I don’t know if it’s different in the US but in Germany the local movie rental joints were usually split into a family and an adult section. I was always interested in horror and violent movies but to get to them you also had to go through all the really nasty porn movie shelves with the weird old dudes browsing them. I mean I like porn as well but these stores had really disgusting stuff…
While your country seems very tense with nudity and alcohol, Germany was very tense with violence and weapons.
Eg there were usually special German versions of video games where blood and gore are removed. E.g. the special forces in Half Life are robots in the German version. The pedestrians in Carmageddon are also robots. I believe BioShock has certain animations removed. Wolfenstein has the Nazi symbols removed and at computer markets they only showed the Christmas edition where you fought against snowmen.
Movies also exist in a German cut where e.g. RoboCop has like 15 minutes removed.
Many movies where also “forbidden” and could not be advertised and I believe only sold if explicitly asked for by a customer.
The whole situation has relaxed lately, I believe shortly after it was easy to obtain international version via the Internet.
I don’t know if it’s different in the US but in Germany the local movie rental joints were usually split into a family and an adult section. I was always interested in horror and violent movies but to get to them you also had to go through all the really nasty porn movie shelves with the weird old dudes browsing them. I mean I like porn as well but these stores had really disgusting stuff…
That’s weird. In America all the porn stuff was hidden behind a black curtain in a dark room in the back lol.
While your country seems very tense with nudity and alcohol, Germany was very tense with violence and weapons.
Eg there were usually special German versions of video games where blood and gore are removed. E.g. the special forces in Half Life are robots in the German version. The pedestrians in Carmageddon are also robots. I believe BioShock has certain animations removed. Wolfenstein has the Nazi symbols removed and at computer markets they only showed the Christmas edition where you fought against snowmen.
Movies also exist in a German cut where e.g. RoboCop has like 15 minutes removed.
Many movies where also “forbidden” and could not be advertised and I believe only sold if explicitly asked for by a customer.
The whole situation has relaxed lately, I believe shortly after it was easy to obtain international version via the Internet.
I’m glad Germany realized censoring fictional violence is lame