Video Nasties: Draconian Days

Mar 1, 2014

1h 37m

★ 7.4

Overview

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.

Genres

Documentary

Horror

Production Companies

Nucleus Films

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Cast

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Sian Barber

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Martin Barker

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Graham Bright

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Lavinia Carey

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Alan Jones

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Alex Chandon

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Tony M. Clarke

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Kate Egan

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John Hayward

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Spencer Hickman

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David Hyman

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Kim Newman

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.

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