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Exhaustive overview of Britain’s ‘video nasty’ culture, an era as defining as it is contentious with ramifications still felt today. By David Kerekes & David Slater

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The Satanic Screen

Updated edition of the critically acclaimed study, revealing the cross currents between occultism and film. By Nikolas Schreck.

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The untold story of the world’s most famous X-rated star who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door. By Jared Stearns.

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The first serious critical evaluation of American shot-on-video horror cinema. By Vincent A. Albarano.

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Explores a cult classic film series that stands among the most fascinating and enduring of all time. By Chris Alexander.

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An in-depth overview of Nigel Kneale’s 1976 Folk Horror anthology television series, Beasts. By Andrew Screen.

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Read the forbidden predictions of the Amazing Criswell! Unmasked and revealed for the first time! By Edwin Lee Canfield.

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Explores the seductive premise that visiting memorials to past tragedy will ultimately lead us to become better versions of ourselves.

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Challenges the misconceptions of a ghoulish practice through the eyes of a self confessed dark tourist.

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If you’ve ever seen the original Mad Max movie you might recall the scene where a mechanic is tuning the vehicle that the titular Max will soon be driving. “Last of the V8s,” the mechanic purrs. Well, Headpress is not unlike that engine in a world gone mad. It’s independent, ravaged by landscape, but it motors on, one of a kind, like the last of the V8s. With Headpress you are on that journey. 

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One of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history: Richard Nixon, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and ‘Our Long National Nightmare’
On this day in 1974 a US President resigned from office, but Nixon as Leatherface — a villainous, exiled...
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09 July 2024
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Love and Robots: Sex Dolls In The Age Of A.I.
JENNIFER WALLIS explores sex dolls, sex robots, and the myth of self in the age of A.I.
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24 June 2024
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Appliqué Tapestries in London Town: Goodbye, John Sinclair
JOHN SINCLAIR passed away recently, activist, poet, manager of MC5, and immortalised in a song by John...
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26 April 2024
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Slumber Party Massacres: Heidi Honeycutt talks women directing horror movies
In anticipation of her book I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies, Heidi...
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19 February 2024
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Last Orgy By The Cemetery Extracts
Extracts from a newly released book, which gives synopses of the infamous ‘video nasties’, film by film,...
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06 February 2024
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Killing For Culture Documentary Announced
Headpress is delighted to announce that Severin Films have optioned seminal cult film book, Killing For...
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02 February 2024
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Take Five: An interview with Marilyn Chambers biographer Jared Stearns
In anticipation of his upcoming book, PURE: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers, Jared Stearns...
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04 January 2024
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“Everything has been here for ages” Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii
Pompeii is unique, an ancient arena, buzzing with a lost metropolis, and yet here is Pink Floyd in the...
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27 December 2023
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New Adventures And Debauchery: The Green Man
The Kingsley Amis novel, The Green Man, adapted by the BBC in 1990, is a ghost story that revolves around...
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King Penda and composer Edward Elgar visit a teenage boy in this archive BBC production that made little...
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