13 O’Clock Episode 326 LIVE: Video Nasties Revisited

17 Nov 202217 Nov 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Ah, the eighties. That magical time when you’d toddle down to the local video store and peruse the shelves, hopefully finding some new slice of cinematic depravity to enjoy over the weekend. If you were in the UK, however, it was a great deal harder to get your horror fix, thanks to some real uptight old sticks in the mud who thought that horror and exploitation flicks were causing the downfall of civilization. The BBFC, or British Board of Film Censors, came down hard on home video horror in the 1980s, confiscating video tapes and arresting shop owners, all because they were convinced that seeing some fake dismemberment and cannibalism was going to compel little Nigel to act out the carnage in real life. Join Tom and Jenny on this infuriating and absurdly hilarious journey through horror movie history, when watching or selling cult classic films such as A Bay of Blood, The Burning, Cannibal Holocaust, The Driller Killer, I Spit on Your Grave, or The Last House on the Left could get you fines or prison time, on this gleefully uncensored episode 326.

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13 O’Clock Movie Retrospective: The Thirsty Dead (1974)

17 Jun 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Jenny discusses a 1974 exploitation flick that was shot in the Philippines about a group of women kidnapped by a blood-drinking cult of some kind. Sadly, the movie is FAR less interesting than that premise sounds. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront!

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13 O’Clock Matinee LIVE: ‘Gator Bait (1974)

10 Jan 202210 Jan 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Tom and Jenny talk about a 70s exploitation/revenge flick set in the Louisiana bayou, about a wild Cajun woman, played by Playmate of the Year Claudia Jennings, who has to strike back at a bunch of rednecks who accuse her of murder and try to rape her sister. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront!

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13 O’Clock Episode 75 – Video Nasties, Plus The Turpin Family

23 Jan 2018 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

*Note: I know I said Tom would be back for this episode, but his dad’s recovery is going more slowly than expected; he might need another surgery on the day before this episode comes out. So Tom decided to stay in Mississippi with his dad for another week. He will return to Florida on January 26th, and will be returning to the show after that date. Thank you for all your kind words of support. You guys are the best.*

Ah, the late 70s and early 80s. A golden age in terrible exploitation flicks available for rent in sketchy VHS rental shops. Those of us who are of a certain age (ahem) can remember scouring the racks in the horror section of the video store, trying to decide whether to rent Night of the Bloody Apes, Killer Nun, The Gestapo’s Last Orgy, or Cannibal Apocalypse. But if you grew up in the UK, it was apparently a lot harder to get your grimy little mitts on uncut home videos of these exploitation classics, because a lot of them ended up on the infamous list of “video nasties” that could be legally seized under the auspices of the British Board of Film Censors, who thought the movies were contributing to the moral turpitude of the nation’s children. So join Jenny as she takes a fun, gory tour through the Video Nasty Era and discusses a few of the films that were on the list (as well as a few that were inexplicably left off). YES, WE’VE GOT A VIDEO!

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Song at the end: “Nasty” by The Damned. Clips at the beginning taken from the trailer for The Last House on the Left and the “Nasty” episode of The Young Ones.

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