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Commentary #2 is in the bag, and we’re overjoyed that it’s a bona fide Section 3 video nasty! Armand Weston’s The Nesting is on the way from @vinsyn.bsky.social and we got to gas on at length about the film’s history with the UK’s video nasty scandal! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

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Released on this day in 1980: Joseph Ellison’s bleak and sobering serial killer character study, Don’t Go In The House! #dontgointhehouse #slasher #80s #80shorror #edgein #josephellison #serialkiller #horror #videonasty #bannedhorror

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Released on this day in 1980: Marino Girolami’s delectably crazy cross-genre cannibal shocker, Zombie Holocaust (aka Doctor Butcher MD)! #zombieholocaust #cannibalfilm #marinogirolami #ianmcculloch #italianhorror #horror #zombie #80shorror #80s #videonasty

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Released on this day in 1979: Don Coscarelli’s dreamy frightening supernatural shocker, Phantasm! #phantasm #doncoscarelli #reggiebannister #angusscrimm #thetallman #horror #70shorror #70s #horrorfilm #cultfilm #videonasty

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Very exciting news, but one of our video essays on Michael Hanake’s The Piano Teacher has made it onto this stellar collection of the director’s work! Make sure you don’t miss this one, and be sure to check out our featurette on the dangerously rigid black and white world of The Piano Teacher 🤩🤩

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Born on this day in 1940: French character actress Silvia Solar! (Werewolf and the Yeti, Cannibal Terror, Eyeball, The Devil’s Kiss) #silviasolar #frenchhorror #cannibalfilm #cannibalterror #thewerewolfandtheyeti #eyeball #giallo #thedevilskiss #eurohorror #videonasty #onthisday #cultfilm

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Born on this day in 1950: beloved acting powerhouse Brad Dourif! (Eyes of Laura Mars, Child’s Play franchise, The Exorcist III, Blue Velvet, Critters 4, Alien Resurrection, Urban Legend, and Halloween remakes) #braddourif #horror #chucky #childsplay #exorcist #urbanlegend #alienresurrection

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Born on this day in 1945: memorable character actress Susan Tyrrell! (Nightmare Maker, Angel, Avenging Angel, Bad, Flesh + Blood) #susantyrrell #80shorror #andywarhol #bad #angel #avengingangel #flesh+blood #butcherbakernightmaremaker #nightmaremaker #nightwarning #videonasty #horror #onthisday

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Released on this day in 1976: Rino Di Silvestro’s feverishly sultry nightmare Werewolf Woman! #werewolfwoman #annikborel #rinodisilvestro #italianhorror #70shorror #italianfilm #banned #videonasty #werewolf #70s

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Born on this day in 1943: Canadian body horror maestro David Cronenberg! (Shivers, Rabid, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, The Brood, The Dead Zone, Crash) #davidcronenberg #canuxploitation #canadianhorror #bodyhorror #70shorror #80shorror #thefly #shivers #rabid #scanners #videodrome #crash #thebrood

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Released on this day in 1976: James Kenelm Clarke’s brutal psychosexual giallo-inspired thriller, Exposé (aka The House on Straw Hill) #houseonstrawhill #exposé #70shorror #giallo #britishhorror #videonasty #70s #thriller #udokier #lindahayden #banned #bannedhorror

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On the anniversary of their passing, we’re remembering Italian actor Ivan Rassimov today (Man From Deep River, Eaten Alive, Last Cannibal World, The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh) #ivanrassimov #italianfilm #italianhorror #cannibalfilm #horror #70shorror #80shorror #videonasty #giallo #onthisday

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Released on this day in 1981: Tobe Hooper’s carnival-based classically-styled slasher, The Funhouse! #tobehooper #80shorror #slasher #videonasty #horror #80s #classichorror

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Released on this day in 1982: James W. Roberson’s frenetic supernatural slasher, Superstition (aka The Witch)! #superstition #thewitch #supernaturalhorror #horror #80shorror #80s #hauntedhouse #videonasty

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Released on this day in 1982: Charles Band’s post apocalyptic Alien rip-off, Parasite! #parasite #scifi #80s #80shorror #videonasty #demimoore #postapocalypse #charlesband #alien #horror

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It’s true - we’re exhibiting our wares at Treasured Films’ incredible new convention Weird Worcester! We’ve got plenty of Italian goodies like the Metropol ticket from Demons, our Cannibal booklet, and Argento goodies for you to snap up and have signed by this year’s guests! Don’t miss out 🤩🤩🤩

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Born on this day in 1931: American actor Christopher George! (Graduation Day, City of the Living Dead, The Exterminator, Pieces)

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Born on this day in 1932: Canadian actor John Vernon! (Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Curtains, Savage Streets, Blue Monkey)

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Born on this day in 1939: Italian character actor Marino Masé! (Contamination, The Night Porter, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Live Like a Cop Die Like a Man)

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On this day in 1980: Umberto Lenzi’s cannibalistic shocker Eaten Alive aka Mangiati vivi was released in Italy!

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There's just an orgy of fantastic new arrivals at your local movie rental store this week!

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I'm working on a much-needed update to my pages about the infamous 72. The all-new Hysteria Lives! A-Z of Video Nasties! www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/The-A-Z-of-V... #videonasties #hysterialives

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"I saw the best video stores of my generation destroyed by madness." A sneak look at my updated article on growing up during the 'video nasties' hysteria in the early 1980s. www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/Grow-Up-Duri... #hysterialives #videonasties

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Here’s hoping you all have a wonderful New Year! Here’s to 2025 being another extraordinary year for horror fans, and we simply can’t wait to bring you more horror merch and physical media extras soon 🤩

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Holiday Horror Day 24: Deadly Games In a harrowing precursor to holiday favourite Home Alone, Deadly Games tells the story of young Thomas who attempts to contact Santa on Christmas Eve, only to attract the attention of a homeless bum, forcing him to defend his home with an arsenal of traps…

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Holiday Horror Day 23: Jaws- The Revenge Set during the festive period, the fourth Jaws instalment follows widowed Ellen Brody whose youngest son is killed by another great white shark. After his funeral, she relocates to the Bahamas with her family for Christmas, only for the shark to follow suit…

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Holiday Horror Day 22: Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 Integrating most of the first film as stock footage flashbacks, the second instalment depicts Billy’s younger brother Ricky as he embarks on his own Santa-inspired murder spree, intent on making his abusive Mother Superior pay for her cruelty…

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Holiday Horror Day 21: Bloody New Year A bizarre mishmash of horror and sci-fi, the film follows a group of teenagers who finds themselves at an island hotel, where they find the place decorated for Christmas and New Year, only to be suddenly besieged by ghostly activity and temporal disturbances…

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I’ve been keeping this secret for a while now, but @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social and I have a video essay on the special features of the @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K release of DRESSED TO KILL. Surreal feeling to have contributed something for a De Palma title!! www.arrowfilms.com/4k/dressed-t...

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Holiday Horror Day 20: Silent Night, Deadly Night Hugely controversial and attacked by critics, this gory shocker follows young orphaned Billy, who goes to live with brother Ricky in an abusive orphanage. As an adult, he snaps when wearing a Santa suit and murders all those he considers naughty…

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Holiday Horror Day 19: Night of the Comet In an ‘80s take on Wyndham’s “Day of the Triffids”, a comet passes by Earth just before Christmas and vaporises most of humanity. Siblings Reggie and Sam survive the event and have to contend with the zombified victims and immoral scientists left behind…

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Holiday Horror Day 18: Gremlins Blackly comic and festive, the film follows Billy who, after being given a mysterious Mogwai for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the cardinal rules of its care, unleashing a brood of mischievous and murderous gremlins who cause havoc in his hometown…

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Holiday Horror Day 17: Don’t Open Till Christmas One of the few British 80s slasher films, this festive bloodletter follows a string of brutal murders in London committed against victims dressed as Santa Claus. Chief Inspector Powell investigates, only to find the killer a little too close to home…

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Holiday Horror Day 16: Pranks Also known as The Dorm That Dripped Blood, this slasher film follows a small group of students who stay behind over the Christmas holiday to empty out a dormitory building, only to incur the wrath of a killer who graduates from harmless pranks to deadly kills…

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Holiday Horror Day 15: Blood Beat Young Sarah stays with her boyfriend for the Christmas holidays, only to discover her latent psychic powers. At the same time, a violent spirit wearing a set of samurai armour appears and begins slaying the family and nearby bystanders with a spectral katana…

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Holiday Horror Day 14: To All a Goodnight Two years after a young student dies during the Christmas holidays, the girls of Calvin Finishing School arrange to have their boyfriends stay over, only for them all to become prey to a mysterious killer dressed in a Santa costume and mask…

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Holiday Horror Day 13: New Year’s Evil On New Year’s Eve, DJ Diane “Blaze” Sullivan hosts the televised countdown to the New Year, only for her phone-in segment to be taken over by a mystery assailant called Evil, who threatens to murder a girl at the stroke of midnight in each US time zone…

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Holiday Horror Day 12: Female Trouble From the queer world of John Waters, teenager Dawn feels affronted at Christmas, and leaves home in a rage, immediately becoming pregnant and entering a new life of debauched acts including prostitution, swimming in dead fish, injecting make-up, and murder!

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Holiday Horror Day 11: Terror Train Set on an auspicious New Year’s Eve, a train carrying a party of medical students sets off for the evening’s celebrations, only for a killer to board and pick them off one-by-one, donning a new costume each time. Young Alana begins to suspect an old classmate…

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Holiday Horror Day 10: Christmas Evil When he was but a child, young Harry spies Santa Claus groping his mother. Disillusioned and unstable in adulthood, Harry gets frustrated by those around him who lack festive spirit, and becomes Santa himself to dispense cheer and punishment in equal measure…

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“There are some things in the universe that we can’t understand.” PROGENY (1998) | Dir. Brian Yuzna | Starring: Arnold Vosloo, Jillian McWhirter, Brad Dourif 🔗 theschlockpit.com/2021/09/21/b...

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Holiday Horror Day 9: Rabid Set during the Christmas period, David Cronenberg’s visceral epidemic movie focuses on Rose, who grows a fleshy proboscis after a skin graft surgery. The appendage causes her to drain blood from victims, who in turn become rabid killers, spreading chaos through the city…

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Absolutely stunning release of #Dawnofthemummy by #TreasuredFilm Any Fans?

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Holiday Horror Day 8: Night Train Murders An Italian answer to Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, Aldo Lado’s chiller follows two young women as they catch a train to get home for Christmas, only for two thugs, enabled by a sadistic socialite, to abuse & kill them. The truth eventually comes out…

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A very unfortunate update in light of the recent GPSR changes from the EU. Afraid it’s another crappy Brexit ‘benefit’ that’s wholly out of our hands. Sad day indeed 😢

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Holiday Horror Day 7: Deep Red One of Dario Argento’s finest giallo mysteries, the film starts with a traumatic murder occurring on Christmas Day. Many years later, a pianist witnesses the brutal killing of a psychic and becomes embroiled in the killer’s cat-and-mouse game…

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Holiday Horror Day 6: Black Christmas Festively frightening and a lauded precursor to the slasher film, Black Christmas tells the tale of a sorority house plagued by vulgar phone calls. What the girls don’t know is the perpetrator is lurking in their attic, descending to pick them off one by one…

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