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Absurd
The Anthropophagous Beast
Axe
The Beast In Heat
The Beyond
Blood Feast
Blood Rites
Bloodbath
Bloody Moon
The Bogey Man
The Burning
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Holocaust
The Cannibal Man
Cannibal Terror
Contamination

Absurd
aka
Anthropophagous 2
Rosso Sangue
Horrible

1981 Italian video by Joe D'Amato

The anthropophagous beast goes on a killing and cannibalism spree including power tool murders, a hatchet job and baking someone's head in an oven. In return the beast suffers his guts unravelling on railings, blinding by compasses and an axe in the head.

Passed 18 with cuts for a cinema release

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The Anthropophagous Beast
aka
Anthropophagous
The Grim Reaper
Man Eater

1980 Italian video by Joe D'Amato

Gruesome killing & cannibalism including stomping on the bellies of pregnant women so as to snack on their fetuses. As a finale, the beast dies after eating his own intestines.

Banned in UK

Available in US on DVD

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Axe
aka
California Axe Massacre
California Axe Murders
Lisa Lisa

1977 US video by Frederick R Friedel

Murderous gangsters on the run descend on isolated farm inhabited by girl & her paralysed father. The girl rejects amorous advances with the assistance of an axe and a razor.

Passed X with cuts for a cinema release

Passed 18 after BBFC cuts in 1999 as California Axe Massacre

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The Beast In Heat
aka
SS Hell Camp

1977 Italian video by Luigi Batzella

Lady SS doctor tortures POWs in her charge and feeds the females to a crazed midget troll kept on a diet of mega-aphrodisiacs. The POWs finally get the upper hand and give her a taste of her own medicine.

Banned in UK

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The Beyond
aka
L'Aldila
Seven Doors of Death
E tu Vivrai nel Terrore: L'Aldila

1981 Italian video by Lucio Fulci

Fifty years after a fatal witch/warlock hunt in a hotel, inhabitants start to meet gruesome deaths including eye gouging, face eating by spiders & acid attacks.

This banned version was in fact the cut and X certificated cinema version already passed by the BBFC

Re-released after BBFC cuts (Vipco, now defunct)

Available on laserdisc (EC Entertainment EC-1001-LD)

Widely available on US video and DVD

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Blood Feast

1963 US video by Herschell Gordon Lewis

Crazed Egyptian attempts to invoke the goddess Ishtar by building the perfect woman out of body parts from victims not yet ready to donate them.

Banned in UK

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Blood Rites
aka
The Ghastly Ones

1969 US video by Andy Milligan

Mysterious killer retard stalks family will reading.

Banned in UK

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Bloodbath
aka
Antefatto
Bloodbath
Bloodbath Bay of Death
Bloodbath Bay of Blood
Twitch of the Death Nerve
Carnage
Before the Fact: Ecology of a Crime
The Ecology of a Crime
L'Ecologia del Delitto
Reazione a Catena
Before the Fact
Last House on the Left Part 2
New House on the Left

1971 Italian video by Mario Bava

A perverse reworking of La Ronde involving 11 graphic murders.

Re-released after BBFC cuts as Bay of Blood (Redemption, 1994)

Available on US video (Gorgon Video)

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Bloody Moon
aka
Collegialas Violadas
Profonde Tenebre
Die Saege des Todes

1981 Spanish/German video by Jess Franco

A chainsaw killing is amongst the methods for the killing of staff and students at a language school.

Re-released after BBFC cuts (Vipco, now defunct)

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The Bogey Man
aka
The Boogey Man
1980 US video by Ulli Lommel

Various killings precipitated by domestic objects aided by the power of the occult.

Re-released after BBFC cuts (Vipco, now defunct)

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The Burning
1981 US video by Tony Maylam

Camp caretaker gets horribly burnt as a result of a prank. Five years later he exacts revenge at a summer camp with the help of a pair of shears. Heads and fingers roll.

Re-released after BBFC cuts (Thorn/EMI then Vipco, now defunct)

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Cannibal Apocalypse
aka
Apocalisse Domani
The Cannibals are in the Streets
Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
Savage Apocalypse
Slaughterers
Cannibals in the City

1980 Italian/Spanish video by Anthony M Dawson

Cannibalism has become a disease brought back to the US by soldiers returning from Indo-China. French kissing becomes inadvisable as the plague spreads.

Banned in UK

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Cannibal Ferox
aka
Cannibal Feroz
Make them Die Slowly
Let them Die Slowly
Woman from Deep River
Die Rache der Kannibalen

1981 Italian video by Umberto Lenzi

Drug dealers run amok amongst cannibal tribes who eventually gain the upper hand with grim results. The girlfriend gets hung up by her breasts and the guy suffers various amputations before being deep throated in a rather one way manner.

Banned in UK

Prior to the VRA, the BBFC unofficially approved a cut 18 video version. This never became an official post VRA   certificate as both this and the uncut version were prosecuted. The cut 18 version has now been submitted to the BBFC

Recently re-released in the US on video & laserdisc

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Cannibal Holocaust
aka
Cannibal Massaker
Holocausto Cannibal
Nackt und Zerfeischt

1979 Italian film by Ruggero Deodato

Film crew sent into the jungle captures some pretty gruesome local customs and then go on to indulge in a little raping and killing themselves. The natives strike back and the film crew are beaten, castrated, stripped down to their skeletons and eaten.

This film suffered repeated outrageous claims of being a snuff movie by the ever-ludicrous gutter press. This can only be a testament to the quality of the film as the TV film crew's demise is presented solely from news footage that they have supposedly shot.

Banned in UK

Available on US laserdisc which is described as uncut but optically censored.

Recently available in Europe on the Cosa Nostra label (Covos 3)

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The Cannibal Man
aka
The Apartment on the 13th Floor
La Semana del Asesino

1972 Spanish video by Eloy de la Iglesia

Alienated slaughter house worker kills cabby on Monday, fiancée on Tuesday, brother on Wednesday, brother's wife on Thursday, Father on Friday and then takes Saturday off.

Re-released after BBFC cuts (Redemption)

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Cannibal Terror

1981 French video by Allan W Steeve

Criminals kidnap rich kid and unfortunately hole up in a cannibal infested jungle. The kid is adopted by the cannibals but the kidnappers donate their intestines for a tug-of-war match.

Removed from the DPP list but never re-released.

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Contamination
aka
Contaminazione
Alien Contamination
Alien 2
Astaron Strut des Scheckens
Toxic Spawn

1980 Italian video by Luigi Cozzi (Lewis Coates)

Exploding alien pods ripen and burst, any unfortunate humans in the vicinity join a chain reaction of a slow motion offal explosion.

A cut version was prepared but it never got released

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