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REVENGE OF THE BOGEYMAN.
AKA: Revenge of the Boogeyman, Bogeyman 2, Boogeymen 2.
Revenge of the BogeymenSuzanne Love, Ron James and John Carradine reprise their roles in this sequel to "The Bogeyman", this time directed by Bruce Starr, with unaccredited work by original director Uli Lommel. Set 6 months on from the original, Suzanne Love has moved to LA but the broken shard of glass containing the evil from the first film continues to cause mayhem.

Co-director Lommel turns up as one of the cast playing a Hollywood director that wants to make a film about the events of the first film, but ends up as one of the Bogeyman's victims along with his production team and cast. Most of the film is made up of footage from the first, which is probably why it was included on the DPP's list.
 

Other Information.
Removed from the DPP's list and not prosecuted. The film was previously available fully uncut on Dutch video. The film was passed uncut in the UK in 2004 HOWEVER, this is a totally different, re-edited version. This release, touted as being the "Director's Cut", has even MORE stock footage from the previous film edited into it, has new shot-on-video inserts with none of original scenes that were filmed for the original Bogeyman 2 and has a different soundtrack score.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (director's cut version)
Buy the US DVD from Amazon.Com (directors cut version)
 
   
SHOGUN ASSASSIN.
AKA: Kosure Ookami-Sanzu no Kawa no Ubagurama, Kozure Ohkmi n2.
Shogun AssasinThis is actually 2 films from the Japanese "Lone Wolf" series ("Baby Cart at River Styxx" and "Sword of Vengance") edited together and overdubbed in English for the American market. The plot revolves around a Japanese warrior, who goes on a quest for revenge after his wife is murdered.

Lots of martial arts fighting with Samurai swords takes place with heads, limbs and various body parts flying everywhere and blood spraying into the camera, whilst the young son of our hero looks on from the safety of his wooden pram. Quite good if you like tacky martial arts films.
 

Other Information.
Re-released by Vipco after apparently 2s of BBFC cuts for a video release, in addition to the 2s of cuts already removed from the cinema release. Vipco apparently got the full uncut version passed in 2000, however there is some dispute as to whether this is actually the full uncut version or the cinema version. Vipco had previously distributed the fully uncut version in Denmark.
Buy Online..
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (uncut).
Buy Sword of Vengeance at Amazon.co.uk
Buy the other Baby Cart series at Amazon.co.uk
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (1.99MB)
 
THE SLAYER.
The Slayer4 people holidaying on an island of the coast of Georgia are attacked by an unseen killer, summoned up from the imagination of one of the holidaymakers. A sort of cross between the Id creature from "Forbidden Planet" and Freddy Kruger from "Elm Street".

Some of the gorier moments include a fisherman having his scalp whacked off with an oar and a woman having a pitch fork shoved through her back which exits through her breasts.
 

Other Information.
Re-released in the early 90's after 14s of BBFC cuts onto the "Vipco" label. The full uncut version was eventually passed in 2001. Vipco had previously also released the uncut print in Denmark.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (uncut).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (1.05MB)
 
SNUFF.
AKA: The Slaughter, American Cannibal, Big Snuff.
SnuffDo not be deceived by the films title, or the rumours surrounding its release. This is NOT an actual snuff film. This originally started life as a low budget South American flick entitled "The Slaughter" about a Manson style gang of cycle sluts lead by a chap called Sa-Tan, who go around killing people.

This film did a brief tour of South America then sat on the shelf for many years before being snapped up by a New York distributor who tagged on an additional 5 minute ending. At the end of the film we see the film crew on one the sets, who then grab an unfortunate actress and proceed to cut off her plastic fingers and pull offal from under her T-shirt.

Despite the relatively unconvincing effects this movie is still believed by many to be a genuine snuff film to this day and was another one of the movies responsible for starting the Nasties furore. The video case bears no indication of who the distributor might be, although it is widely believed that it was released by Astra video.
 

Other Information.
Finally passed uncut for a UK release in 2003 surprisingly, although this has yet to materialise. The uncut version was also released onto a limited edition DVD in the US by Anchor Bay.
Buy Online.
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (1.08MB)
   
SS EXPERIMENT CAMP.
AKA: SS Experiment Love Camp, Lager SS adis kastrat kommandantur, Horreur Nazis, Les champs des filles perdues, Captive Women II: Orgies of the Damned.
S.S. Experiment CampIf you were expecting to see a film based on cruel Nazi Experiments on unwilling POW's, you're in for a disappointment. This one of the many sleazy WW2 Nazi camp movies trying to cash in on the success of "Salon Kitty", and "The Night Porter" and plays more like a black comedy.

The poor female POW's get raped and groped by all and sundry at the camp, but in an amusing comic twist the commandant decides he wants a new pair of testicles and so removes them from one of the hunky guards, who doesen't seem to realise until he goes to bonk one of the French prisoners. This provides one of the most amusing scenes when he confronts the commandant and says "You Bastard. what have you done with my Balls?".
 

Other Information.
The film was, surprisingly, passed uncut in the UK in 2005. An uncut US DVD is also available from 'Shriek Show'.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (uncut).
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut special edition).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (2.46MB)
 
TENEBRAE.
AKA: Tenebre, Unsane, Shadow, Sotto Gli Occhi del Assasino.

TenebraeItalian Director Dario Argento's second entry on the list.This interesting stalk-and-slash thriller stars Anthony Franciosa as a novelist who finds himself embroiled in a series of grizzly murders, as one of his readers starts to imitate the killings in his latest detective book.

The poor author is then bombarded with threats and sent pictures from the murders, which include axeings, stabbings, garrotings and razor slashings. Horror veteran John Saxon also stars.
 

Other Information.
The banned video was actually the edited cinema version which had 4 seconds of cuts. Subsequent UK releases
from the late 80's and 90's were missing 5s of cuts. Anchor Bay UK finally managed to get the uncut print passed in 2003, although this was apparently missing a 1s cut of gore to the axe murder scene and shortened a dialogue scene due to print damage as was their US DVD. SEE MAIN REVIEW.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (uncut).
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer.
(2.64MB)
The axe murder scene. (465KB)
 
TERROR EYE'S.
AKA: Night School.
Terror EyesA lacklustre slasher pic about a murderer stalking the pupils of a Boston college (fortunately this is in Massachusetts in the USA not Boston, Lincolnshire in England where I live). The Murderer, who wears motor bike leathers and a crash helmet, goes around decapitating people and depositing their heads in buckets, ditches, toilets and in a pot full of stew!

Its hard to believe that this film was by British director Kenneth Hughes, who also did "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". British actress Rachael Ward, Meg from "The Thorn Birds", stars in one of the lead roles along with Italian B-movie actor Leonard Mann (Cut & Run).

Other Information.
Re-relesead after 1:16s of BBFC cuts by Guild Home video. An R rated video is also available in the US under the title "Night School".
Buy Online.
Buy the US NTSC video at Amazon.com.
 
 
THE TOOLBOX MURDERS.
The Toolbox MurdersSupposedly based on a true story (don't believe it) about a Ski masked psychopath, who goes around killing the female inhabitants of an apartment block that he believes need a lesson in morality. A variety of different hand and power tools are used in the murders, including a hammer, screwdriver, nailgun and portable drill.

There's some fairly gory moments, but nothing that die hard horror fans can't handle, but the plot is rather dull so you might have a hard time sitting through it. The killer was played by the same guy who played Buck in "The High Chapperal". Also look out for porn star Kelly Nichols, as well as Anita Corseut from "The Blob". This film was remade in 2003 by Tobe Hooper.

Other Information.
Removed from the DPP's list. The film was eventually re-issued in 2000, after 1M:46s of BBFC cuts onto the "Vipco" label, who also distributed the uncut version in Denmark. An uncut US DVD is also available.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (cut).
Buy the US DVD from Amazon.com (uncut).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (1.77MB)
 
UNHINGED.
UnhingedThree young girls crash their car in the Oregon woodlands whilst on the way to a rock concert. They seek refuge in a Victorian mansion house, inhabited by a demented old lady and her middle aged daughter, and find themselves cut off from the outside world.

They then fall prey to the demented family and get axed, shot and hacked to death in an ending that try's to be like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" but fails miserably, along with the rest of the film.
 

Other Information.
This film was notable is it featured on the BBC news when they were doing a report about uncensored horror videos at the time. The film had actually already been passed with an "X" certificate for a cinema release after cuts and was later removed from the DPP's list and not prosecuted. The film was eventually passed fully uncut in 2005. An uncut US DVD is also available.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (uncut).
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut).
   
VISITING HOURS.
AKA: The Fright, Get Well Soon, Terreur à l'hôpital central.
Visiting HoursScreen baddie Micheal Ironside, along with Lee Grant and Star Trek's William Shatner star in this Canadian filmed slasher pic about a psychopath (Ironside) who stalks around the hospital, beating up girls, stabbing nurses and switching off life support machines.

He is eventually stopped by getting acid thrown in his face by would-be-victim Grant.

Other Information.
Passed for a cinema release with an "X" certificate after cuts. The cut cinema version was then re-released with an 18 certificate on the CBS/FOX video label, which is currently OOP. ITV actually showed the full uncut version on terrestrial TV and got a slap on the wrists by the ITC for it. A
vailable uncut on US DVD from Anchor Bay.
Buy Online.
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com.
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (535KB)
 
WEREWOLF AND THE YETI, THE.
AKA: La Maldiconde la Bestia, Night of the Howling Beast, Hall of the Mountain King, Horror of the Werewolf.
The Werewolf and the YetiThe film is more abominable than the actually yeti, in this peculiar tale of a group of Sherpas that encounter a couple of vampire lover bimbo's, then get captured by by a load of Tartar roughnecks, before one of them turns into a werewolf and ends up fighting with a yeti over the girl in the group.

Directed by Miguel Bonns, this was actually the eighth film in a series of features about wolfman Waldemar Danisky, played by Spanish horror star Paul Naschy. This films inclusion was probably because of the tartar leader who enjoys skinning young girls alive.
 

Other Information.
The film has never been submitted for a re-release and currently languishes in obscurity. An uncut version was released in Holland by "Sunrise" tapes which is currently OOP. A Spanish language only version was released in Spain.
 
THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA.
The Witch who came in from the SeaDirected by Matt Climber (Matteo Ottaviano) who was once married to Jayne Mansfield, and scripted by Robert Thom, who also wrote the cult movie "Wild in the streets". The film is supposedly based partly on the real life events of Thom's wife Millie Perkins, who also stars in the lead role.

Perkins plays a barmaid, who having been sexually abused by her father, goes around seducing her male customers then castrating them with a razor, although these scenes where heavily toned down. The film got itself noticed because of the text on the video sleeve which said "A young women's nightmares of incest and castration...molly has a way with razors".

Other Information.
The film was eventually removed from the DPP list and not prosecuted. The film was passed uncut for a UK release in 2006, but so far has only been released in a box set with other former "Video nasty" titles from Anchor Bay UK. An uncut DVD was released in the US in 2004.
Buy Online.
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut)
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (1.66MB)
 
WOMEN BEHIND BARS.
AKA: Des Diamants pour L'Enfer, Visa pour Mourir, Prison Sado pour Femmes, Punition Cell, Caged Women, Femmes en cage, Frauengefangnis 3.
Women Behind BarsLinda Romay, who in reality is the wife of the director Jess Franco, murders her husband so she can steal his hoard of diamonds, but gets banged up inside a Central American prison instead. She is then subjected to various forms of nastiness at the hands of the guards and the sadistic warden including being hung naked, whipped and given electric shocks to her breasts.

Director Franco even turns up at the end of the film and shoots the evil warden when Romay manages to escape. Lots of gratuitous nudity, along with the aforementioned sadistic prison treatment got this one noticed by the DPP although its more rubbish than nasty.

Other Information.
Removed from the DPP list but never re-issued. X-rated of Germany have released an uncut special edition DVD under the title
"Women Behind Bars 3/Frauengefangnis 3". Be wary of another film under the title "Women Behind Bars/Frauengefangnis 2" which is actually the film "Jailhouse Wardress".
  Video Clips. (FLV format)
German theatrical trailer (1.22MB)
 
XTRO.
AKA: Monstromo, Judas Goat.
XtroBritish made Sci-Fi shocker starring Philip Sayer who's abducted by aliens, physically altered then returned to earth 3 years later. A 4-legged crab like alien attacks a blonde haired girl and Sayer explodes from her womb fully grown as his former self, the next day. He then decides to look up his old family and turns his son and ex-wife into aliens and the poor au-pair into an alien egg maker (EH?).

As you've probably gathered this is a very disjointed tale, particularly as the aliens can manifest physical objects from out of nowhere. Looking somewhat cheap and tacky, this low budget film also appears unintentionally funny in places, particularly when the young son manifests a life size Action Man figure who then chases the nosey old lady downstairs around her flat (played by former "Eastenders" actress Anna Wing). The film has spawned 2 unrelated sequels.

Other Information.
Re-released without cuts. Please note that the theatrical version had a different ending to the one released on video, which has also been shown on the UK sci-fi channel in 2002. The current US and UK DVDs are uncut in terms of gore, but strangely miss out a couple of dialogue scenes, producing a couple of nasty jump cuts, yet these are intact in the old video releases and the TV version. SEE MAIN REVIEW.
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD Box set at Amazon.co.uk (parts 1-3).
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (parts 1&2 spec-ed)
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer (1.52MB).
German theatrical trailer (1.69MB).
Missing Scenes
(scenes missing from all current DVDs) (1.86MB).
 
ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH.
AKA: Inferno del morti viventi, Virus, Apocalypsis Canibal, Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Zombies, Cannibal Virus, Virus, Zombie of the Savanna.
Zombie Creeping FleshAn explosion at a remote chemical plant turns the workers into murderous zombies, who then proceed to munch on the people living in the nearby villages. A commando team is sent in to sort out the ensuing mess, but end up becoming the zombies next meal.

The version released on video was already cut in places, most notably where the heroine Margrit Evelyn Newton gets her eyeballs pulled out through her mouth, but it still got included in the DPP's hit list. A film that really deserves to be seen in it's full uncut form, it is highly enjoyable on a trash level due to it's awful acting and naff plot lines. The soundtrack by "The Goblins" was ripped off directly from "Dawn of the Dead" and "Contamination".

Other Information.
A heavily cut version was prepared but never submitted for classification. Vipco managed to get the full uncut version passed for a UK release in 2002. The film is also available uncut on US DVD as "Hell of the Living Dead".
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (uncut).
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut spec ed).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
US Theatrical trailer. (1.09MB)
 
ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS.
AKA: Zombie, Zombie 2, Zombies 2, Island of the Living Dead, Island of the Flesh-Eaters, Gli Ultimi Zombie, L'enfer Des Zombies, Woodoo, Sanguelia.
Zombie Flesh-EatersLucio Fulci's Unofficial follow up to George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead", which had been released as "Zombie" in Italy and hence why this film is called "Zombie 2" in that country. Tisa Farrow (sister of Mia), Ian McCollough, Al Cliver and Aurietta Gay set sail for the Caribbean island of Matool looking for Farrows father, who happens to be a medical missionary.

They are then chased around the island by a bunch of cheesy looking, very slow moving zombies who've been risen by the natives voodoo magic. They are aided by the last remaining medical missionary Richard Johnson, who's been trying to find a logical reason for why the dead are rising from their graves.

Other Information.
Heavily censored for its initial UK cinema release, missing 1:41s, Vipco then had the bright idea of releasing the strong uncut version on video, but following the introduction of the VRA this was replaced with the BBFC approved cut cinema version. Vipco have also released the "strong uncut version" throughout Europe, and is also available uncut on US DVD on various labels under both "Zombie" and "Zombi 2" names (not to be confused with Dawn of the Dead which is also known as Zombie in some European territories) There's also an uncut German DVD from 'Dragon' under the title "Woodoo". and a Dutch release by 'Italian Shock' as "Zombi 2" The film was re-submitted to the BBFC in 1999 in a more complete form and was passed with only the famous "eye gouging sequence" and subsequent "gut munching scene" edited. Anchor Bay managed to get the full uncut version passed in 2005, but this was only available in a special "box set" with several other former video nasties. SEE MAIN REVIEW
Buy Online.
Buy the UK DVD at Amazon.co.uk (cut).
Buy the US DVD at Amazon.com (uncut spec ed).
Video Clips. (FLV format)
Theatrical trailer. (2.15MB).
European theatrical trailer. (3.00MB).
US theatrical trailer. (1.36MB).

 

Video Nasties Book, buy online at Amazon.co.uk There is an excellent book entitled "Video Nasties", from the publishers of "Dark Side Magazine". This reviews each of these 74 films in detail and contains full size colour reproductions of each video sleeve on the list.

Buy it from Amazon.co.ukBuy the "Video Nasties" book at Amazon.co.uk.

Video Nasties 2 : More pre-VRA titles. Buy online at Amazon.co.uk "Video Nasties 2" takes a look at many other pre-VRA titles that were likely candidates for the list, but managed to escape inclusion. Again the book provides full size repro cover scans of all films reviewed and is a welcome companion piece to the original Video Nasties book.
Buy it from Amazon.co.ukBuy the book "Video Nasties 2" at Amazon.co.uk.
"See No Evil" by David Kerekes and David Slater takes a look at how the moral backlash over the video boom of the 80's got started in the UK, as well as reviewing all 74 video nasties in depth and looking at some of the outrageous articles that have appeared in the press over the years blaming films for anti-social behaviour. A must for those interested in the nasties phenomenon, or video controversy.
Buy it from Amazon.co.ukBuy the book "See No Evil" at Amazon.co.uk.
Tom Dewe Mathews "Censored" is the grand-daddy of all books dealing with the UK's obsession of film censorship, demonstrating, through anecdotes and examples, its absurdities, dangers and occasional virtues. From the early peepshows, through the films that broke the mould in more recent times, up to the video and satellite anomalies of today, Mathews presents an account of a particularly British form of control.
Buy it from Amazon.co.ukBuy the book "Censored" at Amazon.co.uk.

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