The passing of this act in September 1985 only increased the demand for these now black market movies and created a large amount of notoriety for certain movies which would probably have gone unnoticed without it.
Video Nasties A to Z
AKA: Anthropophagus , The Anthropophagus Beast , The Grim Reaper , Man Eater , The Savage Island
Released: 1980
Rating: Unrated
AKA: Lisa Lisa , California Axe Massacre , California Axe Murders , The Axe Murders and The Virgin Slaughter
Directed By:Frederick R. Friedel
Released: 1970
Rating: R (Restricted)
After terrorizing a convenience store salesgirl with tomatoes, three lowlifes on a crime spree hide out at an isolated farmhouse occupied only by teenage Lisa and her pathetically paralyzed grandpa. Bad move, guys, for while Lisa looks innocent enough, she's actually a ticking-time-bomb-of-psychotic...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Axe AKA: E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà or Seven Doors of Death
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Lucio "King of the Eyeball Gag" Fulci made his name with a series of gory, gooey horror epics, and
The Beyond stands above all as his outre masterpiece. The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn-of-the-century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans h...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Beyond AKA: Egyptian Blood Feast and Feast of Flesh
Released: 1963
Rating: Unrated
A serial killer is on the loose. Women are being killed and body parts are being stolen. The police are stumped (so to speak). Meanwhile, Egyptmania seems to be gripping this small Florida town. Fuad Ramses's "exotic catering" shop is doing a booming business and his book,
Ancient Weird Religious...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Blood Feast AKA: Die Säge des Todes , Profonde Tenebre and The Bloody Moon Murders
Released: 1981
Rating: Unrated
Re-Mastered In High-Definition And Featuring An All-New Interview With Jess Franco!As the body-count genre stabbed its way into audiences hearts in the early 80s EuroTrash auteur Jess Franco (SADOMANIA MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) was asked to create his own saga of slaughtered schoolgirls complete w...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Bloody MoonReleased: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
The Boogeyman The Original 1980 Version Bonus Full length feature return of the Boogeyman. Willy is a young boy who takes bloody revenge on his mother s abusive boyfriend by sneaking up on him in bed and savagely stabbing him in the back while his sister Lacey watches in the mirror. The boyfriend is...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The BoogeymanReleased: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
Oh, those crazy days of slasher films, when every summer camp became a potential slaughterhouse.
The Burning was one of the flood of movies that followed the success of
Friday the 13th, and it's more notable today for an unexpected roster of talent than for its success as a horror movi...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Burning AKA: Gestapo's Last Orgy , Last Orgy of the Third Reich
Released: 1977
Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
AKA: Apocalypse domani
Released: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
The horrors of war take on a whole new meaning for Vietnam vet Norman Hopper ("Enter the Dragon's" John Saxon), whose quiet domestic life in Atlanta is shattered by the return of Charlie Bukowski, a combat buddy who dredges up terrifying flashbacks of flesh eating and bloodshed in the war-torn jungl...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Cannibal Apocalypse AKA: Make Them Die Slowly
Directed By: Umberto Lenzi Released: 1981
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Italian exploitation legend Umberto Lenzi birthed the cannibal subgenre of Italian horror with
Deep River Savages, but he turned out one of the so-called classics of the genre with this 1981 effort, a blunt, brutal story of five New Yorkers who face the wrath of angry Amazon cannibals. Three ...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Cannibal FeroxReleased: 1980
Rating: Unrated
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the 'found footage' of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tr... more information, reviews and movie clips of Cannibal Holocaust
AKA: La Semana del asesino
Released: 1972
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
A hot-tempered blue-collar butcher kills just one man, a bullying taxi driver whom surely no one will miss, and by the end of the week winds up with a veritable stockyard of corpses in his tiny home during a Spanish summer heat wave. It all starts when Marco's girlfriend insists he go to the police,...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Cannibal Man AKA: Terror Caníbal
Released: 1981
Rating: Unrated
Even by the sleaziest standards of 80s EuroTrash it remains a film that must be seen to be believed: When a pair of criminal knuckleheads and their busty moll kidnap the young daughter of a wealthy tycoon they foolishly choose to hide in a local jungle infested with ferocious cannibals. What follows...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Cannibal Terror AKA: Alien Contamination , Contamination: Alien on Earth and Toxic Spawn
Released: 1980
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director Luigi Cozzi's science fiction thriller, which borrows wholesale from Alien for its loopy plot, is a gleefully cheesy gorefest that should please horror fans with a fondness for the lowbrow. Long-suffering Eurocult Ian McCulloch (Zombie) stars as an astronaut who joins an investigation into the appearance of extraterrestrial eggs on a ghost ship in New York's harbor. Their search uncovers an Earth-based conspiracy to cultivate the eggs for world domination...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Contamination Directed By: Gary Sherman Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Overlooked during its theatrical run but a cult favorite on video, this unique and chilling take on the zombie film finally joins the digital ranks with a two-DVD set from Blue Underground. James Farentino stars as a small-town sheriff who discovers that the victims in a string of grisly murders are...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Dead And BuriedDelirium
AKA: Psycho Puppet
Released: 1979
Rating: R (Restricted)
An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.
AKA: Sexo caníbal and The Man Hunter
Directed By: Jesús Franco Released: 1980
Rating: Unrated
Re-Mastered In High-Definition And Featuring An All-New Interview With Jess Franco!King Of EuroSleaze Jess Franco (BLOODY MOON MACUMBA SEXUAL) takes on the 80s Cannibal genre and delivers a jungle sickie like no other! When a safari of sexy babes and violent boneheads ventures into native-crazed wil...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Devil Hunter AKA: Pyromaniac
Released: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
Donald 'Donny' Kohler is deeply disturbed indvidual badly scarred by burns inflicted on him by his mother. As a child, whenever he did something she saw as wicked, she would hold his bare arms over a gas stove in an effort to burn the evil out of him. Due to this he has developed a secret obsession for fire.
more information, reviews and movie clips of Don't Go In The HouseReleased: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Four young campers head into the deep woods of the Utah mountains for a relaxing weekend. But their fun is spoiled when a machete-wielding maniac embarks on a blood-splattering rampage hacking and slashing all who enter the woods! Intended as a comedy James Bryan's DON'T GO IN THE WOODS...ALONE snuc...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Don't Go In The Woods Alone AKA: Curse of the Living Dead , Nightstalker and Sanctuary for Evil
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
This notorious sickie - here presented in its U.S. theatrical cut with all the gore intact - centers on two prehistoric cult members who abuse the secret of eternal youth... by cannibalizing children of their own circle! When their lurid exploits are discovered by the tribal Queen they are damned to...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Don't Go Near The Park AKA: Death Ward #13 , The Forgotten , Don't Look in the Basement
Released: 1973
Rating: R (Restricted)
Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work, only to learn that Dr. Stephens was murdered by one of the patients and his successor, Dr. Geraldine Masters, is not very eager to take on new staff. Charlotte finds her job maddeningly hard as the patients torment her at every turn, and she soon learns why Dr. Masters is so eager to keep outsiders out...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Don't Look In The Basement Directed By: Abel Ferrara Released: 1979
Rating: Unrated
Abel Ferarra's The Driller Killer is the movie that started off the whole Video Nasty hysteria in the UK during the early eighties. Made in 1979, the majority of the controversy surrounding the low-budget movie was due to Vipco's marketing campaign which consisted of a number of full page advertisem...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Driller Killer AKA: Death Trap , Horror Hotel , Horror Hotel Massacre , Legend of the Bayou , Murder on the Bayou and Starlight Slaughter
Released: 1977
Rating: R (Restricted)
AKA: Evil Dead, The Book of the Dead, Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead: The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror
Released: 1981
Rating: Unrated
In the fall of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a movie. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore, and wild humor, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favorite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Evil Dead AKA: Evilspeaks and Computer Murders
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Expose
AKA: The House on Straw Hill
Directed By: James Kenelm Clarke
Released: 1976
Rating: R (Restricted)
Paul Martin (Kier) is a paranoid novelist who rents out a secluded cottage in the British countryside in order to complete his new book, a pretentious sex romp. He hires a secretary (Hayden), and then his troubles really begin.
AKA: The Original Faces of Death
Directed By: Conan Le Cilaire
Released: 1978
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Faces of Death is a 1978 mondo film, lasting roughly 105 minutes, which guides viewers through explicit scenes depicting a variety of ways to die. It is often billed as Banned in 40 Countries, with that number varying with the years. The film has, in fact, been banned (at least temporarily) in New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Finland.
more information, reviews and movie clips of Faces of DeathReleased: 1977
Rating: R (Restricted)
Fight for Your Life is a 1977 action film starring William Sanderson (of Blade Runner fame), who plays Kane, a hate-fuelled redneck who absconds from jail with his sidekicks (an Asian and a Mexican). They hole up in the secluded house of a black minister and his family, where harsh epithets are exchanged and the minister is forced to take action to defend his family.
more information, reviews and movie clips of Fight for Your Life AKA: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
Released: 1973
Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
If you're in the properly receptive mindset to appreciate the artistry of director Paul Morrissey's
Flesh for Frankenstein, you may experience an unexpectedly delightful shift in attitude while watching the film. At first it appears that Morrissey is indulging in an exercise of pure camp (and...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Flesh For FrankensteinFrozen Scream
Directed By: Frank Roach
Released: 1975
Rating: R (Restricted)
A group of mad scientists turn people into frozen zombies and the zombies wreak havoc.
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Against her father's orders, Amy goes to a sleazy travelling carnival with her new boyfriend Buzz, her best friend Liz, and Liz's boyfriend Richie. Unbeknownst to the four teens, Amy's prank-happy little brother Joey (who happens to be obsessed with classic horror movies) sneaks out of the house and follows them to the carnival...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Funhouse AKA: Blood Rites
Directed By: Andy Milligan Released: 1968
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Direct from the outer fringes of Bizarro Cinema comes this Sex-Gore Double Feature from notorious underground filmmaker Andy Milligan! Collecting the inheritance on their father's will turns into an orgy of dismemberment, disembowelment, and decapitation
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Ghastly Ones AKA: Apocalipsis caníbal , Virus , Inferno dei morti viventi , Night of the Zombies , Zombi 4 , Zombi 5: Ultimate Nightmare , Zombie Creeping Flesh , Zombie Inferno
Directed By: Bruno Mattei Released: 1980
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
An accident at a chemical plant unleashes a horrific virus and an elite SWAT team is sent to New Guinea to investigate. But when they arrive on the hellish island they discover a plague of flesh-eating zombies as well as a beautiful female reporter who practices nude anthropology. Can the commandos ...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Hell Of The Living Dead AKA: Quella villa accanto al cimitero
Released: 1981
Rating: Unrated
A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now someone - or something - ...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The House By The Cemetery AKA: La casa sperduta nel parco
Released: 1980
Rating: Unrated
Human Experiments
AKA: Beyond the Gate
Directed By: Gregory Goodell
Released: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
Singer Rachel Foster (Linda Haynes) is arrested and charged with murder and placed in prison. Psychiatric sessions are run by Dr. Kline, whose idea of mental health is to erase the patient's personality and completely replace it with a new one through brainwashing them.
AKA: Day of the Woman
Released: 1978
Rating: R (Restricted)
Released: 1980
Rating: Unrated
Dario Argento's sequel to
Suspiria, his first and to date only American hit, is an even more incoherent nightmare fantasy. Laden with symbolic imagery and fantastic explosions of death shot in candy-colored hues, it's a bloody feast for the eyes. Mark (Leigh McCloskey), an American music stud...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Inferno AKA: A Craving for Lust , Cruel Destination , Ta Paidia tou Diavolou , Island of Perversion , Psychic Killer 2
Released: 1975
Rating: Unrated
One of the most shocking films ever made finally comes to DVD with every appalling image intact! A jaded couple staying on vacation at a Greek island wreaks havoc on the inhabitants, indulging in every depraved act imaginable until events spiral to a twisted surprise ending you'll never forget!
more information, reviews and movie clips of Island Of Death AKA: Suor Omicidi , Deadly Habits
Released: 1978
Rating: Unrated
Killer Nun
From the Secret Files of the Vatican! Uncut! Uncensored! Unholy!
Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg (LA DOLCE VITA) stars as sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder. Joe Dallesandro (ANDY... more information, reviews and movie clips of Killer Nun
Released: 1972
Rating: R (Restricted)
Future
Nightmare creator and
Scream weaver Wes Craven's film debut is a primitive little production that rises above its cut-rate production values and hazy, grainy patina via its grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. The story is adapted from I...
more information, reviews and movie clips of The Last House On The LeftLeft for Dead
AKA: I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
Directed By: Murray Markowitz
Released: 1978
Rating: R (Restricted)
A bizarre love, a strange death.
AKA: Night Train Murders, Don't Ride on Late Night Trains, Last Stop on the Night Train, Late Night Trains and Xmas Massacre
Released: 1975
Rating: R (Restricted)
You can tell yourself it's only a movie... but it won't help!
It was released as SECOND HOUSE ON THE LEFT, NEW HOUSE ON THE LEFT and TORTURE TRAIN. The ads screamed, "Most movies last less than two hours! This is one of everlasting torment! It remains one of the most graphi... more information, reviews and movie clips of Night Train Murders
AKA: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie , Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (Do Not Speak Ill of the Dead), Don't Open the Window
Released: 1974
Rating: R (Restricted)
Love Camp 7
Released: 1979
Rating: R (Restricted)
Love Camp 7 follows two female British officers who volunteer to enter a Nazi camp undercover in order to gain information from an inmate. The camp's female inmates serve as prostitutes for German officers and are subjected to humiliating treatment, torture and rape. The escape plan fails and ends in a blood bath.
Madhouse
AKA: There Was a Little Girl
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideosly disformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local mental institute. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for Julia by murdering all the party guests with the help of a giant killer Alsation dog.
AKA: Il paese del sesso selvaggio and Deep River Savages
Directed By: Umberto Lenzi Released: 1972
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Released: 1978
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
AKA: Mountain of the Cannibals , Primitive Desires , Prisoner of the Cannibal God ,Slave of the Cannibal God
Released: 1978
Rating: R (Restricted)
A young woman and her brother Arthur get off a plane somewhere in South America, allegedly in search of her husband. They team up with a doctor and head into the jungle, and get in more than a few fights amongst themselves while fighting off an unspeakable cannibalistic horror in the jungle.
more information, reviews and movie clips of Mountain Of The Cannibal GodReleased: 1972
Rating: R (Restricted)
Night of the Bloody Apes (1972, 84 min.) - It's a sex-crazed monkey man looking for love! Informed that son Julio will die of heart disease, Dr. Krellman does what any good mad doctor would do: give Julio the heart of a gorilla. Oops. Somehow the frail young man turns into a "horrible half beast, ha...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Night Of The Bloody Apes Directed By:James C. Wasson
Released: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
AKA: Nightmare , Blood Splash
Released: 1981
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
George Tatum wanders the streets, which is bad for everyone else as he's seriously warped and potentially homicidal to boot. In an effort to cure him of his never ending sleepless nights and waking moments of nightmarish hullcinations and disturbingly real visions of carnage and brutality, he is dosed with expiremental drugs which although outwardly to seemingly cure him of his night terrors and with it his psychosis, inwardly they brew a hidden unforeseen volitile streak that slowly empowers him until he is completely overwhelmed by it.
more information, reviews and movie clips of Nightmares In A Damaged Brain AKA: Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker , Momma's Boy , Nightmare Maker , The Evil Protege
Directed By: William Asher Released: 1983
Rating: Unrated
AKA: The Night the Screaming Stops
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
Mark (Sam Neill) comes home from months on the road to find his flighty wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani in an almost bug-eyed performance), ready to divorce him. Distraught and angry, he tracks down her lover, but discovers a secret unknown to either of the men. Anna has given birth, literally, to a dem...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Possession AKA: The Dorm That Dripped Blood
Released: 1982
Rating: R (Restricted)
Morgan Meadows Hall has been condemed and soon will be torn down. Five college students volunteer to close the structure during Christmas holiday. What ensues are bone-chilling events and narrow escapes from a murderer wielding a spiked baseball hat...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Pranks Directed By: Robert Houston
Released: 1980
Rating: R (Restricted)
In 1980, the original SHOGUN mini-series brought historical Japanese culture into the living rooms of America. Ninjas, Samurai, and the Japanese martial arts became more popular then ever. It was at this time that New World Pictures acquired the rights to the first two Lone Wolf films, SWORD OF VENGEANCE and BABYCART AT THE RIVER STYX from Toho. Robert Houston rewrote the dialog in English, re-edited the films together, and added...
more information, reviews and movie clips of Shogun AssassinThe Slayer
AKA: Nightmare Island
Directed By: J.S. Cardone Released: 1982
Rating: R (Restricted)
Siblings, Eric & his surreal abstract artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle. For Kay her current situation is her worst fears realised, for she's been troubled since her childhood by reoccurring prophetic nightmares in which she is stalked and slain in a burning room by figure known as The Slayer.
AKA: Revenge of the Boogeyman
Released: 1983
Rating: R (Restricted)
Released: 1976
Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
AKA: Captive Women II: Orgies of the Damned , S.S. Experiment , SS Experiment Camp
Released: 1976
Rating: R (Restricted)
Seems the white race just isn't superior enough for those nasty Nazis. In a secret SS love camp, ghastly experiments are being conducted to create a super race. Amidst the torture and rape, a sweet-n-tender Nazi named Helmut falls in love with one of the lovely test subjects. But it doesn't end there, of course. Word gets out about Helmut's virility, driving the impotent Colonel "nuts" with jealously. With his manhood now ...
more information, reviews and movie clips of SS Experiment Love Camp AKA: La Bestia in Calore , SS Experiment Part 2 , The Beast in Heat and Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days
Released: 1977
Rating: Unrated
Meet the diabolical Dr. Krast, a sadistic female Nazi scientist who makes ILSA THE SHE WOLF look like DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN! She creates a barbaric, sex-crazed Neanderthal beast that feeds upon the beautiful women tossed into its cage! The demented diva doctor will stop at nothing to further her...
more information, reviews and movie clips of SS Hell Camp Directed By: Dario Argento Released: 1982
Rating: Unrated
After several excursions into supernatural horror, Dario Argento returned to the homicidal frenzy that made his reputation with this mystery that plays more like a grown-up slasher movie than a detective thriller. Anthony Franciosa stars as Peter Neal, a bestselling horror novelist whose promotional...
more information, reviews and movie clips of TenebreTerror Eyes
AKA: Night School
Directed By: Ken Hughes
Released: 1981
Rating: R (Restricted)
The young women attending a Boston night school are terrorised by a mysterious killer who performs a bizarre ritual of decapitation on each of his victims. All the evidence points to one of the teachers, but nothing is what it seems in this chilling story of fear and death.
Released: 1978
Rating: R (Restricted)
AKA: Forest of Fear , Blood Butchers , Bloodeaters
Directed By: Chuck Mccrann Released: 1980