They actually aired this on British TV. I'd seen it before and couldn't believe it was being aired on TV - and would you believe on BBC television, so I tuned in to see if it was intact. And yes they actually aired it uncut (as far as I could tell).
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Seriously? When?
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This is going back.... I think it was about 4 or 5 years ago.
No on reconsideration I think it must be about 6 years ago.
I may not be an expert but I know what I like!!
I saw that! I flicked over to bbc2 and it was just starting. it seemed interessting so I watched it through to the end (which i couldn't believe I was seeing on tv!) Great film!
shareThat was the first time I seen it then...
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I still couldnt se it...
sharethery aired it around 97 i think , and that weird guy, mark cousins presented it, with his weird voice!! lol
Bullshyt MR hang-man!!
You may mean Mark kermode
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I saw it then too. It was Mark Cousins and it was part of some cinema extreme season on BBC2. They also showed Videodrome...
shareI think they called the season "Moviedrome" and they showed various cult movies. I think they showed one called Exotica about a strip club or something. It was a great chance to see some little-known gems.
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"Mark Komode is the guy who stole Mark Lamars hair after he had it shaved off."
That's the funniest thing I have heard.
A nice Britsh gag
Thank you kejoxen
thats it! the show used to be called 'moviedrome' and the intro was really pretentious, showing cousins getting on busses and trams around edinburgh to this rubbish elevator jazz tune. still, showed some good films though.
shareAAAH yes, "Moviedrome". The memories come flooding back. They used to show some brilliant films on that programme. "Apartment zero", "Society", "Dead of night", "Funny games",etc. I wish they'd bring it back.
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I vividly remember the summer 97 broadcast. They showed it in a double bill with Cronenberg's The Fly(1986)
I tuned into watch The Fly(A film I had already seen several times before)and had no idea what Society(1989)was.
I'll never forget that. I honestly lost sleep that night.
I think BBC 2 showed it again,in 1999 and 2002. If I remember correctly,the 99 broadcast had a documentary about sex in cinema,before it started. They showed a clip of A Clockwork Orange,while it was still banned(Or withdrawn)in this country.
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I used to love Moviedrome, despite the ridiculous title sequence. I vividly remember Mark Cousins introducing the Terminator and reading far far too much into it!
Showed some great movies in that series though, Shivers, Westworld, Videodrome, Demon Seed...
Good times!
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I was thinking of picking it up (got it at Fopp) with the commentary. Is it any good? I think i read an interview with Yunza once and he came off as pretty cool.
shareThey also showed "vamp" 1986 and "the guardian" 1990.
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I remember a couple of years back it was on British TV (again on BBC I think) but I was out that night so I had to tape it - alas the tape was all messed up making it unwatchable halfway through (damn long play recordings!) I was very pissed off, particularly as I haven't been able to find the movie on the Internet or on TV again ever since. I am desperate to watch this!!
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shareYou guys have a good memory. I saw it on MovieDrome aswell yet completely forgot. Weird film, but incredibly watchable.
I also remember the 1997 Moviedrome broadcast, and the Mark Cousins intro (wasn't he sat in a sunny park saying that the last segment of the movie had "truly shocked" him on first viewing?)
I taped it and watched it the next morning even though I had a GCSE exam that afternoon.
For me, this movie is up there with 'Parents' and 'The Burbs' in an unholy trilogy of movies that perfectly tap a rich vein of Freudian social and sexual paranoia in 80's-glossy American movie-land.
If you're into this stuff, there are fine artists who also delve into it and it's DEFINITELY worth the extra effort to find a way of seeing videos of performances by Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and photographs by Gregory Crewdson. Just do a google image search on Paul McCarthy Bossy Burger and you'll get the idea.
Moviedrome was presented by Alex Cox (director). It was brilliant. Classic cult movies for the Sunday evening before school...wow...
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It must have been ages ago because that's the first and only time I've seen it. Thank you BBC.
My mum let stay up late to watch it.Think I was 13 at the time, so it must have been about 5 or six years ago.
Most of the people on this thread seem to be British. However, I'm an American but I grew up watching a lot of British horror movies on U.S. TV during the late 1970's- mid 1980's. Elvira's Movie Macabre was shown here in L.A. on channel 9, and I think that "Horror Express" was shown once on E'sMM. I don't know why a good Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee movie like "HE" was shown on Elvira'sMM. I thought that Elvira's movie show was known for only showing bad/cheap horror movies. For some reason, Elvira still showed "HE"(and after the movie, she said "...trains by Lionel").
I also remember watching another good Peter C horror movie, which was on late night TV. It was called "Asylum", I think, and it seemed to be a surprise to find it. I also particularly remember seeing a lot of Hammer Films starring Christopher Lee and Peter C on TV. I think that "The Horror of Dracula" is one of the best vampire/horror movies. I also kind of remember liking "Scars of Dracula". So are any of the British, who are on this thread, a fan of the Hammer Horror movies?
Also, I kind of remember L.A.'s "The Z Channel" showing British horror movies called "Demons of the Mind" and "The Ghoul"(starring Peter Cushing and John Hurt?). Do you know if "DotM" was the last Hammer Film that was produced? And is "TG" a Cushing movie that hardly anybody has heard of?
Yeah wackiechan, love Hammer films, The Mummy being a favourite, also The Ghoul is cooool! Recently found some old tapes with loads of Hammer stuff, and others that aren't Hammer film but still great.
Which leads me to Society, I think its been on British TV 2 times, if not 3, fortunately the second time I recorded it, I plan to hunt down that tape and watch it again, the ending is gross and funny in equal measure...
...SPOILER.....
... the arm up the guy, pushing the eyeballs out, followed by the victim being totally turned inside out is some sick and twisted bleep.
Just to follow up on this great movie: it was first aired on BBC2 in the summer of '97, with Mark Cousins as the presenter. Drank a litre of coffee to keep me awake that night.. not due to the night-time airing of the film, but because of Marky boy's monotonous introduction. Somehow, I got through that and watched an oddity of a movie... but a delightful one at that.
Worth buying on DVD, but you can also check a torrent which can be downloaded from demonoid:
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1106454/2709420/
I remember the BBC showing Society,but this is not the only graphic horror movie they've shown uncut.They've also shown Bad Taste - fully uncut,plus Peter Jackson's 'making of' documentary.Also they've shown Romero's Dawn & (amazingly) Day of the Dead - fully uncut.Channel 4 have shown A Clockwork Orange,The Exorcist,Straw Dogs,and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,all fully uncut!
shareI'm truly thankful for coming across this thread.
I response to richwicz, I remember when the BBC showed the most complete version of Bad Taste that they could find, followed by, what I believe to be the 'making of' entitled 'Good Taste' or maybe 'Good Taste Made Bad Taste'.
I BELIEVE that this was shown as part of the BBCs celebration of 100 years of cinema, which was celebrated over a fortnight, and a number of other, similairly challenging films were shown over this period, along with a number of documentaries.
I seem to remember Alex Cox introducing Bad Taste, along with a number of other films that were shown as part of the series. This would have been around 1995.
For some reason, I can't seem to find ANY mention of these works in Alex Cox's resume, whatsoever.
For some years I've been trying to remember/track down the title of this series of programmes shown by the BBC.
I don't suppose anyone has any more information, or perhaps the names of the documentaries that were shown as part of this season? I seem to remember the documentaries making reference to such films as The Devils(which I also believe was shown uncut during this series), A Clockwork Orange, and a number of others.
Thanks.
Mischief.Mayhem.Me.
It would of been 1999 when this was shown,around the christmas time if i am right?i was 14 when i first saw this, and then it was on zone horror the other night
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Was the version on The Horror Channel/Zone Horror (UK) the other night uncut?
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It seemed graphic as i remember when i watched as a teen
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Yeah, I was just channel surfing, caught the last hour on Zone Horror; couldn't believe what I was seeing!
Pretty gross but incredible. I've seen Re-Animator, but with that you were expecting the torrent of disgusting hilarious-ness- Society just seems a lot more shocking to me.
Can you imagine how crap those final scenes would have looked as CGI? Mucho kudos to the FX guys... just as an OT aside, how does From Beyond compare in gross-out effect to Society? I remember seeing a trailer for From Beyond on a tape of Crawlspace (I think); I was watching it with some friends and it made us all feel sick!
All the best, chaps.
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I loved MovieDrome. It's where I first saw Videodrome and Society. It had a real impact on me and shaped my viewing tastes for several years afterwards. It was originally hosted by Alex cox between 1988 and 1994 and then Mark Cousins brought it back in 1997.
Another UK television season that had a huge impact on me was when Channel 4 screened lots of Asian films late at night sometime around the mid ninties, with the intro screens before the movies done in black with red Asian lettering. I saw Akira and The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk 1&2 (thankfully subtitled) during this season and it got me into anime and other Asian cinema.
I think you'll all appreciate this:
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I remember seeing it then, on BBC, they have shown it 2 or 3 times they should show it again.
I used to watch Moviedrome during the Cox era, was when I was introduced to Alligator, Mad Max, Terminator and that movie they KEPT on showing about a dragon that lived inside the chrsyler building (irrc).
Such a shame theres nothing on British TV comparable now where you can just sit down and watch some random movie (semi mainstream, cult or mainstream) every week and not really know what your going to get.
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Nice to thear that, wackiechan
Actually Hammer produced this online film in 2008: http://www.hammerfilms.com/productions/internet/beyond-the-rave
http://www.hammerfilms.com/productions/archive/decade/70s
It would seem DOTM was not the last film they made, but quality deteriorated from what I see.
i just saw this movie on youtube a couple of minutes ago. it was a weird movie.
shareI'm another who remembers seeing this movie on BBC2 on Videodrome with Mark Cousins in something like 1997/99. I think I was alerted to it by Mark Kermode who back then was on Radio 1 with Simon Mayo. On their movie review segment (similar to the one they do on radio 5 live now) Kermode talked about how he was shocked but pleased BBC2 were showing this on the friday night, and to look out for the infamous scenes at the end, but warned you'd need a strong stomach so I was intrigued enough to watch. I guess I remember this as the film was so bizarre but I never saw it again.
shareI remember the Moviedrome screening too. I'd already seen it via the 'big box' rental VHS release, which my friend owned. (In fact, I can remember it coming out at cinemas as it was featured heavily in Fangoria, as I recall - but I was too young to see it on the big screen.) I was very pleased to see it on television.
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Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).
Remember when BBC2 I think used to show horror movies, usually Hammer ones every Saturday and/or Friday nights(s)?
shareI watched this when i was little and it was on tv, all of it lol
shareThey have the full movie uploaded now on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcFKwCRB38