox Murders

67. Unhinged

68. Visiting Hours

69. The Werewolf and the Yeti*

70. The Witch Who Came from the Sea

71. Women Behind Bars

72. Xtro

73. Zombie Creeping Flesh

74. Zombie Flesh Eaters

75. Zombie Holocaust

All those marked with the asterisk are the 39 films that were finally prosecuted and banned. Most, if not all of these films are known under a variety of different titles, varying from their original language titles, foreign release title and the title given to a cut print. A case in point would be the 13 alternatives for The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue and the 10 for Zombie Creeping Flesh. So if you have read the list and question why the notorious movie The Grim Reaper has not been included, don't worry, it's listed under the title The Anthropophagous Beast.

At last count, 47 of the original DPP list were available in uncut forms on DVD and at least 8 are still banned in the UK. Most of the DVD releases are Region 1 USA or worldwide Region 0, meaning that UK fans still have to import copies of these movies. But at least they now get a good picture, decent sound and usually a healthy array of extra's, a far cry from the fuzzy, 10th generation, spliced together, uncut print of The Beyond that was once the only way to see it!

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