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Video nasties the definitive guide
Title
Video nasties [videorecording] : the definitive guide.
Published
[United States?] : Severin Films ; [London] : [Distributed by] Nucleus Films, [2014]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (13 hr., 58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a documentary in 2010.
"Discs 2 & 3 can be viewed either as a non-stop trailer show, or with newly-filmed introductions from a wide range of acclaimed media academics and notable genre journalists. Each disc is preceded by a brief introduction by cult horror presenter Emily Booth."--Container.
Special features (disc 1): Video ident-a-thon ; gallery of video box art.
Summary
"Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more with this 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."--Container.
Variant and related titles
Video nasties--moral panic, censorship and videotape.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2016
System details note
DVD, NTSC, region 0; anamorphic widescreen; Dolby digital; mono.
Audience
Not rated.
Contents
disc 1. Video nasties : moral panic, censorship and videotape / Nucleus Films Ltd. ; shot, edited & directed by Jake West ; researched and produced by Marc Morris (2010, 72 min.)
disc 2. Original trailers for all 39 titles that were successfully prosecuted in UK courts and deemed liable to deprave and corrupt
disc 3. Original trailers for all 33 titles that were initially banned, but then subsequently acquitted.
Videorecording number
SEV9205 Severin Films
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
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