# In Denmark there is no film censorship. What would happen if a film was publicly shown over there containing scenes of actual rape, murder or torture?

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Two films on the DPP’s “video nasty” list in the eighties have been thought to show unsimulated killings, “Cannibal Holocaust” and “Snuff”.

> **[Cannibal Holocaust](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust)**
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> Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers that have gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes.
> Produced as part of the contemporary cannibal trend of Italian exploitation cinema, Cannibal Holocaust was inspired by Italian media coverage of Red Brigades terrori...

> **[Snuff (film)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(film))**
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> Snuff is a 1976 splatter film directed by Michael Findlay and Horacio Fredriksson. Originally an exploitation film loosely based on the 1969 murders committed by the Manson Family, it is most notorious for being falsely marketed as if it were an actual snuff film. The controversy about the film was deliberately manufactured to attract publicity: it prompted an investigation by the New York County District Attorney, who determined that the murder shown in the film was fake. This picture c Actress ...

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