What was your 1st NASTIE?
 

What was the 1st Video nastie you ever saw? Was it an Italian gut muncher or a slasher flick?
I was 14-15 years old at my mates house & we watched a double bill of Cannibal holocaust followed by Alien terror. After that family trips to the cinema were a bit dull in comparison!
In case you were wondering it was 1982 could have been 83 not sure.

Jaws-1975 or maybe 1976

Mom kept putting her hand over my eyes to shield me from the horror of it all.

Yeah i saw jaws at an early age but i meant what was your 1st gut muncher-
zombi
cannibal ferox
driller killer. films of that calibre maximum glop minimum plot.

I'm guessing this is a British thing, or is this something us bloody colonials should understand, too?

In the early days of video in England mid 80s the bbfc ( british board film clasification) drew up a list of films they decided were likely to cause the down fall of society as we know it. They then banned these films the term video nasty was born. Media out cry did nt help matters " boy kills cat/dog/mouse because hes watched zombi"
most of these films were italian gut munchers: zombi, cannibal holocaust, also exploitation stuff like ss experiment camp, i spit on your grave. But soon no film was safe, evil dead was banned, exorcist & dawn of the dead withdrawn as well.
Most of the films i mentioned you can now buy in the uk, but some are still heavily censored.

oh yeah. I remember that from the Evil Dead DVD.


I guess mine would be The Evil Dead

at a guess, I'd say zombie flesheaters or some other early zombie film.

Last House on the Left.

I woldnt really call it a nasty, but that censor board did....so The Exorcist

I guess since I didn't start really watching the non-mainstream shit until a couple years ago, I'd have to say it was Cannibal Holocaust. Although I saw most of the other movies you mentioned (DotD, Evil Dead, Excorcist) long before I saw CH, CH was the first movie that turned my stomach. Fuckin' brutal...