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Films Your Parents Should Not Have Let You Watch

I guess because the violence is unreal, the gore faked, whereas a pair of boobies are 'real' (though in contemporary Hollywood there aren't too many pairs of unaugmented hooters).

The really odd thing though is the difference in censorship standards between Europe and the states. Violence in the US can be watched in cinemas by kids, whereas bad language and sex cannot, Europe, sex largely left as is and violence heavily cut.

However with the new law in the UK on 'violent porn' one wonders if the pendulum of censorship will swing back to Video Nasty levels where any murder that contained 'titilating elements' was cut. Always wondered at that, who finds murder, even if it is faked 'titilating'. Were the censors just holding a mirror up to their own quirks by suggesting a murder in a movie was potentially titilating?
 
Hmmm, Lifeforce when I was a young un. Didnt like that at all but its probably laughable now!?
Im pleased that others out there have terrifying memories about Salems Lot, cos my boyfriend is 34 and still has nightmares about it after seeing it aged about 10 (apparently, according to his mum, he stapled all the curtains together to avoid seeing anything nasty).

Just an OT question here too, is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre REALLY based on a true event or was that just a marketing ploy?
 
True event, no, marketing ploy.

It was however a vaguely (read very very vaguely) similar to true life murderer Ed Gein (cannabalism, run down hovel, use of the skin etc, though no chainsaws)
 
Jahoosafat said:
I wonder why it is that we allow our children (I include myself here, recently showed my 10 year old the entire Alien series) to view extreme violence on screen and go "hey that's o.k", yet as soon as there is a pair of boobs involved we go "they can't watch that". Just wondering.
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I have wondered this in the past when watching James Bond films. They are on tv all the time and are broadcast as family entertainment even though each film shows Bond killing goon after goon in a variety of inventive ways, blowing stuff up, bumping off targets and generally creating mayhem. This is fine with me but as soon as he tries to get a bit smoochy with whichever scantily clad lovely he has just picked up we are barred from seeing any action. The theory seems to be that murder for the state is ok but seeing a naked woman is wrong. :? (or indeed a nudey Bond for the ladies ;) )

Back on topic, it was Young Sherlock Holmes that scared the crap out of me when I was young. The whole thing of the live girls being bandaged up and covered with acid was a bit much. Mind you, the murderous cream cakes were a bit scary too. Maybe I was a sensitive child? :oops:
 
JohnnyMolten said:
. The whole thing of the live girls being bandaged up and covered with acid was a bit much. Mind you, the murderous cream cakes were a bit scary too. Maybe I was a sensitive child? :oops:
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I believe in the UK the scene with the boiling oil mummification was severely cut (certainly the TV version is).
 
Heckler20 said:
JohnnyMolten said:
. The whole thing of the live girls being bandaged up and covered with acid was a bit much. Mind you, the murderous cream cakes were a bit scary too. Maybe I was a sensitive child? :oops:
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I believe in the UK the scene with the boiling oil mummification was severely cut (certainly the TV version is).
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But Carry on Scremaing whistled through uncut ;)

I actually found that creepy in parts - esp, when they do that "The Creeping Flesh"-style regrowing of the monster fram its finger.
 
Mighty_Emperor said:
But Carry on Screaming whistled through uncut ;)

I actually found that creepy in parts - esp, when they do that "The Creeping Flesh"-style regrowing of the monster from its finger.
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Oddly I did too, it manages that very tricky thing to a be a funny horror film.

I saw Fenella Fielding on a TV show recently and she looked almost identical. Either she is a vampire or has a decent plastic surgeon.
 
Heckler20 said:
Mighty_Emperor said:
But Carry on Screaming whistled through uncut ;)

I actually found that creepy in parts - esp, when they do that "The Creeping Flesh"-style regrowing of the monster from its finger.
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Oddly I did too, it manages that very tricky thing to a be a funny horror film.
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Pos. more than any other Carry On (Carry on the Khyber/Cleo may count too) they clearly knew their source material (Hammer mainly). And the cast all slotted together nciely (odd considering there was no Sid James or Barbara Windsor although possibly because of it!!).

I also forgot it was Carry on Screaming! (with the exclamation mark):
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Heckler20 said:
I saw Fenella Fielding on a TV show recently and she looked almost identical. Either she is a vampire or has a decent plastic surgeon.
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Or they dipped her in that big vat ;)
 
Oliver Reed wrestling in the nude is another one i could do without..... :oops:
 
Heckler20 said:
Mighty_Emperor said:
But Carry on Screaming whistled through uncut ;)

I actually found that creepy in parts - esp, when they do that "The Creeping Flesh"-style regrowing of the monster from its finger.
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Oddly I did too, it manages that very tricky thing to a be a funny horror film.
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Weirdly, I thought that was creepy too, although Kenneth Williams' reaction to the naked monster is hilarious.
 
Only when I was really young my mum was like that. My Dad would let me watch most films.

When I was really young I think it was Vampire ones that bothered me.
 
JohnnyMolten said:
I have wondered this in the past when watching James Bond films. They are on tv all the time and are broadcast as family entertainment even though each film shows Bond killing goon after goon in a variety of inventive ways, blowing stuff up, bumping off targets and generally creating mayhem. This is fine with me but as soon as he tries to get a bit smoochy with whichever scantily clad lovely he has just picked up we are barred from seeing any action. The theory seems to be that murder for the state is ok but seeing a naked woman is wrong.
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ABC TV in the states has been playing James Bond movies in prime time for as long as I can remember. A couple of years ago, they decided to digitally alter a scene in Diamonds are Forever where Jill St. John is walking around in her underwear. They used computer animation to put MORE clothes on her. :roll:
 
They're pretty lax up here; you can hear "fuck" and "shit" on mainstream channels, especially after 9 p.m. or so, and they're fairly relaxed about nudity (again, esp. after 9). Then again, women can legally go topless in Ontario so...

I find it odd when I watch a movie on TBS and they bleep the "god" out of "goddamn". I think other American stations do that as well.

The Amityville Horror did me in as a kid, even though I sorta knew it was fake.
 
For reasons that are beyond me now I watched Phantom of the Paradise in the theater when I was about eight or nine: totally schlocky, glam 70s crap, but that one scene where the guy gets his head mutilated in a record press freaked my shit out.

But it really comes down to seeing the final scene of the original The Fly on television around that time. "Help me! Help me!" with those shitty special effects.

Traumatising.
 
One of the funnier things the BBC used to do was to overdub films, dubbing the cuss words with a very bad voice impersonator.

Watching the De Niro movie Midnight Run where every 'f' word was changed to 'flipping' was hilarious (unintentionally).

"Flip you motherflipper!"
 
The film Repo Man uses the "MF" word a lot and in one case on the TV it was changed to "Melon Farmer".

Even Harry Dean Stanton saying it with absolute vitriol couldn't stop it being fall-off-the-chair-funny.

Hallowe'en. Baaaad movie. I was about 11 and begged my Mum all week to watch it and finally wore her down. Oh how she had the last laugh. I had nightmares and nasty dreams for ages after. :shock:
 
I read an interview in some celebrity magazine (not mine, the wife's, honest!) with the bloke who does Bo Selecta on the telly and he said that they had been given a limit to only having 5 MFs per show (because 6 would obviously cause rioting on the streets :roll: ). Does this mean that there is a set of guidelines somewhere giving instructions on the quantities and ratios of words allowed? I would love to see that list and hear how they decided what is considered to be a step too far.

Also, I am sure I have seen a film which was dubbed to say Muddy Funster. :lol:
 
Once saw Samuel L. jackson interviewed and he said he liked to use the term Merryland Farmer to make his characters less offensive. Funnily enough it lost very little of its impact when said by Mr Jackson.
 
There is a cut of Aliens with a few changes like that which amused me - like "ratfunk son of a bitch".

Ah that old fashioned Rat Funk.
 
Can't remember mine, probably some nasty from the early '80s.
I can rememebr one calle The Bogeyman, where someone got a screwdriver though their neck.

Recently, my wife and my 8 year old son sat down to watch Signs (I was out that night, but wish I'd seen this!), and it got to the bit with the childrens party, where the alien walks past the house, and he started screaming like the children in the movie, and wouldn't watch any more!!

A few weeks ago, he thought he'd got his bravery built up again to proper levels, and asked to see The Village. He didn't even make it past the 'backs to the forest' bit.

It's the psychological stuff that scares them most. My two love the Mummy and Van Helsing, stuff that's clearly make believe.
 
JohnnyMolten said:
Also, I am sure I have seen a film which was dubbed to say Muddy Funster. :lol:
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That was a Harry Enfield sketch with two New York gangsters whose swearing was dubbed over by a refined English voice. "Did you 'Fun' my wife?!"

There's also a hilarious Mr Show sketch sending up this bizarre censorship quirk, in which the film is rendered completely incomprehensible.
 
I remember watching a film on the telly called something like "The Boy In The Bubble", about a kid who (I'm guessing) had some kind of immune system disease.
He lived in this plastic bubble thing to protect him I spose...the only bit of it I remember is a horse jumping over the bubble and hitting it with a hoof.

Anyway.....I was terrified for months that I would get whatever he had.

Also, there was an episode of Bergerac with a cowled monk type of ghost that bloody terrified me too, I think it was in conjunction with a recent run-in with that ghost photo....you know the one I mean. *shudders*
 
My Mum is German.

Therefore I was exposed to Jaws, Grizzly and An American WW in London at very tender ages.

I now have an aversion to sharks, swimming in deep water, large furry objects and pointy teeth.
 
Watership Down :shock:

First saw the Newby Church Ghost on Arthur C Clarke. Scared the crap outta me.

Being about 6' 5" I always fancy dressing up as the NCG for some Halloween party scares and then just standing motionless in alley ways as cars approach on the way home :lol:
 
I went to see a Dustin Hoffman double feature, 'The Graduate' and 'Midnight Cowboy', when I was 14. Also, around about then, 'Carnal Knowledge', starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel and Candice Bergen. Mostly nihilistic, existentialist, gloomy stuff, it must be said.

As to TV, BBC2 used to run sexy stuff, like 'Casanova', starring a v.randy Frank Finlay and 'Eyeless in Gaza', with a steamy, stripping, sex scene, on a roof in Palestine, between the wars, interrupted by a dead dog falling out of an aeroplane.

Ah! BBC 2 in the Seventies. 'I Claudius', 'Chéri' and other raunchy stuff.

Thinking about it though, it was the SF series, 'Out of the Unknown', on BBC 2, in the mid-Sixties, that really frightened the bejezus out of me, as a kid.
 
The transgression of sneaking into X-films is a rite of passage and we always hoped to be shocked.

PM reminds me of some of the stuff that came unasked-for down the tube. Potter's Casanova included the horrific execution of Damiens, IIRC! It was not shown graphically (has anyone done that?) but witnessed by Casanova along with some ladies on a balcony.

On its first transmission, I Claudius had some vile images of Caligula's excesses, which were excised from all prints afterwards and are not contained in any video versions.

The BBC version of Sartre's Roads to Freedom was another adult drama that impressed me as a kid. I expect it would seem studio-bound today and there was probably a lot more to it than a character drinking from a punch-bowl that someone had just been sick in. That is the bit I remember. I did read Sartres's trilogy as a student and nothing from that left such a vivid impression! :cross eye
 
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