10 Brutally Violent Films The Censors Tried To Ban

6. Eaten Alive (1977)

Tobe Hooper€™s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) never made the DPP list nor was it ever officially banned €“ following the implementation of the Video Recordings Act, it was an open secret that if the film was submitted for classification it would be rejected outright. It was a different story with Hooper€™s next movie. Eaten Alive (aka Death Trap) is the merry tale of a psychotic hotel owner (played by Neville Brand) who murders his guests and feeds them to the crocodile living in his front yard, and Hooper throws in all manner of sleazy shenanigans from Robert Englund as a sex-hungry redneck (€œI€™m buck and I€™m raring to f**k€) to scenes where Brand kills his victims with a scythe. Censored for theatrical release, the uncut version found its way onto home video, much to the displeasure of Mary Whitehouse, who once again voiced her concerns over a movie she€™d never seen. Listed as a Video Nasty in July 1983, the cut version was released in 1992 in the wake of several unsuccessful prosecutions for obscenity.