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Blimey! I think I just went off boobs!

Horror with a B

...as in Bollywood! I've just received this awesomely looking old Bollywood horror movie on VCD from a store in India! It set me back 5-6 dollars including postage!!! The title of the film is Vayanadan Thampan and get this: This is the original version that was used for the cut & paste flick that is... PYAASA SHAITAN!!! I bet you didn't know that. ;o)

- But obviously I'm sure you're aware PYAASA SHAITAN is the infamous Indian horror flick that contains a ripoff scene of the "tree rape" scene from EVIL DEAD. xD

Ohh, glorious Bollywood.

- and thanks to Ingolf for the heads-up!

New documentary on the VIDEO NASTY era

This new documentary on the British video nasty scare of the early 1980s looks just brilliant! It's gonna be out on DVD in October (just in time for piling up nasties for Halloween, aye!). I'm certainly gonna get this.

This is a description I copied from Dvdmaniacs. It's written by "Love, Lock, and Load"'s Jonny Redman:

Due out in October, might not be as interesing to overseas members as it is to us here in the UK but still might be worth a look for the trailers alone...

Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more as Nucleus Films releases the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon – one of the most extraordinary and scandalous eras in the history of British film.

For the first time ever on DVD, trailers for all 72 films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions are featured with specially filmed intros for each title in a lavish three-disc collector’s edition box-set, alongside a brand new documentary – VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE, directed by Jake (‘Doghouse’) West.

Producer Marc Morris, co-author of Art of the Nasty and Shock Horror: Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era comments: “Hopefully, every true movie fan will want this in their collection”..

Disc One presents the 39 titles which were successfully prosecuted in UK courts and deemed liable to deprave and corrupt. These included: Absurd, Cannibal Holocaust, The Driller Killer, I Spit on Your Grave, Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, Snuff & Zombie Flesh-Eaters.

Disc Two presents the 33 titles that were initially banned, but then subsequently acquitted and removed from the DPP’s list. These included: Death Trap, Deep River Savages, The Evil Dead, Human Experiments, The Toolbox Murders & Zombie Creeping Flesh

Both discs can be viewed either as a non-stop trailer show, or with newly-filmed introductions from a wide range of acclaimed media academics and notable genre journalists. Each disc is preceded by a brief introduction by cult horror presenter Emily Booth.

Disc Three This era-defining documentary features interviews with filmmakers Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday), Christopher Smith (Severance, Black Death) and MP Graham Bright as well as rare archive footage featuring James Ferman (director of the BBFC 1975-1999) & Mary Whitehouse. Taking in the explosion of home video, the erosion of civil liberties, the introduction of draconian censorship measures, hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape, West’s documentary also reflects on the influence this peculiar era still exerts on us today.

Extras include a gallery of original video company idents and extensive gallery of lurid cover art for every video nasty.