First up this time is one of the most infamous,graphic and nastiest movies of all,it is the legendary Cannibal Holocaust.Pretty much every horror related website/forum has lengthy discussions on this film,some love it and some hate it,i fall into the love it section.I will say that the animal cruelty in the film is horrific and i would have sooner this have been done using special effects but whats done is done and no amount of moaning about it will do any good.The good thing about this particular release is that you get the option to view the film either fully uncut or in an animal cruelty free version.Either way it makes for a viewing experience you wont ever forget.The special features on this release are amazing and include an audio commentary with Ruggero Deoato and Robert Kerman,a 60 min making of documentary,on screen interviews,trailers, galleries, liner notes by Chas Balun, a poster plus other stuff as well.Its hard to imagine this movie looking better or appearing in a better version.This was released in a limited edition of 11,111 and i have No3569.
Next up is the limited edition Hellraiser box,i think pretty much every horror fan that likes the movies has this in their collection.
A recent addition to my little collection is this wonderful DVD set all about the video nasites madness from the early 80s.I was around during that time and know what a load of bollocks it all was.During its height if you told some one you were a horror fan you were pretty much treated the same as if you told them your were a peadophile.What made it worse was that most of the movies being singled out for banning were nothing more than cheap,low budget gore films,if it wasn't for the fact they ended up on the list they would have vanished into obscurity and off the shop shelves almost as quickly as they arrived.For those who have seen movies like Blood Rites (AKA: The Ghastly Ones), Don't Go In The Park and Frozen Scream will know that when films as bad as these are banned for being obscene then something is seriously wrong,not with the people who watch them but with the moronic MPs and do gooders who actually said they were obscene in the first place.Mary Whitehouse took out a private prosecution against the Tobe Hooper film Death Trap even though she admitted that she had never watched it, "I don't have to watch it to know what's in it" she once said.I could do masses of stuff on this subject but if you want a good idea of what it was all about then get this 3 disc DVD set and be amazed.The first 5000 were put out with 6 postcards which contain artwork for 5 of the most notorious movies on the list and one containing the cover artwork for the superb book The Art Of The Nasty.The standard release dose not contain the postcards.This one is No 3866.
More soon.
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