Danish ex-rentals galore

Remember to keep checking Hans-Jørgen's awesome Danish ex-rental covers on our Facebook Ex-rental group DEVAG's page. Go here.

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Friends of Danish ex-rental tapes unite!

In northern Europe we always hear about the serious Swedish VHS collectors (of Swedish tapes). I've often scratched my head as to why these people were so eager to collect severely censored tapes. It's well documented that Sweden, Norway and Finland had harsh censorshit regulations and thus had video releases missing all the fun. However, in the sinful Scandinavian south aka the Babylon of Scandinavia aka Denmark, we had no censorship board to secure us from nasty video films and their bad influences on us and how these vile video tapes would corrupt our minds.

Gore and sleaze could be released here as over the top as could be. The only limitations were the lack of a film director's lack of imagination (and in a few cases lazy distributors who didn't check that they didn't receive tapes that were meant for other markets and thus were already cut). We had the only uncut, English dubbed and letterboxed release of NIGHTMARE CITY. We had the only uncut, English dubbed AND letterboxed release of EMMANUELLE IN AMERICA. There were quite a few uncut tapes here that didn't exist anywhere else.

Anyhoo, so what's all this about? Well, Hans-Jørn Reimer (aka Diabolik from world famous film forums such as Cinehound and Uncut.dk) has just opened a new Facebook group entitled DEVAG. At first I thought it was a Montana militia group but lo and behold it means Danish Ex-rental VHS Appreciation Group.

Finally a useful FB group! Go here and join. Even if you're not collecting Danish ex-rental video tapes you can still check out the hundreds of rare VHS scans.

Cool DVD cover art? Yeah, right. My arse!

More from Diabolik's amazing collection of rare Danish ex-rental tapes.

DADDY'S DEADLY DARLING


JEG SÅ JESUS DØ aka DET BLODIGE KORS


MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND


I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE aka DAY OF THE WOMAN


THE DRILLER KILLER

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Thanks to Diabolik.

Cool DVD cover art? Yeah, right. My arse!

I still have to see DVD cover art for horror movies that looks as fucking fantastic as these video releases!!! Unfortunately, I don't own any of these Danish video tapes but fortunately Diabolik (of Cinehound forum) has tracked them down, so congrats to him and thanks for letting me post them.

A CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL (aka Una Vela Para el Diablo). Directed by Eugenio Martín


EXORCISM (aka Exorcismo). Dir: Juan Bosch


THE POSSESSED (aka La Endemoniada). Dir: Amando de Ossorio


THE NIGHT GOD SCREAMED. Dir: Lee Madden


THE AFTERMATH (aka Zombie Aftermath). Dir: Steve Barkett


NIGHT OF THE STRANGLER. Dir: Joy N. Houck Jr.

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