![]() ![]() All you had to do was head to Rumbelows, hire a tape recorder, borrow the tape from your local newsagent and you had yourself a night. No need to go to the local fleapit cinema or hope that it turned up on TV. Of course, with there being no age restrictions, it was possible for horror fans to finally see what genuine, unregulated horror was like.įilms like Zombie Flesh Eaters, Cannibal Apocalypse, I Spit on Your Grave and The Driller Killer were released uncut onto tape. One of the reasons is because (most of the time) the shops didn't care what they got in, so you would have shops that had seemingly everything from Apocalypse Now to Nightmares in a Damaged Brain. ![]() With the explosion in the home video market (and long before Blockbuster/XtraVision standardised the business), working class business types running sweet shops, newsagents, chippies etc would get in on the market and become loaded overnight. Christopher Owens has been reading about a moral panic.Ĭompared to the barren wasteland of the early to mid 70's, the early 80's must have seemed like an alternate universe. ![]()
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