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Sep 24, 2019 · There are also some gruesome murders that landed Killer Nun on the fabled British “Video Nasties” list, including a genuinely flinch inducing bit of needle torture. But these grisly sequences have a “pasted in” feel, as if the producers saw trouble and decided to beef up the violence.
Jan 29, 2018 · Killer Nun. A nunsploitation about a nun spiraling into madness and drug addiction isn’t nearly as wild as the plot suggests. At least not by today’s standards. What most likely got this landed...
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- The Counter-Arguments
- Video Horror as A Class Issue
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The 'Daily Mail' was the first national newspaper to report on the dangers of the home video market. In an article titled 'The secret video show' (12 May 1982) it revealed that 'Zombie Flesh Eaters', 'The Exorcist' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' were among the most popular videos watched by teenagers. They warned: 'Those innocent Saturday mornin...
The BBFC responded to the furore by introducing a voluntary ratings scheme for videos, though the fact that it was voluntary presented an obvious problem, as there was no legal obligation on companies to submit their film for vetting. Meanwhile, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) compiled a list of titles that he believed may contravene the ...
The social activist Mary Whitehouse also had the nasties in her sights. Whitehouse, founder of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, talks about her campaigning on this front in her autobiography 'Quite Contrary': 'In the spring of 1983 we wrote to every MP (over 600), pointing out the inadequacy of the current film classification syste...
Some interesting views and arguments were, however, put across by dissenters. In response to the claims of Sir Bernard Braine and others that home video would allow viewers to revel in explicit scenes by rewinding or pausing, several commentators in Jake West and Marc Morris's excellent documentary 'Video Nasties: moral panic, censorship and videot...
Politicians were clearly deemed incorruptible, as there were no fears over the effect the nasties had on them when they were viewing clips of the very worst moments of these films. And many saw this as a skewed and unbalanced exercise in itself, as showing a sequence containing the most violent bits of any film or TV programme would naturally provo...
Some of the claims about the dangers of these movies at best seemed fanciful, and at their worst were proved to be downright fabrication. Graham Bright said in a television interview that there was research taking place that proved that dogs were upset by nasties as well as children. Oddly enough this research never saw the light of day. An article...
Cinema and home movie releases are still subject to certification (though things have relaxed somewhat with the introduction of 12 and 12A certificates), but the days of scary movies being heavily cut or banned, and the prosecution of retailers and distributors of these films are largely in the past. And it's not the case that the gore and violence...
'Ban this filth: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse archive' by Ben Thompson (London: Faber and Faber, 2012) [National Library of Scotland shelfmark: HB2.212.11.526].'Ill effects: The media/violence debate' edited by Martin Baker and Julian Petley (London: Routledge, 2001) [Shelfmark: Q3.202.0457].'Moral panics in the contemporary world' edited by Chas Critcher et al (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) [Shelfmark: HB2.215.9584].'Quite contrary: An autobiography' by Mary Whitehouse (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1993) [Shelfmark: H3.94.7].Jan 6, 2021 · According to sources, the film, Killer Nun, was banned in the UK and classified as a “video nasty” for its exploitation and violent content. It also likely did not help that the film used the context of nuns and the church as the setting of this provocative film.
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Oct 15, 2019 · Killer Nun managed to earn a spot on the infamous Video Nasties list of forbidden titles imposed by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in the 1980s, based largely on the title alone. It was removed from the list in 1993 with thirteen seconds of cuts and later released uncut in 2003.
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Nov 11, 2019 · KILLER NUN is one of those movies you never expected to have a 2K restoration from the original negative, but here we are. With its high definition presentation, viewers can choose between the English and Italian soundtracks. Critic Kat Ellinger provides a video essay on nunspoitation for those like me who are interested in exploring it.
