My introduction, plus capsule contributions of ten video nasties, to a piece published by Little White Lies, on 13 May 2021, entitled Every Video Nasty Ranked From Worst to Best, and timed with the release of Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor Includes capsules of: Absurd, The Boogeyman, Don’t Go In The House, I Miss You, Hugs and…
A film examiner with the British Board of Film Classification in the mid-Eighties, Enid Baines (Niamh Algar) embodies the censorious conservatism of her times. Both literally and metaphorically buttoned-up, with her severely tied-back hair and her Mary Whitehouse-style winged spectacles, she is known (behind her back) to colleagues as “Little Miss Perfect” for her painstaking…
First published by Little White Lies Diary – Day 5, Monday 30th August Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape Normally the news of another film by Jake West, director of Razor Blade Smile, Evil Aliens and Doghouse, would be accompanied by a general shrug of low expectations, but Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape is both very well…
Video Nasties: Draconian Days first published by Film Divider “How little historical memory we have! The next time there’s a panic, we won’t remember how stupid the last one was, and how people got away with things. Critical voices have to care about history.” The speaker is Martin Barker, an academic who, in the midst of…