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DPP 72obscure
Director
James C. Wasson
Year
1980
Country
USA
Runtime
96 min

Also released as

  • Night of the Bigfoot
  • 淫獣の森

Night of the Demon

Night of the Demon is a 1980 American creature feature directed by James C. Wasson. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.

Bigfoot tears a man's genitals off. That is the scene, that is the film, that is why it was prosecuted.

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The one where Bigfoot tears a man's genitals off, which is the scene, the reason it was prosecuted, and essentially the whole of its reputation.

An anthropology professor takes students into the woods to investigate sasquatch sightings. What follows is a framing device in a hospital bed, a series of flashbacks, and a body count achieved with unusual enthusiasm given the budget.

It is technically poor throughout: the sound is inconsistent, the creature is a man in a suit filmed too clearly, and the pacing between kills is dead.

James Wasson made nothing else of note.

Successfully prosecuted, and one of the very few DPP titles where you can point at a single shot and say with confidence that is what did it.

Banned, seized, prosecuted

DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted

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