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Originally Posted by paws the great
I really don't know why films like The Evil Dead , Visiting Hours and Night School made this list? Did the British Board of Film Censorship even watch these films? I can understand why some of these films would be considered offensive to some people, but a lot of the these movies are pretty tame!
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You're absolutely right. They didn't watch a lot of the films that they banned; often they would judge them based on promotional materials or the VHS cover. This was one of the myriad criticisms brought against Whitehouse and her cronies during the Video Nasties craze, but of course they prevailed.