That’s Nasty! The Devil Hunter (1980)

In 1983, the Director of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]

That’s Nasty! Dead and Buried (1981)

In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]

Small Screen, Big Dread: What Hooper’s Salem’s Lot Understood that King’s Novel Didn’t

By Adam Page There is something about Stephen King that, I think, he himself would probably concede after a few coffees and the right provocation: he can’t always see the wood for the trees. There is no question that he is one of the most instinctive and devastating horror writers of the twentieth century, an […]

Fantasia is turning 30, and we are here for it…

The busiest and best time of the year for Warped Perspective is just around the corner again, as the Fantasia International Film Festival gets ready to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Covering Fantasia has become a regular fixture for the site and it’s always genuinely very exciting: it’s often an opportunity to see world premieres of […]

Examining the liminal spaces and places of Backrooms (2026)

What kind of place is this? Backrooms (2026) is another of those break-out indie horror films from a young director unburdened by the weight of a legacy, whilst still benefitting from the ever-growing wealth of horror cinema which operates like its own microculture, cross-pollinating titles, genres, ideas and styles. Alongside Obsession, it picks up its […]

Frida: the Making of an Icon (2026)

Frida: The Making of an Icon, part of the Exhibition on Screen series, opens with a recording of Kahlo’s painting El Sueno (La cama) – or The Dream (The bed) – selling at the Exquisite Corpus auction of Surrealist art at Sotheby’s for a staggering $57.4 million. The painting depicts Frida sleeping on a wooden […]

That’s Nasty! Cannibal Terror (1980)

In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]

That’s Nasty! The Beast in Heat (1977)

In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]

The Wall Within: Divided Selves, Divided Cities in Possession (1981)

By guest contributor Adam Page There are some cities in the world that get inside you. I don’t mean in the tourist-brochure sense, like Rome seducing you with its golden light and self-satisfied beauty, but in the way a wound gets inside you. Berlin in 1981 was that type of city. You didn’t visit Berlin, […]

That’s Nasty! The Bogey Man (1980)

In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]

That’s Nasty! Absurd (1981)

In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]