Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more as Nucleus Films releases the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon - one of the most extraordinary and scandalous eras in the history of British film. For the first time ever on DVD trailers to all 72 films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions are featured with specially filmed intros for each title in a lavish three-disc collector's edition box-set alongside the critically acclaimed documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic Censorship And Videotape. Disc One: The era-defining and critically acclaimed documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic Censorship And Videotape directed by Jake (Doghouse) West and produced by Marc Morris features interviews with filmmakers Neil Marshall ('The Descent' 'Doomsday') Christopher Smith ('Severance' 'Black Death') and MP Graham Bright as well as rare archive footage featuring James Ferman (director of the BBFC 1975-1999) & Mary Whitehouse. Taking in the explosion of home video the erosion of civil liberties the introduction of draconian censorship measures hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape West's documentary also reflects on the influence this peculiar era still exerts on us today. Disc Two: Presents the 39 titles that were successfully prosecuted in UK courts and deemed liable to deprave and corrupt. These included: 'Absurd' 'Cannibal Holocaust' 'The Driller Killer' 'I Spit on Your Grave' 'Nightmares in a Damaged Brain' 'Snuff' & 'Zombie Flesh-Eaters'. Disc Three: Presents the 33 titles that were initially banned but then subsequently acquitted and removed from the DPP's list. These included: 'Death Trap' 'Deep River Savages' 'The Evil Dead' 'Human Experiments' 'The Toolbox Murders' & Zombie Creeping Flesh.
Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more as Nucleus Films releases the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon - one of the most extraordinary and scandalous eras in the history of British film. For the first time ever on DVD trailers to all 72 films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions are featured with specially filmed intros for each title in a lavish three-disc collector's edition box-set alongside a brand new documentary - Video Nasties: Moral Panic Censorship And Videotape. Disc One: Presents the 39 titles which were successfully prosecuted in UK courts and deemed liable to deprave and corrupt. Disc Two: Presents the 33 titles that were initially banned but then subsequently acquitted and removed from the DPP's list. Disc Three: This era-defining documentary features interviews with filmmakers Ruggero Deodato ('Cannibal Holocaust') Neil Marshall ('The Descent' 'Doomsday') Christopher Smith ('Severance' 'Black Death') and MP Graham Bright as well as rare archive footage featuring James Ferman (director of the BBFC 1975-1999) & Mary Whitehouse. Taking in the explosion of home video the erosion of civil liberties the introduction of draconian censorship measures hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape West's documentary also reflects on the influence this peculiar era still exerts on us today.
The continuation of the Upstairs Downstairs saga which follows the lives of the two servants Thomas and Sarah. Episodes included: The Poor Young Widow Of Peckham There Is A Happy Land Return To Gethyn Putting On The Ritz The New Rich and Love Into Three Won't Go.
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