WATCHcultIt Lives Inside
2023 · USA/Canada · 99m
An Indian-American teenager unleashes a demon from Hindu folklore while trying to assimilate.
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28 Days Later
2002 · Danny Boyle
Shot on DV, made them fast, and restarted the whole genre for fifteen years.
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The DPP 72
In 1983 the Director of Public Prosecutions circulated a list of films that could put a video dealer in prison. 39 of them were successfully prosecuted. The other 33 were not, and the difference is mostly an accident of which town the jury sat in.
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Video nasties still banned or cut in Britain
The video nasties still banned in Britain, the ones that remain cut, and the two laws that decide which of them can be sold on disc here.
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- The video nasties law: the DPP list, the Obscene Publications Act and 39 prosecuted filmsDeep dive
- A Serbian Film and what banned means in BritainDeep dive
- Films still banned in Britain and the cuts that standDeep dive
- Banned horror movies and the certificate that was refusedDeep dive
- Cannibal Holocaust and the fifteen seconds still bannedDeep dive
- The meaning of elevated horror as a labelDeep dive
- New French Extremity, named in a 2004 complaintDeep dive
- Tom SaviniProfile
- Gore and disturb are not the same measurementDeep dive
- The video nasties panic, 1982 to 1984Survey
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- Don't Look Now (1973)9/10
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A Taiwanese found-footage film built around a curse the film itself tries to pass to you.
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A remote Brazilian village disappears from the map and finds itself hunted for sport. Weird, angry and unclassifiable.
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Six from the DPP 72, chosen to show how little the list had to do with what was actually on the tapes.
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6 films
Carol Clover named her in 1987. These are the ones the films actually earn.
- Start with the list
6 films
Six of the DPP 72 that are worth your evening on their own merits, not as historical curiosities.
- Gateway horror for people who do not like horror
6 films
Films that work as films first. Nothing here will punish somebody for being talked into it.
- The practical effects shelf
6 films
Latex, foam, air bladders and karo syrup. The argument is not nostalgia, it is that the light falls on it correctly.