Continuing our occasional series charting the history of vintage VHS (and Betamax) promotional brochures.
Tag: video nasties
Private Stabs Of Fear – The Irrational, Individual Nature Of The Things That Terrify Us As Children
The things that scare the living daylights out of us as kids are often unpredictable and coincide with our sudden awareness of our own mortality.
The Guild Home Video VHS Catalogues
A pair of VHS catalogues from one of the more prolific indie distributors of the 1980s.
This Year’s Halloween Costume Hysteria
The moral panic over the malign influence of Squid Game and the theoretical dangers of children wearing ‘dangerous’ fancy dress.
An Unlimited Supply: The EMI Video Catalogues
The pioneering home video offerings from one of Britain’s biggest entertainment companies.
Gross Out Cinema: The Faces Of Death Story
Proving fiction to be stranger than truth, the story of the outrageous Shockumentary that spawned sequels, imitations and a cultural phenomenon.
Roger Ebert And The Strange Cult Of The Film Critic
Mainstream film critics are the last people who we should be listening to about anything.
Online Harms And Offline Intimidation
Scaring people into compliance and controlling the public discussion with vaguely worded laws and campaigns of moral panic.
Woefully Misleading VHS Cover Art
A selection of ludicrous and entirely unsuitable VHS artwork for films that would either disappoint or horrify anyone attracted by these covers.
Is Nothing Sacred? Faces Of Death Is Being Remade
The most notorious shockumentary of the 1970s gets an unexpected Hollywood makeover.
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.
Fractured Visions And The Cult Movie Market
The ins and outs of launching an independent cult movie blu-ray label in 2021.