YOUR LATEST DVD PURCHASES

I'm sorry to all confirmed VHS geeks, but I think we need this thread too.

Got a nice christmas bonus and celebrated with a BIG play.com order (with many titles i've put off buying for years now). All are R2 UK releases of course:

Celine and Julie Go Boating
A River Called Titas
Death Rides a Horse
Paris Nous Appartient
Cannibal Holocaust 2
Fantastic Planet
Vampyros Lesbos
The Cloud Capped Star
The Devil CAme From Akasava
Judex / Nuits Rouges
Faust
Funerral Parade of Roses
Vampyr
Oasis of Fear
Onibaba
Nosferatu
Marketa Lazrova
The Cremator
Werckmesister Harmonies / Damnation
Valerie and Her Week of Wonder
The Red and the White
Rome Against Rome
Herod the Great

Don't worry about it mate...they won't understand what you are talking about...it's like a foreign language to them! lol
They don't know what a DVD is most of 'em!

"What's that you say? Explain it to me again....VIDEO...on a DISC?!? How do they do that then...is it a round disc with videotape wound around it? Like an 8mm reel you mean? I'm confuuuuuuuused..."

lol

Bless 'em...

very nice selection Lars! although you could have gotten Celine and Julie from me in a nice trade I put it up for trade here on the forum a long while back...

The titles I selected from your list are discs I also have in my collection and that Vampyr is on my wantlist, but lately I have been buying a lot of Japanese (samurai) films, so I think already spend my christmas bonus

Assault! Jack the Ripper
The Watcher in the Attic
The Warrior
Makai Tensho: Samurai Reincarnation
Legend Of The Eight Samurai
Hanzo The Razor
Beautiful Hunter
The Shogun Collection
Ninja Wars
Ninja Scroll - 10th Anniversary Edition
Gojoe
Irezumi
Sky High
Night Watch / Day Watch (Special Edition Directors Cuts)
Naked Youth
The Sun's Burial
Man Stroke Woman - Series 1
Man Stroke Woman : Complete BBC Series 2
The Fast Show : Ultimate Collection (7 Disc BBC Box Set)
Female Demon Ohyaku
Female Yakuza Tale: inquisition & torture
Quick-draw Okatsu
Okatsu the Fugitive

That's about it for this month I think (although the month isn't over yet ) so, as you can see my DVD budget is bigger than my VHS one, I'm a man of all ages

How dare you open such a thread? You will feel my anger and those of my fellow brothers!

Resonator05: What are you gonna do? Hit me in the head with a Exciting! tape?

Petcor80: I would say that my DVD & VHS budget are about the same, but for me it goes in periods... last months i've been buyig a lot of VHS but before that period I bought almost exlusively DVD:s for a while. But now I felt it was time to take a break from the trash and catch up on some quality DVD:s i've missed out on. "Celine" was on sale for about ten euro, not much to fuzz about there... should be interesting to finally check out Rivette.

You... dvd swine!!!

The little I have seen from him I liked, but I was expecting só much from this one (there is a lot of hype about it, if you can speak of things like that in the arthouse world) that it became a bit of a dissapointment. I liked the concept of what he was trying to do, but on the whole it didn't do anything for me... I don't know, maybe you'll like it a lot. I just know I don't need it in my collection as I won't have to see this a second time or reccomend it to anyone

The British Pound hit the bottom today.Almost 1:1 to Euros.Good timing,Lars.
I've got Grindhouse's PIECES through a trade.

Yeah, just too bad we have the swedish krona here (which has also hit bottom lately), the prices were about the same as usual for me. And it's no fun ordering from xploitedcinema or dvdpacific anymore now that the dollar has gone up so much...

Right

But are these R2 UK DVDs uncut? Isn't there cencorship there anymore? I usually avoid UK releases because of it...

PLAY is a great store by the way, their service is nice!

You can always check The British Board of Film Classification's (the BBFC) own homepage for cuts.

www.bbfc.co.uk

Not all titles are there but most are.

I cannot claim I buy a lot of DVDs lately - I import stuff for Electric Larvae but this is another story - THE BEAST IN SPACE is my recent one!

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I wouldn't agree that most British DVD releases are still cut these days. Far from it in fact!
The main things to fall foul of the BBFC these days are porn titles to be honest. Since XXX films have been legalised here around a decade ago the BBFC tend to only cut scenes in such titles that are deemed to be representative of sexual or sexualised violence and things such as choking, heavy gagging, under-age references (such as someone talking to a performer as if they were under-age, etc.) and things like that. Female ejaculation is forbidden also as the BBFC conducted research into it with the help of various people in the medical field and other fields of expertise and their conclusion was that such a thing does not exist (just when you think they have become more liberal they display an amazingly medieval attitude towards something that almost sets women's lib back to day one again!).

Horror films and other violent and exploitational material is mostly left unscathed these past few years unless it is deemed to have some kind of genuinely dangerous or worrying 'trigger' possibilities (all based on research they constantly do amongst various psycholigists, social care workers and other experts). THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT was finally granted a release a good few years back with just a matter of seconds trimmed. It was recently re-released fully uncut for the first time ever here (an amazing 3-Disc DVD edition that is by and far the ULTIMATE edition to own). SALO is available here fully uncut and uncensored. The HOSTEL films are uncut.

Basically, anything with disembowellment, dismemberment, decapitation, eye-gouging, throat-cutting/ripping, cannibalism, brain-squashing, etc, etc, etc. is not even blinked at these days. The types of films that usually fall foul of the scissors of the BBFC are the likes of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (the aforementioned sexual-violence worries and animal cruelty, which the law ensures is illegal to show whether the BBFC wanted to pass such scenes or not), I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (gratuitous rape shown in an almost glamourised/titilating manner and with horrific sexual violence), AI NO CORRIDA (the shot of the little boy having his penis tugged at by the mentally unbalanced female character is illegal here under child protection and obscenity laws, so the BBFC have no choice but to censor such imagery in defense of under-age participants and possible unwillingness, etc.), MURDER-SET-PIECES (all the raging sexual violence, ramgaging tone of misogyny, etc. is something the BBFC guidelines aim to ensure does not reach the public), etc.
As you can see, there is a real attitude towards feeling that extreme sexual violence in films is POSSIBLY harmful to CERTAIN elements of society and so should be removed. Sexual violence CAN be shown and depicted but only if done so in a manner that is seen as not glamourising it, making light of it or being excessive. If justified due to context or it is handled in a certain manner, it is allowed...

But very few scenes of standard gory violence, however graphic, are blinked at these days.
Violence is pretty much left alone, as is sex. But the combination of the two raises eyebrows at the BBFC and they tend to sharpen their scissors and cut a large amount of titles that go through them that have this heady cocktail of explicit compounds...

been putting these off for wayyyy to long, So I decided to pick them up this morning:

Mondo Macabro For your Height Only
Mondo Macabro Living Doll
Mondo Macabro Turkish Double Bill
Mondo Macabro The Warrior
Mondo Macabro Virgins From Hell


i now have EVERY Mondo Macabro Release to date from the US and UK!!!

Wanyon, thanks for the insight on the BBFC as of late, as I , like Milto's have shyed away from many British releases thinking the same way, that alot of the newer releases of film's on DVD must still be cut versions, eddie