Satanic Panic: When British TV Viewers Were Traumatised By The Omen
How the TV broadcast of the horror classic caused religious hysteria and fears of demonic possession.
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The Reprobate Top(less) Tens Of 2020
What was hot on The Reprobate in 2020? You can probably guess.
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The VHS Wonderland Of Portland Films
Remembering the pioneers of mail order VHS cult movie retail in the wild west days of uncensored video.
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The Night Porter’s Last Orgy
As The Night Porter returns to blu-ray, we look at the sordid world of the brief Naziploitation craze it accidentally helped spawn, and its most outrageous imitator.
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The BBFC Returns To A World Of Secrecy
The British censorship board’s website has gone from being a valuable resource to an empty vanity project that covers up their history.
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Love Is Strange – The Bleak, Fractured World Of Possession
Possession – Andrzej Zuwalski’s hysterical, intense and utterly bleak story of a love triangle unlike any other.
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Depraved And Corrupting: The Complete Video Nasties
The definitive visual guide to the most notorious films of the 1980s.
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In Remembrance Of John Saxon
Remembering the great cult movie star who died yesterday.
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U-Turns Should Be Celebrated, Not Scoffed At
A government admitting when it is wrong should be something to applaud, not score points with.
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Harmful Publications: The British Horror Comic Scare
The story of Britain’s first horror moral panic and the odd role that the Communist Party played in it.
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Love Camp 7 Remains The Benchmark For Unacceptable Cinema in 2020
Over fifty years after it was made, Bob Cresse and Lee Frost’s trashy bad taste movie is still beyond the pale for the British censors.
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A Curious History Of VIPCO, The Notorious British Video Label
Examining a history of the legendary video label that strangely brushes over the most interesting period of its existence.
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