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Cannibal Holocaust also faced censorship issues in other countries around the world. In 1981, video releases were not required to pass before the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC), which had power to ban films in the United Kingdom. Cannibal Holocaust was released straight-to-video there, thus
Cannibal Holocaust: As well as being labelled as a 'Video Nasty', it was originally believed to be a snuff film. The director Ruggero Deodato was arrested for obscenity charges and was forced to prove that nobody had died during production. Despite finally being officially released in 2001, the film received 5 minutes and 44 seconds worth of cuts.
Cannibal Holocaust: Banned due to its extremely violent content and actual on-screen killings of animals. [334] (also refused release in 2006) 1981–1988 Mad Max: Banned in 1979 because of a graphic violent death. [335] (VHS release was later approved at R18 [336]) 1986, 1995 Pink Flamingos: A home video VHS release with cuts made was rated ...
Scholars have pointed out that countries that specifically ban Holocaust denial generally have legal systems that limit speech in other ways, such as banning hate speech. According to D. D. Guttenplan , this is a split between the " common law countries of the United States, Ireland and many British Commonwealth countries from the civil law ...
It is sometimes claimed that Cannibal Holocaust is still banned in over 50 countries worldwide, though this can only be verified for a handful of nations. In 2006, Cannibal Holocaust made Entertainment Weekly ' s Top 25 Most Controversial Movies of All-Time list, landing at number 20. [13]
Video nasty is a colloquial term popularised [1] by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) in the United Kingdom to refer to a number of films, typically low-budget horror or exploitation films, distributed on video cassette in the early 1980s that were criticised by the press, social commentators, and various religious organisations for their violent content.
After the American death metal band Cannibal Corpse released their debut album Eaten Back To Life in 1990, it was banned from being sold or displayed in Germany because of its graphic cover art ...
The initially banned 1980 Italian film Cannibal Holocaust had five minutes and forty-four seconds of cuts to scenes of sexual violence and actual animal cruelty on its first submission in 2001, reduced to only a single cut of three seconds in 2011. [6]