The DPP 39 (UK Video Nasties)
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These are the 39 controversial films banned from sale in the UK by the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) under the Video Recordings Act of 1984. The films were banned in response to a right-wing media fury spearheaded by the campaigner Mary Whitehouse (1910-2001) who popularised Sunday Times journalist Peter Chippendale's phrase "Video Nasty" despite never having watched any of the films themselves.
In the years that followed, several of these movies were released either cut or uncut, whilst the others have either not been granted a certificate; or no distributor has since requested one.
Not included here are:
- films originally banned at the same time as the Video Nasties, but never prosecuted, such as The Evil Dead.
- films often believed to have been part of the DPP 39, including A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Straw Dogs, Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - all of which were unavailable in the UK for other reasons.
The DPP 39 list is a matter of quintessential bad taste. In most cases, don't expect great movies, but check out what the fuss was all about!
See also the documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010).
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Antropophagus
1980 — a.k.a. Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, in 1 top list Check -
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Apocalypse domani
1980 — a.k.a. Cannibal Apocalypse, in 0 top lists Check -
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La bestia in calore
1977 — a.k.a. The Beast in Heat, in 0 top lists Check -
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Blood Feast
1963, in 4 top lists Check -
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Bloodeaters
1980 — a.k.a. Blood Butchers, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Burning
1981, in 2 top lists Check -
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Cannibal ferox
1981 — a.k.a. Cannibal Ferox, in 4 top lists Check -
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Cannibal Holocaust
1980, in 6 top lists Check -
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La casa sperduta nel parco
1980 — a.k.a. House on the Edge of the Park, in 2 top lists Check -
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Day of the Woman
1978 — a.k.a. I Spit on Your Grave, in 3 top lists Check -
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Die Säge des Todes
1981 — a.k.a. Bloody Moon, in 0 top lists Check -
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Don't Go in the Woods
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Driller Killer
1979, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ecologia del delitto
1971 — a.k.a. A Bay of Blood, in 2 top lists Check -
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El caníbal
1980 — a.k.a. Devil Hunter, in 0 top lists Check -
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Evilspeak
1981, in 1 top list Check -
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Exposé
1976 — a.k.a. Trauma, in 0 top lists Check -
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Faces of Death
1978, in 2 top lists Check -
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Fight for Your Life
1977 — a.k.a. Blood Bath at 1313 Fury Road, in 1 top list Check -
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Flesh for Frankenstein
1973 — a.k.a. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Ghastly Ones
1968 — a.k.a. Blood Rites, in 0 top lists Check -
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La horripilante bestia humana
1969 — a.k.a. Night of the Bloody Apes, in 0 top lists Check -
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Island of Death
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur
1976 — a.k.a. SS Experiment Love Camp, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Last House on the Left
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
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Lisa, Lisa
1977 — a.k.a. Axe, in 0 top lists Check -
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Love Camp 7
1969, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'ultima orgia del III Reich
1977 — a.k.a. The Gestapo's Last Orgy, in 0 top lists Check -
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La maldición de la bestia
1975 — a.k.a. Night of the Howling Beast, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mardi Gras Massacre
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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Night of the Demon
1980, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nightmare
1981, in 1 top list Check -
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Quella villa accanto al cimitero
1981 — a.k.a. The House by the Cemetery, in 1 top list Check -
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Rosso sangue
1981 — a.k.a. Absurd, in 0 top lists Check -
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La semana del asesino
1972 — a.k.a. The Cannibal Man, in 1 top list Check -
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Snuff
1975 — a.k.a. American Cannibale, in 1 top list Check -
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Tenebre
1982 — a.k.a. Tenebrae, in 4 top lists Check -
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There Was a Little Girl
1981 — a.k.a. Madhouse, in 0 top lists Check -
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Zombi 2
1979 — a.k.a. Zombie, in 4 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 28, 2011; source