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1974. La Patagonia rebelde (Rebel Patagonia) Banned under Isabel Perón 's government (1974–1976) and Jorge Rafael Videla 's regime during Argentina's last-civil military dictatorship (1976–1983). The historical film is about the suppression of a peasants' revolt, known as " Tragic Patagonia ".
Spain in Flames. 1937. 1937. The compilation film/newsreel was banned in a few states including Ohio and Pennsylvania, and multiple cities across the country including New Brunswick, New Jersey, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, due to the film's plot being reported as "harmful and tortured."
1964–1970. The Miracle, Viridiana, La Dolce Vita, Fellini Satyricon, The Silence, Blowup and Zabriskie Point. Various. Richard John Prowse is appointed Chief Censor and former Chief Censor C.J. Campbell (1957–1964) is appointed to the Appeals Board. During the 1960s, many films were banned.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is widely considered one of the greatest—and most controversial—horror films of all time [103] [104] and a major influence on the genre. [47] [105] In 1999, Richard Zoglin of Time commented that it had "set a new standard for slasher films". [106] The Times listed it as one of the 50 most controversial films of ...
Faces of Death. Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively. [3][4] The film, shown in a documentary -like style, centers on pathologist Francis B. Gröss, played ...
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.
Ontario censors banned the film after only watching the first 40 minutes due to "graphic and prolonged scenes of gratuitous violence, torture, crime, cruelty, horror, rape, degradation to humans and animals and exploitation of the blind and children, as well as indignities to the human body in an explicit manner". [31]
The history of horror films was described by author Siegbert Solomon Prawer as difficult to read as a linear historical path, with the genre changing throughout the decades, based on the state of cinema, audience tastes and contemporary world events. Films prior to the 1930s, such as early German expressionist cinema and trick films, have been ...
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