A documentary taking a look at the career of Jess Franco.
Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a "video nasty". Hamilton-Grant navigated loopholes in the law in the 70s in order to produce and screen smut in an extremely censorship restricted Britain. When the home video boom hit in the 80s he was one of the first to capitalize on the initially far less regulated format... but he would pay the price. Then things get really dark and strange.
A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.
In this fascinating and well executed documentary film theorist and cult expert Xavier Mendik places "Cannibal Holocaust" in a broader context.
Every Video Nasty from the DPP list of 39 is critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers.
Every Video Nasty from the DPP list of dropped 33 titles is critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers.
A look back on A Clockwork Orange
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.