Video Nasties

SYNOPSIS: Sister Gertrude (Anita Ekberg) is a nurse assigned to a geriatric sanitarium. This once dedicated nun recently underwent neurosurgery and since the operation she’s struggled with morphine addiction and hallucinations. To feed her drug habit, Sister Gertrude emotionally manipulates Sister Mathieu (Paola Morra), a younger, sexually infatuated nun, into stealing morphine. Sister Gertrude’s behavior grows more erratic, with escalating …

Presenting the controversial list of Video Nasties banend films! Listed for your enjoyment – or just to track them all down. For a more in depth overview, make sure to check out our review of: Film Review: Video Nasties – The Definitive Guide (2010) and pick up the film! It contains 3 DVD’s and is worth the purchase If you …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree. REVIEW: I knew pretty much nothing about The Witch Who Came from the Sea  (1976) before I saw it so I went into it totally blind as I didn’t have a clue what it was about (to be honest I had …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Reno is a struggling artist who lives with his girlfriend and her lesbian lover. He is not the most stable guy in the world to begin with, but his sanity really starts to slip away even more as he tries to finish a painting; he is really stressing over the painting as it is. Add to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.

‘Video Nasty‘ was a term coined in Britain around 1982 which applied to certain films distributed on video cassette that were criticised by the media and various religious organisations for their violent content. While cinema violence had been regulated by the British Board of Film Censorship for many years, the lack of regulations for video sales (combined with the claim …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race. REVIEW: Just because a movie is labeled “exploitation” or put on the Video Nasties list doesn’t necessarily mean it will blow your mind or offend you or even hold your interest. Case in point, Sergio Garrone’s 1976 entry to …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A group of friends on a sailing trip end up trapped on an abandoned island, and just when they think that things couldn’t get any worse they discover that a crazy, vicious killer has wiped out (and eaten) all of the people who had previously inhabited the island. Unfortunately the crazed killer is still on the island …

SYNOPSIS: A cult leader named Satan runs amok during the summer of love, bullying his motorbike-riding hippy followers into murdering and torturing anyone who gets in their way. Then the director calls “cut” and the crew, to relax, murders one of the actresses. Or do they? No. But can we ever be sure of that? Yes, we can. No actresses …

SYNOPSIS: A photographer is taken prisoner by a cannibalistic tribe while on assignment to shoot photos of the local wildlife. After enduring several acts of torture at their hand he soon becomes a member of the tribe, finds love, and assists them in their ongoing war with a rival group of natives. REVIEW: Having seen the infamous Cannibal Ferox (AKA …

SYNOPSIS: A trio of escaped convicts hold an African American family hostage in their home and subject them to a number of horrible torments.  REVIEW: Back in the early 2000s I was hanging around with a group of guys known as the Brains on Film that had their own public access show and website. These guys were hardcore into the exploitation …

SYNOPSIS: After a woman tells her husband that she wants a divorce she starts acting stranger and stranger as some pretty bizarre things begin to happen all around them.  REVIEW: I know this guy that fancies himself as some sort of intellectual (even though he isn’t as nearly smart as he thinks he is) that only watches “intelligent” movies that the …

SYNOPSIS: In order to find out what their dead father has left them in his will three sisters must stay three nights in his creepy house on an island in the middle of nowhere. They all bring their husbands along with them on the trip but that won’t save them once someone starts taking people out one-by-one. Will any of …

SYNOPSIS: Julia, a young teacher of deaf children, is haunted by memories of brutal abuse at the hands of her identical twin sister Mary, who is slowly dying in an insane asylum. After a failed attempt at reconciliation Mary escapes from the asylum and suddenly everyone Julia cares about starts dying mysteriously. REVIEW: It feels strange to watch a movie …

SYNOPSIS: A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose. REVIEW: The filmography of Italian director Cesare Canevari is quite an interesting one in that he managed to cover all the important milestones of the exploitation cinema of …