This week on The Seat Struck Movie Podcast, John and Curtis discuss 'video nasties' - we chat a little bit into the background behind the push in the 1980s for censorship on violent/sexual/disturbing video content in the U.K. We run through some of our favorites out of the list of 72 officially 'banned' films: from Euro art house to exploitation trash. Before that, we run through our watchlist additions and discuss what we watched this week.
For next week's episode, we will be back on our John Carpenter watch series, discussing his early 90s Hitchcockian comedy thriller, MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN.
TIME STAMPS
00:00:00 Introduction
Watchlist Additions
00:03:23 The Righteous (Curtis)
00:03:48 Top Gun Maverick (Curtis)
00:04:33 Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe (Curtis)
00:05:20 Persona (John)
00:06:10 Ghost Town Anthology (John)
00:06:40 The Garden (John)
What We Watched This Week
00:07:58 Deathwatch (Curtis)
00:09:08 Dead Ringers (Curtis)
00:10:08 The Sadness (Curtis)
00:12:13 Game of Thrones Season Six and Seven [spoilers] (John)
00:14:50 The Hills Have Eyes [1977] (John)
00:16:38 Night of the Bloody Apes (John)
00:17:37 Lucky Grandma (John)
00:19:04 Top Gun (John)
VIDEO NASTIES DISCUSSION
00:20:58 Topic Overview
00:29:00 Cannibal Holocaust
00:33:50 Blood Feast
00:37:58 Zombi 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters
00:39:38 Posession
00:43:58 The Beyond
00:46:13 Faces of Death
00:49:37 Tenebrae
00:52:13 The Evil Dead
00:56:42 Wrap up
CREDITS AND PLUGS
Intro: Content Warning - Blood Feast (1963)
Outro: End Titles - Cannibal Holocaust OST
Quinn: @seatstruckreviews
Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'
John: johnnycakes.substack.com
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