Carmencita (1894)
A girl with disturbing hallucinations continues her downward spiral into hell.
Films were often banned by local authorities for a variety of sometimes ridiculous reasons.We’ve collected a few of the first films to be censored. Overall Film - 55% A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.Shock factor - 8/10 (High impact sexual violence/blood and gore) Done Jose is not allowed to do any bodily harm to Carmen. A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.Shock factor - 8/10 (High level violence)
Follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.Shock Factor - 10/10 (Extreme acts of sexual violence/graphic torture/high impact themes) Hula (1927) Hula was one of Clara Bow‘s last silent movies before she moved into Talkies. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.Shock Factor- 7/10 (Strong blood and gore) She claimed to La Marr, despite her beauty, began to fall out of favor with the studios but continued to work regardless, desperate to regain her popularity. A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekenetic powers to control the attraction's mannequins.Shock Factor - 7/10 (strong horror themes) She’d recently had an illegal abortion, which had not gone well and may have contributed to the peritonitis and ruptured bladder she subsequently suffered.Ward Hazell is a writer who travels, and an occasional travel writer.Read more wild tales from the early days of Hollywood on
Virginia’s board attempted to block one of his pictures on the grounds that it would cause black moviegoers to riot. In that spirit, I would like to share some censorship cuts inflicted on silent films by the censorship boards of the day.Before Will Hayes and a central censorship body, studios were basically at the mercy of whatever whims assorted state and city censor boards had at the moment. overall film - 81% Ironically enough it was also banned in Nazi Germany for being "anti-German". Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.Shock Factor - 8/10 (High impact scenes of torture, medium level violence and themes)
Novella McClure is like most struggling actresses in Los Angeles: she's in her early 30s, her fake name sounded cooler ten years ago, and she hasn't landed a role in three years. They are: 1. Overall Film - 50% The plot was interesting, the characters were not except for Dr. Heiter he was a blast, truly hilarious and at times captivating. Overall Film - 70%
The film is just really uncomfortable to watch
The medium of film was still finding it’s feet, and no formal censorship boards existed. Overall Film - 45% We suppose that the censors will have no objection to a subtitle in which Carmen assures the young sergeant of her platonic regard.”I’ll close things out with a quote from Oscar Micheaux, a cinema pioneer and a veteran of clashes with censor boards.
overall film- 85% List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba. As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.Shock Factor - 8/10 (High Impact violence, blood and gore, Strong sexual violence, scenes of torture) Overall Film - 52% "Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong horror themes) The dancer’s underwear is visible (a large petticoat).
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.Shock Factor - 6/10 (Moderate themes, disturbing imagery) Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.Shock Factor 7/10 (Strong themes/disturbing imagery)
When Katie innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into a nightmare of rape, torture and kidnapping. I think all on-screen adaptations of Cleopatra have been a visual feast, but none were quite as risque as the 1917 silent movie starring Theda Bara. overall Film- 60% A compilation of banned scenes of silent films. Overall film - 91% She had several brushes with police and a spell in a In 1931, she wrote an account of her life, entitled “Why I Remain A Dope Fiend,” which was serialized in newspapers throughout the United States. The film came just after Rowlatt Act was passed in India. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?Shock Factor - 7/10 (medium level violence, sexual themes and nudity) A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Overall Film - 60% Overall Film - 70% We don’t know. A babysitter finds a VHS tape which features various sinister murders performed by a psychotic clown.Shock factor 7/10 (Strong violence/disturbing imagery) Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.Shock Factor- 8/10 (High impact violence/blood and gore/graphic scenes of torture/Sadistic themes) Overall Film - 55% A large number of rumors circulated about the lifestyle of both Taylor and Normand, including drug dealing, sexual perversion, and even Satanism.The rumor mill was fueled by Taylor’s mysterious past, not least the fact that his name was not Taylor at all but William Cunningham Dean-Tanner, which is even more of a mouthful. a list of 95 titles