This event took place on 11 July 2009. Many thanks for everyone who attended for making it a sold-out success.

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The Location:
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London

The Time:
Saturday 11 July 2009, from 11am till 11pm

The Art of the Nasty book-launch and all-day film festival has been arranged to mark the passing of 25 years since the introduction of the Video Recordings Act and the end of the pre-certification era for home video in the UK.

double-bill:
TAKE AN EASY RIDE (18) 12.30pm
(running time 45 minutes)
GB, 1975
director: Kenneth Rowles
cast: Helen Bernat, Margaret Heald, Pauline Bate
This cautionary tale about the perils of hitch-hiking is a low-budget exploitation classic, which enjoyed a 48-week uninterrupted Soho run during the late 70s. Unseen since its Iver Film Services pre-cert video release. Screening introduced by director Kenneth Rowles.

DEATH WEEKEND (18) 3.30pm
(running time 90 minutes)
Canada, 1976
director: William Fruet
cast: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata
This stunning home-invasion horror film from Canada, aka The House by the Lake, has been unseen in the UK since its pre-cert era video release on the Vampix label.

SATAN'S SLAVE (18) 5.40pm
(running time 90 minutes)
GB, 1976
director: Norman J. Warren
cast: Michael Gough, Martin Potter, Candace Glendenning
Director Norman J. Warren introduced a very rare screening of the export version of his 1976 Satanic shocker, as originally released by early market-leaders Intervision at the dawn of the video era.

EQUINOX (18) 8.10pm
(running time 80 minutes)
USA, 1970
director: Jack Woods & Dennis Muren
cast: Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Bonner
Equinox is rumoured to have influenced classic video nasty The Evil Dead. This rarely screened horror movie has remained unseen in the UK since its two pre-cert video releases on the Mountain and KM labels.

Bonus Film: a special presentation courtesy of Pink Eiga
S&M HUNTER (18) 9.55pm
(running time 61 minutes)
Japan, 1986
director: Shuji Kataoka
cast: Shiro Shimomoto, Hiromi Saotome, Naomi Sugishita
A staggering exercise in manga-style outrageousness with the potential to offend everybody, S&M Hunter is a pink film concerning the exploits of a bondage superhero with a supernatural genius for tying women up in configurations that leave them helplessly aroused. When the girl gang, The Bombers, kidnap a man for their personal sex toy, he accepts a mission to infiltrate their hideout and show them the ropes. The climax, in which the rope-mad vigilante employs a 200 foot tall construction crane to execute his bondage masterpiece has to be seen to be believed!

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