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Films That Were Most Likely Banned In Australia.

HONDOHONDO
in Attack of the Censor

                          There were a lot of mainly horror films that were not screened theatrically in Australia at the time of their original release or since that most likely were banned by the Australian censor but nothing is in print to back this up. I intend to post overseas posters for these titles over a period of time so members are made aware of them.





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  • HONDOHONDO

    Two more.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             The Day Of The Triffids ( 1963 ) & The Cyclops ( 1957 )
  • RickRick
    Damn our over-protective censors
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                                            Die Monster Die! ( 1965 )

                                                                 &

                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Vampire and The Ballerina ( Italy 1960 / U. S.A. 1962 ) 

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Attack Of The Crab Monsters ( 1957 ) & Horrors Of The Black Museum ( 1959 )

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                                                                                                                                                                                                Tormented ( 1960 )  &  Black Sunday ( Italy 1960 / U.S.A. 1961 ) 
  • HONDOHONDO
    edited October 2015

    Update. Since posting Black Sunday it has been confirmed it was banned by the Australian censor in September 1970 for violence and the appeal against the ban was dismissed by the review board in October 1970. As far as I am aware it has never been released commercially in Australia. No record of it but I would think the film was probably also banned  at the time of the original overseas release in the early 1960s as well.

  • RickRick
    Was Hot Rod Rumble released in Australia? I don't recall seeing a daybill.
  • HONDOHONDO

                                                                                                                                                                                        Grip Of The Strangler ( The Haunted Strangler in The U.S. ) (1958 ).

    Of interest is the fifth billing on the original U.K. poster shown as ''And Boris Karloff'' in same size print as first four billed before him, compared to the first billing at the top of the page in large print on the U.S. poster after ''King Of The Monsters!''. They were really pushing Karloff's name in the U.S. to sell the film there.

  • HONDOHONDO
    edited October 2015
    Rick said:
    Was Hot Rod Rumble released in Australia? I don't recall seeing a daybill.


    The answer is no along with almost all of the films of this genre they were not released in Australia including -

    Speed Crazy, Dragstrip Girl, Dragstrip Riot,  Motorcycle Gang, Hot Rod Girl, Daddy-O, High School Hellcats, Hot Rod Gang and many more and even Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow. I don't believe these films were banned but only not picked up for distribution in Australia.

  • RickRick
    damn, i would have loved some of those daybills!
  • HONDOHONDO
                                                                                                                                                                                                Womaneater ( 1958 ) ( U.S.A. The Woman Eater  released in 1959 ). British original paper is hard to find so the damaged quad is the only image I could come up with.
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                                                                           The Horror Of Party Beach ( 1964 )
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                                                                                            Fiend Without A Face ( 1958 )
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                                   The Brain That Wouldn't Die ( 1962 )
  • HONDOHONDO
    edited June 2016
                     Black Sabbath ( 1963 ) and Planet Of The Vampires ( 1965 ).  I had mentioned these two titles previously on the Mario Bava Thread started by Pancho in September, 2015.
  • HONDOHONDO
    edited September 2022
    HONDO said:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Grip Of The Strangler ( The Haunted Strangler in The U.S. ) (1958 ).

    Of interest is the fifth billing on the original U.K. poster shown as ''And Boris Karloff'' in same size print as first four billed before him, compared to the first billing at the top of the page in large print on the U.S. poster after ''King Of The Monsters!''. They were really pushing Karloff's name in the U.S. to sell the film there.

     (trademe )

    Although never gaining a release here in Australia, the film was distributed in New Zealand though, and a poster for its release appears above..

  • HONDOHONDO
      ( ( Rick ) 

    The Curse Of the Living Corpse  ( 1964 ) was most likely banned in Australia, along with The Horror Of Party Beach ( 1964 ) which was included here earlier in November 2015.

    Both films were released at part of a Horror double dill in the U.S.A. As both films were released by the major studio 20th Century Fox one has to believe that they would have been eligible to have been submitted to the Australian film censor here.. 

    A younger  pre fame Roy Scheider starred in The Corpse Of The Living Corpse. 
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