The Adventures Of Lil’ Reprobate – Episode 6
This week, Noah Brown’s creation has a shocking announcement to make!
Tag: video nasties
Remembering Martin Barker
The academic author who was the lone defender of Video Nasties and horror comics during the cultural dark ages of the 1980s.
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Those Pictures Of Terror – The Delirious Delights Of The Night Of The Bloody Apes
Half beast, half man, all wild entertainment – the oddest of the video nasties is an experience to savour.
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Anthropophagous II: An Exercise In Worthless Opportunism
The newly-made follow-up – in name only – to the notorious Video Nasty is not an enjoyable viewing experience.
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The Reprobate Video Interview: Sarah Appleton Talks Found Footage And Beyond
Found Footage, modern horror and 1970s British sleaze are explored in our latest video interview.
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The Columbia Pictures Video Catalogue Of 1983
Continuing our occasional series charting the history of vintage VHS (and Betamax) promotional brochures.
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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.
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The Guild Home Video VHS Catalogues
A pair of VHS catalogues from one of the more prolific indie distributors of the 1980s.
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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.
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An Unlimited Supply: The EMI Video Catalogues
The pioneering home video offerings from one of Britain’s biggest entertainment companies.
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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.
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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.
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