Concept and creative process
It's an ordinary evening: Neil's having a bath, Rick's reading 'Cosmopolitan', and Mike and Vyvyan are trying to watch video nasties. But before the night is over, the gang will have to bury a vampire. Peter Clayton was the graphic designer on the second series of 'The Young Ones'. For 'Nasty' he designed and directed a spoof horror movie title sequence to feature the gang in a series of specially shot stills and captions, which he filmed on a rostrum camera. The addition of lightning effects burned in over the stills, red eyes and a maintitle dripping blood, confirmed that this was definitely post-watershed viewing!