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Possession

Hellbound Heart — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:45:36 GMT

Art house cinema and me, we have an odd relationship. On occasion I can happily see beyond the stylistic tics and spasms which usually free the film of its could-be cogent plot, and I can handle the overblown emotion and the way in which it's examined. And then, perhaps I was expecting too much from Possession, a film which had long been on my hit-...

Strange Behavior

Pazuzu Iscariot — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:08:41 GMT

Strange Behavior (known as Dead Kids, Human Experiments, Small Town Massacre and Beyond the Gate but never referred to as Strange Behaviour in the UK) is a peculiar entry on the list of video nasties. Most peculiar is why it was banned in the first place, yes it has gore, but not enough and not in a context where a banning should be necessary. Comp...

Anthropophagus

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:29:34 GMT

Between directing Blue Erotic Climax and Porno Esotic Love, prolific filmmaker Joe D'Amato took a break from his sleazy pornographic exploits and directed his first non-erotic horror Anthropophagus. Also known as Grim Reaper, Man-Eater and The Beast among a multitude of other names (as is quite common for cheap Italian horror), Anthropophagus was d...

Lisa Lisa AKA Axe

Pazuzu Iscariot — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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 trailer made the movie seem so much more than it ...

Snuff

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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 the reputation they had gained through media hyst...

Bay of Blood (Reazione a Catena)

Pazuzu Iscariot — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With the opening scene consisting of the hanging of a wheel-chaired coffin-dodger followed closely by the stabbing of the gentleman that set up the noose trap setting the scene for the longevity of most of the characters in this movie, it is a wonder that Mario Bava manages to develop any characters in Bay of Blood AKA Twitch of the Death Nerve AKA...

Video Nasties - the Definitive Guide (2010)

Hellbound Heart — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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 respects, it's hard to believe the impact which VHS horr...

Unhinged

Pazuzu Iscariot — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:20:00 GMT

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 ninety percent of Unhinged you have probably guess...

Dead and Buried

Pazuzu Iscariot — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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 input in the outerspace classic than in this. A m...

Flesh for Frankenstein

Hellbound Heart — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:50:00 GMT

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, for example, is never more than a hokey, enterta...