Written & directed by: Michael & Roberta Findlay
Starring: Margarita Amuchástegui, Ana Carro, Liliana Fernández Blanco, Alfredo Iglesias, Enrique Larratelli, Mirtha Massa, Aldo Mayo, Clao Villanueva
Taglines: “A film that could only be made in South America, where life is CHEAP!”
“The picture they said could NEVER be shown”
“The Bloodiest thing that ever happened in front of a camera!!!”
Directed by: Ruggero Deodato
Written by: Gianfranco Clerici & Vincenzo Mannino
Music by: Riz Ortolani
Starring: David Hess, John Morghan (Giovanni Lombardo Radice), Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo, Marie Claude Joseph, Gabriele Di Giulio, Brigitte Petronio
Taglines: “Delivers Shocks To The Maximum … Pushes The Limits Of Acceptability”
“David Hess … star of “Last House on the Left” is loose again … DON’T GO IN THE PARK!”
Director: Tony Maylam
Starring: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua, Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, Holly Hunter
Special makeup effects by: Tom Savini & Darryl Ferrucci
Story by: Harvey Weinstein, Tony Maylam, Brad Grey
Co-writer: Peter Lawrence
Original music by: Rick Wakeman
Edited by: Jack Sholder
Produced by: Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein
Taglines: “Don’t look, he’ll see you. Don’t breathe, he’ll hear you. Don’t move… you’re dead!”
“A brutal horrific act made him kill and kill and kill”
“If you go down to the woods today… Watch out for Cropsy!”
“Today is not Friday the 13th. But if you see this movie alone… you’ll never be the same again!”
“A legend of terror isn’t a campfire story anymore!”
“Gather Around the Campfire to Die!”
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As you can probably tell from the notable credits above, this is an interesting little movie in that it provided a starting point for a lot of current Hollywood talent. It was the first movies produced by the Weinsteins for their Miramax company, edited by Jack Sholder (who later directed the classic sci-fi/horror The Hidden among others), and features future Oscar winner Holly Hunter, future Seinfeld star Jason Alexander (with hair!) and future Short Circuit sidekick Fisher Stevens in very early roles. As a bonus, this is not only the first movie I’ve reviewed with effects by the legendary Tom Savini, but also the first to have had an official place on the “video nasties” list. More on that later. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll be doing a full article explaining these at some point in the future, but what follows is a list of all of the movies that ended up on the VPA’s “video nasties” list at some point. This makes them the main group of films banned in the UK under the 1984 Video Recordings Act, as opposed to those simply unavailable due to classification being refused (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, etc.), or other reasons.
Of course, to any self-respecting horror fan in the 80s and 90s, this became a list of movies that you must have seen. Most were shoddy even in their original forms, let alone the 6th-gen VHS copies often traded among fans. But, they were worth seeing if only for the illicit thrill of getting something that had been outlawed. Many are available uncut in the UK today, and most are available in a cut form if not. I’ll review each movie at some point in the future, and link them here as I do so.
Absurd
Anthropophagus Beast
Axe
The Beast in Heat
The Beyond
Blood Bath
Blood Feast
Blood Rites
Bloody Moon
The Bogey Man
The Burning
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Holocaust
The Cannibal Man
Cannibal Terror
Contamination
Dead and Buried
Death Trap
Deep River Savages
Delirium
The Devil Hunter
Don’t Go in the House
Don’t Go in the Woods…Alone
Don’t Go Near the Park
Don’t Look in the Basement
The Driller Killer
The Evil Dead
Evilspeak
Expose
Faces of Death
Fight for Your Life
Flesh For Frankenstein
Forest of Fear
Frozen Scream
The Funhouse
Gestapo’s Last Orgy
The House By the Cemetery
House on the Edge of the Park
Human Experiments
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
I Spit on Your Grave
Inferno
Island of Death
Killer Nun
The Last House on the Left
Late Night Trains
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Love Camp 7
Madhouse
Mardi Gras Massacre
Night of the Bloody Apes
Night of the Demon
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
Possession
Pranks
Prisoner of the Cannibal God
Revenge of the Bogey Man
The Slayer
Shogun Assassin
Snuff
SS Experiment Camp
Tenebrae
Terror Eyes
The Toolbox Murders
Unhinged
Visiting Hours
The Werewolf and the Yeti
The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Women Behind Bars
Xtro
Zombie Creeping Flesh
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Zombie Holocaust