I cant watch video nasties based on true events - atrocities dont do it for me!
Fantasy is far more entertaining IMO.

Some of these movies are available locally (eg Last House on the Left, Zombie Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave, Tenebrae, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Snuff, Flesh For Frankenstein, The Beyond, Blood Feast, Evil Dead, Driller Killer, etc). Amazon will satisfy your craving for many others.

The right column of the article has links to many of them at either the Amazon US or UK site.

Not sure if any are still banned in Australia, but some definitely were (eg Cannibal Holocaust until last year...)

Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide
 

It was an era that remains notorious to this day and gave Sam Raimi some widespread publicity when he was just a young kid making goofy horror films in the backwoods of Michigan.

Now the Video Nasty era is subject of a new collection and documentary. Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide directed by Jake West and Marc Morris, which is released by Nucleus Films on 1st November.

The film-makers cut together 72 horror films that were successfully prosecuted for corrupting the nation. The folks over at FilmShaft have seen it and they can firmly say it’s a brilliant and intelligent montage of not particularly brilliant and intelligent cinema. But there in lies the mystery and repulsion.

If you want the version longue there’s a four hour cut featuring intros from leading horror critics like the ace Kim Newman and Alan Jones. Also on the extra features is a feature-length documentary VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE. So if you know your SS Experiment Camp from your Driller Killer, you’ll be in gorehound heaven.

Jake West, director of the documentary and co-owner of Nucleus Films, says:

Check out the trailer and repeat to yourself: it’s only a video montage, it’s only a video montage, it’s only… you get the idea...

http://www.filmshaft.com/video-nasti...guide-trailer/

Looks like fun.:)

I love this piece of history - it was very much part of my youth...I did my college dissertation on this and the 90's witch hunt being used to fuel Media moral Panics...

Must get this - I love Kim Newman..

Thanks for the heads-up on this one, ___V___.

Looks like it would be an interesting viewing. I have been interested in the "video nasties" history, probably because Australia still struggles with a fairly draconian censorship.

It would be interesting to get an insight into some of the "video nasty" films that I haven't managed to see yet.

The ultimate "video nasties" list
 

Here is a list of the banned and controverial films that i own.


A Clockwork Orange
Antropophagus
Antichrist
AXE
Barbed Wire Dolls
Bay of Blood
Begotten
Black Sunday
Blood On Satans Claw
Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Ferox I
Cannibal Ferox II
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Man
Chopper
Contamination
Dead and Buried
Deep River Savages
Diary of a Sinner
Driller Killer
Faces of Death
Gozu
Hitch Hike
House on the Edge of The Park
Ichi The Killer
Ilsa She Wolf Collection
I Spit on Your Grave
Island of Death
Jungle Holocaust
Last house on The Left
Martyrs
Men Behind The Sun
Mountain Of The Cannibal God
Natural Born Killers
Nekromantik
Peeping Tom
Romper Stomper
Scum
Snuff
SS Camp Womens Hell
Taxidermia
Tetsuo The Iron Man
The Candy Snatchers
The Beyond
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
Titicut Follies
Traces of Death
Traces of Death II
Vistor Q
Weekend
Women Behind Bars

If you know any other good video nasties please recommend them :D

O_O im in heaven.....

I'm around people who share my passion xD i believe i have over 450 horror movies alone

Exploitation and Video Nasties
 

Hey guys, I was just wondering what some of your favourite exploitation and video nasties were.

Some of my favourites are:
House on the Edge of the Park
Cannibal Holocaust
The Toolbox Murders (original)
Zombie Holocaust
The Driller Killer

The list continues, but I'll post more as the thread goes on. :)