Return of the Video Nasty
 

I was looking at this list of so-called "Video Nasties" (by The UK censorship Board) and was wondering how many had seen them. They all under British Titles so U.S. May be different (I've marked the ones I've seen - x) :

Absurd
Anthrpophagus The Beast
Axe
The Beast In Heat
The Beyond - x
Bloodbath - x
Bloodfeast
Blood Rites
Bloody Moon
The Bogey Man - x
The Burning - x
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Holocaust - x
Cannibal Man - x
Cannibal Terror
Contamination
Dead & Buried - x
Death Trap - x
Deep River Savages
Delirium - x
Devil Hunter
Don't Go In The House
Don't Go In The Woods - x
Don't Go Near The Park
Don't Look In The Basement - x
Driller Killer - x
Evil Dead - x
EvilSpeak - x
Expose
Faces Of Death
Fight For Your Life
Flesh For Frankenstein - x
Forest Of Fear
Frozen Scream
Funhouse - x
The Gestapo's Last Orgy
House By The Cemetry - x
House On The Edge Of The Park
Human Experiments
I Miss You Hugs and Kisses
I Spit On Your Grave - x
Inferno - x
Island Of Death
Killer Nun
Last House On The Left - x
Night Train Murders
Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue - x
Love Camp 7
Madhouse
Mardi Gras Massacre
Night Of The Bloody Apes
Night Of The Demon - x
Nightmare Maker
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain - x
Possession
Prisoner Of The Cannibal God
Revenge Of The Bogey Man - x
Shogun Assassin - x
The Slayer - x
Snuff - x
SS Experiment Camp
Tenebrae - x
Terror Eyes - x
Toolbox Murders
Unhinged - x
Visiting Hours - x
Werewolf & The Yeti
The Witch Who Came From The Sea - x
Women Behind Bars
Xtro - x
Zombie Creeping Flesh
Zombie Flesh Eaters - x

All good family entertainment I'm sure you'll agree.
My Personal faves are, I Spit On Your Grave, Night Of The Demon and The Burning.

The worst one I've seen is SNUFF. Haha what a piece of shit.

The Beyond - x
Bloody Moon
The Bogey Man - x
The Burning - x
Cannibal Holocaust - x
Dead & Buried - x
Delirium - x
Don't Go In The House
Don't Look In The Basement - x
Driller Killer - x
Evil Dead - x
EvilSpeak - x
Flesh For Frankenstein - x
Funhouse - x
House By The Cemetry - x
I Spit On Your Grave - x
Last House On The Left - x
Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue - x
Possession
Shogun Assassin - x
The Slayer - x
Tenebrae - x
Toolbox Murders
Visiting Hours - x
The Witch Who Came From The Sea - x
Women Behind Bars
Xtro - x



those are the only ones i've see/own ... havent heard of most of the others

Absurd - x
Anthrpophagus The Beast - x
Axe - x
The Beast In Heat
The Beyond - x
Bloodbath - x
Bloodfeast - x
Blood Rites
Bloody Moon - x
The Bogey Man - x
The Burning - x
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox - x
Cannibal Holocaust - x
Cannibal Man
Cannibal Terror
Contamination - x
Dead & Buried - x
Death Trap - x
Deep River Savages
Delirium - x
Devil Hunter
Don't Go In The House
Don't Go In The Woods
Don't Go Near The Park
Don't Look In The Basement - x
Driller Killer - x
Evil Dead - x
EvilSpeak - x
Expose
Faces Of Death - x (excellent series of movies)
Fight For Your Life - x
Flesh For Frankenstein
Forest Of Fear - x
Frozen Scream
Funhouse - x
The Gestapo's Last Orgy
House By The Cemetry - x
House On The Edge Of The Park - x
Human Experiments
I Miss You Hugs and Kisses - x
I Spit On Your Grave - x
Inferno - x
Island Of Death - x
Killer Nun
Last House On The Left - x
Night Train Murders
Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
Love Camp 7
Madhouse - x
Mardi Gras Massacre
Night Of The Bloody Apes - x
Night Of The Demon - x
Nightmare Maker
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain
Possession - x
Prisoner Of The Cannibal God
Revenge Of The Bogey Man - x
Shogun Assassin - x
The Slayer - x
Snuff - x
SS Experiment Camp
Tenebrae - x
Terror Eyes
Toolbox Murders - x
Unhinged
Visiting Hours - x
Werewolf & The Yeti
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
Women Behind Bars
Xtro - x
Zombie Creeping Flesh - x
Zombie Flesh Eaters - x


Thats as far as I know, have some of em on my list too tho...but Toolbox Murders, The Beyond, Tenebrae in this list...looks like someone in the Queen's Land has a real soft heart...:rolleyes:

Tell me about it! If someone sneezes in a film then "oh, it's a health hazard, maybe in the interests of public safety we should ban it".

They can't be doing a particularlly great job when as i in the post i have seen a few of them (Uncut versions)

you missed out

pranks

and

night train murders was called late night trains

yeah, i know - (Pranks) seen it as well.

Absurd - x

The Beyond - x

Cannibal Ferox - x
Cannibal Holocaust - x

Evil Dead - x

House By The Cemetry - x

Last House On The Left - x

Night Of The Demon - x

Zombie Creeping Flesh - x
Zombie Flesh Eaters - x


damn.....i am a loser..
o well. i mostly watch movies that absolutley no one has heard about, so that gives me an exuse for not knowing that many of these.

hopefully we're not at the point where we're judging people on what video nastys they've seen or not.

Maybe it's an age thing?
I saw most of them when i was perhaps a little too young to understand what all the fuss was about (12 or 13). When VHS first came out, we were one of the first in our street to get a VCR and rented 2 or 3 films a night. Just happened that some of films we got happened to be the banned ones. I think most of them are available if you know where to look (mostly heavily cut); I've still got the original "The Burning" (Uncut Version) including the infamous cutting the fingers off scene with the garden shears, lovely!

Growing up in the age of the tyranny that was the Video Nasties debate & having seen or owned the majority of films on the BBFC register, you can't really call this thread "the Return..." Your not likely to likely to see these type of films again not while those soulless bastards in Hollywood keep pumping out safe pg13 horror.
The true Nasties had lashings of gratuitous sex & violence & not forgetting needless animal cruelty the staple diet of the Italian gutmunchers.
i'm getting all emotional here......happy days!

Absurd
Anthrpophagus The Beast - x
Axe
The Beast In Heat
The Beyond - x
Bloodbath - x
Bloodfeast
Blood Rites
Bloody Moon
The Bogey Man - x
The Burning - x
Cannibal Apocalypse - x
Cannibal Ferox - x
Cannibal Holocaust - x
Cannibal Man
Cannibal Terror - x
Contamination
Dead & Buried - x
Death Trap - x
Deep River Savages
Delirium - x
Devil Hunter
Don't Go In The House
Don't Go In The Woods
Don't Go Near The Park - x
Don't Look In The Basement
Driller Killer - x
Evil Dead - x
EvilSpeak - x
Expose
Faces Of Death - x
Fight For Your Life
Flesh For Frankenstein
Forest Of Fear
Frozen Scream
Funhouse - x
The Gestapo's Last Orgy
House By The Cemetry - x
House On The Edge Of The Park - x
Human Experiments
I Miss You Hugs and Kisses
I Spit On Your Grave - x
Inferno - x
Island Of Death - x
Killer Nun
Last House On The Left - x
Night Train Murders
Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue - x
Love Camp 7
Madhouse - x
Mardi Gras Massacre
Night Of The Bloody Apes
Night Of The Demon - x
Nightmare Maker - x
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain - x
Possession
Prisoner Of The Cannibal God
Revenge Of The Bogey Man - x
Shogun Assassin - x
The Slayer - x
Snuff
SS Experiment Camp
Tenebrae - x
Terror Eyes - x
Toolbox Murders - x
Unhinged
Visiting Hours - x
Werewolf & The Yeti
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
Women Behind Bars
Xtro - x
Zombie Creeping Flesh
Zombie Flesh Eaters - x

The ones I have seen.... A couple more for the list (as far as I am aware):

Mother's Day: a bunch of interbred hill billies rape and murder women (hey I can call them that as the family admit to having sex with each other during the film, hence interbred).

Don't Torture a Duckling: has had an American release, but still waiting in the UK.

its more of a time thing. ive only been collecting for 2 years, plus i only buy and dont rent so it stunts the amount a movies i see in a certain amount of time.

Video Nasties
 

A list of several good o'l nasties. Any recomendations from this list? Many of the movies sounds good but i doubt they all are...

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/nasties.htm

If you can get ALL of them UNCUT and cheep ,then go for all of them. But it depends on what you want out of it . My 2 cents anyway.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want a real video nasty, watch Nekromantik.

Even the mention of it makes my dick shrivel.

hehe...i remember i saw Necromantik 6-7 years ago. Promised my self i'd never watch it again, but i think i wanna watch it again just to see if it was as nasty as i remeber..

Haha, good sport.

But David, I'll warn you...it is as nasty as you remember!

Another one that was brought up recently here is Hei tai yang 731, known elsewhere as Men Behind the Sun. It'll knot you up. Give it a go if you're really looking for nasty.

I think Men Behind The Sun is a good movie :) But it's nasty, i give you that!

Dudes ... where can I get my hands on these movies?? They sound like real must sees!! :D

I cant watch video nasties based on true events - atrocities dont do it for me!
Fantasy is far more entertaining IMO.

Some of these movies are available locally (eg Last House on the Left, Zombie Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave, Tenebrae, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Snuff, Flesh For Frankenstein, The Beyond, Blood Feast, Evil Dead, Driller Killer, etc). Amazon will satisfy your craving for many others.

The right column of the article has links to many of them at either the Amazon US or UK site.

Not sure if any are still banned in Australia, but some definitely were (eg Cannibal Holocaust until last year...)

Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide
 

It was an era that remains notorious to this day and gave Sam Raimi some widespread publicity when he was just a young kid making goofy horror films in the backwoods of Michigan.

Now the Video Nasty era is subject of a new collection and documentary. Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide directed by Jake West and Marc Morris, which is released by Nucleus Films on 1st November.

The film-makers cut together 72 horror films that were successfully prosecuted for corrupting the nation. The folks over at FilmShaft have seen it and they can firmly say it’s a brilliant and intelligent montage of not particularly brilliant and intelligent cinema. But there in lies the mystery and repulsion.

If you want the version longue there’s a four hour cut featuring intros from leading horror critics like the ace Kim Newman and Alan Jones. Also on the extra features is a feature-length documentary VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE. So if you know your SS Experiment Camp from your Driller Killer, you’ll be in gorehound heaven.

Jake West, director of the documentary and co-owner of Nucleus Films, says:

Check out the trailer and repeat to yourself: it’s only a video montage, it’s only a video montage, it’s only… you get the idea...

http://www.filmshaft.com/video-nasti...guide-trailer/

Looks like fun.:)

I love this piece of history - it was very much part of my youth...I did my college dissertation on this and the 90's witch hunt being used to fuel Media moral Panics...

Must get this - I love Kim Newman..

Thanks for the heads-up on this one, ___V___.

Looks like it would be an interesting viewing. I have been interested in the "video nasties" history, probably because Australia still struggles with a fairly draconian censorship.

It would be interesting to get an insight into some of the "video nasty" films that I haven't managed to see yet.

The ultimate "video nasties" list
 

Here is a list of the banned and controverial films that i own.


A Clockwork Orange
Antropophagus
Antichrist
AXE
Barbed Wire Dolls
Bay of Blood
Begotten
Black Sunday
Blood On Satans Claw
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox I
Cannibal Ferox II
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Man
Chopper
Contamination
Dead and Buried
Deep River Savages
Diary of a Sinner
Driller Killer
Faces of Death
Gozu
Hitch Hike
House on the Edge of The Park
Ichi The Killer
Ilsa She Wolf Collection
I Spit on Your Grave
Island of Death
Jungle Holocaust
Last house on The Left
Martyrs
Men Behind The Sun
Mountain Of The Cannibal God
Natural Born Killers
Nekromantik
Peeping Tom
Romper Stomper
Scum
Snuff
SS Camp Womens Hell
Taxidermia
Tetsuo The Iron Man
The Candy Snatchers
The Beyond
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
Titicut Follies
Traces of Death
Traces of Death II
Vistor Q
Weekend
Women Behind Bars

If you know any other good video nasties please recommend them :D

O_O im in heaven.....

I'm around people who share my passion xD i believe i have over 450 horror movies alone

Exploitation and Video Nasties
 

Hey guys, I was just wondering what some of your favourite exploitation and video nasties were.

Some of my favourites are:
House on the Edge of the Park
Cannibal Holocaust
The Toolbox Murders (original)
Zombie Holocaust
The Driller Killer

The list continues, but I'll post more as the thread goes on. :)

....hmmmm...on the Nasties list...

Can't go wrong with Blood Feast. Pure schlocky exploitation at it's best. Only offensive to people who can't contextualise violence and approaches to violence.

The Beyond and it's sister, House By The Cemetery (still a complete mystery, other than probable inconsistansy on a large scale, why City Of The Living Dead wasn't a nasty if the other two films in Fulci's "trilogy" are...)

Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombi 2) Zombie Vs. Shark, afterall...

Tenebre, a brilliant Giallo film.

And of course, who doesn't love The Evil Dead.

Planning on getting Inferno soon. I saw a copy of Posession on the shelves of HMV today. Broke my heart that I didn't have the cash to buy it as it's probably quite difficult to find as a DVD on a shop shelf. Ah well, I'll probably buy it soon...

Love all of those movies. Out of the three Fulci films I'd have to go with The Beyond as my favourite, it has a very ominous atmosphere and the end scene just does it for me. While I enjoyed both City of the Living Dead and House by the Cemetery, I found the stories a little more difficult to follow.

Zombi and The Evil Dead are both classics and are some of my favourite movies.

I haven't heard of Possession.

Although not exactly a Video Nasty, I really enjoy Blue Sunshine, a film that shows what could happen when experimenting with LSD. Very creepy and recommended.

Possession was on the Video Nasties list and it's one of the more bizarre titles in more ways than one.

First of all, it's very odd. It's an art film, basically, and it relies on surrealism.

That it is an art film is also makes it an odd inclusion on the list. Admittedly not all of Nasties were completely horror films (though pretty much all of them floated around horror somewhere, Posession included.) but it's also, arguably the most "prestigious" film on the list. It starred a high-calibre cast in Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani who, I believe, even won an award at Cannes for her work on the film (although, of course, both worked in horror films, especially around this period) and had a very revered director in Andzrej Zulawski.

It also featured the work of special effects artist, Carlo Rambaldi who was working on E.T around the same time. Although Rambaldi worked on his share of horror films, including fellow Nasty, Bay Of Blood.

Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS
Salo The 120 Days Of Sodom
The Devils
(not video nasties, just exploitation)

Incredibly, Dead And Buried was a video nasty. That was a criminally underrated film.

I'll second Possession, Tenebre, and Evil Dead.

Yeah, big-time rec on Possession. It's a brilliant mess of a film.
I hear-tell that it's going to be re-released on DVD at some point in the near future.

I curse myself for not picking up Salo when I had the chance. Also been meaning to check The Devils.

Dead and Buried is great and very underrated indeed! But apparently Stan Winston's effects are too realistic for the BBFC.

Another great Nasty was Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, also very underrated.

Huge rec for The Devils along with Possession, although I certainly wouldn't call either one exploitation.

True, but I mentioned Posession because it's a Video Nasty.

Have you guys seen any Nazisploitation at all?

How about Sweet Movie and Pink Flamingos? I'm not entirely sure what is considered exploitation, as there are so many variations of it, but I'm sure those fit in somewhere.

There is also an excellent documentary called Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist which Wiki lists as exploitation (or, more specifically, shocksploitation). I was surprised to see it listed there actually - yes, it's entirely shocking, but it is also real - it doesn't just look real. But anyway, it's great, so I recommend it.