The BBFC’s chief, James Ferman, infamously described the film as revelling in “the pornography of terror.” Hooper’s masterpiece was released on VHS for a time in the early 1980s, before being withdrawn from video store shelves, in the wake of the 1984 Video Recordings Act. Yet it received a very lengthy ban from the British film censors (the BBFC) because they considered its intense terrorisation and “abnormal psychology” unfit for audiences. Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974) is one of the greatest movies ever made, regardless of genre. Gunnar Hansen as chainsaw-wielding maniac, Leatherface, in “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” The Texas Chain Saw Massacre It was filmmaker David Cronenberg, whose work has met the censor’s scissors on more than one occasion, who put it that censorship boards have something in common with psychotics: “They confuse fantasy with reality.” Above: Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist.” Can horror movies corrupt young minds? Can horror movies turn audiences into drooling maniacs? The evidence suggests not, but it never stopped censors from banning films. Since the birth of the genre proper, in the 1930s, select titles have proven a challenge to censorship boards and morality groups, who champion clean and wholesome entertainment.
Horror movies have always sort to push the boundaries of taste and decency.
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