Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Last Orgy by the Cemetery: A 'Video Nasties' Synopsis, Film by Shocking Film!

Last Orgy by the Cemetery: A 'Video Nasties' Synopsis, Film by Shocking Film!

Kerekes, David
Slater, David

Paperback

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 1, 2026

ISBN10: 1915316499
ISBN13: 9781915316493
Publisher: Headpress
Published: Nov 1 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.62
Language: English
The meteoric rise of video technology in the early 1980s was met with suspicion in some quarters. Pressure groups found certain videocassettes objectionable and 'video nasties' became a catch-all term for undesirable films or films potentially liable for prosecution under the Obscene Publications Act 1959.

This book is not a discussion of the video nasties themselves, but instead gives a detailed synopsis of each film, from Absurd to Zombie Flesh Eaters, without criticism or commentary -- 75 video nasty plots without dissection. The book may be considered a nostalgic reverie for those fans and collectors who don't have the fortitude to sit through these films again and would like an aide-memoire means of revisiting them. What's more, many of the films are cheap and exploitative, little masterclasses of cutting corners -- the brutal logic of their storylines when laid bare make for entertaining reading.

The material contained in LAST ORGY BY THE CEMETERY originally appeared in a different form in the authors' See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy, published by Headpress in 2000 and now out of print.

Also from

Kerekes, David

View All

Also in

Film Studies

View All