♦ ♦ Troubling Synthesis: The Horrific Sights and Incompatible Sounds of “Video Nasties”
This chapter examines the film and music combination in violent motion pictures. Some examples of these films include Cannibal Holocaust, The Beyond and The Cannibal Apocalypse. This chapter describes how these films overlay a barrage of unflinchingly violent imagery with often smooth, mellifluous synthesizer scoring that refuses to comment negatively on the visual track. These films were banned in Great Britain under the 1984 Video Recordings Act and they were called “video nasties”.
Keywords: violent motion pictures, Cannibal Holocaust, The Beyond, The Cannibal Apocalypse, violent imagery, synthesizer scoring, video nasties, Video Recordings Act
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