Thank goodness that The Driller Killer is now Public Domain, as well as having been passed many years ago, so we may not in the future have to wait on the whims of the censors to see films like this through rereleases if we can easily watch them online.Īs I said, it's not one of my favourite films from this period. This latter film has not been rereleased (partly because it isn't much good) but would almost certainly pass uncut. It's only relatively more nasty than the similarly disreputable but tame Love Camp 7. Apart from one scene, it's unlikely now this film would get most people's hackles up. Back even in the '90s, though, the notoriously out of touch and autocratic James Ferman had considered releasing this either with 19 seconds of cuts, or uncut under a different title, since he was aware its lurid reputation mostly derived from that. This is not among my favourites of the films that made the DPP list during the UK's bad old 'video nasty' days, whose legacy was a censoriousness in the UK for well over a decade incomparable to the rest of Europe.
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