driller killer was one of the covers that got alot of attention.

According to Video Nasties:Moral Panic, Censorship....when the Uk police raided video stores-they had no idea what films were actually on the list so they would confiscate and put out of business sellers who had things like "The Last Little Whorehouse In Texas" an anodyne Dolly Parton flick on their shelves. I think it was more of a case of the authorities not liking independant business owners and distributors making so much money.

Anyway my faves on the list:

The Beyond
House By The Cemetary
Dead and Buried
Possession
The New York Ripper
Inferno
Tenebrae
The House On The Edge Of The Park
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain
The Funhouse (I think at the beginning when the teens were smoking pot while driving was what upset the censors as well as it being a Tobe Hooper film as already mentioned)
Death Trap
Evil Dead
The Hills Have Eyes
Exploitation:

Salo
Last House On Dead End Street
Ilsa:She Wolf Of The SS (thanks ferox for the info on the sequals me and mate are gonna watch them back to back soon)
The Devils (I know there;s more to it than exploitation)
The Killer Nun (also a video nasty)

The Driller Killer was one of the films that authorities banned due to the overly gory and misleading cover art (the guy getting the drill pushed into his head)

There were a few more but I'm not at my house this week so I'm unable to give you the full list as I left the article at home.

Really, are you sure about that?

What 'authorities' are you talking about?

I do know that the film Driller Killer was sent to the DPP and was banned but it was nothing to do with the cover.

...Well there was certainly some controversy with the cover when it was advertised in various trade magazines (it was one of the controversies that got the Nasties ball rolling) but I've never heard officially that any film was banned just for the art. However, I think that it may have been the case for a few films, such was the hysteria that was brewing.

Keep in mind that Mary Whitehouse herself, without any shame, once voiced in an interview that she'd never seen a Video Nasty and that she didn't have to see that something was obscene to know it was...which I think completely undermines her argument but c'est la vie.

It certainly did undermine her argument, but it didn't matter; the mindset was already in place. In fact, there were so many inconsistencies and contradictions on the part of all the advocates, but it didn't seem to matter. One of the things I loved about the Video Nasties documentary was how they gathered a bunch of clips illustrating this.

A lot of people mentioned Ken Russell's The Devils in this thread, so just in case you didn't see it in the Upcoming DVDs thread:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/143

BFI will be releasing the UK X certificate version on DVD on March 19 with a bunch of extras. Bad news, it may not be entirely uncut from Russell's original print and WB (the assholes) won't let BFI use the 2004 restoration either. But it's something, I guess.

The correspondence between Russell and James Ferman over the cutting of The Devils was hilarious. Ii was mentioned in some old documentry I saw and just recently in the Timeshift episode, Dear Censor.

Yes we are very lucky that some of the correspondances were made public-sadly we will never see them all.

I finally managed to see a Teruo Ishii film, The Joy Of Torture 2 Oxen Split Torture.

The movie certainly delivers on its promise. I guess there were a couple of scenes that made me wince and look away, but overall it had a surprisingly humorous tone and didn't take itself too seriously. A really good exploitation film.

I dare say, if it had come to the attention of the Mary Whitehouse clan, it would have made the nasty list for sure.