Video Nasties News Clippings Archive

http://www.bookofthedead.ws/website/features_video_nasties.html

This is an amazing resource - over 330 pages of news article scans from between 1980 - 1995 relating to the video nasties scandal (up until the Child's Play 3 incident)

A great piece of archive research, and a valuable document charting a part of our cultural history - many thanks to Rob (aka SeeNoEvil)

Japanese Ninja Turtle Toy Commercials

The voiceover guy sounds almost as excited as I am about these Ninja Turtles toys

Meshuggah Animated Video

Not my favourite Meshuggah song, but a gorgeous monochrome animated video

Elm Street NES Intro Screen

Here is another awesome piece of Nintendo history - the intro sequence form the (poor) Elm Street game

Gremlins 2 NES Advert

A wonderful piece of advertising history: a full commercial for Gremlins 2 on the NES

Man with Two Minds Plays with Himself...

...or something like that. Mark Kroos plays both parts of duelling banjos on a twin neck guitar. See it to believe it.

Torture Porn: Pre-Orders Now Available

 

For anyone interested in the area, my forthcoming book Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw is now available to pre-order:

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=524551

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Torture-Porn-Popular-Horror-after/dp/0230319416/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364847677&sr=1-1