Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (Nucleus Films) - Full Review!

[jockfun28]

Have to say have watched & puchased so many of the titles in this doc recently & still keep revisiting the set quite often including some which i never thought i would enjoy Cannibal Ferox being one (Not nuts on the animal cruelty) & House on the Edge of the Park another have just ordered Cannibal Holocaust as well, love all the contributers too

[jayzus]

RE: repetition .
My mistake about alternative footage. I appreciate that you put a lot of effort into the documentary and the interviews, and you had to use the footage that was available in the trailers to cut to. In some cases there was way to much. Maybe posters from trade magazines, review or stills from press books could have used

[fatorson]

I have to say I was green with envy to see the shelves lined with all that sweet gore behind each of the interviewees,though I do own a couple of the titles in their VHS form but still that was a cult movie viewers paradise. It was a Brilliant Doc. I have to say though (and this is just my opinion) I enjoyed the two other discs slightly more, detailing the other titles that didnt make the main list. Overall though it was a spectacular package that I will keep going back to.

[jayzus]

Congratulations on making it into the BBFC yearbook for 2010, there are also other mentions for titles distributed by Nucleus.

On a personal level one of my queries also made it into the book.

[mic]

I finally watched this and it definately lived up to expectations; surely one of the best documentaries ever made. Enjoyed the video indents too!

[tobiaswragg]

After dipping in and out of this sumptuous package ever since I purchased it (limited edition no. 4150), I finally got around to watching the documentary in June. I was a fool to have waited so long; it was a breeze and, as someone who is old enough to remember this disgraceful period in British history, it evoked much nostalgia for me, partially due to me having watched, and in some cases taped, some of the programmes which Nucleus used for archive footage. My anger at the arrogance of the judge snapping at Derek Malcolm for defending Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, David Hamilton-Grant's despicable treatment for releasing the film on video, the faked research by a parliamentary (quote-unquote) group leading to the pernicious '40%' garbage appearing in the squalid likes of the Daily Mail and the hounding of Martin Barker for defending some of these films, can hardly be called happy nostalgia, however. I was astonished at Graham Bright's Brass Eye-ism about 50 minutes in, and his subsequent ludicrous assertion that he had been watching real snuff about an hour in. Barker snapping at some clergyman or whatever, 'What a silly question!', is another highpoint (what rudeness he had to deal with from these fools). I really can't find fault with this documentary at all, which is excellent, educational and entertaining.

[thehamish]

After dipping in and out of this sumptuous package ever since I purchased it (limited edition no. 4150), I finally got around to watching the documentary in June. I was a fool to have waited so long; it was a breeze and, as someone who is old enough to remember this disgraceful period in British history, it evoked much nostalgia for me, partially due to me having watched, and in some cases taped, some of the programmes which Nucleus used for archive footage. My anger at the arrogance of the judge snapping at Derek Malcolm for defending Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, David Hamilton-Grant's despicable treatment for releasing the film on video, the faked research by a parliamentary (quote-unquote) group leading to the pernicious '40%' garbage appearing in the squalid likes of the Daily Mail and the hounding of Martin Barker for defending some of these films, can hardly be called happy nostalgia, however. I was astonished at Graham Bright's Brass Eye-ism about 50 minutes in, and his subsequent ludicrous assertion that he had been watching real snuff about an hour in. Barker snapping at some clergyman or whatever, 'What a silly question!', is another highpoint (what rudeness he had to deal with from these fools). I really can't find fault with this documentary at all, which is excellent, educational and entertaining.

indeed, have yet to show the doc to anyone who didnt live through it, but theyve heard me witter on about it enough haha. Bright in particular just that special brand of idiot we so easily produce in the UK, would love to show him Srpski (might induce heart failure ahem...)

[tobiaswragg]

Incidentally, he was coerced into making a (bigger) fool of himself on Brass Eye. However, the spoilsport managed to have himself edited from the repeats and DVD/VHS releases. Some of us kept our tapes of the original broadcast though.

[guthrie!]

I lent this to a friend the other day and he was mightily impressed, so he will be picking up a copy soon.

One thing that stood out for him was "Peter Kruger (a serving police officer at the time)admits asking Whitehouse (an outside political entity) for policy advice?!. That's not just unconstitutional, that's illegal!"

That's the text i received from said friend the evening he borrowed it.

[thehamish]

aye, they didnt care who knew it either, with the gutter press shoring up their lies, same as it ever was. well CH has been out for a week now, i see no flood of mania from the redtops, sham really couldve done with a laugh....

[hellochas]

NIADB wasn't released uncut. It was slightly longer than the officially sanctioned (cut) BBFC cinema version. I see Metro's still on the internet — the LOON!

[tobiaswragg]

Thanks for clearing that up, Martin. I ought to have remembered that the print supplied to WOV2000 had already been pre-cut Stateside.

[gavcrimson]

Incidentally the latest edition of Simon Sheridan’s book Keeping the British End Up does put forward a case for David Hamilton Grant having faked his own death in 1991, rather than having been killed.

[tobiaswragg]

I sought out films like I Spit on Your Grave, Last House on the Left and The Driller Killer before there was any talk of videos being banned, however, although certainly their notoriety was the main factor in me wanting to see/own them. This really was the 'golden age', in that video entrepreneurs could emphasise the salacious aspects of their product and, for a while, nobody even seemed to care, as far as I recall.

I should have also explained that it was probably Mummy and Daddy who were watching Nightmares in a Damaged Brain and they let the kids in on the fun, which I think is jolly decent of them. I taped over this programme (much sought after by certain Pre-certers, incidentally) by accident, I'm afraid, so I can't refer to it.

[thehamish]

Has the tit been banished then?? I see this thread hath shrunk quite a bit since saturday cough cough.
To reiterate my last query, does anyone enjoy/dislike the intros? (lets leave Boof out of it harumph....)

Looking forward to volume 2 anyhow!!