Dont Fade Away: A Story Of Bootleg Nasties

[@TYTDReviews]

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[@Pumpsboy]

A fantastic Video as always, really interesting.

[@zamiadams4343]

WOW! Youve taken me back to many different, exciting times in my life. I remember buying Jess Franco's "Barbed Waire Dolls" from a bloke in a market in Glasgow ( I'm from there) after sending him a letter through an ad in one of the horror fanzies of the time in the late 80's. Then moving to London and entering the magical place that was Camden Film Fair. In the 90's it was THE place to get all sorts of f**ked up stuff, XXX, horror, Japanese Pinku films, Hong Kong Cat 3 etc. I've still got my bootleg VHS of Fulci's "Nightmare City" and a few other ones lying around. That golden period from the video recordings act to DVD was a film adventurers heaven, great video man, cheers!

[@TYTDReviews]

Hey thanks so much for the kind words man! :) Its a bit of a miracle these tapes survived at all given that most people just see them as blank cassettes and think they're worthless. it's amazing honestly the kind of history people will toss, theres so many memories tied up in these things :) Im glad I helped bring some fond memories back!

[@DVDandFilmBloke]

33:20 That's not true, A Clockwork Orange never got a home video release in the UK in 1988, Stanley Kubrick withdrew the movie in 1973 following death threats and copycat violence and the movie remained unavailable in the UK legally either on home video, cinema or TV airings until Stanley Kubrick's death in 1999 (the film was rereleased in cinemas in 1999 and finally made it's way to video in the UK in 2000). I believe Warners were planning to release it in the pre cert era but Kubrick pulled the plug. No UK VHS copy of A Clockwork Orange from 1988 exists and if you find a sleeve for it floating around online, that is not an official sleeve, it's a custom proof of concept sleeve I designed a few years ago (I also did a Pre Cert sleeve as well).

[@TYTDReviews]

Nope! your absolutely correct man! I hold my hands up on this one! I dont know honestly what I was thinking given I actually attended an anniversairy screening of Clockwork's return to theaters in 2019! a total blunder on my part for which I can only apologise! I've clearly been on the Moloko! xD

[@DVDandFilmBloke]

@@TYTDReviews It's fine :)

[@peckingforgoodTV]

Excellent video. You should do more essays. I collected nasty era VHS for a while in the early 2010s after watching the marc morris docs. I managed to snag original copies of Don't go in the House, Driller Killer, Inferno and Zombie Flesh Eaters (wrong clamshell) before packing it in. The prices were insane then. I can't imagine how much they are now. Also, mystery film on tape 8 = Giallo In Venice.

[@TYTDReviews]

Hey man! thanks for dropping by! From the sounds of it you managed to grab a few mainstays of the era! I've always kept an eye out for Driller Killer and ZFE on tape, but they've always just been tantalisingly out of reach. When someone sold me an original "Evil Dead" for £50 I thought i'd landed a bargain. These days just VHS covers can sell for upwards of £20-£40, there are ones I picked up for £30 about 6-7 years ago going for £70 now and lord help you if your looking for rarer tapes like "Cannibal Holocaust" or "The Devil Hunter" those ones easily go for between £200 and £600 depending on condition. Nowadays; I rarely if ever pick up tapes because even the facebook marketplace "Bulk" sellers are asking £50-£70 for a box full of late 90's retail tapes. that being said I do still nab the occasional bargain when the planets align. but I dont buy nearly as much as I used to, which is a bit of a shame... and thanks so much for letting me know about tape 8! funnily enough i've had the bluray of that one sat on my amazon wishlist for the longest time. I may pull the trigger on it and see what the fuss is about!

[@kierank1982]

Nth generation copies of UK banned films on VHS! Brought back a lot of memories of trading those types of videos as a teen! I miss the scuzzy quality of UK banned horror films on video, it just added something extra to the trepidation and thrills of finally getting hold of a particularly notorious banned film. When I knew my video recorder was on its way out, I transferred loads of videos just so I could always have that nostalgia from time to time. Thanks so much for this vid!

[@TYTDReviews]

Hay man thanks for dropping by and im glad I helped bring back a little nostalgia :) I totally agree with you, theres nothing quite like getting your hands on these kinds of tape and wondering not only if the quality is going to be up to snuff, but if whats listed as being on the tape is even the right thing! I dunno, the nasties just seem even nastier when they're from unofficial channels. it's a total thrill :) I think thered really be a market for battered nth generation dubs of old horror films, even as extra features. kind of like a "Nasty" cut for people who want that murky questionably sinister edge.

[@kierank1982]

@@TYTDReviews Spot on, man, spot on! I tried looking on Ebay etc. but came up short. The irony! Spend ages upgrading the quality of each of my scuzzy pirate pre-certs over and over and now I have a craving to see the scuzz again! I think I burned a few to DVD-Rs so I'll have to check the wallets. Hopefully will find some old VHS gold and then I can digitise then upload! My dad and uncle burned all my videos when I went to uni (luckily I brought most of my pre-certs with me!).

[@TYTDReviews]

Hang on; just to clarify...when you say "Burned" do you mean like...put them on disc...or like; melted them into a big pile of plastic and crushed dreams? because if it's the former then wow! thats really nice of them...and if it's the latter all I can say is "WOW. Oh man! im so SO sorry to hear it!" but yeh; big hauls these days are harder and harder to find. quite a few collectors are so switched on now they'll pay top dollar for 100 reasonable tapes just to skim off 3 or 4 that'll be worth big money and then bin off the rest! it's a bit of a sad state of things. as i've regularly seen collectors throw away tapes they think are worthless, but i'd take off their hands.

[@kierank1982]

@@TYTDReviews Well, I burned a lot to disc, but not all by a long shot. Yeah, my dad and uncle literally burned them all on a massive bonfire.

[@kierank1982]

@@TYTDReviews Both lol. I burned as many as I could but then my dad n uncle literally burned the rest. Luckily I had most of my pre certs with me at uni or they'd have got burned too! A few I left behind went in the fire though lol I'm philosophical about it. I've moved around a lot and it would have been hard to lug hundreds of video tapes with me.

[@SurvivorsGuilt]

That was super fascinating! And I never had any idea that bootlegs were so sought after, that is very interesting. And that’s kind of a fun haul, but unless you are up to speed on all those things, you’d have no idea of the value of all those tapes. It would have been completely lost on me. That was a great and entertaining video TYTD, great job! Cheers 🍻

[@TYTDReviews]

Hay thanks man! and yeh! totally agree! its one of those areas that a lot of people either know very little about or have preset expectations and dont think it's anything worth looking into, but some of the stories I heard while researching for this one were just amazing! properly bizarre encounters where people would get stopped in UK customs and taken to a dark backroom for trying to bring "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" into the country! It was a VERY bizarre time to be into horror movies over here honestly. it's still not much better either! but the internets helped to break down a lot of the barriers, so thats a plus!

[@kirkcruz3764]

This is EXCELLENT! It’s brilliant that you used an ‘unboxing’ as a way to explain the history of Video Nasties & the history of people collecting bootlegs. Can’t wait to see more!!

[@TYTDReviews]

Hay man thank you so much for dropping in! :D and thanks for your very kind words! (it's what keeps me going! ☺) I always keep my eye out for hauls so whenever the next big one pops up i'll be sure to do a video on it! and in the mean time we often cover drive in classics and do full feature commentaries to tide us over till the next goldmine lands!

[@littlebadger]

15:10 Aah, the nurse kill from Rosso Sangue/Absurd. So good. It was great to get to see these bootlegs, especially the cut footage compilation. There's so much history and meaning to that even existing. Also, I thought I was the only person who'd ever uttered the words "it's not as good as Burial Ground". Most things are not.

[@TYTDReviews]

Hay! thanks for watching :) and yeh! this journey unveiled a real time capsule! a bit I didnt really include in this video (because it kind of happened more in the 90's than the late 80's) but a resurgence of the "Ban the nasties!" type aggression happened around 1993/1994 when a young kid was murdered by two other boys who *allegedly* managed to rent "Childs Play 3" (They didnt, a parent rented it and kept it in a different house to the one the kids lived in...but you know how the press love a good sensational story) so they tried to get a ton of late 80's early 90's horror banned. and some of these violence/exploitation compilation reels were pulled up by the moral crusaders of the time as examples of the depravity that these horror fans would sit watching endlessly on a loop. Mercifully enough people kind of had the sense to realise that the reason those reels existed in the first place was because the films the extracts came from wern't allowed in the country and that the films themselves were more goofy than instructional and things stopped short of a Video Nasties 2.0 incident. but in another timeline I'd have probably been burnt at the stake for owning "The Exorcist 3" which would have been a bit of a downer! 😂

[@littlebadger]

@@TYTDReviews Wow, I'd be down for a "sequel" of sorts where you talk about the later legacy of the anti-nasty movement in the UK. It's always about the murder cases for the 90s, huh... It seems wild to me that in 93 that managed to stir up again, because I live in Portugal, a former censor-heavy dictatorship. After that was over in the mid-70s our new BBC-equivalent executives, as well as politicians in general, were VERY against moral censorship, and have remained so.

[@TYTDReviews]

Yeh things got pretty crazy over here in the 90's! there were two major incidents that kind of triggered it all off. there was an incident where a vulnerable person went out and attacked/killed a bunch of people with a machete and the press blamed it on the fact he'd watched "Rambo 3" (which he hadnt, his parents had rented it...he'd never seen it) and the murder of of a kid in 1993/94 by two other kids who the press claimed had seen "Childs play 3" recently. The reality was that the politicians and moral crusaders who thought films were going to raise a generation of serial killers in the 80's were still as certain this was the case in the 90's and they'd just been waiting for an excuse to jump back into the picture and start making out that we were all doomed if we didnt ban everything right now. Politicians over here are happier to restrict thing than they are to be more liberal so they often sided with these media censor fiends. even now; they're looking into ways to restric and censor certain films from entering the country. But I like to think a lot of people are more switched on these days and know that violent films or games arnt going to corrupt people...I like to THINK thats the case at least xD

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

I grew up on second generation vhs bootlegs of nasties !!! I got my hands on everything from the age of 9-16 ! There was guy who lived in my neighbourhood were you would knock on his door and he would give a hand written list and you could rent a movie for a week for £1 or he would make you a copy for £3 !!! I love these bootlegs because they were a part of my youth !!! I have still got my collection of about 45 movies and most have photocopied covers !!! I do buy original vhs nasties when I can afford them and I’m fully addicted to buying deluxe box set 4k horror movies !!! Very interesting video that fild mr with childhood nostalgia!!! 🧟‍♂️🎃👻💀🤡⚰️🐐

[@channel8312]

You will be pleased to know that I was immediately able to identify the unknown film clip at the end of the Nekromantik tape as none other than Giallo in Venice!

[@TYTDReviews]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the REAL mr movies isnt in LA he's the guy im talking to in these comments right now! Thanks SO much for that clarification man! it was a totally at random find, I'll have to dig this (and it's many sequels!) out asap!

[@michaelmyers3709]

The U.K. pre-cert of Evil Dead on Palace is cut, not as much as the later 18 version but the same cut version the U.K. got in cinemas. Evil Dead II was cut in the U.K. on VHS too, but only slightly. The pre-cert VHS of Cannibal Holocaust was also very, very far from uncut, censored by at least six minutes.

[@fakeshemp9599]

I thoroughly enjoyed this look into these old vhs tapes! Subscribed! 👍

[@TYTDReviews]

Hay! thanks so much for the kind words and for the sub! :) Finding decent tape hauls these days is quite difficult, but whenever one comes along I always try to go through them :) so hopefully there'll be another one of these sooner rather than later! :D

[@kierank1982]

Loved this so much I just keep watching it. But one thing I thought worth mentioning (for posterity's sake at least) is that (and I'm going to be a little pedantic here) we never settled for bad in the 1990s. We were always looking to 'upgrade' our pirates to better and better versions.The Z-grade copy of a banned film on video was only settled for until a better copy came along (which it almost always did as the 90s progressed with technology into the early 2000's). The usual journeys (at least for my friends and I) was seeing the BBFC-sanctioned version first (easier to get) then a rubbish nth grade pan and scan copy of an uncut version, maybe with Japanese or Dutch subs, then perhaps getting a VHS rip of the uncut laserdisc version, then a VHS rip of the DVD version, then DVD (when the prices dropped in late 1990s) then bluray OR if the film was banned, all of the above without the BBFC version first (because there was none!).

[@shaunbaldock3942]

Really cool video. The time of video nasties was before I was born (1991) but I’ve always been so fascinated by. Seems so quant to me that people were so outraged by these movies that they were outright banned. My dad said that back then he and his pals would get together at the weekend to watch these movies when someone could get their hands on one, didn’t matter what it was

[@glaroche4153]

Arrr such a nostalgia trip! How do we see the mixtape at the end of Tape 3?

[@psych0pupp3t]

Tape 8 sounds like Giallo A Venezia. The leg sawing definitely happens in that one

[@TYTDReviews]

Ooh! I just looked it up and I think you may well be right man! good spot! I'll have to grab that one at some point :)

[@zamiadams4343]

Great film.

[@mackchats6520]

Great video, question, caan a tape with mould really be saved and is it safe for your player to play it after? and that rotating display thingy is mint, where did you get it? cheers🙂

[@TYTDReviews]

Hi thanks so much for the kind words! To answer your question regarding whether a mouldy tape can really be saved, the answer is...Kinda! Theres been a lot of conversation over the years about how mouldy tapes 'infect' VCR's and how, if tapes are mouldy they're unplayable. But I havent seen any evidence to suggest your putting your other tapes at risk by cleaning and playing a previously mouldy one. Realistically, with some proper care and attention, mouldy tapes can be cleaned and will playback fine, it will however depend on how far gone the tape is with mould, and what condition the tape was in prior to it being mouldy as to how good the playback will be. I've had tapes absolutely full to the brim with mould that have cleaned up and played back fine. But it is very much a 'tape by tape' basis. The thing to bear in mind with mouldy tapes however, is that once a tape has mould, the process of the tape itself breaking down has begun. it will eventually go mouldy again unless its stored in optimum condtions...and even then it'll eventually turn. repeatedly clearning them as and when mould incidents occur will help give the tape a good long life. But eventually no matter how much care is put in, the tape will just get eaten. BUT! that does still mean you could easily have another 10-20 years with a tape after cleaning it. So I wouldnt toss any away! and I picked the rotating display up from Amazon about 5-6 years ago :) I cant remmeber the brand name as it has been a while, but if you search 'Electric model turntable' it should bring some stuff up :)

[@mackchats6520]

@@TYTDReviews Thanks for the response, I'm going to get the mould tape cleaning operation underway soon and then convert them to disk as a back up, cheers again mate.

[@TheTonoMakai]

Combat Shock is one of my fav Troma's. It's not good, persay, but it's entertaining. It's more like Taxi Driver meshed with someone who read a synopsis of Eraserhead. This was a fantastic video, as usual, going over some great history I didn't know. Get yourself on those Gordon videos!

[@TYTDReviews]

Oh man! what have I been missing!? i'll have to jump on Combat Shock ASAP with a pitch like that! 😂 and thanks so much for your very kind words! I'll almost certainly jump on Gordon's back catalogue at the next possible junction!

[@leviathan_is_me]

Song playing over the credits?

[@TYTDReviews]

its a youtube library track...unfortunatley, im not sure of the name...But it'll almost certainly still be in there :)

[@leviathan_is_me]

​@@TYTDReviews Ahhhh, thanks you! It sounded somewhat familiar to me I now doubt it is anything I know.

[@TrivialTheater]

This is so interesting! The Hayes Code here in the States has always been of interest. Thanks for laying out this...interesting government policy.

[@TYTDReviews]

Oh man! dont get me started on the Hayes code! bloody puritans just dont know how to enjoy a good movie!!! *ahem* my vendetta against the 1930's censors continues... but thanks for watching! yeh our governments pretty awful! unfortunatley we keep voting them in for some reason. some would say it's stockholm syndrome! I blame our low literacy skills! 😂

[@TrivialTheater]

Yeah, our governments are certainly something...on one hand preaching good modest values complete with sniffing salts, on the other snorting illegal substances off an escort...real stand up folks some of them🤪 I love precode movies...would be interesting to see where we'd be if not for that. Better or worse or still the same.

[@TYTDReviews]

It sounds contradictory, but I think censorship in some ways breeds a liberal mindset. a government put restrictions on what can be seen on screen and people start asking why, film makers start looking for workarounds and in certain cases the indie scene will blast right through the censors producing content that; in many ways is even WORSE than what the governments were originally trying to censor. Bizarrely; I think had censors not gotten involved a lot of graphic icons (Herschell Gordon Lewis, Lloyd Kaufman, John Waters...even David Lynch to a certain extent) probably wouldnt be anywhere near as recognised as they are.

[@TrivialTheater]

@@TYTDReviews oh 100% agreed. If you have a roadblock, you gotta get creative on ways to get past it. That outside the box thinking breeds so much interesting stuff and pushes boundaries.

[@dvdmike007]

That Song Is Now Stuck In My Head. The full movie is on youtube

[@TYTDReviews]

Every few weeks someone comments on this video, and I remember THAT song exists...and then I have to spend the rest of the week bopping along to it out of sheer compulsion.

[@KimFromTheCrypt]

awesome little history into the bootleg side of the nasties. didnt know about the smuggling of tape inside clothing, which is dedication i admire as a horror fan. fun fact: while the extreme censorship here in germany has significantly loosend, some movies remain banned here. i imported the same release of Day of the Dead u got in the background, which is still banned for "glorification of violence". if someone checked the package and knew their shit they could have confiscated it and given me a fine. which i would have refused to pay out of principle.

[@TYTDReviews]

Oh wow man thats crazy! you'd have thought nearly 40 years on they'd have at least relaxed on some movies that have global releases xD That being said, in the UK (Technically) uncut copies of 'Cannibal Holocaust' and 'Cannibal Ferox' are banned, and could be fine-able too...So I guess we just have to be thankful that airport security staff arnt well versed in movie censorship history xD

[@alexisb3925]

It's cool that 'showcasing old home recorded tapes' has become a genre of YT videos, but this video is soooo far up my alley it's not even funny. I have a huge thing for bootleg exploitation tapes, so far I've only managed to buy some bootleg p×rno tapes (at a still operating video store about 10 mins from my home), which are definitely sleezy but nowhere near as cool or significant as these. I don't really get jelous, but WOW, that's one hell of a great find. Awesome video, instantly subscribed 🔥 P.S. I'd wonder if the Urotsukidoji tape was ripped from the Japanese LaserDisc considering the high picture quaity and no subs. At least in the USA, lots of people would import Japanese/European NTSC LDs and make their boots from those, as they often were the highest quality and simplest (or ONLY) way to get certain films totally uncut (aside from blurred genitals in the case of Japanese LDs).

[@TYTDReviews]

Hey thank you so much for the very kind words and the sub! :) This find was honestly one of my favourites, in the years since I found them, barring the very occasional stray, i've not been as lucky. If it does ever happen again though, i'd almost certainly do a 'volume 2' I do keep looking though, and I hope you find a good haul sometime man! :) as for the Urotsukidoji tape, I'd put good money on it being the laserdisc version, the footage seemed a lot more stable than the other bootlegs, and if memory serves the tape had a lot of anime trailers in the run off too!

[@samuraininjarockstar9355]

Magnificent video, got such a buzz watching this , and there is no doubt to us film nerds that bootlegs are as important in our collections as 4K Blu-ray which will probably be the last physical media , I don’t own many Blu, maybe 30 maximum, but dvd & vhs it’s well into the thousands, my collection is half bootlegs half original, I adored the dvd-r sites that appeared early 2000s that sold Spaghetti western, shaw bros kung fu, Italian horror, and other obscure treats , they were far more appealing to me than 50 quid a time arrow, vinegar syndrome , etc I did like the Code Red dvds though from the US .

[@Sol-Cutta]

Tbh rather than any copy of beast in heat and such , I'd much prefer having original pre cert carry ons...my favourite tapes are boys in blue (canon and ball) , wildcats of st.trinians, national lampoons class reunion, or old hammer originals.

[@stevencowie7151]

Remember that a man was sent to jail for this palaver. Recommend Damaged, a good doc about the subject.

[@Sol-Cutta]

27m thats 'guinea pig' your describing by sounds of it..

[@Sol-Cutta]

Back in the day we weren't watching 2nd or 3rd gen I can assure u..u knew u were in the halycon days when the tape u had flashed from colour to black and white..we often had to make do with 5 or 6th gen. Flickering , colour loss , sound drop outs on the rares like beast in heat etc. that was the reality. Up under my bed I have around 300 VHS bootlegs. If anyone interested I could tilm for my channel tho why u would want to watch ?? 😂😂😂😂

[@stevencowie7151]

The Evil Dead was trimmed on vhs ANYWAY. Your BD should be safe.

[@Sol-Cutta]

Surely tape 8 movie is one of the guinea pig movies ???

[@Sol-Cutta]

Yep I've just commented this again on a rewatch 😂😂😂

[@thezombieflesheater2415]

Please watch The Deadly Spawn.! It's awesome.!

[@danielsweet858]

Terror On Tape is a fun compilation that features a pre breast implants Michelle Bauer as one of Cameron Mitchell's video store customers. Nice haul! You've purchased a lot of fun for cheap mate! 👍

[@TYTDReviews]

Ay thanks man! :) yeh I was really happy I landed on these ones when I did, I dread to think what would have happened to them otherwise :) It has had me keeping an eye out for more of this kind of thing. But its been very quiet in the last couple of years. The cost of VHS is going through the roof right now too which hasnt helped...But! hopefully some day I'll find more! :)

[@heroeshorrorscats1888]

Snuff is extremely boring. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

[@TYTDReviews]

Ohhhhhhh dear. it's going to be an inevitable watch as part of my crusade to watch all the Video Nasty's so i'll take your rec VERY much to heart! maybe I'll leave it to the end of the list in that case xD

[@stevencowie7151]

Buio Omega is NOT a slasher 🤣. ENJOY.

[@samuraininjarockstar9355]

Ahh the memories , the year was 1988 and my auntie purchased a video cassette with 2 films on, the Texas chainsaw massacre & Maniac, I’d wanted to see TCM forever and finally I could see it , it was about a 5th gen copy I still buzz off the memory even though I own the 4K blu , it will never beat watching that 5th gen copy at midnight when I was 12 years old !!!!

[@TYTDReviews]

Hey man, thanks for dropping by, and for your kind words! Thats such a cool memory :) and totally agreed, sometimes that VHS fuzz is what REALLY gives a film the finishing touches!

[@darrellavery5469]

hi there I used to have an exact copy of your tape 3 but my VHS are the tape not a normal ask but would you be able to offer a rip to DVDr or usb stick as would help me out I'm happy to pay for the dvdr etc contact me