Video Nasties: Draconian Days

Jake West
2014-03-01


7.5
97 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Sian Barber Self Unowned
Martin Barker Self Unowned
Graham Bright Self Unowned
Lavinia Carey Self Unowned
Alan Jones Self Unowned
Alex Chandon Self Unowned
Tony M. Clarke Self Unowned
Kate Egan Self Unowned
John Hayward Self Unowned
Spencer Hickman Self Unowned
David Hyman Self Unowned
Kim Newman Self Unowned
Neil Marshall Self Unowned
Marc Morris Self Unowned
Julian Petley Self Unowned
Neil Keenan Self Unowned
David Kerekes Self Unowned
Craig Lapper Self Unowned
C.P. Lee Self Unowned
Christopher Smith Self Unowned
Stephen Thrower Self Unowned
Cathal Tohill Self Unowned
Carol Topolski Self Unowned
Nigel Wingrove Self Unowned
James Ferman Self (archive footage) Unowned
David Flint Self Unowned