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Originally Posted by eddyw78
Just what Vipco used to do but I only bought those as it was much much harder to find these films back in the 90’s and early naughties and seeing them at all was better than nothing. Then I discovered the internet and imports  |
I don't agree that seeing them cut to bits is better than nothing because it gives a false impression of films which are for the most part already complete crap anyway. Taking out the exact moments which often are the reasons the films are notorious in the first place seems to make matters even worse.
When Vipco were releasing on VHS the options were laserdisc imports or going after the earlier UK VHS releases - not cheap of course.
By the time Vipco were releasing on dvd it was easy to import uncut discs from other countries so I never found the need to buy a cut version on any format.
One time Vipco did come through was with the Amicus movie Vault of Horror. As with their other titles it was poor quality and 4:3 but in a turnaround the Vipco disc was uncut while the US discs were not