Expose AKA House on Straw Hill…Video nasty gets a long awaited uncut US Blu-ray/DVD combo release

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Expos้ is a 1976 UK horror thriller by James Kenelm Clarke. With Udo Kier, Linda Hayden, Fiona Richmond.   US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for: US 2013 Severin (RA) Blu-ray/ (R1) Combo at US Amazon released on 11th June 2013 UK Censorship History UK: A pre-cut submission was passed X (18) after 1:39s of further BBFC cuts for: UK 1975 cinema release as Expose UK 1975 cinema release as The House on Straw Hill The cuts were: Pre-cut: A shot of Fiona Richmond’s legs streaming with blood was removed. The BBFC required heavy edits to all the sex scenes and shots of bloody stabbings. UK : Released uncut on pre-cert video for: UK 1980 Intervision VHS Prior to the VRA, the video was released uncut on the Intervision label and for no obvious reason it was banned as a video nasty in March 1984. It then stayed on the list throughout the panic and therefore became one of the collectable DPP39s It was also notable in that this was the only UK video that achieved the DPP39 video nasty status. UK: Passed 18 for strong sex and violence after 51s of BBFC cuts for: 2006 Village DVD titled Expose 2002 Odyssey DVD titled Expose 1997 Disc VHS titled Expose See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com Two country boys threaten Linda Hayden with a shotgun and force her to have sex with each of them. The scene goes on for a long time and the guys are shown to be clearly enjoying it whilst the woman rubs her hand up and down the shotgun in a very suggestive manner. The fact that she manages to shoot them both didn’t appease the BBFC who cut almost the entire scene. Also a scene showing Fiona Richmond getting murdered in the shower has been reduced to eliminate blood on the breasts. Promotional Material Banned in Britain as a Video Nasty for thirty years! A shockingly violent and erotic tale of seduction, brutality and revenge. Cult movie icon Udo Kier (MARK OF THE DEVIL, FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN) stars as a successful novelist suffering from writer’s block, who rents a country cottage with his wife (British 70s sex sensation Fiona Richmond) in the hope of finding inspiration. But the arrival of a sensual secretary, played by Linda Hayden (BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW, TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA) sets in motion a chain of events that culminate in an unrestrained explosion of sex and savagery. Film elements were long thought lost or destroyed on this sleazy gem but the original camera negative was unearthed in a barn in rural England and painstakingly restored for this first official uncut release anywhere in the world. Director commentary and cast and crew interviews will round out the package.

Moral Panic! Read All About It…Video Nasties newspaper scans project

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T his is the Video Nasties Newspaper Story Scans (1980-1995) project, which was designed to be a free comprehensive resource for researchers, writers and other webmasters like myself. Over six days, I got though one-hundred-and-sixty-nine microfilm reels either entirely or just specific dates, printing off a total of 336 pages. For the most part, each microfilm reel holds one months worth of a given newspaper at around 30-50 pages per day. one-hundred-and-sixty-nine reels break down to: The Daily Mail: 45 The Times: 27 + 17 from the Sunday Times The Daily Mirror : 17 + 1 from the Sunday Mirror The Sun: 13 + 6 from The News Of The World The Daily Star: 12 The Daily Express: 11 + 1 from The Sunday Express The Guardian: 8 The Independent: 4 The Daily Telegraph: 2 The Financial Times: 2 The Daily Sport: 2 The Sunday People: 1. I used a mulit-feed auto scanner to scan all the laser print-outs at 300dpi, and strung the images together 1:1 into a PDF, which I have uploaded to the website compressed in a ZIP file. See the full article and downloads

The Burning…Video nasty and notable slasher set for a US Blu-ray release

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The Burning is a 1981 US/Canada slasher by Tony Maylam With Brian Matthews and Leah Ayres. US: uncut and MPAA Unrated (but labelled R Rated) for: US 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 21st May 2013. UK Video Nasty   Passed X (18) after 10s of BBFC cuts for 1981 cinema releaseThorn EMI initially released the video uncut. They then tried to replace rental videos with the BBFC cut version but most shops stuck with the uncut version. The uncut version of the video was banned as a video nasty in October 1983. It remained on the list throughout the scare Re-released after 19s of BBFC cuts in 1992 by Thorn/EMI BBFC Cuts waived for the 2002 Vipco R2 DVD The US Theatrical Version was cut by 1:01s for an R Rating. This version was also released on US VHS. DVD versions are unrated but still have an R Rating on the packaging. Summary Review : Must Have A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement. I personally love the killer in the woods slashers the best and this is the perfect premise. This film starts as a flashback “of course”… The kids at a summer camp play a trick that goes terribly wrong on Cropsy the mean spirited grounds keeper and he is burned beyond recognition, Flash back to the woods “summer camp ” Cropsy returns to the scene of the crime to wreak havoc and spill PLENTY of blood. I personally don’t see why they didn’t make a sequel, Cropsy and his garden shears are scarier than Jason and his machete any day as far as I’m concerned. This is a MUST HAVE for slasher fans.

Cannibal Man…Another Video Nasty gets an uncut US DVD release as part of a double feature

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US: Midnight Movies Vol 8: Cannibal Double Feature  is MPAA Unrated for: US 2013 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 29th January 2013. The Cannibal Man is a 1972 Spanish thriller by Eloy de la Iglesia. With Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen and Eusebio Poncela. UK Censorship History UK: Released uncut on pre-cert video for: UK 1981 Intervision VHS It was released in November 1981 and banned as a video nasty in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and became one of the collectable DPP39s. UK: Passed 18 after 3s of BBFC cuts for: UK 1993 Redemption VHS See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC cuts were: 3s removed from a shot where Marcos cuts Carmen’s throat The film has not been released in the UK since. Summary Review: Pseudo-sleazy Real slaughterhouse footage and scenes of dirty urban slums set the tone for this stark and obsessive Spanish thriller. A young man, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. A slaughterhouse employee named Marcos gets attacked by a cabdriver who takes objection when he and his girlfriend are making out in the back seat, and Marcos kills him. This sets in motion a week of killing, first to cover up the cabdriver’s death, and afterward to keep the bodies piling up in his bedroom a secret. Weird, pseudo-sleazy film that works even though it doesn’t even attempt to live up to its title – there’s *no cannibalism*. The dubbing is pretty bad and there’s not much gore (most of the nastiness happens off-screen), but there’s plenty of atmosphere and a sense of desperation builds in Marco’s apartment. Cannibals aka White Cannibal Queen is a 1980 Spain/Italy/France horror by Jesus Franco and Franco Prosperi With Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani and J้r๔me Foulon. There are no censorship issues with this film, just quality issues.

Zombie Creeping Flesh…Video nasty gets uncut re-release as Hell of the Living Dead on a US DVD double feature

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US: Midnight Movies Vol 9: Zombie Double Feature is MPAA Unrated for: US 2013 Blue Underground R0 DVD at US Amazon released on 29th January 2013. Zombie Creeping Flesh (Hell of the Living Dead) is a 1980 Italy/Spain horror by Bruno Mattei. With Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo and Selan Karay. Censorship History A pre-cut version with about a minute of  violent scenes removed was passed X (18) without further BBFC cuts for the UK 1982 cinema release.However the distributors felt that the film was too long and decided not to release this version but to shorten it. The distributors cuts now totalled 14:32s minutes, especially the interminable SWAT team footage. This was then released without BBFC approval for the UK 1982 cinema release. The significantly shortened and pre-cut cinema version was release on VHS on the Merlin Label in October 1982. It was banned as a video nasty in July 1983 after being successfully prosecuted in Brighton. It was dropped from the list in July 1985 James Ferman refused to view a 1993 submission from Video Gems. This was during the Jamie Bulger moral panic and Ferman advised that it was not a good time to release a video nasty. Eventually it was passed 18 uncut for the UK 2002 Protected/Vipco VHS Nightmare City is a 1980 Italy/Mexico/Spain horror movie by Umberto Lenzi. With Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter and Maria Rosaria Omaggio . Censorship History UK: A version pre-cut by about a minute was released on pre-cert video for UK 1982 VTC VHS UK: A version pre-cut by about a minute was passed 18 after a further 3:05s of BBFC cuts for: UK 1986 Stablecane VHS From IMDb. BBFC heavy edits to: shots of exploding heads neck bitings a woman’s eye and breast being stabbed with a spike an arm removal the elevator attack shots of bloody wounds a woman’s breast being sliced off with a knife. UK: Passed 18 uncut after BBFC cuts were waived for: UK 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon

Zombie Flesh Eaters…Long overdue release of uncut version on UK DVD and Blu-ray

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Zombie Flesh Eaters is a 1979 Italian horror film by Lucio Fulci With Tisa Farrow and Ian McCulloch.   UK: Passed 18 uncut after all cuts waived for: UK 2012 Arrow Steelbook R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 3rd December 2012 UK 2012 Arrow Special Edition R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 3rd December 2012 UK 2012 Arrow R0 DVD at UK Amazon released on 3rd December 2012 There is also a US release titled Zombie See review from filmoria.co.uk See review from starburstmagazine.com Censorship History The cinema version was passed X by the BBFC in 1979 with 14 cuts totalling 1:46s. This X rated cinema version was released on video by Vipco in 1980. Vipco then issued the “strong uncut version” in 1981 at a premium price which then got out on the Video Nasties list in October 1983. It stayed on the list throughout so became one of the collectable DPP 39s The heavily cut cinema version was passed 18 in 1992 & 1996. Vipco misleadingly tried to pass off their version as ‘complete’ Re-released on Diskline video in 1999 with most cuts restored but still 23s missing Finally passed uncut in 2005 and is released as part of the Box of the Banned set of DVDs from Anchor Bay Promotional Material They will rise to suck the blood of the living! From the sleazy video nasty vaults comes a movie so stained with controversy and moral indignation that the very mention of its name sends shudders down the spines of the weak stomached and censorious Zombie Flesh Eaters. A gut-munching, shark wrestling, eye-gouging orgy of topless skin divers, mud-caked undead terror and Italian splatter from the dark imagination of horror genius Lucio Fulci (The Beyond, City of The Living Dead). An abandoned boat in New York Harbour unleashes a deadly flesh crazed Zombie cargo… A Young American woman and a journalist investigate a tropical island where a deadly disease is making the dead walk… Soon, thoughts of getting to the bottom of the murderous curse will be forgotten, as Fulci s walking corpses overwhelm the living and reports come in that the Big Apple is swarming with the living dead… After over thirty years, Zombie Flesh Eaters still has the power to shock and offend the unwilling… Check out this classic sadist video and revel in a wonderfully tasteless movie that once helped usher in a moral panic! String Uncut Version Brand new high definition restoration of the original negative. Optional English SDH subtitles on the feature Audio commentary with screenwriter Elisa Briganti moderated by Calum Waddell Audio commentary with Fulci biographer Stephen Thrower and horror expert Alan Jones UK exclusive introduction to the film from Ian McCulloch ALIENS, CANNIBALS AND ZOMBIES: A TRILOGY OF ITALIAN TERROR: Actor Ian McCulloch remembers his three classics of Latin horror lunacy – ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, CONTAMINATION and ZOMBI HOLOCAUST FROM ROMERO TO ROME: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ITALIAN ZOMBIE FILM: Veteran Fulci screenwriters Dardano Sacchetti (THE BEYOND) and Antonio Tentori (CAT IN THE BRAIN), celebrated UK critic Kim Newman and filmmakers Luigi Cozzi (CONTAMINATION), Ruggero Deodato (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST) and Russ Streiner (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) share memories of the genesis of corpse-crunching cinema – from Romero’s early templates to the gory glory days of Fulci and his many successors. THE MEAT MUNCHING MOVIES OF GINO ROSSI: The special effects magician behind many Italian splatter classics talks about his most famous gore-drenched greats – and shows props from many plasma-packed masterworks – including ZOMBIE FLESH-EATERS, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, CANNIBAL FEROX, BURIAL GROUND and PIRANHA II. MUSIC FOR A FLESH-FEAST: Composer Fabio Frizzo – Live Q&A from the Glasgow Film Theatre ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS: FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN. Dardano Sacchetti shows key pages from his original ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD screenplay. Trailer and radio spots Collectors booklet featuring contributions from Calum Waddell, Stephen Thrower, Craig Lapper and Jay Slater. Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

The Funhouse…Tobe Hooper’s video nasty gets a US region A Blu-ray release

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The Funhouse is a 1981 US horror by Tobe Hooper With Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson and Jeanne Austin. US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for US 2012 Shout! Factor RA Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 16th October 2012 US 2012 Shout! Factor R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 16th October 2012 See  review from  kdvr.com UK: Video Nasty A shortened version was released without censorship cuts by CIC in June 1983. It was shortened by deleting some uncontentious plot. Added to the DPP list of video nasties in September 1984 and was dropped in June 1985 A shortened version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 1987 CIC VHS The complete version was p assed 15 uncut in 2007 Summary Review: Un derrated slasher Four teenage friends spent the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask. This is an effectively underrated slasher entry. One of it’s most impressive feats is that it gives us a nice carnival atmosphere with some interesting sights. The setting is the best thing about this, as great pains is taken to turn the early part into setup, and this does create a great atmosphere for later on in the film. This little gem has minimum bloodletting but its good, its better than good. It has a genuine sense of dread and a fear and paradoxically, an understanding of human vulnerability and mutation.

Night of the Bloody Apes…First uncut UK DVD release of an enjoyably bad Video Nasty

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Night of the Bloody Apes is a 1969 Mexican horror by Rene Cordona Jr. With José Elías Moreno, Carlos López Moctezuma and Armando Silvestre. UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong gore, violence, nudity and sexual violence, with previous BBFC cuts waived and distributor cuts restored for: UK 2012 Nucleus R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 8th October 2012 See review from sexgoremutants.co.uk Censorship History: Video Nasty The film was released in cinemas with around a minute of BBFC cuts in October 1974.It was released uncut in January 1983 by Iver Film Services. By November 1983 it had been listed as a video nasty and suffered a successful prosecution. It remained on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP 39s. In 1993 there was a mysterious uncut Vipco version. It was nominally slated as pre-cut but somehow got a limited unsanctioned uncut release. It was withdrawn within days. In 1999 the video was released on the Satanica label, in a version that was obviously taken from Vipco’s planned cut version (Vipco’s logo remains). This time the distributor removed every single violent scene before submitting it to the censors. The same heavily pre-cut version was released on 2002 DVD by Film 2000. Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived and distributor cuts restored for the UK 2012 Nucleus DVD Promotional Material Featured on the Director of Public Prosecution s original 39-title video nasties list, at last you can see what all the fuss is about in this gore-geous new 16:9 transfer. Rene Cardona Sr – patriarch of Mexico s number one genre film-making dynasty – delivers this wonderfully silly tale of a dying young man given the heart of a gorilla to keep him alive. Unfortunately the man transforms into a murderous ape-like monster and goes on a girly hunt. Not one to be put-off, the surgeon (his father) tries again – this time with the heart of a female wrestler. This medical-horror-sci-fi masterpiece was written by Rene and his son Rene (who, incidentally, had a son called Rene), neither of whom had even a cursory knowledge of either medicine or science. This makes it w-a-a-y-yy more enjoyable…. No surprise then that this was filmed in just three weeks (in May 1968), largely in Mexico City s Chapultepec Park. While already chock full of gratuitous nudity and femmes-in-peril, US film-maker Jerald Intrator ( Orgy at Lil s Place , Satan in High Heels ) decided to improve on things by adding close-up, super-gory footage of open-heart surgery. He even filmed some new material to spice up the monster s attacks with sanguinary make-up effects and even more nudity.

Don’t Look in the Basement…New US region free DVD release of SF Brownrigg’s Video Nasty

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Don’t Look in the Basement is a 1973 US horror video by SF Brownrigg. With Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton and Robert Dracup. See IMDb US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for: US 2012 VCI Scream Theater 3 Double Feature R0 DVD at US Amazon just released on 11th September 2012 Censorship History The BBFC cut the 1977 cinema releaseDerann released an even shorter version of the film on its Crystal video label in February 1983. It is thought that this may have been a TV version. It was listed as a video nasty in August 1984 but was dropped from the list in December 1985 The BBFC waived its film cut for the 2005 Stax DVD which it passed 15 uncut Release History UK: Passed 15 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for: UK 2007 Boulevard R2 DVD UK 2005 Pickwick/Elstree R2 DVD UK 2005 Stax R2 DVD at UK Amazon UK 2005 HHO DVD US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for: US 2012 VCI Scream Theater 3 Double Feature R0 DVD at US Amazon US 2003 TGG R1 DVD Summary Review: A must-see for B horror fans A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients. Take an ensemble cast of good B grade actors, give them a good script, a somewhat original premise, and unobtrusive directing, and you may end up with a film that over-achieves as much as Don’t Look in the Basement did. The film takes place in a large house which is home to several psychotic individuals. The film starts with the head of the hospital being chopped up with an axe. The rest of the film builds tension and successfully develops the individual psychoses of the in-mates. After a while it becomes very unclear who is a patient and who is a doctor. In the end, Don’t Look in the Basement is a cleverly plotted film which benefits from generally good acting and directing and not-overly-ambitious camera work.

Zombie (AKA Zombie Flesh Eaters)…US region free Blu-ray release gets in just ahead of the UK release

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Zombie is a 1979 Italian horror film by Lucio Fulci With Tisa Farrow and Ian McCulloch. See IMDb US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for: US 2012 Blue Underground R0 Blu-Ray at US Amazon released on 25th September 2012 This a cheaper reissue of last year’s Ultimate Edition but without a disk of extras. There is also an upcoming UK release titled Zombie Flesh Eaters Censorship History The cinema version was passed X by the BBFC in 1979 with 14 cuts totalling 1:46s. This X rated cinema version was released on video by Vipco in 1980. Vipco then issued the “strong uncut version” in 1981 at a premium price which then got out on the Video Nasties list in October 1983. It stayed on the list throughout so became one of the collectable DPP 39s The heavily cut cinema version was passed 18 in 1992 & 1996. Vipco misleadingly tried to pass off their version as ‘complete’ Re-released on Diskline video in 1999 with most cuts restored but still 23s missing Finally passed uncut in 2005 and is released as part of the Box of the Banned set of DVDs from Anchor Bay