Video Nasties exhibition, talk and screening

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Horror film fans are invited to University of Staffordshire for a spooktacular evening this Halloween

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  • Time: 5pm – 9pm
  • Location: Flaxman Building, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE
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  • Free event

Join Dr Mark Mckenna, Associate Professor of Film and Media Industries, to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Video Recordings Act, a period in British history that gave rise to the notorious ‘Video Nasties’.

The free event includes an exhibition of Video Nasties and related memorabilia, a talk by Dr McKenna, and a screening of cult classic The Evil Dead (1982).

Hosted in the Flaxman building foyer at the University’s Stoke-on-Trent campus, Cartoon & Comic Arts students will also be selling their anthology and producing horror themed art before the event – including the Drawing Dead, zombie caricatures, iconic slasher scenes, macabre life drawing, and more.

 

5 - 6pm: Video Nasties exhibition and Spooky Cartoons

6 - 7pm: Public lecture

7pm: Screening of The Evil Dead (rated 18).

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