Comments on: VIDEO NASTY DATABASE vol. 1

By: cathedralofdemoni

cathedralofdemoni — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:02:10 +0000

Kaijinu – Yes Killer Nun is a bit of a slasher and no it is not very good. And that’s coming from an Italian film freak.

By: Kaijinu

Kaijinu — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:29:33 +0000

um, one question: Is Killer Nun a slasher? if yes, how good of a slasher it is?

By: Beyond Horror Wallpapers

Beyond Horror Wallpapers — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:50:28 +0000

On the documentary “Ban the Sadist Videos” there’s an old clip of MP Graham Bright who says “I believe these films not only effect children…but dogs too” !?

Sums up the whole “video nasty” backlash to me.

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:05:06 +0000

What Cathedral above said is true about the “Shock! Horror!” book, it’s definitely worth the buy. Also, I found a documentary entitled “Ban the Sadist Videos” that was done in Britain on this subject. I’ve always thought it would be fun to go into more detail about it as it seems so much needs to be detailed about it, especially looking back on it now.

And yeah, while this was before my time (I was born in 1984), it has totally become a love of mine to both research and learn about the “Video Nasties” era, and also search out the films that made the list. Between finding the movies on DVD in stores or on Netflix, I’m trying to see just why some were banned.

By: Cathedral of Demoni

Cathedral of Demoni — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:52:38 +0000

I have always found Video Nasties Era fascinating. That had to be a weird time for you guys. Here in the US we got a lot of cut versions, but not like there. After Friday the 13th the censors got a little crazy here as most of the slasher movies had cuts, many where very minor but in some cases namely “Intruder” was completely butchered with NO gore left. And most of Argento’s movies were hacked as well, “Phenomena” cut by 28 minutes “Tenebrae” missing 10 minutes while” Suspiria”, was uncut, “House by the Cemetery”, “The Gates of Hell” and say “Burial Ground” were virtually uncut albeit very dark prints. Damn you Vestron Video. The First time I saw “House by…” in a bright widescreen print it was a whole new movie.
I think in some cases it was the video covers & sleeves that caught censors eyes.

I wanted to mention an excellent book on the subject. Shock! Horror! Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era. It has full page pics of all the covers, with info on each film that was looked at as well as the official banned list and more. Very cool and worth checking out to anyone interested in the subject.

By: Christian Sellers

Christian Sellers — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:42:14 +0000

Thanks Amanda! Yes it was a bizarre time. I remember so many movies that other countries took for granted were unavailable over here. I think that’s why I got into slasher and zombie films from such a young age as they were the most graphic films available (most cannibal films were banned). But I guess at least I got to discover many of the more obscure ones on the list when I was older.

By: SCARLET FRY

SCARLET FRY — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:02:13 +0000

DRILLER KILLER SUCKS

By: Amanda By Night

Amanda By Night — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:05:07 +0000

I am always fascinated by this piece of horror history. I think Madhouse (1981) was banned, which I still to this day can’t figure out why. It’s always interesting, if not positive, when you get a group of people together to decide how things should work when it comes to art or entertainment.

Nice piece Christian!