What 'Video Nasty' have stood the test of time best?...

d0c · Last edited by d0c on Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:24 pm, edited 3 times in total.

what video nasty do you think have stood the test of time best?...

this may make you take a rewatch.. so here is the list....

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1. Absurd*
2. Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein* aka Flesh for Frankenstein
3. The Anthropophagus Beast*
4. Axe*
5. The Beast in Heat* aka SS Hell Camp
6. The Beyond
7. Blood Bath* aka Bay of Blood
8. Blood Feast*
9. Blood Rites* aka The Ghastly One
10. Bloody Moon*
11. The Bogey Man
12. The Burning*
13. Cannibal Apocalypse*
14. Cannibal Ferox*
15. Cannibal Holocaust*
16. The Cannibal Man*
17. Cannibal Terror
18. Contamination
19. Dead and Buried
20. Death Trap aka Eaten Alive
21. Deep River Savages aka The Man from the Deep River
22. Delirium (this one is from 1979 and must not be confused with the 1972 release or later ones)
23. The Devil Hunter*
24. Don’t Go in the House
25. Don’t Go in the Woods…Alone*
26. Don’t Go Near the Park
27. Don’t Look in the Basement
28. The Driller Killer*
29. The Evil Dead
30. Evilspeak*
31. Expose*
32. Faces of Death*
33. Fight for Your Life*
34. Forest of Fear*
35. Frozen Scream
36. Funhouse (this one is from 1981 and must not be confused with the later ones)
37. Gestapo’s Last Orgy
38. The House By the Cemetery*
39. House on the Edge of the Park*
40. Human Experiments
41. I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
42. I Spit on Your Grave*
43. Inferno
44. Island of Death*
45. Killer Nun
46. The Last House on the Left*
47. Late Night Trains aka Night Train Murders
48. The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
49. Love Camp 7*
50. Madhouse*
51. Mardi Gras Massacre*
52. Night of the Bloody Apes*
53. Night of the Demon* (this one is from 1980 and must not be confused with the later ones)
54. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker aka Night Warning
55. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain*
56. Possession
57. Pranks
58. Prisoner of The Cannibal God aka Mountain of the Cannibal God
59. Revenge of the Bogey Man
60. The Slayer
61. Shogun Assassin
62. Snuff*
63. SS Experiment*
64. Tenebrae*
65. Terror Eyes
66. The Toolbox Murders
67. Unhinged
68. Visiting Hours
69. The Werewolf and the Yeti*
70. The Witch Who Came from the Sea
71. Women Behind Bars
72. Xtro
73. Zombie Creeping Flesh
74. Zombie Flesh Eaters

those with a '*' are the 39 that was not taken of the list...

here is some of them i have just had a rewatch on, still good i think...

The Beyond
Don’t Go Near the Park
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Shogun Assassin
Late Night Trains
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Fight for Your Life
inferno

Slayer

Zombie Holocaust isn't a nasty.

In fact this question is much like "What is your favourite nasty"?

Here goes:

Convicted nasties:

Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Holocaust (although I find the animal killings unwatchable)
Fight For Your Life
Night of the Bloody Apes
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

Unconvicted nasties:

The Beyond
Dead & Buried
Don't Go In The House
The Evil Dead
Inferno
The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue
The Toolbox Murders
Visiting Hours

The best one of these is Inferno. Argento is a master.

d0c

okay removed 'Zombie Holocaust'.... and yes 'inferno' is a damn good one forgot about that one.... i am gonna update my list after i rewatch the nasties..

Emperor

I need to complete the list download wise, there are a lot of movies in there i have never seen before.
I watched blood feast the other day, didnt stood the test of time, hell this was really bad. hahahhahaa

edit: from what I recall, I thought Evil speak was one hell of a ride when i first watched it.
But that is like 15 years ago, like i said I have loads to watch :lol:

Jynks

was going to type this in as I saw the title... but it was in your list as well

I Spit on Your Grave... was and is a diamond among the coal. This movie is like Dawn of the Dead or something (not quite but close)... just a trail blazer, starting its own sub-genre and even to this day is very watchable... Something many of the films ion that list really arn't unless you are a real plotation freak.. I Spit on your Grave is just class from start to end.

Slayer wrote:

In fact this question is much like "What is your favourite nasty"?

No this is a very different and much more complex question.

d0c

i did a rewatch of 'blood moon' last night... the plot was not much to write home about but the gore was still nice and had me a little on the edge. stone cutter blade scene, scissors scene in garden and the impale of the breast scene was a riot... it also had its awkward hilarious scenes... over all it fall somewhere inbetween 'have stood the test of time' and bad... but better than 'the boogey man' that i watched a couple of days ago..

Slayer

Jynks wrote:

Slayer wrote:

In fact this question is much like "What is your favourite nasty"?

No this is a very different and much more complex question.

Well, I think that most VN's which end up on your fav list will also have stood the test of time. Inferno, for example.

Mataesfola

Well, I learned something with the nasties: In 20 or 30 years what was completely gruesome is now kids stuff. No wonder our youth is getting violenter by the minute.

d0c

i watched 'Human Experiments aka Women in Prison' last night..... what a pile of garbage that one was, thats a movie i am never going to watch again. the boobs shot was ok but the gore wasnt gory at all, the plot was a snorefest... this movie have not stood the test of tim at all.

d0c

i watched 'Xtro' yesterday... what a crapper, loved the birth scene thou... hahaha! :mrgreen:

d0c

i just watched 'Visiting Hours', an ok movie. i dunno why its on the video nasty list at all in the first place... if not that version i watched was cut, i dunno.

rotgut

I'd say The Evil Dead has stood the test of time the best. It's still very popular and one of those introductory movies for burgeoning horror/cult fans. Doesn't hurt that it's thoroughly a Raimi flick with classic gross-out/comedy

Possession is IMO the best film on the list. It's arguably Zulawski's masterpiece with phenomenal acting, a chilling and engaging story, and excellent monstrosities. It has stood the test of time as a great film.

The Argento entries will always stand the test of time as part of the canon of classic horror.

Cannibal Holocaust stands up due to its reputation as THE popular cannibal exploitation flick, placing it a bit above the other cannibal entries.

Last House on the Left/I Spit on Your Grave are seminal rape/revenge entries and will live forever. Last House on the Left is boosted by being the first Craven film as well.

The last one I'd mention is Shogun Assassin as the first of the Lone Wolf and Cub series. It sticks out from the Video Nasties list in general and will stand the test of time as a video nasty and beyond.

Emperor

watched flesh for frankenstein the other night.
enjoyable movie, mediocre acting at best, but still etertaining.

did it stand the test of time??

naahhh

but it was 90 minutes well spent :beerchug:

spudthedestroyer

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I'd say The Evil Dead has stood the test of time the best. It's still very popular and one of those introductory movies for burgeoning horror/cult fans. Doesn't hurt that it's thoroughly a Raimi flick with classic gross-out/comedy

+1

Kriminal

As a general rule, the movies which stood the hard test of time better, are the ones that used violence / gore / shock to actually convey something else. For example, masterpieces like Inferno, The Beyond or Cannibal Holocaust are still extremely valid movies even after 30+ years.
Easy and cheap shocks, on the other hand, get old very fast

shitcastle

id have to say........

The Beyond
Blood Feast
Don’t Look in the Basement
The Driller Killer
The Evil Dead
Funhouse
House on the Edge of the Park
I Spit on Your Grave
Inferno
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Night of the Demon
Possession
Shogun Assassin
Tenebrae
Zombie Flesh Eaters

Slayer

Nice list, I heavily disagree on Blood Feast, though. It is totally not scary anymore. I know, because I showed it to 16-year olds once and they all thought it was total crap.

Emperor

but despite the movie not beiing scary anymore, doesn't mean that it's bad. Or has not stand the test of time

Or at least, that's what I think.

Itl all depends on taste,
16 year old's can be like a guidline of what the youth of today will like or dislike in a movie, but it doesn't mean a movie is bad just because it doesn't meet up to the expectations of a new generation "horror" fanatics

......................... mmmm im sounding old :mrgreen:

Slayer

Emperor wrote:

16 year old's can be like a guidline of what the youth of today will like or dislike in a movie, but it doesn't mean a movie is bad just because it doesn't meet up to the expectations of a new generation "horror" fanatics

This is what "standing the test of time" is all about

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