In our second Nasty Pasty Podcast special focused on 88 Films, we discover the little-known phenomenon of Zaxploitation: films devised and filmed during the oppressive Apartheid regime in South Africa and Calum Waddell’s fascinating new documentary on the subject, premiering on Friday May 4th at the Derby Film Festival! Don’t miss it!

In Episode 23 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we’re eschewing The Terminator and Blade Runner to scour those forgotten machine-related science fiction flicks wreathed in 80’s cheesiness and bone-crunching fights!

In Episode 22 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we’re inundated with gloopy creepy crawlies in our Slimy Invertebrates episode, terrorised by bloodworms in 1976’s Squirm and mutant slugs in 1988’s Slugs!

In Episode 21 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we bear witness to two shockumentary mondo films showcasing the brutality over the world of both the human race and the animal kingdom!

In our 20th episode of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we head to the prosperous country of Canada to view two slashers wrought from a tax-free haven with plenty of style and sinew!

In Episode 19 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we travel down under to the outback of Australia with two Ozploitation pictures from the 80’s oozing with grime, violence and eye-popping visual treats!

Welcome to our first collaborative effort with 88 Films and the Nasty Pasty Podcast. Today we chat with Calum Waddell about the wonderfully weird world of Charles Band with animate murderous puppets, malevolent baked biscuits and possessed drug paraphernalia.

In Episode 18 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we descend into the debauched domain of Nazism, specifically talking about two early Nazisploitation precursors: 1969’s The Damned and 1974’s The Night Porter!

Yes, we’re back! In Episode 17 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we bear witness to the cruelty and tyranny of the past with two historical nunsploitation pictures that are somewhat South of the sleaze you’d expect!

In Episode 16 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we cover yuletide slayings and New Year’s desolations with our Seasonal Slashers episode!

In this final extra episode in our Christmas bundle of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we look at a rather obscure offering from the 80s that is lucky to have survived its merciless censorship: 1983’s Scalps.

In Minisode 2 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we travel to Rome to cover the very first giallo film ever made, Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much!

In our first Minisode of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we go way back to the pre-Code era of 1930’s America to witness one of the first instances of both a female ensemble but a round-robin body count too with 1932’s Thirteen Women!

In Episode 15 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we head to the funky decade of the 70’s to follow two black women who are not only strong and independent, but are damn altruistic too in a duo of blaxploitation just for you.

In this very special episode of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we meet with an icon of exploitation films who has done everything from Bond films, Star Wars rip-offs and sleazy 80’s slashers: the wonderful British actress Caroline Munro!

In our third Extra of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we return to a sorority house slasher picture but not Black Christmas this time: it’s the House on Sorority Row, just released from 88 Films!

In our special episode for the first day of our Twelve Days of Christmas Horror on the Nasty Pasty Podcast, Dr. Calum Waddell is back to discuss the slasher film cycle as well as the Slasher Classics Collection from 88 Films!

In Episode 14 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we delve into the origins of our most bloody torture films like Hostel and Saw, having roots in the depraved splatter movies of the seventies, two of which we analyse for you!

In our unlucky 13th episode of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we’re heading back to the sinister corridors and traumatic classrooms of the school building, to learn a thing or two about two School-based Slasher films!

In Episode 12 of the Nasty Pasty Podcast, we return to the jungle to encroach upon two cannibal films that are lacking some major elements, rendering them much more unique than your average flesh-eating nasty!