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David Flint

David Flint

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Biography

Documentarian and writer - author of Ten Years of Terror, Babylon Blue, Satan Superstar, Zombie Holocaust and freelance contributor to many books and magazines. Video work and audio commentary for Severin Films, Blue Underground, Arrow, Indicator, 88 Films, Vinegar Syndrome, Hammer Films, Mondo Macabro, 101 Films, Nucleus and others.

Known For

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Four-part series demonstrating different kinds of censorship, such as censorship by the government or of art.

Banned in the UK

2005
Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
6.5

Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a "video nasty". Hamilton-Grant navigated loopholes in the law in the 70s in order to produce and screen smut in an extremely censorship restricted Britain. When the home video boom hit in the 80s he was one of the first to capitalize on the initially far less regulated format... but he would pay the price. Then things get really dark and strange.

Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant

2023
Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow
8.0

Go back to the 1980s and discover the extraordinary true story of Cliff Twemlow! You’ve never heard of him… but polymath Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, singer, screenwriter, producer and actor who was the most prolific indie filmmaker in the UK for a decade! Witness how this 20th-century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester. Shooting his feature films on clunky early pioneering video technology, G.B.H. (1983) was even branded a Video Nasty! A warmly hilarious portrait that will take you back to an era where literally anything could happen. And did!

Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow

2023
Video Nasties: Draconian Days
7.4

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.

Video Nasties: Draconian Days

2014
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A documentary short on the history of Mondo movies by British author David Flint.

A Brief History of Mondo Movies

The Godfathers of Mondo
6.9

A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962. It follows their career until their split in following the making of GOODBYE UNCLE TOM in 1971.

The Godfathers of Mondo

2003
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Kitten Natividad, was interviewed on her UK tour in November 2003.

Russ Meyer's Pussy Galore Nite

2005
The Satan Sellers - Beatrice Sparks and the Birth of the Satanic Panic
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While the Satanic Panic reached its peak in the 1980s and 1990s, its origins go back a decade earlier, with a backlash against the Age of Aquarius, fear of RPGs and heavy metal, and a series of hysterical books led by a grubby work of fiction masquerading as a true memoir, written by a shameless fraud.

The Satan Sellers - Beatrice Sparks and the Birth of the Satanic Panic

2025
Melancholic Delirium: The Vampire Cinema of Jean Rollin
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A documentary look at Jean Rollin's vampire movies from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Melancholic Delirium: The Vampire Cinema of Jean Rollin