Welcome to the Video Nasties #4
It’s been personally very rewarding to revisit the films that comprise the video nasties list. Today’s installment includes some of my personal favourite covers and a couple of the more notorious nasties. It includes the world’s introduction to Wes Craven, as well as the Nazisploitation genre. This selection also proves that films were added to...
Welcome to the Video Nasties #3
The video nasty train keeps on rolling forward. if you haven’t done so already, read the first two entries in this series here and here. Then dive into the next ten films. I still marvel at how beautiful some of this artwork is. It was truly a special time to be a film fan. Please...
Welcome to the Video Nasties #2
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the infamous video nasties list that caused a storm of shit in Britain during the early 80s. Read that article if you’d like a brief history of this period and watch the documentary embedded in the post. I thought I’d continue along this train of thought and make my...
Eve and the Handyman (1960)
How deep can one dive into the cinematic pool of Russ Meyer? When it comes to celluloid, he was a man of singular focus. His modus operandi was an exploration of the mammose female in wildly unnatural habitats. It’s hard to deny the simple pleasures of a quality Russ Meyer film, but one must understand what notions...
Welcome to the Video Nasties #1
The ‘Video Nasty’ era that plagued the UK in the early 80s will go down in history as one of the most absurd examples of wowserism and censorship in modern history. 1982 presented a perfect storm of factors that led to un-educated commentators pouncing on home entertainment and attacking accordingly. At the time, the cinema...
Top That!
I’m king and they know it When I snap my fingers everybody says show it I’m hot and you’re not But if you wanna hang with me I’ll give it one shot Top that, top that You can do all that you can but you’ll never top that Top that, top that You can try...
Sleazy Video Covers #3
The wonderful world of sleazy video covers continues with ten more additions. Find previous entries from this series here. www.matthewrevert.com www.trashcomplex.wordpress.com
Rubbish recorded for the movies
A small collection rubbish songs recorded for the movies. What are some of your favourites? Light of Day was a Joan Jett vehicle famous for trying to portray Michael J. Fox as a rock n’ roll badass. It didn’t work, as evidenced by the following. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HibE5KIVxBs&w=540] … As an old school Nintendo fanatic, there are...
Innocence Unprotected (1968)
Attempting to describe Dušan Makavejev’s 1968 film, ‘Innocence Unprotected’ is a near-impossible task. It is perhaps one of the strangest films in the ouvre of one of the world’s strangest directors. ‘Innocence Unprotected’ is the name of Makavejev’s film as well as the first Serbian talkie from 1941. To confuse matters even more, Makavejev’s film is about...
Exterminator 2 (1984)
When we think about University professors, it’s not uncommon for images of d-grade 80s action films to accompany the thought. The two undeniably go hand-in-hand. And when we think about d-grade 80s action films, there is only one that understandably comes to mind… Mark Buntzman’s 1984 classic, ‘Exterminator 2’. In ‘Exterminator 2’ John Eastland is back, wielding his...
Witchboard (1986)
When we think of horror film soundtracks from the 80s, there’s a fairly specific blueprint that comes to mind. It would be safe to blame John Carpenter’s seminal score for 1978’s Halloween for this. His synth-driven, undeniably creepy score provided aural inspiration for a decade’s worth of horror. This isn’t to say that Carpenter’s score...
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Almost 25 years after it first exploded in the face of moviegoers, Shinya Tsukamoto’s cyberpunk mindfuck, ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ still continues to attract new fans unto its jittery cult. Tsukamoto is undoubtedly one of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers out there, even in the already gonzo world of Japanese cyberpunk cinema. ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ is...
