Evilspeak 1981

Films always have the ability to anger us, divide us, shock us, disgust us, and more. Usually, films that inspire controversy, outright boycotting, picketing, banning, censorship, or protest have graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious, political or race-related themes and content. They usually push the envelope regarding what can be filmed and displayed on the screen, and are considered taboo, "immoral" or "obscene" due to language, drug use, violence and sensuality/nudity or other incendiary elements. Inevitably, controversy helps to publicize these films and fuel the box-office receipts.

Source: http://www.filmsite.org/controversialfilms.html

Prior to the establishment of UK state censorship implemented in the Video Recordings Act of 1984, censorship was in the realms of the courts and the Obscene Publications Act. This required the courts to apply the test of whether videos were likely to "deprave and corrupt" the viewer. The Director Of Public Prosecutions (DPP) maintained a list of those videos that were felt likely to be found obscene by the courts and hence worthwhile prosecuting.
Of course, the real drivers behind the moral panic were the UK press led by the ever obnoxious Daily Mail. Not to mention a few politicians who felt they could make a name for themselves.

Several versions of the video nasty list were published with videos added and removed over the period 1983-1985. 72 videos were listed at least for a while. Another couple of films can stake a claim via a shared name with listed films. 39 made it through to the end, and these became known as the DPP39s. These 39 titles became the most sought after collectibles.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty

To get you into the right mindset just watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzolFFd9NcU

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Ultimate Spooktober List

Prior to the establishment of UK state censorship implemented in the Video Recordings Act of 1984, censorship was in the realms of the courts and the Obscene Publications Act. This required the courts to apply the test of whether videos were likely to "deprave and corrupt" the viewer. The Director Of Public Prosecutions (DPP) maintained a list of those videos that were felt likely to be found obscene by the courts and hence worthwhile prosecuting.
Of course, the real drivers behind the moral panic were the UK press led by the ever obnoxious Daily Mail. Not to mention a few politicians who felt they could make a name for themselves.

Several versions of the video nasty list were published with videos added and removed over the period 1983-1985. 72 videos were listed at least for a while. Another couple of films can stake a claim via a shared name with listed films. 39 made it through to the end, and these became known as the DPP39s. These 39 titles became the most sought after collectibles.

All movies showcased as segments or referenced with footage within this 80s horror movie documentary listed in order of first appearance.

Missing on Trakt:
- Debbie Does Dallas (1978), IMDB: tt0077415

These movies all feature technology in the role of the horror itself. Either its computers possessed by demons, psychopathic hackers, serial killers in chat rooms, or cursed video games and things of that ilk. Note we’re not just talking about modern tech users in a horror setting - the technology has to present the threat. As we have moved into the Information Age, these cyberpunk scares have proliferated. They’re our culture’s way of asking “Just what is this 24/7 online life doing to us, as a species, anyway?"

The movies that Joe Bob Briggs (and Darcy!) have hosted on The Last Drive-In, So far!

All movies showcased as segments or referenced with footage within this 80s horror movie documentary listed in order of first appearance.

A list of every film mentioned in the documentary In Search of Darkness.
UPDATED to include the films mentioned in the follow-up documentary In Search of Darkness: Part II.

List by hotsake

Cinema Suicide was a popular, long-running website celebrating cheap thrills and the grimy, dusty titles tucked away on video store shelves.

All the Found Footage, American, Anthologies, J-Horror,Killers

Creatures,Zombies and the awful bad ones.

Shaenon K. Garrity's list. One horror movie (plus a few double- and triple-features) for every day of the year. Check the source for sketches and descriptions of each day.

Source:
http://www.horrormovie.today/

Tags:
#theme #list_order #complete

One of the foundational sub-genres of horror is the Slasher, a type of horror film that sees a killer stalk and slay a group of characters. Usually, the killer is masked, and the preferred weapon of choice tends to be of the bladed variety. Slashers have been around for decades, with films like Peeping Tom and Psycho credited as prototypes for the sub-genre and Halloween touted as the seminal slasher that set the mold for the modern slasher. It was the latter’s massive success that heralded in the Golden Age of Slashers. Source: https://bloody-disgusting.com

Horror movies featured in the documentaries In Search Of Darkness 1, 2 and 3 and In Search Of Darkness ‘90-‘94.

The decade to rule them all.