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Video Nasties and 'Memory Lane'

  • 27-11-2002 8:36am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭


    'Video Nasties'- now there's a term from the 80's if ever I heard one!

    Thanks to Sky 1 last night for showing 'Predator', one of the first '18 certificate' films I ever watched.

    I can still remember the sweaty-palmed anticipation with which I carried a copy of 'The Terminator' home with me- god love the dodgy back-street video shops near where I grew up. Equally, I remember my panic when the MUST SEE FILM of 1984, 'Ghostbusters' was rumoured (in the playground) to be screening with an 18 certificate......"But that means I wont be able to see it at the cinema!"

    What was the first 'over 18's' flick that you saw?

    (be prepared to date yourselves, ladies and gents!);)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Some nasty english gangster film I guess. I was probably under the age of seven. Some guy had his hand forced into a meat grinder. Yuk.

    Ah I remember The Terminator, my parents got it for me on video. I got it whenever it first came out on video. I was very young, it was a great film !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,571 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    First 18s movie I saw was Nightmare On Elm Street. A neighbour got a pirate copy on betamax. How 80s is that? :D

    - Dave.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭telecinesk


    Retro> NTSC txfr Pal copy of Clockwork Orange on Betamax.Dunno if its nasty but Is that 80s enough?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Heh Nightmare on Elm street too! God I was scared!

    We used to watch Jaws all the time when I was 5 or so, what certificate was that?

    Oh and V used to scare me awfully :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭ozpass


    V scared the crap out of me! It started out like a nice, happy little sci-fi series then before you know it: aliens with extending jaws eating mice, and pregnant cheerleaders with expanding grey rings around their neck!

    There are a couple of 'V' graffiti daubs around Cork city centre.....wonder if it's connected?:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Gaz


    V is available on DVD by the way .. i have both sets , they are V the final Battle and V the mini series.

    Its the whole series from start until the red dust bit where the "star child" stops the mother ship from self destructingand then they all go and celebrate.

    The 2 nd series isnt available but it is crap anyway ...MUCH smaller budget and not as much of a continuing story and it was eventually axed.

    I got them on Region 1 from www.play.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    MY first 18 cert movie was proberly Mad Max 2 in 1982 when I was 17 but it might have been Dead and Buried (1981).

    I also saw a couple of X-rated films (as they were back then) but edited for a double bill. So I saw Deathwish and The Warriors together for example, not sure how much got cut out though. I would have been 15/16 when I saw them.

    Mike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭telecinesk


    Just remembered. Texas Chainsaw Massacre on beta followed by Dawn of the Dead. That was fiest X rated tape I saw. Still have it and worth a laugh to watch.

    V - Remember Brian Dennehy was the man who sold us to the Aliens!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    And in [glow=3]V[/glow] Freddy Krueger was actually a nice soft young man!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭Kone


    aaah V I remember it well! ;)

    Darth, Can you PM me?

    Cheers :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    Where are these V tages in Cork, any rough idea. I think there is one near Paul St, Carey's lane it might be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭ozpass


    Yep there's that one off Paul street, another one I've seen is down one of the cut-through's between Patrick Street and Oliver Plunkett Street- the one between AIB and Penneys- it's down at the Oliver Plunkett Street end.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭Graemo


    I saw the exorcist kinda by accident when I was 10. Then about 10 years later I was in Georgetown in Washington where they filmed the scene where the priest was pushed down the steps, it kinda all came back to me at once and I was more freaked by it then when i was 10.
    Then there was Canible Ferox. The grandaddy of video nasty's.


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