Video Nasties

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by karenlarson

is it good?

OK - I'll play

Is what good?

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

OK - I'll play

Is what good?

Here we go again

[Hammer time]

I have seen them all but some are so bad you are lucky if you have not seen them Frozen Scream is the worst one imo and some are so tame (I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses) it must have been the art work that got them banned or the censors were annoyed that day.
Nightmare Maker is probably my favourite of the lesser seen nasty's.

[Susan Foreman]

The Cure's Robert Smith once sent an urgent message to his record label requesting 'video nasty' horror movies / Classic Rock

"Reportedly, the singer lost out on a day off when an extra show was added to The Cure's 1992 US tour, rendering him unable to go hunting for the set of films, which at the time he'd have been unable to acquire in the UK, due to the British Parliament passing the Video Recordings Act of 1984: ie, the films were considered too graphic/gory for UK viewers.

Smith's message reads:"

"Urgent attn of Howard Thompson.

Dear Howard,

I hope this fax finds you well! I have a favour to ask of you...I was hoping to have had a day off in NYC to do a bit of shopping, but the addition of Dayton, Ohio, and 'meet the Winners' at MTV, has put paid to that; so I was wondering; would you be able to get the following VHS videos for me? (all unavailable in the UK).

Clockwork Orange, Driller Killer, I Spit On Your Grave, Last House On The Left, Blood Sucking Freaks, Filthy Rich, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, and maybe a couple of others you could recommend in the splatter-cannibal she-devil vein!!!

I've got a multi-standard player, so ntsc isn't a problem...I'm asking you because you're the only person I can think will know where to get them; but if you can't, that's fine.

Either way, I hope to see you at the Nassau Coliseum show...

Thanks for your time,

Robert, (The Cure)."

[Justin101]

He should have just popped down the 'film fair' at Sacha's Hotel in Manchester that's where I got mine from good times.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

He should have just popped down the 'film fair' at Sacha's Hotel in Manchester that's where I got mine from good times.

Same here. Used to love buying films there then down to the bar after to peruse them.

[Susan Foreman]

It's the Daily Mail I'm afraid!

The original 'Video Nasties': The low budget horror films released using a loophole straight to VHS

• GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Video Nasties caused outrage in the 70s and 80s
• Activist Mary Whitehouse was a leading campaigner against the VHS cassettes
• Phenomenon was parodied by Only Fools and Horses and led to court cases

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

It's the Daily Mail I'm afraid!

The original 'Video Nasties': The low budget horror films released using a loophole straight to VHS

• GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Video Nasties caused outrage in the 70s and 80s
• Activist Mary Whitehouse was a leading campaigner against the VHS cassettes
• Phenomenon was parodied by Only Fools and Horses and led to court cases

Indeed it is The Dail Mail. Therefore, I’m not going to click on it. They can feck off.

[nosferatu42]

I read about two paragraphs and that was enough,,,,,

"Considering that today's society is more permissive than in the 70s or 80s and because of the availability of all sorts of salacious footage on the internet, the idea that low-budget horror movies could create such controversy seems antiquated."

Today's mainstream society is going backwards, the 70's had films that challenged the viewer to think.
Anybody says anything remotely controversial these days and people proper loose their shit.
Today more straight gore is acceptable but actual intellectually stimulating or really creative filmmaking i feel is getting rarer.

And besides that, could you really see Cannibal Holocaust, I spit on your grave, The Devils, Clockwork Orange, Deep Throat, Caligula, Salo or anything like that being made today or being shown at any kind of cinema?, or even The life of Brian?
I know england banned these films but they were shown all around the world in cinemas.

That new faces of death film that the article seems to be a tie in promotion piece with, is going to be a meta ooh this happened and now there's a killer. Or an internet, story based. clever aren't i kinda film, or they pretended it was fake but it was real shit fest.
It's got some "star" in so it definitely isn't going to feature any real faces of death. ( which is good, but what's the point then?

I've seen faces of death and it's not my thing, so i don't really care anyway, but it just seems like it's gonna be a pile of shit whatever way you look at it.

Now i've said that it's gonna be the best film ever next year...

At least Killing of America has some point to it.