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After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.

Details: Monster, 1980, United States
Pre-Cert Video Label: Warner (WEV 99511)

Tagline: From the Ocean Depths They Strike...To Terrorize...To Mate...And To Kill! Release: 1980-05-01 Video Label: New World Pictures Run time: 80m
An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon their arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
Tagline: It's looking at you... from hell! Release: 1982-08-12 Video Label: Fulvia Film Run time: 89m
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
Tagline: It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent fritters! Release: 1980-08-14 Video Label: Camp Hill, United Artists Run time: 102m
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Tagline: Imagine your worst fear a reality. Release: 1981-01-21 Video Label: AVCO Embassy Pictures, International Film Investors, Wescom Productions Run time: 91m
A reluctant bride-to-be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard-boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt the killer down before it is too late.
Tagline: Every girl is frightened the night before her wedding. But this time...there's good reason! Release: 1980-08-29 Video Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lansbury/Beruh Productions Run time: 94m

After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.

Details: Halloween III - Season of the Witch, 1982, United States
Pre-Cert Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVA 901911 2)

Tagline: The night no one comes home. Release: 1982-10-22 Video Label: The De Laurentiis Company Run time: 99m
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Tagline: What you can't see won't hurt you...it'll kill you! Release: 1980-02-01 Video Label: AVCO Embassy Pictures, EDI, Debra Hill Productions Run time: 90m
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.
Tagline: The power of evil is no longer in the hands of a child. Release: 1981-03-20 Video Label: 20th Century Fox, Harvey Bernhard Productions, Mace Neufeld Productions Run time: 108m
A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.
Tagline: "Sorry, your party is dead..." Release: 1981-02-11 Video Label: Georgetown Productions Run time: 84m

Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.

Details: Death Ship, 1980, Canada, Great Britain
Pre-Cert Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVA 900960 2)

Tagline: Those who survive the ghost ship are better off dead! Release: 1980-03-07 Video Label: Astral Bellevue Pathé, Bloodstar Productions, Lamitas, Astral Films Run time: 91m

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Details: Cries in the Night, 1980, Canada
Pre-Cert Video Label: Cream (Trailblazer) (CR1)

Tagline: They were warned, they were all warned... "Don't go down to the cellar!" Release: 1980-10-03 Video Label: The Incident at North Hampton Productions, Canadian Film Development Corporation Run time: 93m

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.

Tagline: ...thank God they're somebody else's! Release: 1980-06-13 Video Label: Intervision (A-A0491) Run time: 93m

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

Tagline: The boys and girls of Sigma Phi. Some will live. Some will die. Release: 1980-10-03 Video Label: Sandy Howard Productions, Astral Bellevue Pathé, Triple T Productions, 20th Century Fox Run time: 97m

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVA 900926 2)

Tagline: More of the night he came home. Release: 1981-10-30 Video Label: Universal Pictures, The De Laurentiis Company Run time: 92m

Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.

Pre-Cert Video Label: CIC (VHE2036)

Tagline: There's more than one way to lose your heart... Release: 1981-02-11 Video Label: Secret Films, Famous Players, Canadian Film Development Corporation Run time: 90m
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...
Tagline: A New Dimension In Terror... Release: 1982-08-13 Video Label: Jason Productions, Georgetown Productions Inc., Paramount Pictures, Sean S. Cunningham Films, Frank Mancuso Jr. Productions Run time: 95m

Five tales in the style of classic '50s horror comics, involving a murdered man emerging from the grave, a meteor's ooze that makes everything grow, a snack for a crated creature, a scheming husband, and a malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia.

Tagline: The Most Fun You'll Ever Have BEING SCARED! Release: 1982-11-10 Video Label: Intervision (A-A0462) Run time: 120m

A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Warner (WEV 99484)

Tagline: He Was On The Verge Of Becoming A Man... Eater! Release: 1982-02-12 Video Label: Katzka, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Run time: 98m

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

Tagline: The Nightmare Begins With The Kids Next Door Release: 1981-04-28 Video Label: IFS (FF30163) Run time: 85m

Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.

Pre-Cert Video Label: VTC (VTC1018)

Tagline: When you hear this cat breathing down your neck… start praying… before you finish your Amen… you're dead! Release: 1981-04-04 Video Label: Selenia Cinematografica, Italian International Film Run time: 92m

Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on their children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.

Tagline: If these walls could talk... they would shriek! Release: 1982-09-24 Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVA 901411 2) Run time: 104m

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Rank (LVRK2034) and (V2034)

Tagline: When the lights go out, the terror begins. Release: 1982-11-12 Video Label: Masada Productions, New Line Cinema Run time: 93m

During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Rank (V2016C)

Tagline: Don't Dare Make New Year's Resolutions... Unless You Plan To Live! Release: 1980-12-26 Video Label: The Cannon Group Run time: 86m

Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs... and it isn't long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!

Pre-Cert Video Label: MVC (VIPCO) (MVC1)

Tagline: Jamie wouldn't kill anyone… unless Teddy told him to! Release: 1981-10-23 Video Label: Amulet Pictures Run time: 97m

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Avatar (CBS/FOX) (6333-50)

Tagline: You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre! Release: 1982-08-23 Video Label: Almena Films Run time: 85m

Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.

Tagline: They Are Here. Release: 1982-06-04 Video Label: MGM/UA (30165), (UMLV10165), (UMV10165) Run time: 114m

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Tagline: A masterpiece of modern horror. Release: 1980-05-23 Video Label: Warner (WEV 61079) Run time: 144m

Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget -- or survive -- when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.

AKA: The Slumber Party Massacre

Pre-Cert Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVH 902004 2)

Tagline: You know the drill. Release: 1982-09-10 Video Label: Santa Fe Productions Run time: 77m

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Warner (PEV 72019)

Tagline: They can hear a cloud pass overhead, the rhythm of your blood. They can track you by yesterday's shadow. They can tear the scream from your throat. Release: 1981-07-24 Video Label: King-Hitzig Productions, Orion Pictures Run time: 115m

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

Tagline: Whatever you do… Don't go into the attic Release: 1980-03-28 Video Label: VTC (VTC1032) Run time: 105m

American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.

Tagline: From the director of Animal House... a different kind of animal. Release: 1981-08-21 Video Label: PolyGram (43060), Spectrum (790404 1) Run time: 97m

Madman Marz, an old folklore legend who murdered his family before escaping into the woods, is inadvertently summoned to a campsite to finish the spree he started decades ago.

This film was seized by the police, but not classed as a Section 3 video nasty.

Pre-Cert Video Label: Video Film Organisation (VFO011)

Tagline: They thought they were alone. Release: 1981-10-30 Video Label: The Legend Lives Company Run time: 89m

A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.

This film was seized by the police, but not classed as a Section 3 video nasty.

Tagline: From the bowels of the Earth they came... to collect the living! Release: 1980-08-11 Video Label: Inter-Light (ILV109), Intervision (A-A0477) Run time: 93m

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.

This film was seized by the police, but not classed as a Section 3 video nasty.

Pre-cert video label: Palace (PVC2024A)

Tagline: The tenant in room 7 is very small, very twisted, and very mad. Release: 1982-04-02 Video Label: Basket Case Productions Run time: 91m

A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

Tagline: Slashing up women was his pleasure. Release: 1982-03-04 Video Label: Fulvia Film Run time: 93m

Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

Banned by the BBFC but not on the video nasty lists.

Pre-Cert Video Label: VTC (VTC1137)

Tagline: If you go down to the woods today. Release: 1980-09-19 Video Label: Duty Productions, United Film Distribution Company (UFDC), Troma Entertainment Run time: 90m

A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and local girl American models and takes their scalps as trophies.

Banned by the BBFC but not on the video nasties lists.

Tagline: I warned you not to go out tonight! Release: 1980-05-10 Video Label: Intervision (A-A0396) Run time: 88m

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

Zombie Lake was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Passed uncut in 2004.

Tagline: God help us if they rise again! Release: 1981-05-13 Video Label: Modern Films (MD09) Run time: 87m

After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.

Zombie Holocaust was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Passed uncut in 2000.

Tagline: He's a depraved, homicidal killer...and he makes house calls! Release: 1980-03-28 Video Label: VTC (VTC1110) Run time: 84m
8 / 10

In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.

Passed uncut for cinema. The Thing was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Also passed uncut for video in 1987.

Tagline: Man is the warmest place to hide. Release: 1982-06-25 Video Label: CIC Run time: 109m

After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Passed uncut for cinema. Scanners was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Also passed uncut for video in 1987.

Tagline: 10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode. Release: 1981-01-14 Video Label: Guild Run time: 103m
8 / 10

(a.k.a. The Prowler)

Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.

Passed with cuts for cinema. Rosemary's Killer was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Released uncut in 2007.

Tagline: If you think you're safe... you're DEAD wrong! Release: 1981-11-06 Video Label: Entertainment in Video (EVV1006) Run time: 89m

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.

Passed uncut for cinema. Prom Night was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Also passed uncut for video in 1987.

Tagline: If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home! Release: 1980-07-18 Video Label: Embassy (EV2049), (ELV2049) Run time: 93m

A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.

The Nesting was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Passed uncut in 1986.

Tagline: The terror that hides inside your mind. Release: 1981-05-01 Video Label: VIPCO (VIP043) Run time: 104m

A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.

Passed with cuts for cinema. The Last Horror Film was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. An edited version was released in 2003.

Tagline: She's Dying To Be In His Film… Release: 1982-08-12 Video Label: Intervision (A-A0469) Run time: 87m

A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

Passed uncut for cinema. Inseminoid was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Also passed uncut for video in 1987. Downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2005.

Tagline: Conceived in violence, carried in terror, born to devastate and brutalize a universe! Release: 1981-01-23 Video Label: Brent Walker Run time: 93m

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.

Passed uncut for cinema. Happy Birthday to Me was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Also passed uncut for video in 1986. Downgraded to an uncut 15 certificate in 2004.

Tagline: Six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see. Release: 1981-05-15 Video Label: RCA (42011), (CVT10108) Run time: 110m

After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.

Graduation Day was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Passed uncut in 1986. Downgraded to an uncut 15 certificate in 2003

Tagline: The Class of ‘81 is running out of time! Release: 1981-05-01 Video Label: IFS (FF30167) Run time: 96m

Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.

Friday the 13th part 2 was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. The R-rated version was passed uncut in 1987. Downgraded to an uncut 15 certificate in 2008.

Tagline: The body count continues... Release: 1981-05-01 Video Label: CIC (VHE2035), (LVG2035) Run time: 86m

The R-rated version was released without cuts in 1987. The full unrated version (previously released for cinema) was released uncut in 2003.

Camp counsillors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

Friday the 13th was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police.

Pre-cert Video Label: Warner (WEV 61172), (PEV 61172)

Tagline: They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them. Release: 1980-05-09 Video Label: Georgetown Productions Inc., Sean S. Cunningham Films, Paramount Pictures Run time: 95m

Released uncut in 1986.

In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.

Final Exam was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police.

Pre-cert Video Label: Embassy (ELV1618)

Tagline: Some may pass the test… God help the rest. Release: 1981-06-05 Video Label: Motion Picture Marketing (MPM), Peninsula Management Productions Run time: 90m

A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.

Eaten Alive! was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police.

Tagline: Trapped in a jungle of crazy flesh eaters! The terrifying nightmare that became reality! Release: 1980-03-19 Video Label: Vampix (HVM1022) Run time: 92m

A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.

Passed with cuts for cinema. Don't Answer the Phone! was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. An edited version was released without further cuts in 2005.

Tagline: ...He'll Know You're Alone! Release: 1980-02-29 Video Label: WOV 2000 (XF132) Run time: 95m

A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband philanders and every little thing frightens her out of her wits.

Demented was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Released with 1m 19s of cuts in 1987.

Tagline: Revenge is sweet... and deadly. Release: 1980-06-01 Video Label: Media (M179) Run time: 87m

A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.

ssed with 27s of cuts for cinema. Dawn of the Mummy was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Passed with 1m 43s of cuts for video in 1987. Released uncut in 2003.

Tagline: A monstrous, chilling terror stalking the living… Release: 1981-12-11 Video Label: FilmTown (FT01) Run time: 93m

(a.k.a. You Better Watch Out)

Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!

Christmas Evil was on the Section 3 Nasties List and were liable for seizure and forfeiture by the police. Released uncut in 2012 with a 15 rating.

Tagline: You Better Watch Out! Release: 1980-11-01 Video Label: IFS (FF30177) Run time: 94m

(also known as Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Zombies and Virus)

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

Originally passed uncut for cinema in an edited version. Zombie Creeping Flesh was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Full version released uncut in 2002.

Tagline: When the Creeping Dead Devour the Living Flesh! Release: 1980-11-17 Video Label: Merlin (M264D) Run time: 101m

A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Visiting Hours was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with approximately 1 minute cut in 1986. Passed uncut in 2017.

Tagline: So frightening you'll never recover. Release: 1982-05-21 Video Label: CBS/FOX (1171-50), (1171-70) Run time: 105m

College students Terry, Nancy, and Gloria, on their way to a rock concert, crash their car in a torrential rainstorm, badly injuring one of them. Seeking shelter and aid, they come across a house occupied by a man-hating mother and her daughter...and they soon wish they hadn't.

Originally passed uncut for cinema. Unhinged was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released uncut in 2004.

Tagline: The Nightmare Begins When You Wake Up! Release: 1982-10-14 Video Label: Avatar (6238-50) Run time: 80m

(also known as Night School)

A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Terror Eyes was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with 1 minute 16 seconds cut in 1987.

Tagline: A lesson in terror. Release: 1981-01-07 Video Label: Guild (GH201) Run time: 88m

Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.

The Slayer was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with 14 seconds cut in 1992. Re-released uncut in 2001.

Tagline: She searched through the dark corridors of the unknown only to find ... The Slayer Release: 1982-10-08 Video Label: VIPCO (VIP036) Run time: 80m

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Originally passed uncut for cinema. Possession was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released uncut in 1999.

Tagline: Inhuman ecstasy fulfilled. Release: 1981-05-27 Video Label: VTC (VTC1031) Run time: 124m

(also known as Night Warning and Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker)

Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.

Nightmare Maker was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Refused a video certificate in 1987 under the title The Evil Protege. No UK re-release.

Tagline: She was lonely. He was all she had. No-one would take him from her - and live... Release: 1981-11-20 Video Label: Atlantis (AVP702) Run time: 96m

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Inferno was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with 20 seconds cut in 1993. Re-released uncut in September 2010.

Tagline: Come face to face with Hell. Release: 1980-02-07 Video Label: CBS (1140-50), (1140-70) Run time: 107m

Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.

Originally passed uncut for cinema. The funhouse was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released uncut in 1987. Re-classified 15 in 2007.

Tagline: Pay to get in. Pray to get out! Release: 1981-03-13 Video Label: CIC (VHA1058) Run time: 96m
7 / 10

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. The Evil Dead was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with approximately 2 minutes cut in 1990. Re-released uncut in 2001.

Tagline: The ultimate experience in gruelling terror. Release: 1981-09-10 Video Label: Palace (PVC2018A) Run time: 85m

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.

Originally passed uncut for cinema. Dead and Buried was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with 30 seconds cut in 1990. Re-released uncut in 1999.

Tagline: It will take your breath away. All of it. Release: 1981-05-29 Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVA 901286 2) Run time: 94m

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Contamination was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released uncut in 2004 with a 15 rating.

Tagline: You can feel them in your blood! Release: 1980-08-02 Video Label: VIP Run time: 95m

A young girl witnesses the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, by mirror reflection. Years later, when the mirror is accidentally shattered, a dark and vengeful curse is unleashed on the family, and anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with its shards falls victim to heinous murder.

Originally passed uncut for cinema. The Bogey Man was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with 44 seconds cut in 1992. Re-released uncut in 2000.

Tagline: The most terrifying nightmare of childhood is about to return! Release: 1980-11-07 Video Label: VIPCO (VIP014) Run time: 82m

(original title: E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore ‒ L’Aldilà, also known as Seven Doors of Death)

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. The Beyond was one of the 72 Video Nasties from the DPPs infamous nasties list! Released with approximately 2 minutes cut in 1987. Re-released uncut in 2001.

Tagline: Beyond death... Beyond Evil... Beyond the dreaded gates of hell. Release: 1981-04-29 Video Label: Vampix (HVM1021) Run time: 88m
7 / 10

A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Tenebrae was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 5 seconds cut in 1999. Re-released uncut in 2003.

Tagline: Terror Beyond Belief! Release: 1982-10-28 Video Label: Videomedia (HVM1032) Run time: 101m
6 / 10

A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Nightmares in a damaged Brain was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with approximately 3 minutes of pre-edits in 2005. Re-released uncut in November 2015.

Tagline: The Dream You Can't Escape ALIVE! Release: 1981-10-23 Video Label: WOV2000 (XF140) Run time: 99m
5 / 10

When a group of Anthropology students head into the forest to investigate a series of Sasquatch attacks, the discover an immortal brain-blast of crazy hermits, mutilated Girl Scouts, and interspecies copulation.

Night of the Demon was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 1 minute 41 seconds cut in 1994.

Tagline: An evil mutation embarks on a wave of brutal butchery. Release: 1980-02-04 Video Label: IFS (FF30173) Run time: 96m

A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.

Madhouse was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released uncut in 2004.

Tagline: Many people visit… no one ever leaves. Release: 1981-03-04 Video Label: Medusa (MC006) Run time: 93m

When two low-lives gate crash a party, and are mocked by the posh hosts, they decide to get their revenge by subjecting the guests to various forms of torture and violence.

Originally refused a cinema certificate in 1981. House on the Edge of the Park was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 11 minutes 43 seconds cut in 2002. Re-released with 42 seconds cut in 2011.

Tagline: Anything Could Happen… Everything Did! Release: 1980-11-06 Video Label: Skyline (CL003) Run time: 91m
8 / 10

The Boyle family moves into a gothic style house by a cemetery, unaware of its bloody path and guts-spraying future.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. The House by the Cemetery was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with over 4 minutes cut in 1988. Re-released with 33 seconds cut in 2001. Released uncut in 2009.

Tagline: You may have just mortgaged your life. Release: 1981-08-14 Video Label: Vampix (Videomedia) (HVM1027) Run time: 87m

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Evilspeak was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 3 minutes 34 seconds cut in 1987. Re-released uncut in 2004.

Tagline: Remember the little kid you used to pick on? Well, he's a big boy now. Release: 1981-08-22 Video Label: FilmTown (FT02) Run time: 93m
3 / 10

Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.

Don't Go in the Woods was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released uncut in 2007 with a 15 rating.

Tagline: Everyone has nightmares about the ugliest way to die. Release: 1981-09-05 Video Label: VRO (VN0012) Run time: 82m

The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her off into the jungle from where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, little knowing what horrors Laura is enduring in the meantime in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthristy world. Laura's rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors - but also the horrifying lust for blood of a primitive and cruel god.

Devil Hunter was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released uncut in November 2008.

Tagline: Hunted, raped, and tormented out of her mind... Release: 1980-12-05 Video Label: Cinehollywood (V1590) Run time: 102m
8 / 10

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Cannibal Holocaust was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released in 2001 with 5 minutes 44 seconds cut to remove most animal cruelty and rape scenes. Re-released with 15 seconds cut to one animal cruelty scene in 2011.

Beware, this is probably one of the most pirated tapes out there. Due to its high desirability and reasonable price it has attracted the bootleggers abound over the years and many boots now circulate or sit in unknowing collectors collections.

One of GO's most left field piece of marketing accompanied this release. They had printed numerous bar mats and distributed to pub chains. Imagine that, granma and grandad enjoying a little sherry down the local with a cannibal chewwing on some intestines starring up at them, marvelous!

This was undeniably one of Go Video’s more daring releases. Featuring numerous scenes of cannibalism, rape and animal cruelty, Cannibal Holocaust was guaranteed to raise the eyebrows of even the strongest viewers, while Fleet Street officials prepared the way for its imminent ban, alongside many others. Despite the despicable animal cruelty this is a fabulous movie with a superb score. Its prominence in the pre cert world is well deserved and I would recommend a viewing to all.

Made with enormous style by Italian-born filmmaker Ruggero Deodato – The same director who would soon shoot permanent DPP fixture The House on the Edge of the Park. This was actually Deodato’s second Cannibal picture; his first was Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, which was shot in 1977 and was a sort of unofficial sequel to Umberto Lenzi’s surprisingly effective Deep River Savages where both pictures starred Ivan Rassimov and Me Me Lai.

Cannibal Holocaust is now available in high street shops throughout the UK, but not before our censors insisted on the removal of some 5m 44s of footage – largely to scenes of real animal cruelty and to eroticised sexual violence, in accordance with BBFC policy and guidelines.

Tagline: They eat and they are eaten! Release: 1980-02-07 Video Label: Go Video (GO121) Run time: 96m
5 / 10

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Cannibal Ferox was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with approximately 6 minutes of pre-cuts plus an additional 6 sec cut to a scene of animal cruelty in 2000.

Tagline: They raped and murdered his sister while he watched helplessly. Now it's his turn to make them die slowly. Release: 1981-04-24 Video Label: Replay (R1016) Run time: 93m

Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.

Cannibal Apocalypse was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 2 seconds cut to animal cruelty in 2005.

Tagline: POW's in Vietnam... starved in captivity... released with a taste for human flesh. Release: 1980-08-04 Video Label: Replay (R1015) Run time: 96m
7 / 10

A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. The Burning was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 19 seconds cut in 1992. Re-released uncut in 2001

Tagline: A legend of terror isn't a campfire story anymore! Release: 1981-05-08 Video Label: Thorn EMI (TVA 900836 2) Run time: 91m
4 / 10

Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their wheelchair bound mother operates a boarding school for young women. Miguel becomes obsessed with one of the girls at the school, and wants to resume his incestuous relationship with his sister.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Bloody Moon was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with 1 minute 20 seconds cut in 1993. Released uncut November 2008.

Tagline: Don't Panic... It only happens once in a... Bloody Moon. Release: 1981-03-27 Video Label: Interlight (ILV107) Run time: 90m
2 / 10

Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.

Anthropophagous the Beast was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released with approximately 8 minutes of pre-edits as The Grim Reaper in 2002. Complete version passed uncut in June 2015.

Tagline: It's not fear that tears you apart...it's him! Release: 1980-08-07 Video Label: Video Shack (VS006), VFP (VFP001) Run time: 92m

A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.

Originally passed with cuts for cinema. Absurd was on the DPP39 List of Video Nasties. Released uncut in 2017.

Tagline: Pray you survive the hunt. Release: 1981-10-01 Video Label: Medusa (MC002) Run time: 94m