Sleaze master Joe D’Amato made a disgust horror classic with Sado – Push Open the Gates of Hell a.k.a. Buio Omega. After 40 years, it has now been removed from the index.
At the time of its release, the distributor advertised the disgusting horror film Sado – Push Open the Gates of Hell with winking phrases such as “The most terrifying film of this time” and “The distributor recommends that only adults over the age of 21 be admitted”. However, this also came to the attention of the then Federal Review Board for Publications Harmful to Young Persons (BPjS).
In 1983, the gorehound classic by genre legend Joe D’Amato landed on the index and was subsequently repeatedly confiscated. This meant it could no longer be distributed unabridged or made available to the public.
The disgust horror film with the original title Buio Omega was removed from the index
Sado – Push open the gate to hell (OT: Buio Omega) has been removed from the index, as Schnittberichte reports. This means that nothing stands in the way of free sales in Germany. Unfortunately, there is no information about a Blu-ray release at the moment.
Sado – Push Open the Gates of Hell
Sado is one of a number of horror and extreme films that have been gathering dust on the index over the last few decades and have now been removed after all. This year alone, for example, this affected Pasonlini’s The 120 Days of Sodom, Fulci’s Woodoo – The Fright Island of the Zombies and Bava’s In the Bloodlust of Satan.
Why does the horror film have such a tough reputation?
Francesco actually wants to get married, but his housekeeper Iris once promised his mother to look after him. Which Iris takes very seriously and gets Francesco’s fiancée Anna out of the way with the help of a voodoo curse. While Iris believes she now has her Francesco to herself, he plots the resurrection of his lover.
As the film progresses, various bystanders are killed, as Joe D’Amato offers one horror fantasy after another in his film. Among them are necrophilia and, most impressively, torn out fingernails. D’Amato himself is said to have said about the remake of The Third Eye that he finally decided to go for no-holds-barred gore because he doesn’t like building up suspense anyway (via Horror Cult Films ).
