Latest Video Nasty Reviews
Stay away from Lisa!
Posted on 09/08/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
In 1977 Frederick R. Friedel's marketing people decided to shock the US with horror marketing typical of the time and a film called Lisa, Lisa (more commonly known as Axe but also known as California Axe Massacre, California Axe Murders, The Axe Murders and The Virgin Slaughter). The artwork and the...
Read More "Lisa Lisa AKA Axe"A film that could only be made in South America, where life is CHEAP!
Posted on 05/29/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A common tactic in the horror movie industry in the seventies and eighties was to take a crappy movie and hype it with deceptive marketing slogans, covers and staged outrage. Numerous films were branded Video Nasties in the mid-eighties and removed from the shelves simply due to graphic cover art or...
Read More "Snuff"The windows look out onto hell... a view that will take your breath away... permanently!
Posted on 03/15/2011 by Hellbound Heart
I have to say that about halfway through this film I was ready dismiss it as rather longwinded and aimless: not only does Night Train Murders (aka Don't Ride on Late Night Trains or L'ultimo treno della notte) manage to claw its way back, but I ended up being rather impressed by this low-key example...
Read More "Night Train Murders (L'ultimo Treno Della Notte)"A documentary by Jake West (released by Nucleus Films)
Posted on 11/07/2010 by Hellbound Heart
Contents: Disc 1: Documentary - Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape Disc 2: The Final 39 Disc 3: The Dropped 33 [introductions for all the films which at some point featured on the DPP list, plus trailers] "To avoid moral panic keep repeating, they were only movies..."In many respec...
Read More "Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide (2010)"Violence beyond reason, Victims beyond help.
Posted on 09/30/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Picture a scenario where a trio of eighties beauties on their way to an out of town jazz concert for a bit of clean eighties fun take a wrong turn while listening to news on the radio about the death of teenage eighties girls in the area and you can pretty much guess where the plot is going. As for ...
Read More "Unhinged"It will take your breath away... all of it.
Posted on 09/10/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
With a tagline harvested freshly from the mouth of the new recruit in the marketing department claiming the movie is from the creators of Alien, Dead and Buried's only connection with the aforementioned iconic sc-fi horror is that the screenplay was helped along by Dan O'Bannon who had a much bigger...
Read More "Dead And Buried"I Need His Brain for my Zombie!
Posted on 08/24/2010 by Hellbound Heart
Whilst the whole concept of a banned list of video nasties may strike those of us who have lived through a glut of so-called "torture porn" movies as profoundly hysterical, you may still find yourself wondering how in the hell certain of the video nasties ever made the list. Night of the Bloody Apes...
Read More "Flesh For Frankenstein""A terrifying story of violence and madness", or "How I shagged a midget monkey mingle muncher"
Posted on 03/31/2010 by Miss Lipstattoo
Any sane person with taste really has to start to worry when the epitome of sleaze Ilsa is held up as a cinematic goddess, so much so that she inspired a slew of copycat Nazi exploitation flicks with stern bitches with Swastikas on their arms. I am, however, not a sane person and have no taste so it...
Read More "SS Hell Camp Aka The Beast In Heat (La Beastia In Calore)"The Dream You Can't Escape ALIVE!
Posted on 02/07/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Compared to a number of non-shocking movies on the video nasty list Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (also known as just Nightmare and also known as Blood Splash and Schizo) is well deserved of it's designation of nasty. Not only is the movie superbly gory, sleazy and violent it is put together in a wa...
Read More "Nightmares In A Damaged Brain"When Tony grows up, he's going to be just like Daddy!
Posted on 12/26/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
As a Video Nasty that only paid a brief visit to the UK's DPP List, Xtro is a confusing choice of movie to be banned and an even more confusing early re-release considering some of the movies on the list that are only just making it back on to Britain's shelves. Undoubtedly the reason for the initia...
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