“Mario Covone is an exciting new voice in comics with a cool new spin on a provocative subject… dare you enter the dark world of the Video Nasty?” – Jake West, Director of ‘Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape’… Read More ›
Video Nasties
A call to arms for all VHS collectors, nasty hunters, and general horror freaks: Audio Nasties- Theory 77- album review.
I am going to admit I have been a bit selfish with this one, keeping it all to myself for a while now. Every so often I get sent something that makes me happy that I am in the line… Read More ›
Stiggy’s Film of the Day The Killer Nun (Suor Omicidi, aka Deadly Habits), (1978).
Giulio Berruti’s The Killer Nun is a film which seems to evoke mixed reactions, polarising viewers into a love/hate situation, and on further investigation it would seem the cause of this is down to one thing, the title. To twin… Read More ›
Arrow Video Presents: Tenebrae (1982) – Blu-ray Steelbook
Having already released this classic gem on Blu-ray, Arrow are back with an exceptionally upgraded print of Dario Argento’s former ‘video nasty’, vicious giallo Tenebrae (once banned in the UK and put on the DPP list for its sexualized violence);… Read More ›
The Ghastly Ones Review (1968) aka Blood Rites. Andy Milligan’s trash movie which got banned in the UK…
Hilarity abounds in this 1968 ‘what the hell did I just watch?’ schlockfest which was banned as a video nasty in the UK under the title Blood Rites. This film earned director Andy Milligan the title of one of the… Read More ›
Bloody Moon Review (1981) Jess Franco does 80’s slasher in Euro vein…
Todays offering another movie which got the BBFC’s knickers in a twist Jess Franco’s take on an American Slasher ‘Bloody Moon’, also known as The Bloody Moon Murders, and under its German title Die Säge des Todes, which translates to… Read More ›
Mardi Gras Massacre Review (1978). Still Banned in the UK, Tame Slasher in the Vein of HG Lewis…
Mardi Gras Massacre, directed and written by Jack Weis, would be one of those titles which should be put in the ‘movies that time forgot and they really need to stay there’ vault had it not been for the hoo-ha… Read More ›
Axe (1977) (Lisa, Lisa) (California Axe Massacre).
‘Pretty Lisa took an axe, gave her captor 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done she gave his partner 41’ The inspiration for the title of this movie, as described by purveyor of sleaze and exploitation king Harry… Read More ›
The Burning (1981)
Last, but definitely not least, in our video nasty theme, is the 1981 often overlooked slasher flick The Burning. It is a shame that the garden shear wielding maniac and lead villain Cropsy is sadly left out from the great… Read More ›
Absurd (1981) aka Rosso Sangue, Anthropophagous 2, Horrible, The Monster Hunter
Year: 1981 Director: Joe D’Amato Cast: George Eastman, Annie Belle, Edmund Purdom, Charles Borromel Themes: Video Nasty, Slasher, Crazed Killers, Italian Gore, Obscene Publications Act, Trash Cinema BY GAV ELLINGER. Absurd (1981) is prolific Italian director Joe D’Amato’s (real name… Read More ›
Video Nasty Review: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain aka Nightmare (1981)
Year: 1981 Director: Romano Scavolini Cast: Baird Stafford, Bill Milling, C.J. Cooke, John L. Watkins Themes:Gritty Slasher, Schizophrenia, Stalking, Golden Age Slasher, Video Nasties When it comes to video nasties they don’t get as controversial as this one. Nightmare is… Read More ›
from Anthropophagous to Zombie Flesh Eaters – reflections from the 80’s
By Gav Ellinger. I’d always had an affection for horror since my early teens, having seen movies such as The Exorcist and The Thing at friends parties around the age of 14, both these movies stuck in my mind and… Read More ›
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)
I’m not really a fan of censorship but I am talking about censorship of fictional works, I’m not talking about a question of banning anything real, like a real murder on camera or something but that wouldn’t be released as… Read More ›
Island of Death (1977), they just don’t make em like this anymore!
After getting about 5 minutes into Nico Mastorakis’s Greek Exploitation film Island of Death it is not difficult to see why it was banned. It is now available on Arrow Video, in its full uncut glory, with a nice director’s… Read More ›
I fell in love with a video nasty. Thank You Mary Whitehouse!
It’s hard to imagine, with this years Hollywood rehashing of The Evil Dead, that there was a time in Britain when the owning, distributing or watching of the original Sam Raimi masterpiece was a criminal offence. It was not just… Read More ›
