Question:
reading the last house on the left thread brought back memories of the golden 80's/early 90's when the media (ie:the daily mail)
were in a frenzy over the supposed threat to society due to the influx of depraved and evil films such as driller killer and cannibal apocalypse.
I remember the excitement of tracking down these notorious films and the thrill of watching what were banned movies. I used to read the small ads and go to boot fairs in the hope of finding one of those gems. usually, the viewing was an anti-climax as most of the movies were god-awful schlok but it was fun knowing you had viewed a film deemed sick and depraved, likely to cause you to commit evil crimes.
Now with the advent of the internet and multi-region dvd it is too easy to get hold of any horror film but in the days of video and zx spectrums it took a bit of effort.
Did anyone else go out of their way to view these films?
Hey martinb,
Unfortunately I was just to young to get involved in the whole video nasty thing. I remember it all going on and my older brother telling me of some nasties he got his hands on. Whilst I didn't see many at the time I think the phenomenon did rub off on me as I now have a fascination with going back and finding all these films that people talked about during the whole fiasco. I find it quite useful that you can now import just about anything from abroad (so long as customs don't wake up) as I think otherwise it would be very hard and very expensive to see any of these films, and having extra features such as commentaries on DVDs makes it even more interesting.
I agree it can be more interesting if you have to make more of an effort to get something, but as you say it would be very disappointing after making that effort for the film to be crap.
I think that there is also a different sort of effort to be made now, namely wading your way through all the information about different releases and editions to ensure that you are seeing the best possible version, and this can be very rewarding when you know you've got the best version of the film.
Being a kid in the early eighties, there was nothing cooler (at our school at least) than being able to say that you had seen a video nasty. Its funny now to think of some of the films that the media then classed as such. Mad Max, Friday The 13th and Halloween were must see video nasties, but now are just thought of as classics (at least by me).
They used to have Driller Killer in the window at our local video shop (before it was banned obviously), which seemed to specialise in films like that. Me and my mate used to go in there to look at the titles of all the films that your mum would never let you get out in a million years. Looking at the covers of Driller Killer, Death Trap, Zombie Flesh Eaters and The Hills Have Eyes, would fill us with a kind of childish awe.
When they showed Driller Killer on Channel 4 a couple of years ago I was dead excited. However after watching it, I was totally let down. It was terrible. My childhood illusions were shattered.
Still, walking in to Blockbuster now will never give me the same feeling as the thrill of walking into the local video shop in the days of the Video Nasties.
I remember similar, but the biggest on must have been that 'Animal farm', the legendary porn film about farm animals and females!
To this day i still dont know if it actually existed or not!
Animal Farm came later. I've never seen it, but I heard certain scenes described so many times, that I almost feel I have. It must exist. Anyone know?
I didn't actually go around 'tracking down so called video nasties.
There was a video shop on the street I lived on and we used to watch all these films during the week and then pick up the papers on Sunday and read about all these 'evil and depraved' video nasties that we'd spent the week hiring from the local shop. Even when the home secretary introduced the video recordings Act or whatever it was called and the banned 'list' was produced most of the video shops were still openly hiring them out. My local video store did get raided by the police a couple of years later and one of the films they seized was the Evil Dead.
I remember all these in the video stores but we didn't have a player til after the Video Nasties Act. Snuff, Driller Killer, Cannibal Ferox, Zombie (Flesh Eaters), Texas Chainsaw etc etc. All were there uncut and all.
I then grew up thinking "well I prefer my kind of films rather than these pointless gore fests" - at leat that was until DVD came along. Pristine directors cuts in original aspect ratio with superb pictures and sound? I look at my collection now and ask myself - is this a true reflection of my taste in films? Well, no - but they sure can be a lot of fun after the pub on a Friday night (unless there's animal cruelty that is in which case I say torture the director and crew immediately and see how they like it - oops I think perhaps I am becoming deranged by all this filth I'm watching).
kc
I'd forgotten about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That was another one that I only saw about two years ago. I was suprised to find that it was actually quite disturbing.
Anyone remember Dark Night Of The Scarecrow? That was a good one. At least it was when I was a kid. Haven't seen it since I grew up.
Originally posted by homerjhandley
I remember similar, but the biggest on must have been that 'Animal farm', the legendary porn film about farm animals and females!
To this day i still dont know if it actually existed or not!
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
Originally posted by Marwhite
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
Happens to me, the porn is turned off quite quick. Probably for different reasons than yours though :norty:
My pal and I sat one afternoon watching Cannibal Ferox and drinking tea!
I remember seeing Zombie Flesh Eaters when I was wee - dunno how I did, but it was before it got banned!
Originally posted by Marwhite
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
sounds like you got pretty far into it :D
I saw ZFE and The Burning when I was 8 or so.
Lovely films.
Originally posted by Marwhite
It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
You mean you sat through an hour or so of gay sex and hermaphrodites before it go to animal sex, and then it got quickly turned off? LOL!
I would say ninety percent of nasties were let downs in terms of what they promised - the content could never match those juicy posters such as Night Of The Bloody Apes with the those surgeon's pvc gloves covered in blood. And that warning The is film containst graphic and disturbing scenes. Oh how it used to entice an 11 yr old.
The thing that gets me now having viewed most of them is actually (apart from CH, Last House and few select others) how tame they are and how unintentially hiliriaous the films are. Check out Night Of the Demon, the demon - a creature that looks like a caveman wrapped in carpet attacking everybody in glorious slowmo.
Originally posted by homerjhandley
Happens to me, the porn is turned off quite quick. Probably for different reasons than yours though :norty: Hair trigger eh!!??? :norty: :nuts:
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off
yeh, After 3 hours,58 minutes of watching it?:)
I remember all the video nasties, we used to watch them at a friends house.Thing is later when you get the dvds you realise that a lot of them were cut, mebbe they just seemed horrific and gory at the time.
I remember that animal farm too, but thats for a lot of different reasons:eek: Bloody freaky stuff!
I think one of the scenes had a woman leading a dopey bloke in a hat around a famyard by his penis, and 'trying out' various farm animals..can anyone confim this or is everyone just pretending they havent seen it ?:nono:
Anyone interested in "nasties" should check out two excellent books on the subject.
"See No Evil - Banned Films and Controversy" by David Kerekes and David Slater is an exhaustive overview of the "nasty" culture
"The Art of the Nasty" by Nigel Wingrove and Marc Morris is out of print but you should be able to pick it up on Ebay. It reproduces over 300 pre-certificate sleeves in all their lurid glory.
Love the artwork on
Mardi Gras Massacre
SS Experiment Camp
Prisoner of the Cannibal God
Pets
The Corpse Grinders
Steel Claw
Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS
and the Grindhouse release of Cannibal Ferox aka "Make them Die Slowly"
I agree that most of these movies are extremely disappointing when you actually see them, but that doesn't seem to stop my desire to track them down.
I would like to thank my wonderful girlfriend for helping fuel my obsession
:)
The BBFC were welcome to most of the list, but there were some absolute gems Tenebrae, The Beyond, Inferno, Flesheaters. Funny isn't it how all of those films are now available in the UK, and considered classics of the horror genre. Could it be a case of newspapers creating mass hysteria?
Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it one day at school during our exams. We had just done General French in the morning and we had a 4 hour wait till the second exam, so somebody suggested we went back to his to watch it as we were sceptic to say the least. I swear to god there were between 50 and 100 people squeezing into his house, and everybodies chins hitting the floor as we watched the stuff on the screen. It does start with normal porn, with some story about an "Aunt Peg" saying to some black guy "Oh yes...you are definitely Jamal!" Ring any bells to anyone?? It become a school catchphrase soon afterwards. Then the animal stuff came on, donkeys, dogs, horses, eels(!) and to top it off some guy dressed as postman violating some poor chicken. One of the classic moments of schooldaze!
We all left school about 8 years ago, and we still talk about that. The guy whose video it was caught with it in his bag a few days later and was taken to the Senior master (private school)....but when asked where he got it, he replied his dad's bedroom and he wasn't kidding!! Classic!!!:clap:
Originally posted by ronaldo9
Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it one day at school during our exams. We had just done General French in the morning and we had a 4 hour wait till the second exam, so somebody suggested we went back to his to watch it as we were sceptic to say the least. I swear to god there were between 50 and 100 people squeezing into his house, and everybodies chins hitting the floor as we watched the stuff on the screen. It does start with normal porn, with some story about an "Aunt Peg" saying to some black guy "Oh yes...you are definitely Jamal!" Ring any bells to anyone?? It become a school catchphrase soon afterwards. Then the animal stuff came on, donkeys, dogs, horses, eels(!) and to top it off some guy dressed as postman violating some poor chicken. One of the classic moments of schooldaze!
We all left school about 8 years ago, and we still talk about that. The guy whose video it was caught with it in his bag a few days
later and was taken to the Senior master (private school)....but when asked where he got it, he replied his dad's bedroom and he wasn't kidding!! Classic!!!:clap:
Got to have a look for this on e-bay:norty:
Ah yes the good old days when you could walk into a video shop and come out with I Spit On Your Grave or Zombie Flesh Eaters. One of the first videos I hired was The Beyond and to think some of these are still unavailable uncut in the UK :(
For me, the Beyond is the ultimate horror film: violent, gory, 'cool but simple' story, visually astonishing with great atmosphere and cinematography, and most of all: FULCI zombies!!! :nuts: :D
A must-have for any self-respecting human being ;) :clap:
ronaldo9 - glad someone else remembers the eels in Animal farm - that bit sticks in my mind a bit too much. Can you confirm the presence of a bucket as well in the eel scenes?
Our latest book is now in the shops - check out Shock! Horror!: Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1903254329/Here-21).
Do not post your own affiliate links on the forums as you are taking revenue away from this site.
In 98 and 99 before the BBFC relaxed a bit on those banned films, I was importing quite a few on DVD. There was always the risk that they would get confiscated by customs. I had one parcel with the uncut New York Ripper which had been opened and resealed. It had customs inspection stamps all over it, luckily it was still in there. :thumbs:
Now there is no excitement about collecting those titles, as customs don't open packages anymore.
Anyone longing for the days of Video nasties would be advised to check out the French horror flic 'Switchblade Romance' that out on UK R2 next week.
They do make them like they used to and this ones actually a good film too.
Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it
I have to say, dodgy content aside, to produce a movie....in 4 hours, is quite an achievement, especially for a lad during his exams.
Did you badger him for a small part??
I have to say, dodgy content aside, to produce a movie....in 4 hours, is quite an achievement, especially for a lad during his exams.
Did you badger him for a small part??
Where the hell did this thread come from??? Anyway by "produced" i mean he found it in his dads room and then showed it to us at school. He was not on the set at anytime unless he was alive in early 70's Holland ;)
Did you badger him for a small part??
Boom boom. What exactly, in the idiom of bestiality, does 'badgering' involve?
Or is it painfully literal?
not been there for a while, but i imagine the melonfarmers website is quieter than it used to be ...
I used to sell and trade them in the small ads of Samhain and The Dark Side until trading standards paid me a rather costly visit. Hi to anyone who used to trade with me. ;)
I LOVED the mid-late 80s pre-VRA era!!!
There was nothing cooler than calling into my local fleapit video rental shop (which was in the back of a motorist discount shop) on my way home from school and renting Cannibal Holocaust, SS Experiment Camp etc.
Well... there was a chemist next door to the above establishment and buying a "family pack" of condoms which my then girlfriend and I went through in two days came (ooer) a close second!
We rented an old Baird toploading VCR which was a big, mean clunky old thing. But man, it had such sights to show me :)
At the time my mother was really into movies (she always has been) and she would sit and watch anything with me. My dad and brother hated horror movies, they thought that they were boring (but anything with Burt Reynolds in was cool) so they'd go upstairs and play with the CB radio.
The guy in the video rental shop knew me - he kept me stocked with various dodgy video posters - so renting wasn't a problem, even if I was still in school uniform!
Two or three of us would rent a movie each and pop to each other's houses after to exchange tapes, we were watching three movies a day (a weekday, staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning).
Video shops even smelt better then, really musty and dank. A bit like Global now :)
I do miss the good old days. But I do like my Ultrabit editions of Cannibal Holocaust etc.
That reminds me, I have an old InterVision VHS of The Exterminator sitting in my office drawer. I'll have to get it out and give it a whiff!
Oh, that Farmyard Frolics movie. I saw one once - well, I've seen a few - but this one in particular was the one with the guy and the pigs, a woman and an alsatian and a woman with a horse (I've also seen images of the movie above on playing cards).
Not nice...
bizarre mag did a search for the real animal farm, and never found a title bearing that name to exist. lots of various bootlegs with that kind of thing in, and lots of stories of friends/cousins etc having a film called it, but one didn't seem to exist from memory.
anyway, to go back to the original point.. there's still a TON of stuff out there that is very hard to get, and specialist (and way beyond anything i'd get even just for the shock value) so its not all gone.. its just gone more depraved!
i think the main problem now is the quality. a badly dubbed 8th generation copy of guinea pig without subtitles is a lot better than a perfect edition on dvd, because it seems so much more "real" and certainly a lot more exciting to own.
I used to sell and trade them in the small ads of Samhain and The Dark Side until trading standards paid me a rather costly visit. Hi to anyone who used to trade with me. ;)
I bought stuff from peeps in there, and Fear and In The Flesh...
:)
I bought stuff from peeps in there, and Fear and In The Flesh...
:)
Heh, two on one tape a tenner sir. 1=good 5=poor. Your list gets mine. Them were the days.
I stopped selling rather abrubtly as my 'stock' was confiscated by Trading Standards. I had a dawn raid and everything. It was all very exciting. My gran tried to chase them away with a brush as she thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses - "It's far too early for you lot".
I LOVED the mid-late 80s pre-VRA era!!!
There was nothing cooler than calling into my local fleapit video rental shop (which was in the back of a motorist discount shop) on my way home from school and renting Cannibal Holocaust, SS Experiment Camp etc.
Well... there was a chemist next door to the above establishment and buying a "family pack" of condoms which my then girlfriend and I went through in two days came (ooer) a close second!
We rented an old Baird toploading VCR which was a big, mean clunky old thing. But man, it had such sights to show me :)
At the time my mother was really into movies (she always has been) and she would sit and watch anything with me. My dad and brother hated horror movies, they thought that they were boring (but anything with Burt Reynolds in was cool) so they'd go upstairs and play with the CB radio.
The guy in the video rental shop knew me - he kept me stocked with various dodgy video posters - so renting wasn't a problem, even if I was still in school uniform!
Two or three of us would rent a movie each and pop to each other's houses after to exchange tapes, we were watching three movies a day (a weekday, staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning).
Video shops even smelt better then, really musty and dank. A bit like Global now :)
I do miss the good old days. But I do like my Ultrabit editions of Cannibal Holocaust etc.
That reminds me, I have an old InterVision VHS of The Exterminator sitting in my office drawer. I'll have to get it out and give it a whiff!
Oh, that Farmyard Frolics movie. I saw one once - well, I've seen a few - but this one in particular was the one with the guy and the pigs, a woman and an alsatian and a woman with a horse (I've also seen images of the movie above on playing cards).
Not nice...
This post couldn't be any more '80's if it mentioned Miami Vice and luminous socks. :)
Heh, two on one tape a tenner sir. 1=good 5=poor. Your list gets mine. Them were the days.
I stopped selling rather abrubtly as my 'stock' was confiscated by Trading Standards. I had a dawn raid and everything. It was all very exciting. My gran tried to chase them away with a brush as she thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses - "It's far too early for you lot".
If you're the guy who sold me my utterly underwhelming dupe of Maniac claiming it to be B+ quality (when it was more like a T-) I'll get you.
To this day that bothers me :D
I remember me and my mate Alex reading about the Customs raids (and seeing the really illicit, hardcore stuff, like Edward Scissorhands (!) getting black-bagged on the news) and then struggling to think how many of our lists had passed throgh how many sets of hands... :suspect:
Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it one day at school during our exams. We had just done General French in the morning and we had a 4 hour wait till the second exam, so somebody suggested we went back to his to watch it as we were sceptic to say the least. I swear to god there were between 50 and 100 people squeezing into his house, and everybodies chins hitting the floor as we watched the stuff on the screen. It does start with normal porn, with some story about an "Aunt Peg" saying to some black guy "Oh yes...you are definitely Jamal!" Ring any bells to anyone?? It become a school catchphrase soon afterwards. Then the animal stuff came on, donkeys, dogs, horses, eels(!) and to top it off some guy dressed as postman violating some poor chicken. One of the classic moments of schooldaze!
We all left school about 8 years ago, and we still talk about that. The guy whose video it was caught with it in his bag a few days later and was taken to the Senior master (private school)....but when asked where he got it, he replied his dad's bedroom and he wasn't kidding!! Classic!!!:clap:
Wow, it's real, this was a legend at my school too but I've never seen it. Do they really fry and eat poo too?
You only left school 8 years ago !!! I'm sure I heard about Animal farm in the fourth year, thats about 16 years ago if I'm being kind to myself.
If you're the guy who sold me my utterly underwhelming dupe of Maniac claiming it to be B+ quality (when it was more like a T-) I'll get you.
To this day that bothers me :D
I think I graded mine as a 'c' and it wasn't the 'UNCUT DUTCH' anyway so you'd have been unlikely to have bought that one.
I remember me and my mate Alex reading about the Customs raids (and seeing the really illicit, hardcore stuff, like Edward Scissorhands (!) getting black-bagged on the news) and then struggling to think how many of our lists had passed throgh how many sets of hands... :suspect:
They never returned my Watership Down but had no problem giving A Clockwork Orange back. It all got very paranoid for a while - once news got out I got many a phonecall from people begging me to burn their lists. They never took any notice of the lists, anyway. All they had to do was get a copy of The Dark Side from Smiths and get peeps from there.
Wow, it's real, this was a legend at my school too but I've never seen it. Do they really fry and eat poo too?
You only left school 8 years ago !!! I'm sure I heard about Animal farm in the fourth year, thats about 16 years ago if I'm being kind to myself.He did post that over 2 years ago! So it would be 10 years now. I had friends talk about watching it in 1988 when I was in 1st year! :eek:
Wow, it's real, this was a legend at my school too but I've never seen it. Do they really fry and eat poo too?
Think you probably mean Salo there?
Matt
Think you probably mean Salo there?
Matt
Hmm, I seem to remember there was a bit with some 'Eel action' in which the said eels ended up fried and eaten so it's quite possible that childish warped mind + dodgy pic quality would = poo confusion.
Hmm, I seem to remember there was a bit with some 'Eel action' in which the said eels ended up fried and eaten so it's quite possible that childish warped mind + dodgy pic quality would = poo confusion.
I remember those eels ending up in the frying pan too, but not before being marinated in wee, that's probably what he's talking about. :gag: I think the woman and the heavily drugged pig is the single most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
I used to sell and trade them in the small ads of Samhain and The Dark Side until trading standards paid me a rather costly visit. Hi to anyone who used to trade with me. ;)
You're not that fella who ripped me off, are you? :suspect: :lol:
You're not that fella who ripped me off, are you? :suspect: :lol:
Nope, that's someone else your thinking of there..... ;)
Hmm, I seem to remember there was a bit with some 'Eel action' in which the said eels ended up fried and eaten so it's quite possible that childish warped mind + dodgy pic quality would = poo confusion.
That scene was indeed part of the Animal Farm I saw.
That is giving me the gawks just thinking about it :(
I think the woman and the heavily drugged pig is the single most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
:lol:
On the BBFC website, there is an interesting report on some of the titles mentioned in this thread.
On the menu on the LHS go to 'The BBFC' then 'Downloads' and the report/study is entitled 'Where do you draw the line ?'.
It makes very interesting reading, and becomes quite engrossing, particularly if you're familiar with the films.
I miss the excitement. I remember the days of looking through 'Dark Side' magazine and phoning up some chap in South Croydon, then meeting him on a street corner and giving him £15 for 3rd-generation VHS Greek copies of House by the Cemetery and Deep Red which he retrieved surreptitiously from a suspicious-looking brown paper bag. Seriously.
Those heady days of yore....
were in a frenzy over the supposed threat to society due to the influx of depraved and evil films such as driller killer and cannibal apocalypse.
I remember the excitement of tracking down these notorious films and the thrill of watching what were banned movies. I used to read the small ads and go to boot fairs in the hope of finding one of those gems. usually, the viewing was an anti-climax as most of the movies were god-awful schlok but it was fun knowing you had viewed a film deemed sick and depraved, likely to cause you to commit evil crimes.
Now with the advent of the internet and multi-region dvd it is too easy to get hold of any horror film but in the days of video and zx spectrums it took a bit of effort.
Did anyone else go out of their way to view these films?
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Hey martinb,
Unfortunately I was just to young to get involved in the whole video nasty thing. I remember it all going on and my older brother telling me of some nasties he got his hands on. Whilst I didn't see many at the time I think the phenomenon did rub off on me as I now have a fascination with going back and finding all these films that people talked about during the whole fiasco. I find it quite useful that you can now import just about anything from abroad (so long as customs don't wake up) as I think otherwise it would be very hard and very expensive to see any of these films, and having extra features such as commentaries on DVDs makes it even more interesting.
I agree it can be more interesting if you have to make more of an effort to get something, but as you say it would be very disappointing after making that effort for the film to be crap.
I think that there is also a different sort of effort to be made now, namely wading your way through all the information about different releases and editions to ensure that you are seeing the best possible version, and this can be very rewarding when you know you've got the best version of the film.
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Being a kid in the early eighties, there was nothing cooler (at our school at least) than being able to say that you had seen a video nasty. Its funny now to think of some of the films that the media then classed as such. Mad Max, Friday The 13th and Halloween were must see video nasties, but now are just thought of as classics (at least by me).
They used to have Driller Killer in the window at our local video shop (before it was banned obviously), which seemed to specialise in films like that. Me and my mate used to go in there to look at the titles of all the films that your mum would never let you get out in a million years. Looking at the covers of Driller Killer, Death Trap, Zombie Flesh Eaters and The Hills Have Eyes, would fill us with a kind of childish awe.
When they showed Driller Killer on Channel 4 a couple of years ago I was dead excited. However after watching it, I was totally let down. It was terrible. My childhood illusions were shattered.
Still, walking in to Blockbuster now will never give me the same feeling as the thrill of walking into the local video shop in the days of the Video Nasties.
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I remember similar, but the biggest on must have been that 'Animal farm', the legendary porn film about farm animals and females!
To this day i still dont know if it actually existed or not!
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Animal Farm came later. I've never seen it, but I heard certain scenes described so many times, that I almost feel I have. It must exist. Anyone know?
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I didn't actually go around 'tracking down so called video nasties.
There was a video shop on the street I lived on and we used to watch all these films during the week and then pick up the papers on Sunday and read about all these 'evil and depraved' video nasties that we'd spent the week hiring from the local shop. Even when the home secretary introduced the video recordings Act or whatever it was called and the banned 'list' was produced most of the video shops were still openly hiring them out. My local video store did get raided by the police a couple of years later and one of the films they seized was the Evil Dead.
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I remember all these in the video stores but we didn't have a player til after the Video Nasties Act. Snuff, Driller Killer, Cannibal Ferox, Zombie (Flesh Eaters), Texas Chainsaw etc etc. All were there uncut and all.
I then grew up thinking "well I prefer my kind of films rather than these pointless gore fests" - at leat that was until DVD came along. Pristine directors cuts in original aspect ratio with superb pictures and sound? I look at my collection now and ask myself - is this a true reflection of my taste in films? Well, no - but they sure can be a lot of fun after the pub on a Friday night (unless there's animal cruelty that is in which case I say torture the director and crew immediately and see how they like it - oops I think perhaps I am becoming deranged by all this filth I'm watching).
kc
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I'd forgotten about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That was another one that I only saw about two years ago. I was suprised to find that it was actually quite disturbing.
Anyone remember Dark Night Of The Scarecrow? That was a good one. At least it was when I was a kid. Haven't seen it since I grew up.
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Originally posted by homerjhandley
I remember similar, but the biggest on must have been that 'Animal farm', the legendary porn film about farm animals and females!
To this day i still dont know if it actually existed or not!
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
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Originally posted by Marwhite
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
Happens to me, the porn is turned off quite quick. Probably for different reasons than yours though :norty:
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My pal and I sat one afternoon watching Cannibal Ferox and drinking tea!
I remember seeing Zombie Flesh Eaters when I was wee - dunno how I did, but it was before it got banned!
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Originally posted by Marwhite
It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
sounds like you got pretty far into it :D
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I saw ZFE and The Burning when I was 8 or so.
Lovely films.
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Originally posted by Marwhite
It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off.
You mean you sat through an hour or so of gay sex and hermaphrodites before it go to animal sex, and then it got quickly turned off? LOL!
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I would say ninety percent of nasties were let downs in terms of what they promised - the content could never match those juicy posters such as Night Of The Bloody Apes with the those surgeon's pvc gloves covered in blood. And that warning The is film containst graphic and disturbing scenes. Oh how it used to entice an 11 yr old.
The thing that gets me now having viewed most of them is actually (apart from CH, Last House and few select others) how tame they are and how unintentially hiliriaous the films are. Check out Night Of the Demon, the demon - a creature that looks like a caveman wrapped in carpet attacking everybody in glorious slowmo.
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Originally posted by homerjhandley
Happens to me, the porn is turned off quite quick. Probably for different reasons than yours though :norty: Hair trigger eh!!??? :norty: :nuts:
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It existed alright - at least in one guise or another. I remember borrowing a 4hr porn tape off somebody at work. It all started off as per usual, but then degenerated into gay sex, hermaphrodites and finally animal sex. Needless to say, it soon got switched off
yeh, After 3 hours,58 minutes of watching it?:)
I remember all the video nasties, we used to watch them at a friends house.Thing is later when you get the dvds you realise that a lot of them were cut, mebbe they just seemed horrific and gory at the time.
I remember that animal farm too, but thats for a lot of different reasons:eek: Bloody freaky stuff!
I think one of the scenes had a woman leading a dopey bloke in a hat around a famyard by his penis, and 'trying out' various farm animals..can anyone confim this or is everyone just pretending they havent seen it ?:nono:
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Anyone interested in "nasties" should check out two excellent books on the subject.
"See No Evil - Banned Films and Controversy" by David Kerekes and David Slater is an exhaustive overview of the "nasty" culture
"The Art of the Nasty" by Nigel Wingrove and Marc Morris is out of print but you should be able to pick it up on Ebay. It reproduces over 300 pre-certificate sleeves in all their lurid glory.
Love the artwork on
Mardi Gras Massacre
SS Experiment Camp
Prisoner of the Cannibal God
Pets
The Corpse Grinders
Steel Claw
Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS
and the Grindhouse release of Cannibal Ferox aka "Make them Die Slowly"
I agree that most of these movies are extremely disappointing when you actually see them, but that doesn't seem to stop my desire to track them down.
I would like to thank my wonderful girlfriend for helping fuel my obsession
:)
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The BBFC were welcome to most of the list, but there were some absolute gems Tenebrae, The Beyond, Inferno, Flesheaters. Funny isn't it how all of those films are now available in the UK, and considered classics of the horror genre. Could it be a case of newspapers creating mass hysteria?
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Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it one day at school during our exams. We had just done General French in the morning and we had a 4 hour wait till the second exam, so somebody suggested we went back to his to watch it as we were sceptic to say the least. I swear to god there were between 50 and 100 people squeezing into his house, and everybodies chins hitting the floor as we watched the stuff on the screen. It does start with normal porn, with some story about an "Aunt Peg" saying to some black guy "Oh yes...you are definitely Jamal!" Ring any bells to anyone?? It become a school catchphrase soon afterwards. Then the animal stuff came on, donkeys, dogs, horses, eels(!) and to top it off some guy dressed as postman violating some poor chicken. One of the classic moments of schooldaze!
We all left school about 8 years ago, and we still talk about that. The guy whose video it was caught with it in his bag a few days later and was taken to the Senior master (private school)....but when asked where he got it, he replied his dad's bedroom and he wasn't kidding!! Classic!!!:clap:
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Originally posted by ronaldo9
Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it one day at school during our exams. We had just done General French in the morning and we had a 4 hour wait till the second exam, so somebody suggested we went back to his to watch it as we were sceptic to say the least. I swear to god there were between 50 and 100 people squeezing into his house, and everybodies chins hitting the floor as we watched the stuff on the screen. It does start with normal porn, with some story about an "Aunt Peg" saying to some black guy "Oh yes...you are definitely Jamal!" Ring any bells to anyone?? It become a school catchphrase soon afterwards. Then the animal stuff came on, donkeys, dogs, horses, eels(!) and to top it off some guy dressed as postman violating some poor chicken. One of the classic moments of schooldaze!
We all left school about 8 years ago, and we still talk about that. The guy whose video it was caught with it in his bag a few days
later and was taken to the Senior master (private school)....but when asked where he got it, he replied his dad's bedroom and he wasn't kidding!! Classic!!!:clap:
Got to have a look for this on e-bay:norty:
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Ah yes the good old days when you could walk into a video shop and come out with I Spit On Your Grave or Zombie Flesh Eaters. One of the first videos I hired was The Beyond and to think some of these are still unavailable uncut in the UK :(
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For me, the Beyond is the ultimate horror film: violent, gory, 'cool but simple' story, visually astonishing with great atmosphere and cinematography, and most of all: FULCI zombies!!! :nuts: :D
A must-have for any self-respecting human being ;) :clap:
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ronaldo9 - glad someone else remembers the eels in Animal farm - that bit sticks in my mind a bit too much. Can you confirm the presence of a bucket as well in the eel scenes?
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Our latest book is now in the shops - check out Shock! Horror!: Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1903254329/Here-21).
Do not post your own affiliate links on the forums as you are taking revenue away from this site.
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In 98 and 99 before the BBFC relaxed a bit on those banned films, I was importing quite a few on DVD. There was always the risk that they would get confiscated by customs. I had one parcel with the uncut New York Ripper which had been opened and resealed. It had customs inspection stamps all over it, luckily it was still in there. :thumbs:
Now there is no excitement about collecting those titles, as customs don't open packages anymore.
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Anyone longing for the days of Video nasties would be advised to check out the French horror flic 'Switchblade Romance' that out on UK R2 next week.
They do make them like they used to and this ones actually a good film too.
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Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it
I have to say, dodgy content aside, to produce a movie....in 4 hours, is quite an achievement, especially for a lad during his exams.
Did you badger him for a small part??
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I have to say, dodgy content aside, to produce a movie....in 4 hours, is quite an achievement, especially for a lad during his exams.
Did you badger him for a small part??
Where the hell did this thread come from??? Anyway by "produced" i mean he found it in his dads room and then showed it to us at school. He was not on the set at anytime unless he was alive in early 70's Holland ;)
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Did you badger him for a small part??
Boom boom. What exactly, in the idiom of bestiality, does 'badgering' involve?
Or is it painfully literal?
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not been there for a while, but i imagine the melonfarmers website is quieter than it used to be ...
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I used to sell and trade them in the small ads of Samhain and The Dark Side until trading standards paid me a rather costly visit. Hi to anyone who used to trade with me. ;)
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I LOVED the mid-late 80s pre-VRA era!!!
There was nothing cooler than calling into my local fleapit video rental shop (which was in the back of a motorist discount shop) on my way home from school and renting Cannibal Holocaust, SS Experiment Camp etc.
Well... there was a chemist next door to the above establishment and buying a "family pack" of condoms which my then girlfriend and I went through in two days came (ooer) a close second!
We rented an old Baird toploading VCR which was a big, mean clunky old thing. But man, it had such sights to show me :)
At the time my mother was really into movies (she always has been) and she would sit and watch anything with me. My dad and brother hated horror movies, they thought that they were boring (but anything with Burt Reynolds in was cool) so they'd go upstairs and play with the CB radio.
The guy in the video rental shop knew me - he kept me stocked with various dodgy video posters - so renting wasn't a problem, even if I was still in school uniform!
Two or three of us would rent a movie each and pop to each other's houses after to exchange tapes, we were watching three movies a day (a weekday, staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning).
Video shops even smelt better then, really musty and dank. A bit like Global now :)
I do miss the good old days. But I do like my Ultrabit editions of Cannibal Holocaust etc.
That reminds me, I have an old InterVision VHS of The Exterminator sitting in my office drawer. I'll have to get it out and give it a whiff!
Oh, that Farmyard Frolics movie. I saw one once - well, I've seen a few - but this one in particular was the one with the guy and the pigs, a woman and an alsatian and a woman with a horse (I've also seen images of the movie above on playing cards).
Not nice...
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bizarre mag did a search for the real animal farm, and never found a title bearing that name to exist. lots of various bootlegs with that kind of thing in, and lots of stories of friends/cousins etc having a film called it, but one didn't seem to exist from memory.
anyway, to go back to the original point.. there's still a TON of stuff out there that is very hard to get, and specialist (and way beyond anything i'd get even just for the shock value) so its not all gone.. its just gone more depraved!
i think the main problem now is the quality. a badly dubbed 8th generation copy of guinea pig without subtitles is a lot better than a perfect edition on dvd, because it seems so much more "real" and certainly a lot more exciting to own.
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I used to sell and trade them in the small ads of Samhain and The Dark Side until trading standards paid me a rather costly visit. Hi to anyone who used to trade with me. ;)
I bought stuff from peeps in there, and Fear and In The Flesh...
:)
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I bought stuff from peeps in there, and Fear and In The Flesh...
:)
Heh, two on one tape a tenner sir. 1=good 5=poor. Your list gets mine. Them were the days.
I stopped selling rather abrubtly as my 'stock' was confiscated by Trading Standards. I had a dawn raid and everything. It was all very exciting. My gran tried to chase them away with a brush as she thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses - "It's far too early for you lot".
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I LOVED the mid-late 80s pre-VRA era!!!
There was nothing cooler than calling into my local fleapit video rental shop (which was in the back of a motorist discount shop) on my way home from school and renting Cannibal Holocaust, SS Experiment Camp etc.
Well... there was a chemist next door to the above establishment and buying a "family pack" of condoms which my then girlfriend and I went through in two days came (ooer) a close second!
We rented an old Baird toploading VCR which was a big, mean clunky old thing. But man, it had such sights to show me :)
At the time my mother was really into movies (she always has been) and she would sit and watch anything with me. My dad and brother hated horror movies, they thought that they were boring (but anything with Burt Reynolds in was cool) so they'd go upstairs and play with the CB radio.
The guy in the video rental shop knew me - he kept me stocked with various dodgy video posters - so renting wasn't a problem, even if I was still in school uniform!
Two or three of us would rent a movie each and pop to each other's houses after to exchange tapes, we were watching three movies a day (a weekday, staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning).
Video shops even smelt better then, really musty and dank. A bit like Global now :)
I do miss the good old days. But I do like my Ultrabit editions of Cannibal Holocaust etc.
That reminds me, I have an old InterVision VHS of The Exterminator sitting in my office drawer. I'll have to get it out and give it a whiff!
Oh, that Farmyard Frolics movie. I saw one once - well, I've seen a few - but this one in particular was the one with the guy and the pigs, a woman and an alsatian and a woman with a horse (I've also seen images of the movie above on playing cards).
Not nice...
This post couldn't be any more '80's if it mentioned Miami Vice and luminous socks. :)
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Heh, two on one tape a tenner sir. 1=good 5=poor. Your list gets mine. Them were the days.
I stopped selling rather abrubtly as my 'stock' was confiscated by Trading Standards. I had a dawn raid and everything. It was all very exciting. My gran tried to chase them away with a brush as she thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses - "It's far too early for you lot".
If you're the guy who sold me my utterly underwhelming dupe of Maniac claiming it to be B+ quality (when it was more like a T-) I'll get you.
To this day that bothers me :D
I remember me and my mate Alex reading about the Customs raids (and seeing the really illicit, hardcore stuff, like Edward Scissorhands (!) getting black-bagged on the news) and then struggling to think how many of our lists had passed throgh how many sets of hands... :suspect:
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Hi,
That Animal Farm video does exist as one of my mates at school produced it one day at school during our exams. We had just done General French in the morning and we had a 4 hour wait till the second exam, so somebody suggested we went back to his to watch it as we were sceptic to say the least. I swear to god there were between 50 and 100 people squeezing into his house, and everybodies chins hitting the floor as we watched the stuff on the screen. It does start with normal porn, with some story about an "Aunt Peg" saying to some black guy "Oh yes...you are definitely Jamal!" Ring any bells to anyone?? It become a school catchphrase soon afterwards. Then the animal stuff came on, donkeys, dogs, horses, eels(!) and to top it off some guy dressed as postman violating some poor chicken. One of the classic moments of schooldaze!
We all left school about 8 years ago, and we still talk about that. The guy whose video it was caught with it in his bag a few days later and was taken to the Senior master (private school)....but when asked where he got it, he replied his dad's bedroom and he wasn't kidding!! Classic!!!:clap:
Wow, it's real, this was a legend at my school too but I've never seen it. Do they really fry and eat poo too?
You only left school 8 years ago !!! I'm sure I heard about Animal farm in the fourth year, thats about 16 years ago if I'm being kind to myself.
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If you're the guy who sold me my utterly underwhelming dupe of Maniac claiming it to be B+ quality (when it was more like a T-) I'll get you.
To this day that bothers me :D
I think I graded mine as a 'c' and it wasn't the 'UNCUT DUTCH' anyway so you'd have been unlikely to have bought that one.
I remember me and my mate Alex reading about the Customs raids (and seeing the really illicit, hardcore stuff, like Edward Scissorhands (!) getting black-bagged on the news) and then struggling to think how many of our lists had passed throgh how many sets of hands... :suspect:
They never returned my Watership Down but had no problem giving A Clockwork Orange back. It all got very paranoid for a while - once news got out I got many a phonecall from people begging me to burn their lists. They never took any notice of the lists, anyway. All they had to do was get a copy of The Dark Side from Smiths and get peeps from there.
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Wow, it's real, this was a legend at my school too but I've never seen it. Do they really fry and eat poo too?
You only left school 8 years ago !!! I'm sure I heard about Animal farm in the fourth year, thats about 16 years ago if I'm being kind to myself.He did post that over 2 years ago! So it would be 10 years now. I had friends talk about watching it in 1988 when I was in 1st year! :eek:
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Wow, it's real, this was a legend at my school too but I've never seen it. Do they really fry and eat poo too?
Think you probably mean Salo there?
Matt
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Think you probably mean Salo there?
Matt
Hmm, I seem to remember there was a bit with some 'Eel action' in which the said eels ended up fried and eaten so it's quite possible that childish warped mind + dodgy pic quality would = poo confusion.
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Hmm, I seem to remember there was a bit with some 'Eel action' in which the said eels ended up fried and eaten so it's quite possible that childish warped mind + dodgy pic quality would = poo confusion.
I remember those eels ending up in the frying pan too, but not before being marinated in wee, that's probably what he's talking about. :gag: I think the woman and the heavily drugged pig is the single most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
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I used to sell and trade them in the small ads of Samhain and The Dark Side until trading standards paid me a rather costly visit. Hi to anyone who used to trade with me. ;)
You're not that fella who ripped me off, are you? :suspect: :lol:
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You're not that fella who ripped me off, are you? :suspect: :lol:
Nope, that's someone else your thinking of there..... ;)
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Hmm, I seem to remember there was a bit with some 'Eel action' in which the said eels ended up fried and eaten so it's quite possible that childish warped mind + dodgy pic quality would = poo confusion.
That scene was indeed part of the Animal Farm I saw.
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That is giving me the gawks just thinking about it :(
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I think the woman and the heavily drugged pig is the single most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
:lol:
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On the BBFC website, there is an interesting report on some of the titles mentioned in this thread.
On the menu on the LHS go to 'The BBFC' then 'Downloads' and the report/study is entitled 'Where do you draw the line ?'.
It makes very interesting reading, and becomes quite engrossing, particularly if you're familiar with the films.
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I miss the excitement. I remember the days of looking through 'Dark Side' magazine and phoning up some chap in South Croydon, then meeting him on a street corner and giving him £15 for 3rd-generation VHS Greek copies of House by the Cemetery and Deep Red which he retrieved surreptitiously from a suspicious-looking brown paper bag. Seriously.
Those heady days of yore....
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