Q 01/05

A distributor seeking publicity anonymously complained about its own video nasty to which morality campaigner?

A) Lord Longford

B) Esther Rantzen

C) Mary Whitehouse

D) Malcolm Muggeridge

Answer · why

C) Mary Whitehouse

Mary Whitehouse took the bait from Go Video, the firm behind Cannibal Holocaust, but the stunt backfired when her campaign helped get such tapes banne...

Q 02/05

Police hunting video nasties once seized The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a musical starring which singer?

A) Loretta Lynn

B) Tammy Wynette

C) Dolly Parton

D) Crystal Gayle

Answer · why

C) Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton's 1982 musical comedy was taken in one raid under the mistaken belief that it was pornographic, a sign of how arbitrary the seizures had ...

Q 03/05

By director Ruggero Deodato's account, why did Cannibal Holocaust cast members appear before Italian magistrates?

A) To contest an obscenity fine

B) To sue over unpaid wages

C) To defend the animal scenes

D) To prove they were alive

Answer · why

D) To prove they were alive

To prove they were alive: Deodato said magistrates suspected the on-screen deaths were real, though he was never formally charged with murder.

Q 04/05

Which horror novelist's rave review helped The Evil Dead, later a British video nasty, win a wide cinema release?

A) Stephen King

B) Clive Barker

C) James Herbert

D) Peter Straub

Answer · why

A) Stephen King

Stephen King saw the low-budget film at a screening and praised it so warmly that New Line Cinema bought the distribution rights.

Q 05/05

The video nasty Cannibal Holocaust pioneered the found-footage style later made famous by which American horror hit?

A) The Sixth Sense

B) The Blair Witch Project

C) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

D) The Silence of the Lambs

Answer · why

B) The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project used the same device years later: film recovered after its makers vanish in the wilds, sold to audiences as genuine.