At the start, the distributor advertised the disgusting horror film Sado with tongue-in-cheek sentences like “The most terrifying film of all time” and “The rental company recommends that only adults over the age of 21 be admitted”. However, the then Federal Testing Center for Writings Harmful to Young People (BPjS) also became aware of this.
In 1983, genre legend Joe D’Amato’s Gorehound classic hit the Index and went on to become repeatedly confiscated. This means that it could no longer be distributed in its entirety or made accessible to the public.
After 40 years it’s time to breathe a sigh of relief.
Originally titled Buio Omega, the disgusting horror film was dropped from the index
Sado – Push Open the Gates of Hell (OT: Buio Omega) has been removed from the index, according to cut reports. Nothing stands in the way of free sale in Germany. Unfortunately there is still one at the moment no information about a Blu-ray release.
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Sado – Push open the gates of hell
Sado is one of a number of horror and extreme films, which have accumulated dust on the index in recent decades and have now been deleted. This year alone, for example, Pasonlini’s The 120 Days of Sodom, Fulci’s Woodoo – The Terror Island of Zombies and Bava’s In the Bloodlust of Satan.
Why does the horror film have such a harsh reputation?
Francesco actually wants to get married, but his housekeeper Iris once promised his mother that she would take care of him. Which Iris takes very seriously and puts a voodoo curse on Francesco’s fiancée Anna. While Iris thinks she’s got her Francesco to herself, he’s planning it resurrection of his beloved.
In the further course, various bystanders have to believe in it, since Joe D’Amato unfolds one horror fantasy after the other in his film. Among them are necrophilia and, most impressively, torn fingernails. D’Amato himself is said to have stated about the remake of The Third Eye that he had himself finally settled on unreserved gorebecause he doesn’t like building tension anyway (via Horror Cult Films).
The Lexicon of International Film described Sado as “horror film bursting with drastic scenes of disgust” and “a film hard to beat in sadism and cynicism”. That wasn’t meant as a compliment.
Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Sado from 1979 has classic status in the relevant genre circles, which is partly due to his Score by Goblin lies, who contributed the music for the original Suspiria.
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