
Just in time for Halloween, Shameless are releasing
a box set of sleazy Italian horror under the subtle,
unassuming title Slasher Nasties
– which is going to look great leering out of
your shelves, so remember to display it prominently.
Packaged to look like an old VHS tape – and
some of us have owned all three of these films on
VHS at one point – the set consists of nudity-laden,
stylish giallo Torso, classy (and
possibly superior) Last House on the Left
imitator Night Train Murders –
a film that the wizened old man working at the much-missed
Mazel Movies in Manchester once enthusiastically recommended
to my fifteen year old self as being "absolutely
full of sex and violence" – and the
frankly demented Killer Nun. A feast
of 1970s squalor from the height of Italian sleaze
cinema!
All three films are uncut, and the set includes a
new booklet by Kim Newman on ‘the three faces
of Italian exploitation’.
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