The docco is excellent. I'm currently working through the nasties as part of a critical review series, there are quite a few surprises there so far. I have to say that quote from Bright gets funnier every time I hear it.
@stardub I had the same question. Found this online "Coming October 11 to DVD in a three-disc boxset is Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide, which features Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape."
@kwisnothere you know Apocalypse Now has a live bull being beheaded and Friday the 13th has a live snake being cut in 2 with a machete don't you? Whilst not excusing the killings in Cannibal Holocaust, do you feel these films should be banned too? Just a thought!
Looks great. There is a guy on youtube, whose name escapes me at this time, who does some brilliant reviews of all the video nasties. I still have Evil Dead, Cannibal Apocalypse and Cannibal Holocast and VHS tape but I have no video player. Meh!
@DarkAngel182 Well firstly I wasn't aware of the snake in Friday the 13th, it's not a film i'm overly interested in seeing, and as for Apocalypse Now I believe that it was part of a real ritual that some real tribe was going to perform anyway - while that's hard to see, it's still a little more acceptable than a bunch of wacked out italians running through the jungle abusing everything human and animal in their path.
@tascott59 I'd love to see John Beyer or someone from Mediawatch at one of those events to see how the people took their pro-censorship stance (then watch them attempt to make it out alive)!
I stopped taking that list seriously when Bruce Willis' "Last Boy Scout" appeared on it. Yes, Bruce Willis holds a gun to a girl's head, but it's hardly "Cannibal Holocaust" or "Last House on the Left" or "Driller Killer". What it is, is a rather mediocre action movie.
sorry but Thatcher stopped free thought. I was a kid who loved horror I loved the soooooo called video nasties we also loved later loved the rave scene but oooohhh no it was all bad for us as Thatcher told us. it's all art. ART!!!! You can not stop people seeing art.good or bad we deserve to make our own minds up and discuss ART. film,acting directing etc is ART. sat afternoons 1982 running back from video shop with last House on left with my mates to watch it excited discussion after. we knew it was just a film. does that make sense?????? and none of us in jail now are we!!!! just good honest loving parents who see movies as an art form. opinion pls????
To answer Mark... I don't care about Cannibal Holocaust in fact i loathe and dispise it, i think it's one of the few films that should be banned and destroyed today... why because of the real murder of two living creatures all because they couldn't find another way to do the effect... well they shouldn't of done it!!
This is a GREAT video
The docco is excellent. I'm currently working through the nasties as part of a critical review series, there are quite a few surprises there so far.
I have to say that quote from Bright gets funnier every time I hear it.
@stardub I had the same question. Found this online "Coming October 11 to DVD in a three-disc boxset is Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide, which features Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape."
Don't know if you have already found out over the past 8 months but its on youtube in episodes. Just type in video nasties documentary.
27 out of the original 39 UK video nasties were actually still cut on VHS in the UK.
haha Mark cracks me up at 0:07
driller killer and others like it are available in the pound shops range of dvd's if people are looking to pick some up cheap
@stardub its out on dvd on oct 18th
He's obsessed with these things.
@kwisnothere you know Apocalypse Now has a live bull being beheaded and Friday the 13th has a live snake being cut in 2 with a machete don't you? Whilst not excusing the killings in Cannibal Holocaust, do you feel these films should be banned too?
Just a thought!
I don't care about horror films, but I love horror games. It will be interesting to see.
Looks great. There is a guy on youtube, whose name escapes me at this time, who does some brilliant reviews of all the video nasties. I still have Evil Dead, Cannibal Apocalypse and Cannibal Holocast and VHS tape but I have no video player. Meh!
History literally repeating itself... Funny that..
ditto this country's drug laws.
@wasteyelo1 Dunno if you are thinking of Lampyman101 but if it isn't then I strongly recommend that you go and check out his channel
@DarkAngel182 Well firstly I wasn't aware of the snake in Friday the 13th, it's not a film i'm overly interested in seeing, and as for Apocalypse Now I believe that it was part of a real ritual that some real tribe was going to perform anyway - while that's hard to see, it's still a little more acceptable than a bunch of wacked out italians running through the jungle abusing everything human and animal in their path.
@kwisnothere LOL, well I'll agree with that last sentence anyway!
:-)
@tascott59 I'd love to see John Beyer or someone from Mediawatch at one of those events to see how the people took their pro-censorship stance (then watch them attempt to make it out alive)!
@wasteyelo1 The Cinema Snob, is the name of the reviewer of the name who escapes you
I stopped taking that list seriously when Bruce Willis' "Last Boy Scout" appeared on it. Yes, Bruce Willis holds a gun to a girl's head, but it's hardly "Cannibal Holocaust" or "Last House on the Left" or "Driller Killer". What it is, is a rather mediocre action movie.
sorry but Thatcher stopped free thought. I was a kid who loved horror I loved the soooooo called video nasties we also loved later loved the rave scene but oooohhh no it was all bad for us as Thatcher told us. it's all art. ART!!!! You can not stop people seeing art.good or bad we deserve to make our own minds up and discuss ART. film,acting directing etc is ART. sat afternoons 1982 running back from video shop with last House on left with my mates to watch it excited discussion after. we knew it was just a film. does that make sense?????? and none of us in jail now are we!!!! just good honest loving parents who see movies as an art form. opinion pls????
@ardbastard1 It is, but I was extremely angry watching it due to the blinkered opinions of the politicians and especially that fascist, John Beyer
To answer Mark... I don't care about Cannibal Holocaust in fact i loathe and dispise it, i think it's one of the few films that should be banned and destroyed today... why because of the real murder of two living creatures all because they couldn't find another way to do the effect... well they shouldn't of done it!!