Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) – Video Nasties, Shark Fights & Fulci Gore

So in the UK it landed on the infamous video nasties list and we had quite the list here and it was a really hot topic back in the early 80s and there was campaigners like Mary Whitehouse and the media who are against these types of films.

They were saying they were too violent.

They were too gory.

And, you know, some on the list, you know, they're pretty grim.

And like one film I always struggled with and will never watch again is A Clockwork Orange.

But I tend to find a lot of the films, you're kind of more, oh, that's gross, than gory.

Well, the ones I've seen anyway.

I'm not a big fan of extreme gore or extreme violence, which you will see as time goes on.

But people are.

They love that shit.

So as long as you're age appropriate, then knock yourselves out.

I have to say that.

I can't be seen encouraging kids to watch horror.

Massive hypocrite, but I can't be seen to say that.

The outrage of these kind of movies did lead to a ban on many films from the director of public prosecutions.

And one everyone really remembers is The Evil Dead, but films were getting banned left, right and centre.

Zombie Flesh Eaters was banned in a few places, not just here, but it did have a re-release in the 90s and was played in film festivals and have DVD, if you remember those, premieres.

over the years in various countries.

Now, the Italian director Fulci had done many films, but it was this movie that got him the international recognition that everyone knows of him today.

This also wasn't his only film on the video nasty list because apparently that's where he always wanted to go.

So Fulci became a legend in international horror off the back of this movie alongside classics like The Beyond and House by the Cemetery.

And if there's one thing about his films that you need to know is that man liked to make you feel uncomfortable.

I find he didn't rush the scenes.

He lets the camera linger on the grotesque as well as the sexy lady in it until you're practically begging him to turn away.

Not from the sexy lady, but from the gross zombies behind.