Elsewhere

Australia

Australia never had a ban list so much as a classification board that could simply refuse to classify. Refused Classification means the film cannot legally be sold, hired or imported, and the board has used it on horror repeatedly since the 1970s.

• Cannibal Holocaust1980refused classificationOFLC1981 onward

  Refused classification for years. A heavily cut version was eventually passed.

• Faces of Death1978refused classificationOFLC1979 onward

  Refused classification. Its reputation as the most banned film in the world was largely a distributor's claim and was repeated uncritically for twenty years.

• I Spit on Your Grave1978refused classificationOFLC1982 onward

  Refused classification. Later passed in a cut version.

• Snuff1976banned1976 onward

  Banned on the strength of the marketing rather than the film, which is the pattern for this title everywhere.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974banned1975 onward

  Banned on release and unavailable for years.

Germany

Germany's system indexes rather than bans. The BPjM (now BzKJ) places a title on the index, which forbids advertising it or displaying it where minors could see it, so the film effectively vanishes from shops without being illegal to own.

• The Evil Dead1981seizedCourts and BPjM1984 to 2016

  Confiscated nationwide by court order, which made selling it illegal, and also placed on the index of media harmful to minors. The confiscation was lifted in August 2016 and the indexing that October; it is now rated FSK 16.

UK

• The Devils1971cutBBFC1971 onward

  Cut on every UK release it has ever had. Warner has still not issued the complete film; the most complete assembly runs 111 minutes and exists because a BFI curator located the trims in a vault.

• The Exorcist1973banned1988 to 1999

  Not a DPP title. Released on UK video in 1981, then withdrawn in 1988 after BBFC director James Ferman blocked a video certificate that a majority of the Board's examiners had voted to grant. Passed 18 uncut on 25 February 1999.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974bannedBBFC1975 to 1999

  Not on the DPP list. The BBFC refused it a cinema certificate in the 1970s and a video certificate in 1984. Camden council licensed screenings in 1998 regardless, and the BBFC passed it 18 uncut in 1999.

Ireland

Ireland's Censorship of Films Act gave the Official Censor an outright ban power that survived until 2000, and horror was a routine target.

• I Spit on Your Grave1978banned1980 onward

  Banned outright under the Censorship of Films Act.

• The Evil Dead1981banned1983 onward

  Banned outright, and one of the titles most often cited in the Irish debate of the period.

Italy

• Cannibal Holocaust1980seized1980 to 1984

  Seized in Italy on a magistrate's order shortly after its premiere. Marketing that sold the footage as real fed rumours that the actors had been killed, and Deodato has said he had to bring cast members to court; he was never charged with murder. He, the screenwriter, the producers and a United Artists Europa representative were convicted of obscenity and violence and given four-month suspended sentences. In 1984 the courts released a cut print with a VM18 rating.

New Zealand

New Zealand's Office of Film and Literature Classification can ban outright, and has, mostly for sexual violence rather than gore.

• Irréversible2002cutOFLC2003 onward

  Passed with restrictions after debate about the assault sequence.