{"id":2890,"date":"2011-05-09T23:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2011-05-09T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:07:31","slug":"video-nasties-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Video Nasties, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pranks_LP.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1972\" title=\"Pranks_LP\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pranks_LP.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>During the eighties, the British censor board was overly paranoid that little kiddies might have their brains horribly corrupted by violent slasher films or films containing Things Wrong &#8211; or grow up to be serial killers. Most of the millions who saw uncut versions of <strong>Evil Dead<\/strong> didn&#8217;t become violent offenders (some are probably your bankers, dentists, and podiatrists), and hey, filmmakers like Raimi actually advanced the art of filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>But in the eighties, the U.K.&#8217;s censor board would have none of it, so without specific cuts or being a work in whole of ill mental repute, a movie could remain in limbo while the board attempted to prosecute distributors for carrying Wrong Films.<\/p>\n<p>Of the films in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video_nasty\" >original list<\/a>, I&#8217;ve thus far reviewed three: Raimi&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/e\/3263_EvilDeadUltimate.htm\">Evil Dead<\/a><\/strong> (released uncut in the U.K. 20 years after its original theatrical release); Abel Ferrara&#8217;s bonkers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/2868_DrillerKillerSE.htm\">Driller Killer<\/a><\/strong> (released uncut 23 years after its theatrical run); and Meir Zarchi&#8217;s ugly <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/i\/2321_ISpitGraveElite.htm\">I Spit on Your Grave<\/a><\/strong> (reased with edits 23 years after its release).<\/p>\n<p>Those constitute the unofficial Part I entries in my nasty tally on home video, and now comes Part II: Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpetnter&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3775_DormThatDrippedBlood.htm\">The Dorm That Dripped Blood<\/a> <\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2878\">M<\/a>], available in an uncut edition apparenty no one&#8217;s seen since its&#8217; U.S. theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>Two things tied me to the film prior to learning it was a nasty: under the title <strong>Pranks<\/strong>, it was one of the first Christopher Young soundtrack LPs I ever bought, and I&#8217;ve waited about 20 years to see where the image of a boiled human head fits into the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Did the film live up to its reputation? Is Synapse&#8217;s Blu-ray transfer so good you can smell fresh coed soup? Was Christopher Young a scoring genius from the get-go?<\/p>\n<p>Read the review.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synapse Films released a swanky new Blu-ray \/ DVD combo edition of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter&#8217;s slasher classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982) which, like Sam Raimi&#8217;s Evil Dead (1981), was branded by Britain&#8217;s paranoid censor board as a Video Nasty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[464,467,468,473],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-KC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}