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Post by Hnefahogg on Mar 2, 2023 21:12:44 GMT
I never got around to watching it, but first noticed it at Ruckers video disk rental a lifetime ago. In the era before VHS or Beta-Max was a thing. They wouldn't rent "R" or "X" rated movies to kids which really sucked. I was used to sneaking into theaters to watch rated "R" movies anyway, which was surprisingly easy to do back then. Sometimes my older brother would rent rated "R" movies like Piranha (1978) or Faces of Death (1978) that we watched on a video disk player. don't remember them ever coming across to the UK. We did have the "laserdisc" systems but they were never really successful due to the extremely high cost. Never knew anyone who had one. My old man got a top loading VHS player around 1979/80, I remember it's remote control was on a long wire and only did play/stop/FF/rewind. Back then you rented the films from the local TV rental store and they only had about 50 as they cost the shops around £70 quid each which was a big outlay for them. European countries like the UK and also Sweden (don't know about Germany, they made some of the sickest movies of all time back then) often censored or banned gory movies in the 1980's. Although that wasn't necessarily an all bad thing in hindsight, perhaps it gave those 80's horror movies a more memorable legacy.
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 3, 2023 12:30:05 GMT
don't remember them ever coming across to the UK. We did have the "laserdisc" systems but they were never really successful due to the extremely high cost. Never knew anyone who had one. My old man got a top loading VHS player around 1979/80, I remember it's remote control was on a long wire and only did play/stop/FF/rewind. Back then you rented the films from the local TV rental store and they only had about 50 as they cost the shops around £70 quid each which was a big outlay for them. European countries like the UK and also Sweden (don't know about Germany, they made some of the sickest movies of all time back then) often censored or banned gory movies in the 1980's. Although that wasn't necessarily an all bad thing in hindsight, perhaps it gave those 80's horror movies a more memorable legacy. Was a newspaper scare based on very dubious links between violence on screen and violence in reality. the bans had more to do with the covers of the retail VHS boxes than they did the content on many occasions.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Mar 3, 2023 13:35:37 GMT
European countries like the UK and also Sweden (don't know about Germany, they made some of the sickest movies of all time back then) often censored or banned gory movies in the 1980's. Although that wasn't necessarily an all bad thing in hindsight, perhaps it gave those 80's horror movies a more memorable legacy. Was a newspaper scare based on very dubious links between violence on screen and violence in reality. the bans had more to do with the covers of the retail VHS boxes than they did the content on many occasions. I can see why the British VHS tapes of I Spit on Your Grave would be uncut, as they were illegal. The film was heavily censored when first released on DVD in 2001. melonfarmers.co.uk/hitsi.htm#i_spit_on_your_grave_1978Fun fact: the original A Nightmare on Elm Street only exists uncut on VHS. melonfarmers.co.uk/bbfc_cuts_nightmare_on_elm_street.htm
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Mar 16, 2023 0:44:00 GMT
It is a movie about a girl who gets attacked by some guys and gets really annoyed as a result. And I don't mean that she refuses to answer their calls or smashes their record collection, I mean she gets really annoyed. Do you like the original or remake better?
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Post by mowlick on Mar 16, 2023 1:08:35 GMT
It is a movie about a girl who gets attacked by some guys and gets really annoyed as a result. And I don't mean that she refuses to answer their calls or smashes their record collection, I mean she gets really annoyed. Do you like the original or remake better? I am not entirely sure that I liked either to be honest. They were both well crafted, but neither were the sort of movie I would want to settle down with a bag of crisps and a few beers.
That level of violence was more acceptable in 2010 than 1978, so I felt the original was more shocking than the remake.
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Mar 16, 2023 1:27:15 GMT
Do you like the original or remake better? I am not entirely sure that I liked either to be honest. They were both well crafted, but neither were the sort of movie I would want to settle down with a bag of crisps and a few beers.
That level of violence was more acceptable in 2010 than 1978, so I felt the original was more shocking than the remake.
Both films were quite raw and you are right, they are not exactly feel good entertainment.
Even for 2010, the films sexually violent content was overtly strong as it was protracted. Both films are adequately acted too, yet the original had to leave some of the revenge deaths more to the imagination, rather than uber-graphic like the remake.
It does make one wonder though, why a female actress would choose to want to put themselves through this sort of humiliation and degradation on film, even if only play-acting.
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