Dedicated to the unsung heroes of the Video Nasties era, join Andrew Roberts as he explores the delicatessen of degenerate delights, sampling those tasty morsels with surprising contents that just didn’t make the grade onto the official Video Nasties list!
Special 6: Halloween 2021
What better way to celebrate this year’s spooky season with a double bill of your autumnal favourites? Join the Nasty Pasty as he revisits two classic slashers from the 80s from one of the most enduring franchises in horror history.
Minisode 6: The Girl in Room 2A
Nasty Pasty finally returns with a long-anticipated (is it though?) analysis of a true American-Italian giallo experience, with William Rose’s The Girl in Room 2A from 1974. Cosy up away from the Covid blues and tune into the latest from the files of filth!
Special 5: Black Lives Matter cont.
Continuing on from our Black Lives Matter episode, Nasty Pasty tackles another blaxploitation film by a black director: William Crain’s seminal horror Blacula from 1972. And for the first time ever, we have a guest on the podcast. Join me and Jonny Larkin from Screaming Queenz podcast as we sink our teeth into another influential piece of film-making.
Special 4: Black Lives Matter
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, Nasty Pasty interrupts its schedule to bring you three influential exploitation horror movies directed by black directors. Providing some context of current events and events of the 70s, Nasty Pasty hopes to kickstart a train of thought about the plight our brothers and sisters are suffering through at the moment.
Minisode 5: Home for the Holidays
A family reunion goes all kinds of awry when the reception is frosty, Daddy’s being apparently poisoned and a pitchfork-wielding maniac is offing the Christmas guests. Tuck in to the Nasty Pasty’s yuletide return as we cover the 1972 TV horror Home for the Holidays!
Episode 72: Gialloween
Nasty Pasty returns for a one-off episode, with two sumptuous giallo pictures to spook out your Halloween! Join the rancorous horror fan once more for 1971’s Black Belly of the Tarantula and 1983’s A Blade in the Dark!
Episode 71: Coprophagia Films
We bid farewell to the Nasty Pasty podcast in our final episode! Two years of hard work has sadly come to an end, and what way to go out with a bang than to cover two foul fetid films which deal with the express act of eating turds! Join us for a scatological delving into utter depravity and filth, with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo, The 120 Days of Sodom, and Thierry Zeno’s experimental Wedding Trough! Thank you to everyone for making this possible, and farewell!
Episode 70: Pornographic Horrors
Avert the children’s eyes and unlock your parental controls; Nasty Pasty is unleashing two full-on hardcore porn movies this week on our Pornographic Horrors episode. All of the blood, guts and dumb victims interspersed with steamy action that goes way beyond the X-rating in Porno Holocaust and Erotic Nights of the Living Dead!
Episode 69: Emanuelle Films
It’s hotting up a little on the Nasty Pasty as we showcase our 69th *wink wink* episode on two sultry Emanuelle Films. From the rambunctious mind of auteur trashmeister Joe D’Amato, join us for the steamy, non-PC fumblings of Emanuelle in America and Emanuelle in Bangkok!
Episode 68: Necrophilia
It’s decidedly more grim at the Nasty Pasty this week, with smelly cadavers, festering rot and a whole host of depraved sex encounters with corpses. Our Necrophilia episode focuses on two European movies that feature nasty perverts who love nothing more than doing the horizontal mambo with a dead body. Join this week’s debauched discussion with 1987’s Nekromantik and 1986’s Lucker the Necrophagous!
Episode 67: Joe D’Amato’s Post Apocalypse
From the sleazemeister himself comes two action-packed Post-Apocalyptic films, slightly devoid of the boobs, bums, blood and brazenness, but retaining those oh-so-cheesy tropes we all know and love. Nasty Pasty spreads it like peanut butter jelly and lays out two Joe D’Amato cheese pizzas for you, including 2020 Texas Gladiators and Endgame: Bronx’s Final Fight!
Episode 66: Post-Apocalyptic Action
Immerse yourself in the virulent danger of futuristic dystopia, with Nasty Pasty’s 66th episode covering Post-Apocalyptic Action films, showcasing violent gangs, mutants, megalomaniac companies and the last fertile woman on Earth for good measure! Feast your eyes on 1982’s Bronx Warriors and 1983’s 2019: After the Fall of New York!
Episode 65: Supernatural Girls
Otherwordly forces and teenage girls conflate in the latest episode from the Nasty Pasty Podcast, covering two Supernatural Girl films featuring mistresses of malevolence with those oh-so-terrifying powers we all love. Witness the foul language and blasphemous bluster of Regan MacNeil in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, as well as the ethereal teleporation and sand-spawning terror of Susie Hacker in Lucio Fulci’s Manhattan Baby.
Episode 64: Reptile Giallo
Shiny, sleek and beautifully dangerous, this week’s Nasty Pasty episode brings two slimy Reptile Gialli to the table, featuring the expected razor blades, leather gloves and red herrings all over again in our final episode on the giallo film. Witness the incredibly colourful, psychedelic madness of Lizard in a Woman’s Skin and the callous, vicious nastiness of The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire!
Episode 63: Backwoods Slashers
Nasty Pasty ventures into the deep unknown with two Backwoods Slashers, slice ‘n’ dice tales in the badlands of wilderness and the desolate unknown. Join us for twin hillbilly madness in 1981’s Just Before Dawn and the languid ghost slayer of 1981’s Scream.
Episode 62: Mad Slashers
Succumb to a berserk rage and maddening frenzy as we cover two 80s slashers featuring the crazed killers we know and love. Featuring significant bloodletting, moody locations and hundreds of layers of grime, sleaze and 80s nostalgia, join the Nasty Pasty podcast for Bill Lustig’s Maniac and Joe Giannone’s Madman!
Episode 61: Rape, Revenge and Animals
Explore the seedy underbelly of New York and the Lake District in our double bill of malevolent gropings, savage vengeance and animals who get in the midst of the fight between good and evil. Join us for Nasty Pasty’s last Rape and Revenge episode, covering 1978’s Killer’s Moon and 1981’s Ms. 45!
Episode 60: Stranger Danger
Stay aware and avoid any suspicious persons in our 60th episode of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, where impersonal stalking, threatening obscene phone calls and malevolent murder are the order of the day, covering the misogynistic giallo-slasher Eyes of a Stranger and the iconically tense stalker thriller When a Stranger Calls.
Episode 59: Vigilante Movies
To hell with the law and bring on the swift dispensing of justice in our 59th episode of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, reviewing two Vigilante Movies with two antiheroes who hate the scum and slime of the streets and aren’t willing ot wait for the authorities to get there first. Join us for James Glickenhaus’ The Exterminator and James Bryan’s The Executioner (Part II)!
Episode 58: Montage Horrors
Prepare yourself for confusion, bombardment and demented enjoyment of our two Montage Horrors this week, covering two mish-mash movies containing constant barrages of bizarre imagery. Tune into Lucio Fulci’s Cat in the Brain and Joel M. Reed’s Blood Bath!