Sci-Fi & Squeam

28 Nov 2013

VHS Resurrection : Zak Hepburn and a Video Movie Swap Meet !

Games & Hobbies, Society & Culture, TV & Film

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In the studio we have a VHS expert and collector and the curator of Cultastrophe cult movie experience at Nova and he talks to The Squeamer about VHS collecting, Video Nasties censorship in the U.K the aesthetic of VHS tapes and his PASSION for the medium..

PLUS the upcoming VHS Swap meet held as part of the MonsterFest here in Melbourne this Saturday the 30th of November 2013 : VHS Resurrection !!!

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What is Zak’s favourite Video Nasty VHS?? Listen to find OUT!

PLUS this will be happening too on the day :

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape

This incredible documentary delves deep into the furore surrounding the “video nasties” controversy in Thatchers Britain in the 1980’s – Analog tape, sleaze and buckets of outrage, who could possibly ask for more?

VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE documents the downfall of the golden age of VHS. Director Jake West (Doghouse, ABC’s of Death) talks with filmmakers Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday), Christopher Smith (Severance, Black Death) and MP Graham Bright and sheds light on how VHS culture. Taking in the explosion of home video, the erosion of civil liberties, the introduction of draconian censorship measures, hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape, West’s documentary also reflects on the influence this peculiar era still exerts on us today.

This documentary sheds light on a little talked about side of film history and touches on films like Evil Dead, Cannibal Holocaust, The Burning, The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave and many, many more classic horror films. It’s a must see for any genre fan!’

And there will be a very awesome “secret” vhs screening !

Beta or VHS? You Decide!