- Actors: Ruggero Deodato, Neil Marshall, Christopher Smith, MP Graham Bright, James Ferman
- Format: Dolby, PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 3
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Nucleus Films
- DVD Release Date: 8 Nov 2010
- Run Time: 540 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B003X22LI6
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 42,519 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more as Nucleus Films releases the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon - one of the most extraordinary and scandalous eras in the history of British film. For the first time ever on DVD, TRAILERS to all 72 films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions are featured with specially filmed intros for each title in a lavish three-disc collector s edition box-set, alongside a brand new documentary - VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE. Disc One presents the 39 titles which were successfully prosecuted in UK courts and deemed liable to deprave and corrupt. Disc Two presents the 33 titles that were initially banned, but then subsequently acquitted and removed from the DPP's list. Disc Three This era-defining documentary features interviews with filmmakers Ruggero Deodato ( Cannibal Holocaust ) Neil Marshall ( The Descent , Doomsday ), Christopher Smith ( Severance , Black Death ) and MP Graham Bright as well as rare archive footage featuring James Ferman (director of the BBFC 1975-1999) & Mary Whitehouse. Taking in the explosion of home video, the erosion of civil liberties, the introduction of draconian censorship measures, hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape, West s documentary also reflects on the influence this peculiar era still exerts on us today. Extras include a gallery of original video company idents and extensive gallery of lurid cover art for every video nasty. The Video Nasties Definitive Guide t-shirt is also available http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Nasties-Definitive-Guide-T-Shirt/dp/B004GEJ1N8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292498585&sr=1-1&searchContext=B004GEJ1N8
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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Official Trailer,
By CultMovieForums "vidmarc" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide [DVD] Limited Edition (DVD)
The official box set trailer!
16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Even Better Than "Ban the Sadist Videos" !!!,
By ShawnDuHast "shawnduhast" (Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide [DVD] Limited Edition (DVD)
This is made by the people who know this subject the best: Marc Morris and Jake West!
Essential viewing for anyone who lived through it and for those who didn't! Disc One is the 75 minute brand new documentary which this time even includes NEW interviews with Sir Graham Bright MP and Ex-Scotland Yard Peter Kruger and essentially Martin Barker! Then two discs of trailers which are proceeded by interesting, informative intros from critics and directors who were influenced by the movies. Disc Two presents trailers for the 39 films that were successfully prosecuted and banned under the Obscene Publications Act. Disc Three features trailers for 35 other titles that were on the DPP list but not prosecuted. This REALLY is The Definitive Guide at a 9 hour running time! check out cult-labs DOT com / podcasts / thexperiment/ for an interview with Producer Marc Morris! In the above Marc said to me there won't be a Blu-Ray at this time due to BD authoring costs.
22 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A TOTALLY NASTY PIECE OF WORK - YAY!!!!,
By MARK GORDON PALMER "mgp" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide [DVD] Limited Edition (DVD)
Great news!!! Loved the premiere of this documentary at Frightfest 2010, the best bit of the festival, including a great discussion, featuring cult movie guru Marc Morris along with Tobe Hooper, director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I had a bloodthirsty ball watching this documentary, VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE on the big screen. This has to be among the very best horror documentaries perhaps ever made - with obvious love and attention, shot with restraint but real passion and flair, fantastically horrible clips - thank goodness, emotional enough towards the end to bring a tear to the eye, politically poisonous, slyly but respectfully subversive, and the start, with a montage of a few seconds from every single movie on the banned list from the early 80s in a frankly astounding horror film head count - is a drug-free trip for any horror movie fan to experience; just mind-blowing! Now can't wait to watch all those trailers...and at this pre-order price, a barnstorming bargain of a box-set:)) I'm a huge fan of Morris from his work on the book Art of the Nasty, a tome that all horror fans should own. So while I've only seen and can review the documentary included in this box-set, I know the rest of the package will be equally essential, and even if it's not; Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide will be worth buying for the documentary alone. A totally nasty piece of work - YAY!!!
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