November 2009
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Ulli Lommel
Not only did Ulli Lommel’s 1980 supernatural slasher The Boogeyman find its way onto the DPP’s ‘Video Nasty’ list but so did its sequel.
Matt Cimber
Filmmaker Matt Cimber experienced minor controversy in the 1980s when his low budget exploitation picture The Witch Who Came From the Sea was included in the list of ‘video nasties’ during the 1980s. Amongst the first to be added to the DPP’s list of offensive videos, the film was soon removed but would not be [...]
James Bryan
One ‘Video Nasty’ that many splatter fans now consider a ‘guilty pleasure’ is James Bryan’s Don’t Go in the Woods, an extremely low budget slasher flick that mixed DIY effects with a camp score. Now often dubbed ’so bad it’s good,’ the movie has recently been discovered by a new audience thanks to the Code [...]
The Dirtiest Game in the World
A decade before he directed the low budget video nasty Don’t Go in the Woods, cult filmmaker James Bryan shot a variety of sexploitation features for the drive-ins and late-night movie theatres. Perhaps the most notorious of these was 1970’s The Dirtiest Game (also known as The Dirtiest Game in the World), which told of [...]
Luigi Cozzi
If one pattern has emerged throughout our continual coverage of the ‘video nasty’ scandal it is that a large portion of these ‘obscene’ films were of Italian origin. One such feature was Contamination, a science fiction horror that was released in the wake of the success of Alien. Shot by cult filmmaker Luigi Cozzi (under [...]
Sarah Jahier
Women are playing a larger role in the horror genre these days and are no longer the screaming and scantily clad bimbo in need of a man to save her. So perhaps it is inevitable that they would also begin to dominate the critical side of the industry, with various websites created to explore the [...]
The Dead Next Door
Having interviewed J.R. Bookwalter, we were able to get our hands on half a dozen behind the scenes images from his ‘80s low budget zombie flick The Dead Next Door. Shot for a mere $125,000 on Super-8 and produced by cult filmmaker Sam Raimi (under the alias The Master Cylinder), The Dead Next Door has [...]
J.R. Bookwalter
Many moons ago, a young wannabe filmmaker called J.R. Bookwalter assembled a group of likeminded individuals, consisting of friends and local talent, and shot an extremely low budget zombie flick called The Dead Next Door.
Bianca Barnett
There is a new generation of young actresses that critics are eager to dub ‘scream queens,’ yet few are as proud of that reputation as Bianca Barnett, who has spent the last few years balancing a successful career as a model with that of what is slowly becoming a horror veteran. With her most recent [...]