“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 ›
