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Tag Archives: Banned Movies
Video Nasties, Part 3
There is a long, if not necessarily venerable, tradition in the arts of creating confrontational, deliberately offensive work to challenge received ideas and to make people conscious of their own conventional assumptions. When work like this is created, it doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Banned Movies, Censorship, DVD, Film Criticism, Home Video, Meir Zarchi, Review, Roger Ebert, Ruggero Deodato, Slasher Movies, Violence
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Video Nasties, Part 2
After a brief prologue in which a cult of Satanists is banished from Spain by the Inquisition, Evilspeak (Eric Weston, 1981) transports us to an American military academy where a much abused cadet (Clint Howard, younger brother of director Ron … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel Ferrera, Banned Movies, Censorship, DVD, Peter Jackson, Review, Tobe Hooper, Violence
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DVD of the Week: Video Nasties, The Definitive Guide (2010)
Issues of censorship and freedom of speech are always more complicated than we’d like. It’s never just simply a clear cut question of “this” or “that”. The complete denial that certain elements of pop culture, for instance, can’t possibly do … Continue reading
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Tagged Banned Movies, Censorship, Documentary, DVD, Film Criticism, Film History, Home Video, Violence
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