Originally Posted by the blob (Post 266172)

Essentially though, the MPAA are just a glorified advisory board. When it comes to home video and even cinema, anything goes. It just depends on how many screens or what stores the distributors want to sell them to. Walmart won't sell NC-17 and a lot of theatres won't show them.

Originally Posted by James Morton (Post 266183)

if you ever see an excellent doc called THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, the MPAA are a bunch of liars and one guy said the MPAA are next to the CIA for being so secretive
in the end though its all politics

Originally Posted by Daemonia (Post 266195)

Yes, I've seen that and it's well worth a look. The points he raises are very good and really shows the MPAA for being the idiots they truly are. Like, you can have a love scene, but if the bloke's arse moves then you're moving into NC-17 territory. It's laughable. :lol:

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 32507)

For a while I've wanted to get my hands on a complete set of DPP-ordained video nasties (on DVD, mind, not pre-cert VHS - I'm not that hardcore), and I wondered if anyone could help compile a list of the best releases for each film, keeping it to uncut and (if possible) R2 DVDs.

UPDATE - Here's the current version of the list:

UK:

Axe 2 disc - ILC UK R2
Bloody Moon - Severin UK R2
Cannibal Terror - Screen Entertainment
Dead & Buried - Anchor Bay UK
Contamination - Box of the Banned v.2
The Devil Hunter - Severin R2
Don't Go Near the Park - Box of the Banned v.2
Dont Go in the Woods - Film 2000 R2
Evil Dead Rubber Book of the Dead Edition - Anchor Bay UK
Evil Speak 2 disc - Anchor Bay UK
Flesh for Frankenstein - Tartan
The House by the Cemetary - Arrow
Killer Nun - Shameless
Last House on the Left 3 disc - Metrodome UK R2
Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue - Anchor Bay UK / Blue Undergorund R1
Love Camp 7 - DVD Classics (only release)
Night Train Murders - Shameless
The Slayer - Vipco
Shogun Assassin - Vipco / AWE Denmark R2
Tenebrae - Box of the Banned v.2
Unhinged - R2 (Platinum Media)
The Witch who Came from the Sea - Box of the Banned v.2
Zombie Creeping Flesh - Vipco / Blue Underground US

Import:

Absurd - MYA R1 ( as Horrible )
Anthropophagus 2 disc - Shriek Show - R1
Bay of Blood - Mario Bava Collection v.2?
The Beast in Heat ( As SS Hell Camp ) - Shreik Show R1
The Beyond - Grindhouse R1
Blood Feast - Image Entertainment (American R0)
Blood Rites/The Ghastly Ones - R1 Something Weird (double feature with Seeds of Sin)
The Boogyman - Marketing (German R2), although the British releases are uncut and the R0 USA release is packaged with The Devonsville Terror
The Burning - MGM R1
Cannibal Ferox - Grindhouse - R1
Cannibal Holocaust 2 disc - Grindhouse R1
Cannibal Apocalypse - Image R1
Cannibal Man - R0 Anchor Bay US, R1 Blue Underground and Austrian R2 all more or less the same
Deep River Savages - Shriek Show R1 ( As Man from Deep River )
Death Trap - Dark Sky -R1 ( As Eaten Alive )
Don't go in the House - R1 Shriek Show (also available as poor qiality R0 USA)
Don't Look in the Basement - various American R0 releases of even quality. Also an uncut but bare bones UK DVD.
The Dorm that Dripped Blood/Pranks - R0 (looks like a Vipco release, but their Screamtime release is cut)
Driller Killer 2 disc - Cult Epics R1
Expose - R1 Severin (due to be released)
Faces of Death - R1 Gorgon Video (see also Faces of Death Collection)
Frozen Scream - German R2
Fight for Your Life - Blue Underground R1
The Funhouse - R4 release is best, although the British release is uncut
Gestapos Last Orgy - Exploitation Digital R1
House on the Edge of the Park - Shriek Show R1
I Spit on Your Grave - Elite R1
Inferno - Blue Underground
Island of Death - Image R1
The Last House on the Left - Metrodome (although the Dutch 2-disc SE is good too)
Mardi Gras Massacre - R1
The Mountain of the Cannibal God - Blue Underground
Night of the Bloody Apes - R1 Something Weird, part of double feature with Feast of Flesh. UK release uncut. See also Something Weird Beauties and Beasts boxset.
Possession - Anchor Bay US
Revenge of the Bogey Man - R1 (Boogey Man 2)
Snuff - Blue Underground R0 (only release)
SS Experiment Camp - Exploitation Digital R1 (Blackhorse UK is fullscreen with poor image quality, but is uncut. See also Exploitation Digital triple pack)
There Was a Little Girl/Madhouse - Dark Sky R1 (British release is uncut but the sound quality is bad)
The Toolbox Murders - Anchor Bay UK (R-rated version - although apparently the NC-17 version is now lost)
Women Behind Bars - Blue Underground
Visiting Hours - R1 Anchor Bay
Xtro - R1 Image Entertainment
Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 Disc - Shriek Show R1

No uncut English DVD:

Night of the Demon
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
Nightmare Maker
Terror Eyes
The Werewolf and the Yeti - Spanish release only

Stragglers:

Delirium/Psycho Puppet
Forest of Fear/Toxic Zombies
Human Experiments
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses/Drop Dead Dearest
And, for the sake of completism, Cain's Cutthroats (which generally isn't included in copies of the DPP list).

Originally Posted by Wes (Post 370211)

I think Snuff is the latest one to get a Blu release... I used to watch this on a fuzzy VHS back in the 90's and to think somewhere down the line the film would be getting this kind of treatment would have been something in the realm of science fiction !

http://www.blue-underground.com/boxc...-BD-7042_m.jpg

Originally Posted by Zann (Post 370213)

Yeah I'll definitely get this once the price comes down a little. Still no Ferox BD...come on Grindhouse.

Originally Posted by Wes (Post 370214)

There's still a few from the 72 list I've never seen... Deep River Savages, Pranks, The Bogeyman...