That’s Nasty: Why Many Horror Films Didn’t Make It to the UK.

In 1983, the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) published a list of 72 films that they believed were too offensive and gruesome to be released in the United Kingdom. From Ruggero Deodat’s Cannibal Holocaust to Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead, those motion pictures were re-released in the 2000s. But did the UK need them in the first place?

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