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Post by mowlick on Feb 26, 2023 23:41:42 GMT
It is a movie about a girl who gets attacked by some guys and gets really annoyed as a result. And I don't mean that she refuses to answer their calls or smashes their record collection, I mean she gets really annoyed.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Feb 27, 2023 8:36:59 GMT
Original or remake?
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Post by yggdrasil on Feb 27, 2023 9:30:59 GMT
The original was quite the "video nasty" back in the day, I remember my brother in law was the architect for remodelling an old video store that had gone bankrupt and found loads of their old stock including this, "Driller Killer" and many other banned ones. You wondered what all the fuss was about on seeing them. This one was rather good though. Never seen the remake, I doubt it's much cop, they never are. I still have the original VHS rental copies somewhere in the loft, wonder if they are worth anything.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Feb 27, 2023 9:42:20 GMT
The original was quite the "video nasty" back in the day, I remember my brother in law was the architect for remodelling an old video store that had gone bankrupt and found loads of their old stock including this, "Driller Killer" and many other banned ones. You wondered what all the fuss was about on seeing them. This one was rather good though. Never seen the remake, I doubt it's much cop, they never are. I still have the original VHS rental copies somewhere in the loft, wonder if they are worth anything. I would imagine that is definitely worth something. Get yourself over to the retro shops in Soho or Brick Lane and see what you can get. Take your pick at a price: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=driller+killer+vhs
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Feb 27, 2023 9:42:42 GMT
If you can stand coming north of the river, that is.
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Post by yggdrasil on Feb 27, 2023 12:11:28 GMT
The original was quite the "video nasty" back in the day, I remember my brother in law was the architect for remodelling an old video store that had gone bankrupt and found loads of their old stock including this, "Driller Killer" and many other banned ones. You wondered what all the fuss was about on seeing them. This one was rather good though. Never seen the remake, I doubt it's much cop, they never are. I still have the original VHS rental copies somewhere in the loft, wonder if they are worth anything. I would imagine that is definitely worth something. Get yourself over to the retro shops in Soho or Brick Lane and see what you can get. Take your pick at a price: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=driller+killer+vhsHardly seems worth it at a tenner a pop. I used to go in the retro Magazine/poster shop in Soho all the time, was a great shop.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Feb 27, 2023 12:18:09 GMT
I used to go in the retro Magazine/poster shop in Soho all the time, was a great shop.
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Post by yggdrasil on Feb 27, 2023 12:50:34 GMT
I used to go in the retro Magazine/poster shop in Soho all the time, was a great shop. Was waiting for that but doubt it would be "retro". The Soho retro shop did actually have the kind of 1950's cheesecake stuff downstairs though if I remember correctly.
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Post by yggdrasil on Feb 27, 2023 12:55:28 GMT
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Feb 27, 2023 13:07:08 GMT
Was waiting for that but doubt it would be "retro". The Soho retro shop did actually have the kind of 1950's cheesecake stuff downstairs though if I remember correctly.
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Post by yggdrasil on Feb 28, 2023 9:24:14 GMT
Was waiting for that but doubt it would be "retro". The Soho retro shop did actually have the kind of 1950's cheesecake stuff downstairs though if I remember correctly. miss Soho, used to spend so much time in and around it, the Berwick Street market especially. Used to almost live in "Sister Ray" records.
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Mar 2, 2023 3:13:33 GMT
I never got around to watching it, but first noticed it at Ruckers video disk rental a lifetime ago. In the era before VHS or Beta-Max was a thing. They wouldn't rent "R" or "X" rated movies to kids which really sucked. I was used to sneaking into theaters to watch rated "R" movies anyway, which was surprisingly easy to do back then. Sometimes my older brother would rent rated "R" movies like Piranha (1978) or Faces of Death (1978) that we watched on a video disk player.
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Mar 2, 2023 4:26:07 GMT
It is a movie about a girl who gets attacked by some guys and gets really annoyed as a result. And I don't mean that she refuses to answer their calls or smashes their record collection, I mean she gets really annoyed. Not as bad a video nasty as Mrs Whitehouse said it was. The first part, the rape wasn't really exploitation. Brutal and emotionally draining as a gang rape would be. The second part was classic stalk and slash. Generally a reasonably well made horror flick.
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 2, 2023 11:11:18 GMT
I never got around to watching it, but first noticed it at Ruckers video disk rental a lifetime ago. In the era before VHS or Beta-Max was a thing. They wouldn't rent "R" or "X" rated movies to kids which really sucked. I was used to sneaking into theaters to watch rated "R" movies anyway, which was surprisingly easy to do back then. Sometimes my older brother would rent rated "R" movies like Piranha (1978) or Faces of Death (1978) that we watched on a video disk player. don't remember them ever coming across to the UK. We did have the "laserdisc" systems but they were never really successful due to the extremely high cost. Never knew anyone who had one. My old man got a top loading VHS player around 1979/80, I remember it's remote control was on a long wire and only did play/stop/FF/rewind. Back then you rented the films from the local TV rental store and they only had about 50 as they cost the shops around £70 quid each which was a big outlay for them.
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 2, 2023 16:02:43 GMT
I remember kids talking about it in middle school.
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