Time between original release and Australian release

Pancho

Hi team!

As you know I collect some pretty bizarre, low brow stuff and an interesting (to me) part of that is the time lag that exists between when some of these films were first released against the Australian release. Two and three years is common, but I've got some examples that are much longer!

Original date, Australian date in brackets

* The Psycho Lover - 1970, (1978)
* Zero In And Scream - 1971, (1980)
* Devil's Angels - 1967, (1974)
* Fugitive Girls - 1974, (1981)
* The Notorious Daughter Of Fanny Hill - 1966, (1973)
* Tropical Ecstasy - 1970, (1978)
* Terror Of The Vampire - 1971, (1977)

Does anyone have any other examples?

David

Are you talking delayed or banned and then eventually released?

20 Days of Sodom - banned for 17 years...

And IIRC the original Ned Kelly film was banned/delayed in certain states of Australia initially

HONDO

There are many reasons why for the time lag in Australia. There would be a different answer to the genre of the films that you are interested compared to the majority of all other genres. The banning of a lot of the horror and sexploitation films along with lack of theatre availability and perhaps some lack of interest in acquiring a lot of these films for release in Australia in the first place I would think would be the main reasons.

Pancho

Here's a new leader in my poster stable - made 1968, released in Australia 1983! (I haven't got the poster yet - image courtesy of the lovely dealer on eBay!)