The rise and fall of British TV’s most notoriously raunchy dance troupe and brief pop music sensations.
Tag: 1980s
The Video Nasties Documentaries
A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.
The Unremarkable Nature Of The Serial Killer: Exploring Dennis Nilsen’s Autobiography
The book they wanted to ban turns out to be an unsettling look into the mind of a murderer – and just how ordinary he actually was.
Flirting With Flexi-Sex
From the days before phone sex and cam girls, the pioneering efforts to bring aural sex to adult magazine readers.
It Takes All Kinds Of Critters To Make Farmer Vincent Fritters – Checking Into Motel Hell
One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected
An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.
The Naked World Of Ben & Katie
The Daily Star’s George & Lynne copycats who never quite hit the big time
You Want Fries With That? Vintage McDonalds Training Videos
A pair of training films designed to make McDonald’s employees the go-getting, cope-with-anything examples of excellence that we know and love today.
The Traci Lords Workout Videos
The most notorious star of the 1980s climbs onboard the VHS exercise tape craze.
It’s the End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine: The Joys Of Night Of The Comet
The unexpected pleasures of the 1984 sci-fi zombie classic, where girls kick ass and go shopping, and no one is trying to establish their right-on credentials in the process.
Requiem For An Invisible Warrior
The short life and extraordinary work of revolutionary writer Gerry Reith explored.
Cicciolina Sings Russians
The First Lady of Italian adult entertainment and her arresting version of Sting’s bleak anti-war song.