Wednesday 16 June 2010

WHO IS LUCIO FULCI? PART 3: FULCI & CENSORSHIP

Several of Fulci's movies were censored by the film distributor to ensure an R rating (such as The Beyond, which was originally released in edited form as Seven Doors of Death) or were released unrated in order to avoid an X-rating (as with Zombi II and The House by the Cemetery), which would have greatly restricted the films' target audience to adults only. The unrated films often played worldwide in drive-ins and grindhouses to hordes of delighted teenagers and horror fanatics.

Many of Fulci's movies were banned in Europe or released in heavily cut versions. Of the original 74 films on the infamous video nasty list in the United Kingdom, 3 belonged to Fulci: Zombi 2 (1979), The Beyond (1981), and The House by the Cemetery (1981). After viewing Fulci's New York Ripper, the British Board of Film Classification not only refused the film a certificate but also ordered that all copies of the offending film be removed from the country.

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