"A wickedly visceral celebration of all the horror films our censors love to ban, Mr. Nasty manages to top them all for gruesomeness and leads to a finale wilder than the wildest giallo. Mr. Darke knows his films inside out, and that's how his unbridled imagination turns them.
Take care his tale doesn't dig too deep into your brain."

–Ramsey Campbell, best-selling author of The Hungry Moon and Alone with the Horrors

Cut!

Film and TV extras are turning up butchered on set, the only clues being VHS cassettes of infamous, banned "Video Nasties" on the site of each horrific murder. Is a copycat killer at large, inspired by the vile acts depicted in the notorious tapes? Or could the monstrous characters from the nasties themselves be escaping their VHS
boxes to stalk the land?

When supporting actor Tommy Wallace finds both his past and the nasties catching up with him, surely it's time to press Eject for the last time. Or is this one obsolete format that just refuses to die? Something is thriving on the violence inspired by the tapes, feeding on a diet of Nazi death camp atrocities, axings, and mutilation.

And the banned play on...

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