“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk
More?! Surely not! Hello Ban Fans! Its me, your horror host Richard Asplin. Just dropping by for a moment to offer you a free glimpse into the newest “XXX-Rated Extras” “Bonus Episode. For those with a fascination of what goes on BEHIND the camera, how low-budget horrors get from script to screen and why so much VHS on the Banned list was badly lit and crackly recorded by wobbly cameras on cardboard sets…the answers revealed! We’re taking a hilarious look at the bonkers budgets and painful productions that created our favourite nasties and explaining how you could have made Blood Feast 20 times over for the cost of Avengers-Endgame catering budget…
The full show is of course available exclusively for subscribers – a club you can join via Patron or Apple Podcasts.
But to tempt you, here’s a little slice…
Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.
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Let's Get the Banned Back Together - 6 THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SNOW WHITE 1969
From the studio that somehow brought you 'Downfall' (the last days of a meglomaniacal insane fascist lunatic) and 'Willy Wonka' (the last days of another meglomaniacal …oh you get the idea), probably the goriest yet campest piece of Teutonic soft-core silliness and fairy tale filth!
While 70’s barmy Britain served up the soft, saucy sex-comedies of Robin Asquith and Fiona Richmond, from Germany we have this! What happens when classic fairy tales of princesses and enchantment meet nubile naked booby woodland rumpo along with talking dogs, dopey dwarves, sexy spells and very horny toads?
It’s exhausting, it’s humourless, it’s joyfully ridiculous.
Imagine Disney replaced Rachel Zegler with Kenny Everett.
And then let Sid James & Co borrow the set of The Princess Bride for a dirty weekend.
Add some giant comedy cocks and “einer Chuckle Bruden” and tah-daah!
Straight from the DPP List 3 bin-bag…it’s a hilarious romp through the Grimm side of Euro-smut…episode 7 of Let’s Get The Banned Back Together – THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SNOW WHITE!
Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.
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Let's Get the Banned Back Together - 5 LOVE CAMP 7 1969
Well it couldn’t stay fun for long. On the flip side of the silly splattery slapstick, the movie monsters, fake blood and prosthetics…this. The first true 'exploitation' in our 'exploration'.
A nasty little exercise in soft core women-in-prison unpleasantness, the movie that launched the thankfully short-lived nazisploitation trend, from the director of Mondo Bizarro, Love Is A 4 Letter Word and Hollywood’s World Of Flesh. This early effort virtually created this unpleasant Women In Prison genre of exploitation picture, whihc brought us 1971s Women in Cages and 72s The Big Bird Cage both giving the world an early glimpse of the legendary Pam “Foxy Brown” Grier.
WHO are the two brave women sent to enemy territory to be picked up and imprisoned?
WHAT is the weapons-grade secret they have been sent to retrieve from poor Martha Grossman?
HAS this entire piece of nonsense really been shot on one cardboard set over a weekend?
HOW MANY times can they claim this is a true story shot on location when it clearly is snuffy titillating drivel knocked up by a bored theatre group?
HONESTLY - the German Shepherd is the only watchable thing in it. And he still looks like a wrong ‘un.
God bless the BBFC who got rid of this forever. If you want to know how and why, join me for an adults only edition of Lets Get The Banned Back Together – Episode 5. LOVE CAMP 7
Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.
“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk
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Let's Get The Banned Back Together - 4 THE MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND 1969
Oh he’s a mad doctor all right. Not like your usual furious GP. He’s not banging on about NHS cuts, Health Secretary appointments or Covid Mask policies. He’s mad…with power!
A year after one Romero set the horror bar high with Night Of The Living Dead, his namesake lowers it a good foot and a half with this Philippines jungle shocker!
WHY did a young boy bleed green blood and turn insane and drown himself…only to turn up 5 years later?
WHY do the dates on Dom Ramon's coffin not tally with the dates on the letters he sent his son?
And can you REALLY base a whole movie on a monster clearly created with Sellotape and lettuce?
Comedian, novelist and pub quiz host Richard Asplin takes you kill by kill through a spoilerific romp through the gravestones, ghouls and gore in episode 4 of this exploration into all the horror movies your government, your teachers and your parents NEVER wanted you to see!
Press play…if you dare…
Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph
"Entertaining...sometimes brilliantly funny..." Chortle.co.uk
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Lets Get The Banned Back Together - 3 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968
Somehow from the same year as The Ghastly Ones, we – at last – discover what can happen when a skilful young director with high ideas meets offal-chewing ghouls with a low budget… the legendary NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD!
WHO is the monstrous man in the graveyard who attacks and eats young Johnny?
WHAT HAS BECOME of the owners of the abandoned house that hides corpses and rifles?
WILL the brave, bickering, brutal survivors get out alive as corpses begin to rise from the grave?
And HOW did George A Romero terrify a generation with exploding trucks, chicken-chewing children and one of the first black heroes in modern movies?
Comedian, novelist and pub quiz host Richard Asplin takes you kill by kill through a spoilerific romp through the gravestones, ghouls and gore in a feature length episode 3 of this exploration into all the horror movies your government, your teachers and your parents NEVER wanted you to see!
Press play…if you dare…
Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.
Why did 72 of the goriest, most gruesome and grotesque horror movies suddenly…disappear? How did cult thrillers, shockers, slashers and horrors go from “available now!” to renters and owners winding up in UK prisons? And what happened in the early 80s that got priests, parents and politicians on the march to “Ban This Filth!” But more importantly…where can I get these movies?!
A hilarious deep dive into the forgotten world of banned VHS horror movies from the 60s, 70s and 80s that fell foul of the British censors during the ”Video Nasty” moral panic. Comedian, novelist and pub-quiz host Richard Asplin takes you through spoilerific plot details, kill by kill, looking at the often comedic carnage that lurks between the credits in some of the most infamous banned horrors of the era.
Novelist, broadcaster and comedian Richard Asplin has appeared on Radio 5 Live & LBC as well as writing for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.
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