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 Dead1981indexedBPjM1984 onward

  Placed on the index, which forbids advertising it or displaying it where minors might see it. Removed decades later.

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. Warner withheld it from UK video for eleven years rather than submit it under the Video Recordings Act, which produced a de facto ban and a thriving trade in imported tapes.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974bannedBBFC1975 to 1999

  Never on the DPP list, because it never had a legal video release to seize. The BBFC refused it a certificate outright, some local councils licensed screenings anyway, and it was not passed uncut until 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 onward

  Seized in Italy within days of release. Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges and, because the marketing claimed the footage was real and the four leads had contracted to stay out of sight for a year, was also suspected of having murdered them. He produced them alive in court. The animal cruelty conviction stood.

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.