Unhinged
Three women travelling through the countryside crash their car during a storm and accept shelter in a remote mansion inhabited by a nervous daughter and her domineering mother. As the weekend unravels, the house reveals a buried history of trauma, manipulation and murder.
Film details
| Original / alt title | Unhinged |
| Year | 1982 |
| Director | Don Gronquist |
| Country | USA |
| Runtime | Approx. 80 min |
| Main cast | Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley, Virginia Settle |
UK status
Appeared on the DPP 72 and was dropped rather than successfully prosecuted.
One of the more obscure nasty-era titles, now mainly sustained by cult collectors and home-video historians.
Why it caused controversy
UK censorship / Video Nasties history
A quick status check first, followed by the film’s censorship timeline. A DPP prosecution was an obscenity case against a particular video publication — it was not automatically the same thing as a permanent nationwide “ban”.
Detailed censorship timeline & facts
FACTS & TRIVIA
- Unhinged is sometimes described as a bridge between gothic thriller and slasher cinema.
- Its isolated-house setting is central to the film’s uneasy atmosphere.
- The movie was shot in Oregon and carries a distinctly regional feel.
- Because it was relatively obscure, UK VHS collectors helped preserve its reputation.
- The sleeve art foregrounds the film’s red-black shock appeal.
- The title belongs to the dropped 33, not the prosecuted 39.
Distributor / VHS label
Archive cover shown is the user-supplied scan. UK distributor / VHS-label attribution varies by edition and is not asserted here without a verified sleeve imprint.
Trailer
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