The 88 Films Thread

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Originally Posted by Nostalgic

Yeah, I remember they got Savini, Oliver Smith, and David Warbeck. Midnight media run the camden one & have had some good guests in the past.

I remember when it all started to go south and trading standards started wandering around, people got paranoid & left in a rush with their dodgey tapes, lol!

I remember the day that Jean-Paul (bald French bloke) had his stall raided by trading standards - at the Watford fair - everything got bagged up and confiscated. I remember the Welwyn Garden City fair getting raided too. Ridiculous when you contrast what was outlawed then with what's freely available now.

[plasterface]

Originally Posted by Paul@TheOverlook

I remember the day that Jean-Paul (bald French bloke) had his stall raided by trading standards - at the Watford fair - everything got bagged up and confiscated. I remember the Welwyn Garden City fair getting raided too. Ridiculous when you contrast what was outlawed then with what's freely available now.

My friend was at one of these types of fairs that got raided, Michael Berryman was there and disgusted " dont the police in your country have anything better to do?"

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Shoulda set Papa Jupe on 'em!

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Justin101

I think most of these people are too young to remember going to film fairs and buying under the counter VHS tapes 'imported' from Holland etc. I only got there at the tail end of it all but I still appreciate that we're lucky to have some of these crappy films at all haha.

Originally Posted by Nostalgic

My brother and I used to do all the film fairs, London, Watford, Cambridge etc & never imagined it would be like this! Seriously I'm not going to prison for watching Texas Chainsaw or The Excorcist??? Amazing! The censorship laws have changed for the better & now cult film fans are in a great position to enjoy so many previously unavailable titles!

Originally Posted by Rik

Never went to any film fairs, but back in the early to mid 90's me and a mate used to go up and down the country to record fairs and there was always a couple of guys selling VHS's from under their main CD/vinyl stalls. Being a horror fan, I used to get them to show me the tapes they were selling, but being between 12-16, they never let me buy anything
I saw some belters too, pretty much all the DPP39 titles on both Beta and VHS, decent enough prices too-£20 each etc.

Film fairs were only good for destroying children's minds and for perverts to get depraved and sickening genuine snuff films

I know because 'The Independent' told me about them in 1993

'Snuff' video confiscated at children's comic fair: 'Murder and decapitation' shown on imported film | The Independent

[Rik]

Let's not forget Graham Bright's famous corruption of dogs comment

https://youtu.be/zMCE3Ur0GM8

[gag]

Originally Posted by Rik

Let's not forget Graham Bright's famous corruption of dogs comment

https://youtu.be/zMCE3Ur0GM8

And how do we know it doesn't affect cats either , we don't know might have done!!!
Can't be biased against one animal that's probably more interested at barking at the door, chasing it tail , and licking it's own bollocks than watching TV , at least cats watch them, even use to lie on top of them as if its their bed.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by gag

And how do we know it doesn't affect cats either , we don't know might have done!!!
Can't be biased against one animal that's probably more interested at barking at the door, chasing it tail , and licking it's own bollocks than watching TV , at least cats watch them, even use to lie on top of them as if its their bed.

Before watching video nasty (or 88Films release [trying to get this thread back on topic])



After watching video nasty (or 88Films release [trying to get this thread back on topic])

[Rik]

Originally Posted by gag

And how do we know it doesn't affect cats either , we don't know might have done!!!
Can't be biased against one animal that's probably more interested at barking at the door, chasing it tail , and licking it's own bollocks than watching TV , at least cats watch them, even use to lie on top of them as if its their bed.

Cats are born evil and corrupt, watching Mike Logan get his chopper chopped off and eaten by someone in a Monkees wig would have bugger all effect on them

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Before watching video nasty (or 88Films release [trying to get this thread back on topic])



After watching video nasty (or 88Films release [trying to get this thread back on topic])

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Before watching video nasty (or 88Films release [trying to get this thread back on topic])



After watching video nasty (or 88Films release [trying to get this thread back on topic])

The dog looks like it's the result of splicing the genes of Billy Connolly and an owl!

Originally Posted by plasterface

My friend was at one of these types of fairs that got raided, Michael Berryman was there and disgusted " dont the police in your country have anything better to do?"

I was at that fair. He was a really nice bloke.