The place: Great Britain. The time: the early 1980s. The dawn of the video age. With new video companies appearing on a weekly basis, competition for shelf space was fierce. Eye-catching video cover designs were essential to succeed in this saturated marketplace. Video was new, unregulated, and out of control. These were the outlaw years.
The glory days of horror video cover design spanned barely five years, and the legal crackdown of 1984 swiftly removed the vast bulk of these crazy designs from rental shop shelves forever. Presented in this book are the most striking, outrageous, rare, valuable and highly sought-after cover designs from the halcyon days of horror. All covers are shown full size and in full colour. Titles covered in this comprehensive book include all the official 'video nasties', and many more.
The authors have decades of personal experience as horror video collectors and, backed up by unparalleled access to original archive material, they have uncovered never-before revealed facts and anecdotes about the 'video nasty' era. This book explodes myths about banned videos, and presents the world's first ever complete and unexpurgated 'video nasty' timeline, charting which videos were seized and prosecuted, and exactly when these key events unfolded.
