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Originally Posted by fortunato
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.
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You're quite right - Whitehouse admitted many time that she wouldn't watch such filth (how ever SHe had nothing to do with the BBFC).
There is also some confusion here between the BBFC and the famous video nasty list. As far as I remember - the banning of the films had nothing to do with with British Board of Film Censors. It was the DPP who made raids, confiscated tapes and compiled the infamous list.
I agree with fortunato to some extent that
they would judge them based on promotional materials or the VHS cover. (add to this title too) but this was for films that were confiscated in raids. The ones that appear on the list had to be prosecuted in turn and of course the material was watched.
The reason The Evil Dead was one the list as it was one of the big names in the newspaper headlines (the media had a huge effect on the whole shitstore) - If I recall the Rami movie went thru a long process of trials before being deemed 'obscene' and subsequently banned.
Of all the films prosecuted 'Forest of Fear' of the one I never understood.