Filmed in the 4:3 Academy ratio, Steve Oram’s low-budget feature debut pays wicked homage to the so-called “video nasties,” a wave of mostly cheap horror films banned on VHS in the U.K. in the 1980s, following a wave of moral panic over the perceived degeneration in values these films would cause when made available for home viewing. Full of over-the-top gore and gross-out gags, Aaaaaaaah! is set in exactly the kind of world British censors feared, and functions as a kind of loving Swiftian satire on the more brutish aspects of modern life. À la French cult classic Themroc (1972), not one word of any recognizable language is spoken through the modest 80-minute runtime and there are no subtitles. The fact that viewers can nevertheless comprehend probably 95% of what is said from a mixture of context, body language and facial expression proves the uncomfortable point that Oram is making about our proximity to the rest of the primates.