Half beast, half man, all wild entertainment – the oddest of the video nasties is an experience to savour.

Half beast, half man, all wild entertainment – the oddest of the video nasties is an experience to savour.
As a new generation discovers Kate Bush, your editor looks back on his own discovery of and obsession with Britain’s most singular rock star.
The long and winding road of British smut cinema came to a bitter end in 1983 as the genre bowed out on a new creative low.
The good, the bad and the bizarre of VHS exercise tapes.
No pain, no gain – looking back at the golden age of the workout LP.
It’s time for another vintage VHS (and Betamax) video catalogue from the early days of home video, this time from mega-conglomerate CIC.
More moral panic and slanderous claims from the religious fundamentalist grifters of the Satanic Panic era.
Continuing our occasional series charting the history of vintage VHS (and Betamax) promotional brochures.
A personal memoir of falling foul of Manchester’s over-zealous Obscene Publications Squad – and fighting back.
The story behind one of the most notorious deaths ever to be caught on camera and its unexpected connections to an infamous adult video series.
The story of two controversial movies and their rather different experiences at the hands of film censors who seem to make up the rules as they go along.
The star of The A-Team gets his own exhaustingly upbeat VHS video in 1984 aimed at turning kids into conformist narcissists.