Horror films banned in South Africa

[Trevor]

Amazing what crap the apartheid censors got up to:

Audrey Rose
Bay of Blood / Twitch of The Death Nerve
Cannibal Holocaust
Crowhaven Farm
Cry of The Banshee
Dark Places
Death Line
Demon Seed
The Devil's Rain
The Devils
Devil Within Her
The Exorcist
Exorcist 11 The Heretic
Exorcist 111
Friday The 13th
Horror Hospital
It's Alive
Prince Of Darkness
Q The Winged Serpent
Race With The Devil
Tales That Witness Madness
The Dunwich Horror
The Godsend
The Howling
The Omen
The Satanic Rites of Dracua
The Sentinel
The Shadowed Mind
The Stick
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Wicker Man
Witchfinder General


I hate censorship.

I've highlighted the ones I have seen. 

[Pacman000]

I assume you mean the mid-70's It's Alive, not the late 60's It's Alive

Gotta wonder why these were censored.  

Off topic, but related: In the 30's the British film board initially refused to give Disney's Snow White an all-ages rating; they wanted to give it a 16-and-up-rating.  (16+ was the equivalent of an "R" in the U.S. system of the 60's/70's, one step under an "X") They relented after being laughed at by the press.  

[javakoala]

The Godsend? Are we talking about the one where the little foundling kills the other kids? Were they afraid it would result in a drop in childbirth?

[Leah]

The Wicker Man I can totally see why, they don't want to expose young people to the craziness that is Nick Cage and to the s**ttiness that is the Remake.

[javakoala]

The Wicker Man I can totally see why, they don't want to expose young people to the craziness that is Nick Cage and to the s**ttiness that is the Remake.

Mr. Cage owes me an apology and a steak dinner for sitting through that dreadful film.

[ER]

That's crazy, Trevor.

The Catholic Church used to make its own annual and ongoing list of "banned movies, songs, and books" and forbade the credulously faithful from seeing or hearing or reading them, on pain of mortal sin or in some cases excommunication. Growing up around the time of World War Two my grandfather wanted to see a particular movie (I'm sorry I don't know what it was called) that the the local Archbishop had forbidden Catholics to see, yet one advantage of living along a state border was another Bishop ran things just across the river, so Grandpa and his friends hopped a bus and saw the movie there, Scot-free and sinless.

The idea of telling someone they're going to face eternal Hell for seeing a movie just blows my mind.

[Trevor]

The Godsend? Are we talking about the one where the little foundling kills the other kids? Were they afraid it would result in a drop in childbirth?

Yes: they probably thought the killer reminded them too much of their own kids 

[Trevor]

That's crazy, Trevor.

The Catholic Church used to make its own annual and ongoing list of "banned movies, songs, and books" and forbade the credulously faithful from seeing or hearing or reading them, on pain of mortal sin or in some cases excommunication. Growing up around the time of World War Two my grandfather wanted to see a particular movie (I'm sorry I don't know what it was called) that the the local Archbishop had forbidden Catholics to see, yet one advantage of living along a state border was another Bishop ran things just across the river, so Grandpa and his friends hopped a bus and saw the movie there, Scot-free and sinless.

The idea of telling someone they're going to face eternal Hell for seeing a movie just blows my mind.

When Last Tango in Paris was banned in SA but screened at a casino in Swaziland, people flocked across the border to see it: the Minister of the Interior at the time threatened "Serious action" against those doing so. 

[AoTFan]

The Wicker Man I can totally see why, they don't want to expose young people to the craziness that is Nick Cage and to the s**ttiness that is the Remake.

Mr. Cage owes me an apology and a steak dinner for sitting through that dreadful film.

Funny thing about that, I've seen fake trailers on Youtube where the recut that movie as a comedy and, neatly enough, they didn't have to change too much. 

[Trevor]

I assume you mean the mid-70's It's Alive, not the late 60's It's Alive

Gotta wonder why these were censored. 

Off topic, but related: In the 30's the British film board initially refused to give Disney's Snow White an all-ages rating; they wanted to give it a 16-and-up-rating.  (16+ was the equivalent of an "R" in the U.S. system of the 60's/70's, on step under an "X") They relented after being laughed at by the press. 

Yes, the 1970s one.

The Censor Board had frightening powers back then and they answered to no one.

Even films like Enter The Dragon and Billy Jack were banned. 

[Trevor]

The Wicker Man I can totally see why, they don't want to expose young people to the craziness that is Nick Cage and to the s**ttiness that is the Remake.

Mr. Cage owes me an apology and a steak dinner for sitting through that dreadful film.

He owes me some honey 

[AoTFan]

Amazing what crap the apartheid censors got up to:

On a related note, I wonder if whoever allows such things regrets letting (whoever) them filming parts of "The Brothers Grimsby" there...

[bob]

We gotta send Trevor some of these 

[RCMerchant]

the EXORCIST II:the HERETIC should be banned world-wide. 

[BoyScoutKevin]

Trevor being the modest guy that he is, failed to mention the most terrible and terrifying horror film of all. It is so terrible and terrifying. It has never seen the light of day. I mean . . . "Trevor's Underpants : the Underpants That Ate Durban." Now, that I'd pay to see, if it is ever released to the public.