Video shops

Was thinking back yesterday of all the old video shops i used to rent movies from back in the mid 1980`s
There was a company in great hayward that used to come round in a car and you could choose films from there boot.
As for video shops there was weston road, newport road, wolverhampton road, parkside, creswell, marston road ( where i worked )and one of the best for horror films was jenko`s shop.
Out of all of these shops newport road was one of the first to close down, parkside closed down and a few years later had another one in a bigger shop up there.
Wolverhampton road had loads of classic videos and top shelf stuff ;)
Weston road was a great shop i rented out loads of horror films from there and used to have mates round to watch them.They also had the famous "list" which was under the counter porn.
Marston road had a good choice and if you knew me you could have them for free lol.
One thing i regret is that when the shops started to close down i didnt purchase the old classics that are now worth 100`s of pounds ...
Classics like the beast in heat i have seen sold for £300 !!!

I have bought and sold a fair few in my time and made profit on them all, only wish i had kept them though now for nostalga and the fact that films like evil dead looked better on VHS than DVD as it was more grainy and looked like horror should be.

On a side note

When not watching horror films i spend time watching independent wrestling such as IWA, CZW, MAW ,IWA East Coast, IWA Deep South also some of the Japanese divisions such as BJW & FMW.
These are all small scenes with a small but faithfull following and there wrestlers nearly kill themselves for there companys and fans.Some of the deathmatches are brutal beyond belief and they do this for a small fee.Watch this sample and you will see that wrestling is not fake.

Video nasties.

I could make a huge article about all the video nasties and the whole debate around them but there are far to many good resorces for this on the net.So i will put here the full list of video nasties from 1983.And in the future i will be putting together my account of it all and my trading of video nastys in the mid to late 80`s.
Here is the full DPP list of 74 which they said were likely to deprave and corrupt!
Many were eventually removed reducing the list to the 39 titles that were successfully prosecuted. ( marked with asterix )
1. Absurd*
2. Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein*
3. The Anthropophagus Beast*
4. Axe*
5. The Beast in Heat*
6. The Beyond
7. Blood Bath*
8. Blood Feast*
9. Blood Rites*
10. Bloody Moon*
11. The Bogey Man
12. The Burning*
13. Cannibal Apocalypse*
14. Cannibal Ferox*
15. Cannibal Holocaust*
16. The Cannibal Man*
17. Cannibal Terror
18. Contamination
19. Dead and Buried
20. Death Trap
21. Deep River Savages
22. Delirium
23. The Devil Hunter*
24. Don’t Go in the House
25. Don’t Go in the Woods…Alone*
26. Don’t Go Near the Park
27. Don’t Look in the Basement
28. The Driller Killer*
29. The Evil Dead
30. Evilspeak*
31. Expose*
32. Faces of Death*
33. Fight for Your Life*
34. Forest of Fear*
35. Frozen Scream
36. Funhouse
37. Gestapo’s Last Orgy
38. The House By the Cemetery*
39. House on the Edge of the Park*
40. Human Experiments
41. I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
42. I Spit on Your Grave*
43. Inferno
44. Island of Death*
5. Killer Nun
46. The Last House on the Left*
47. Late Night Trains
48. The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
49. Love Camp 7*
50. Madhouse*
51. Mardi Gras Massacre*
52. Night of the Bloody Apes*
53. Night of the Demon*
54. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
55. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain*
56. Possession
57. Pranks
58. Prisoner of the Cannibal God
59. Revenge of the Bogey Man
60. The Slayer
61. Shogun Assassin
62. Snuff*
63. SS Experiment*
64. Tenebrae*
65. Terror Eyes
66. The Toolbox Murders
67. Unhinged
68. Visiting Hours
69. The Werewolf and the Yeti*
70. The Witch Who Came from the Sea
71. Women Behind Bars
72. Xtro
73. Zombie Creeping Flesh
74. Zombue Flesh Eaters

Be carefull what you import !

Information on the new offence of Possession of Extreme Pornographic Images.

This is not just porn films, it is stuff that is in a lot of horror films! and i mean a LOT of horror films and sleaze films. Read and be forwarned.


Since the 26th January 2009 this in force by the ministy of justice. http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/extreme-pornographic-images.pdf

The elements of the offence (Section 63 subsections (2) to (8))
There are three elements to the offence. An image must come within the terms of all three elements before it will fall foul of the offence.

Those elements are.

1. That the image is pornographic.
2. That the image is grossly offensive, disgusting, or otherwise of an obscene character.
3. That the image portrays in an explicit and realistic way, one of the following extreme acts:

a. An act which threatens a person’s life.
b. An act which results in or is likely to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breast or genitals.
c. An act involving sexual interference with a human corpse.
d. A person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive),
and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that the people and animals portrayed were real.

BBFC rated films are ok but imported films ... import at your own risk !!

The House By The Cemetery Uncut Uk release

For release on 29th June 2009 the house by the cemetery by Arrow Film Distributors for the first time uncut on a UK release.All previous BBFC cuts are waived.
This is one of my favourite Fulci films its up there with the beyond.Crazy story and gory as hell if you have not seen it check out this trailer.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001THPPBM/melonfarmers-21 £9.98

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/8903000/House-By-The-Cemetery/Product.html
£10.99

Hello and welcome

Thanks for stopping by, this is my first attempt at a blog.
I am hoping to have news of film releases, reviews and general chat about the video nasties, banned films and cuts to films.
I have been into horror films for years now and collected films from all over the world to get the version i wanted.I have owned and watched every video nasty some should of been banned because they were so crap !! but thats for later topics.
Paul.