When I was younger my dream job was to be a film censor. To me working for the British Board of Film Clarification spending all day watching movies in their full uncut form and then rating them seemed like the perfect career. Also my love of horror meant with a position at the BBFC I […]Read More
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When I was younger and far less experienced in the realms of horror there were certain films that I heard secretly spoken about that always sparked my morbid adolescent interest. Of all the genres of movies though it seemed the cannibal films where the most strange and disturbing and therefore the ones I want to […]Read More
An insane British horror from the 80’s Xtro managed to slip me by somehow and now with a Limited Edition box set release from Second Sight featuring new restoration with the original and alternate endings plus the original UK video version I finally got a chance to witness the weirdness.Read More
Many times throughout history within art, science and all other human endeavors it has often been the case that the first time something is done it isn’t always the best time. One can picture the first cave man to create fire probably set alight his whole family and let’s not forget that penicillin, Velcro, the […]Read More
We have spoken a lot on this website about censorship, and nigh on 100% of the time you will find our rabid rage driven reviewers come done on the side of the movie, defending the director and deriding the censors.Read More
Banned in many countries and released in others heavily edited as an ‘adults only’ movie, in 1984 New York Ripper was so shocking that the then Secretary of the British Board of Classification, James Ferman, ordered all the prints of the film to be escorted to the airport by the police and sent out of […]Read More