Controversial movies!

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Cannibal Holocaust (seen on many top 50 lists for good reason) which has been banned in dozens of countries including Japan. It was "found footage" style before that genre existed. 80s I think? There is a scene in there that got the Italian director arrested for murder. Although no actual murder occurred. The scene is too graphic to say here. I refuse to watch it for a reason I will not mention here.

Suprised no one mentioned this.

Also my all time favorite, A Clockwork Orange. It was banned in England for decades. Many consider the movie to be misogynistic. Although it is a classic story about government rehabilitation of criminals. Classic Stanley Kubrick.

The scene close to the beginning of Clockwork Orange where they see the other gang in the theater is a very controversial scene. If you have seen it you will know why. In 1973 a scene like this was not common.

Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet (Dennis Hopper was in both, interesting!), George Romero's Dead Series (first three), John Carpenter's The Thing (maybe) , Last House on the Left (original), I spit on your grave (original 1972 version).

"the day after" was considered to have pushed the envelope back in 1983, as far as telefilms went.

I remember it quite well. But you know, at the time, they had to remove the name of the contraception one female character was using because it might be offensive to some viewers.
Like radiation poisoning, and mass death wasn't.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

bambi. 70 minutes of pure filth.

So I saw Mark Of The Devil last night. Interesting to know that the witch hunt-cases in the movie are actually based on real events. It wasn´t good though, no real story. The torture scenes where graphic but as always it´s not the blood that bothers me the most, it´s the psychological terror. Tonight I will watch Flavia The Heretic.

"born innocent" back in 1974, an NBC-TV telefilm, was the first to depict a lesbian rape. the censors next door howled with outrage. that was controversial, all right.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBSJ4y-BGA[/youtube]


1954's Girl Gang teaches the audience how to prepare and inject heroin. At 12:20 that sequence begins.