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“There are a couple of really good VHS era documentaries doing the rounds in the US right now, but growing up in England we had a very different experience of serious censorial oppression.

Severin Films partners Gregory and Carl Daft developed their passion for exploitation cinema while growing up in the “Nasty” era in Britain. HOUSE…, known in the UK as EXPOSE, was one of the final 39 condemned Video Nasties and remains banned in its uncut form in the UK to this day. David (PLAGUE TOWN, THEATRE BIZARRE) Gregory’s two-part documentary from 2006 tells the full shocking story and will receive its first official US release as a Limited Edition bonus DVD in the first 3,000 units of Severin Films’ upcoming release of HOUSE ON STRAW HILL. The “Video Nasties” witch hunts which led to Britain becoming the most highly censored nation in the Western world targeted distributors, store owners and a list of horror movies which were prosecuted as obscene and subsequently banned.

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The 80s video boom has become a time of sweet nostalgia for movie fans of a certain age, but in the UK it was also a time of moral panic perpetuated by ill-informed politicians and a sensationalist media. The documentary unfortunately never saw release here in the States, but that’s about to change.įor a limited time only, the documentary will be included as a bonus DVD with the purchase of the very first uncut release of one of the films that was deemed a “Video Nasty” back in that tumultuous period of time. In 2006 a documentary called Ban the Sadist Videos was made, exploring the “Video Nasties” scandal that rocked the world of horror over in the UK back in the 80s.