Welcome to the Video Nasties #5
The following nine films represent the remaining films from the official video nasties list. Beyond this official list of 39 films was a list of 33 more films that were ultimately non prosecuted (despite some effort). The following films are also noteworthy for the inclusion of several Italian horror heavyweights, such as Argento, Bava and Fulci. Find...
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...
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...
Drive-In Massacre (1977)
Drive-In Massacre is absolute rubbish and should be unwatchable (and probably is to most proper people), but it's somehow entertaining. Incredibly entertaining.
Taxi Hunter (1993)
TAXI HUNTER Hong Kong, 1993, Herman Yau Herman Yau, who directed such classic nasties as The Untold Story (1993) and Ebola Syndrome (1996) teams up with the star of both aforementioned movies, Anthony Wong, in the nasty, yet not quite as nasty, little film Taxi Hunter. In Taxi Hunter, Wong stars as Kin, a...
10 Years of Guinea Pig on DVD: A Reflection
The Guinea Pig series spawned some of the most controversial films to be released in Japan. And, without a doubt, they are the most infamous video releases of the late 80s and early 90s – both in the East and the West. Floating around on tattered bootlegs in the early 1990s, the second Guinea Pig...
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Mondo Exploito delves deep into stinking celluloid crevices in search of the bizarre, the sick, the violent, the absurd, the stupid and, of course, the exploitative. These are movies that are generally ignored, occasionally reviled and usually beloved by tiny sects of (fellow) fruit loops. The films explored on Mondo Exploito come from all over...
