Cannibal Ferox coming from Shameless

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Originally Posted by Man From Hammer

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

For me back in the 90’s Vipco was better than nothing as I didn’t have Laserdisc and most of these films had been pretty much unavailable since the early 80’s. I’m not saying I enjoyed seeing them cut but it did give me a taster and as soon as got my first DVD player in 2000 and modded it to region free I would have never considered buying a Vipco release if not just because they were most likely cut but because the transfers were mostly abysmal VHS rips. They did give us Shogun Assassin and Shock Waves (which of course I double dipped with later on) which were the first time I had seen either of these.