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1979 Italy zombie video nasty by Lucio Fulci just released on UK 4K Blu-ray
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Zombie Flesh Eaters is a 1979 Italy zombie horror by Lucio Fulci
Starring Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch and Richard Johnson
Heavily cut by the BBFC for 1979 cinema release. Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Cut by the BBFC from 1992 to 1999. BBFC uncut since 2005. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US. Summary Notes
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead. UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong
gory violence and horror:
- 2025 Arrow Video Special Edition R0 4K Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad released
on 6th October 2025
Promotional Material THEY WILL RISE TO SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE LIVING! From the sleazy video nasty vaults comes a movie so stained with controversy and moral
indignation that the very mention of its name sends shudders down the spines of the weak-stomached and censorious -- Zombie Flesh Eaters . A gut-munching, shark-wrestling, eye-gouging orgy of mud-caked undead terror and
Italian splatter from the dark imagination of horror genius Lucio Fulci ( The House by the Cemetery , City of the Living Dead ). An abandoned boat in New York Harbour unleashes
a dead flesh-crazed Zombie cargo... A young American woman and a journalist investigate a tropical island where a deadly disease is making the dead walk... Soon, thoughts of getting to the bottom of the murderous curse will be forgotten, as Fulcis
walking corpses overwhelm the living and reports come in that the Big Apple is swarming with the living dead... After over 45 years, Zombie Flesh Eaters still has the power to shock and offend the unwilling.
Check out this classic sadist video and revel in a wonderfully tasteless movie that once helped usher in a moral panic! 4K ULTRA HD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
- 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original English and Italian front and end titles
- Restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio
- Optional remixed lossless English Dolby Atmos audio
- Optional remixed
lossless Italian DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the Italian
soundtrack
- New audio commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- Audio commentary by screenwriter Elisa Briganti, moderated by Calum
Waddell
- Audio commentary by Fulci biographer Stephen Thrower and horror expert Alan Jones
- Sound and Fury: Listening to Zombie Flesh Eaters
, a new visual essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Repellent: Memories of Zombie Flesh Eaters , a new visual essay by author and critic Chris Alexander
- Archival introduction by actor Ian McCulloch
- From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Film , a 2012 documentary
featuring screenwriters Dardano Sacchetti and Antonio Tentori, critic Kim Newman and filmmakers Luigi Cozzi, Ruggero Deodato and Russ Streiner
- Aliens, Cannibals and Zombies: A Trilogy
of Italian Terror , an archival interview with McCulloch
- The Meat-Munching Movies of Gino de Rossi , an archival interview with the celebrated special effects artist
- Zombie Flesh Eaters: From Script to Screen , an archival featurette featuring Dardano Sacchetti showing key pages from his original Island of the
Living Dead screenplay
- Music for a Flesh-Feast , a 2012 Q&A with composer Fabio Frizzi at the Glasgow Film Theatre
- Original
English language Nightmare Island screenplay
- Theatrical trailers and TV spots
- Easter eggs
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
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1981 US video nasty by Ken Hughes has finally been passed uncut by the BBFC and released on 18 rated Blu-ray
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| 4th July 2025
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Night School (aka Terror Eyes) is a 1981 US slasher by Ken Hughes.
With Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward and Drew Snyder.
 
Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1981 cinema release. Released uncut on pre-cert VHS only to be banned as a video nasty. Cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated 1987 VHS. The BBFC finally passed the film uncut with an 18 rating for 2025 Blu-ray.
Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US. Summary Notes A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather
clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
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Promotional Material They work by day, take a full schedule of classes all night and somehow find time for study and an occasional date. Women in the evening curriculum at Bostons distinguished Wendell
College do a lot to get ahead in life. But theres someone who will go to even greater lengths. Someone who will do anything to get a head. A killer whose m.o. is the ritualistic decapitation of victims makes terror a required course at Night
School, directed by Kenneth Hughes (Casino Royale 1967) and starring Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds; After Dark, My Sweet) in her screen debut. Leonard Mann plays the homicide lieutenant assigned to the puzzling case. He has hunches, not clues. Suspects,
not evidence. And a rising body count. Finals are coming early this year at Wendell. And for those who dont make the grade, heads will roll.
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Video nasty downrated by the BBFC to 15 and uncut for the first time in the UK.
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| 15th January 2025
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| Thanks to Scott
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The Cannibal Man is a 1972 Spanish thriller by Eloy de la Iglesia.
With Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen and Eusebio Poncela.
Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Cut by the BBFC for 18 rated VHS in 1993. Later passed 15 uncut for 2025 Blu-ray. There is also an extended integral version assembled from unique footage from several other versions, such as the German
Cinema Version. Summary Review: Pseudo-sleazy Real slaughterhouse footage and scenes of dirty urban slums set the tone for this stark and obsessive Spanish thriller.
A slaughterhouse employee named Marcos gets attacked by a cabdriver who takes objection when he and his girlfriend are making out in the back seat, and Marcos kills him. This sets in motion a week of killing, first to cover up the
cabdriver's death, and afterward to keep the bodies piling up in his bedroom a s ecret. Weird, pseudo-sleazy film that works even though it doesn't even attempt to live up to its title - there's *no cannibalism*.
The dubbing is pretty bad and there's not much gore (most of the nastiness happens off-screen), but there's plenty of atmosphere and a sense of desperation builds in Marco's apartment.
International Version
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The BBC is screening a new comedy about young video nasty collectors in the 1980's
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| 4th January 2025
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| Thanks to Mike
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article from irishnews.com
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The BBC has published a trailer for a new six-part comedy horror drama filmed in Northen Ireland and Ireland earlier this year. It tells the story of three teenagers who go on an epic quest to complete a cult horror VHS collection. A description
of the series reads: Set in 1985, when the home video revolution is in full analogue swing, Video Nasty tells the story of three mostly-normal-but-kind-of-weird teenagers who go on an epic quest to complete a cult VHS
collection. Instead, they get mixed up in a murder investigation, becoming chief suspects and public enemies. The series is a deadly, deadpan comedy with a raucous, racy, retro flavour. Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer set to film
latest blockbuster in Northern Ireland Who are Marian and Dolours Price? Written and created by Hugh Travers and directed by Christopher Smith and Megan K. Fox the series promises to be a, raucous, racy, retro 80's throwback that
blends laugh-out loud comedy with compelling horror-themed drama.
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It was released in November 1981 and banned as a 