Let’s Get The Banned Back Together

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk Doing for the Italian town of Latzio what Michael Myers did for Haddonfield, what Leatherface did for Texas and what David Brent did for Slough…we arrive - at last - to dive deep into the murky waters of Giallo (remembering to hold our nose, clutch tight our baggy Speedos and avoid the bobbing corpses…) Ciao ragazze! A splashy sinister wor...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk A sneak peak at Episode 4 of our Bonus Extras! The fourth BONUS EPISODE – a feature length deep-dive into…well, into who the goddamn hell asks horror Podcasters for their goddamn half-baked opinions? And what the hell they know about this stuff anyway? With millions of blogs and pods launching on weekly basis, spreading like damp Mogwai ac...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk Even "cornea" than Part 1, blink and you'll miss it, while not a "patch" on Episode 9…it's got worse pupils than Netflix's Adolescence… We return to 1971's ocular oddity of artistic anarchy…Headless Eyes! Last time, we prowled through the plotting, as poor Arthur - messed-up, misunderstood and masochistic - hunted and haunted the streets o...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk To mark the prestigious achievement of our tenth episode, another two-parter! Join me in the Blockbuster that taste forgot as we hit Grindhouse full in the face, with this 42nd Street foray into ocular obscenity. Fresh from Straw Dogs…yes! Another sensitive academic artsy type finds himself on the wrong end of a weapon (a teaspoon, rather...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk “I will not have any violence against this house…” And so says Dustin Hoffman as he defends his troublesome wife Susan George and an injured David Warner against the onslaught of a local town driven to mayhem with rage and homebrew. Oh if only the author of the book “The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm” had been quite so staunch in his defence of...

“And just like that”, as the never popular Carrie Bradshaw has somehow made a living saying…it all gets very, VERY serious. For episode 9 – a feature length two-parter –  we step away from the creepies and the cheapies and take our first bold move into the 70s and a very, very troublesome picture indeed. The movie of which Nick Schager of  Slant Magazine  said "Sitting through Peckinpah's controve...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk QUIZ! In February of 1970, what was “…Guaranteed to upset your stomach!” What warned “no-one admitted without a vomit bag…” And had reviewers saying “some of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen.” Was it... A. The Berni Inn, Prestatyn? B. Scotland’s World Cup First 11? or C. Michael Armstrong’s ‘Mark Of The Devil’? Welcome to episode...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk A sneak peak at Episode 3 of our Bonus Extras Hark! What is that on the wind?! A summoning by our leader… a gathering of us village folk… a dark night of the soul…plus crisps and peanuts! The third BONUS EPISODE see us alarmed by a Facebook advert, intrigued by a sales pitch and donning our best hiking spectacles to spend a wonderful coupl...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk When gorillas meet grapples in gruesome groovy get-up… Yes! Thank HAYSTACKS the DPP were there to remove this 1969 Mexican wrestling/monster movie mash-up from the eyes of innocents. And bless BIG DADDY I’m here to take you through it! Movie legend Rene Cardona directs a cast of hammy have-a-go heroes and dastardly doctors in this bloodthi...

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk More?! Surely not! Hello Ban Fans! Its me, your horror host Richard Asplin. Just dropping by for a moment to offer you a free glimpse into the newest “XXX-Rated Extras” “Bonus Episode. For those with a fascination of what goes on BEHIND the camera, how low-budget horrors get from script to screen and why so much VHS on the Banned list was...

From the studio that somehow brought you 'Downfall' (the last days of a meglomaniacal insane fascist lunatic) and 'Willy Wonka' (the last days of another meglomaniacal …oh you get the idea), probably the goriest yet campest piece of Teutonic soft-core silliness and fairy tale filth! While 70’s barmy Britain served up the soft, saucy sex-comedies of Robin Asquith and Fiona Richmond,  from Germany w...

Well it couldn’t stay fun for long. On the flip side of the silly splattery slapstick, the movie monsters, fake blood and prosthetics…this. The first true 'exploitation' in our 'exploration'. A nasty little exercise in soft core women-in-prison unpleasantness, the movie that launched the thankfully short-lived nazisploitation trend, from the director of Mondo Bizarro, Love Is A 4 Letter Word and H...

Oh he’s a mad doctor all right. Not like your usual furious GP. He’s not banging on about NHS cuts, Health Secretary appointments or Covid Mask policies. He’s mad…with power! A year after one Romero set the horror bar high with Night Of The Living Dead, his namesake lowers it a good foot and a half with this Philippines jungle shocker! WHY did a young boy bleed green blood and turn insane and drow...

Somehow from the same year as The Ghastly Ones, we – at last – discover what can happen when a skilful young director with high ideas meets offal-chewing ghouls with a low budget… the legendary NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! WHO is the monstrous man in the graveyard who attacks and eats young Johnny? WHAT HAS BECOME of the owners of the abandoned house that hides corpses and rifles? WILL the brave, bic...

Hello Ban Fans! Its me, your horror host Richard Asplin. Just dropping by for a moment to offer you a free glimpse into the first “XXX-Rated Extras” “Bonus Episode. This 50 minute feature length tour is a time-travelling spin full of quotes, re-enactments, trailers, and tribunals – telling the story of how the Video Nasty moral panic of the early eighties came about. Key players, key movies – all...

Next up, we fast forward 5 years to a shocking tale of whipping, wills, wigs and wickedness. It’s 1968’s BLOOD RITES! Aka THE GHASTLY ONES! WHY have three couples received a spooky invitation to the old Crenshaw House? WHY is the groundskeeper Colin kept chained in the basement? WHO is painting bloody crosses and impaling guests on pitchforks? And how did director Andy Milligan get the whole shodd...

Let’s Get The Banned Back Together – Episode One – Blood Feast (1963) We begin our treacherous trawl through DPP’s list of forbidden films and corrupting cassettes with a deep dive into the oldest film on the list. Herschell Gordon Lewis’s BLOOD FEAST. WHY is humble Miami caterer Fuad Ramses so keen to take on this order for a 18th birthday party? WHO is the killer removing eyes, legs, brains and...

Let’s Get The Banned Back Together – Teaser Trailer! Why did 72 of the goriest, most gruesome and grotesque horror movies suddenly…disappear? How did cult shockers, slashers and horrors go from “available now!” to renters and owners winding up in UK prisons? And what happened in the early 80s that got priests, parents and politicians on the march to “Ban This Filth!” But more importantly…where can...