Originally Posted by
Team Andromeda
Perhaps the horror movie censorship was related to the UK "video nasty" laws of the 80s. The UK is actually home to one of my favorite distributors of 80s horror on Blu-ray, Arrow Films. Many of their releases are region B, but they do release some region free discs that we get in the US. But their releases are always the original cuts of the movies, not the truncated versions of yesterday.
While I'm not sure if they offer their releases in the UK, I heartily recommend Vinegar Syndrome's blu releases. Criterion quality video and audio with exclusive extras and beautiful slip covers. But their focus is exploitation classics of the 70s and 80s, lots of great horror flicks, and they've done a number of movies that the great Tom Savini worked on. They have their own dedicated thread on the Blu-ray.com forums, and so does Arrow and a number of other excellent distributors.