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The third episode of the Born Nasty Podcast, which specialises in "Video Nasties. 72 movies that were banned on VHS in the U.K. in the early 1980's. This wee...
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- Press Warnings About 'Nasties'
- Obscene Publications Act Prosecutions
- Vigilantes Campaign For Changed Legislation
- The Counter-Arguments
- Video Horror as A Class Issue
- Lies About Videotape? Spurilous Claims
- Recent Releases
- Further Reading
The 'Daily Mail' was the first national newspaper to report on the dangers of the home video market. In an article titled 'The secret video show' (12 May 1982) it revealed that 'Zombie Flesh Eaters', 'The Exorcist' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' were among the most popular videos watched by teenagers. They warned: 'Those innocent Saturday mornin...
The BBFC responded to the furore by introducing a voluntary ratings scheme for videos, though the fact that it was voluntary presented an obvious problem, as there was no legal obligation on companies to submit their film for vetting. Meanwhile, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) compiled a list of titles that he believed may contravene the ...
The social activist Mary Whitehouse also had the nasties in her sights. Whitehouse, founder of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, talks about her campaigning on this front in her autobiography 'Quite Contrary': 'In the spring of 1983 we wrote to every MP (over 600), pointing out the inadequacy of the current film classification syste...
Some interesting views and arguments were, however, put across by dissenters. In response to the claims of Sir Bernard Braine and others that home video would allow viewers to revel in explicit scenes by rewinding or pausing, several commentators in Jake West and Marc Morris's excellent documentary 'Video Nasties: moral panic, censorship and videot...
Politicians were clearly deemed incorruptible, as there were no fears over the effect the nasties had on them when they were viewing clips of the very worst moments of these films. And many saw this as a skewed and unbalanced exercise in itself, as showing a sequence containing the most violent bits of any film or TV programme would naturally provo...
Some of the claims about the dangers of these movies at best seemed fanciful, and at their worst were proved to be downright fabrication. Graham Bright said in a television interview that there was research taking place that proved that dogs were upset by nasties as well as children. Oddly enough this research never saw the light of day. An article...
Cinema and home movie releases are still subject to certification (though things have relaxed somewhat with the introduction of 12 and 12A certificates), but the days of scary movies being heavily cut or banned, and the prosecution of retailers and distributors of these films are largely in the past. And it's not the case that the gore and violence...
'Ban this filth: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse archive' by Ben Thompson (London: Faber and Faber, 2012) [National Library of Scotland shelfmark: HB2.212.11.526].'Ill effects: The media/violence debate' edited by Martin Baker and Julian Petley (London: Routledge, 2001) [Shelfmark: Q3.202.0457].'Moral panics in the contemporary world' edited by Chas Critcher et al (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) [Shelfmark: HB2.215.9584].'Quite contrary: An autobiography' by Mary Whitehouse (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1993) [Shelfmark: H3.94.7].Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Jun 18, 2018 · Killer Nun and Gestapo’s Last Orgy are still terrible films though. 10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Bryanston Pictures. Even before the video nasty uproar Tobe Hooper’s groundbreaking horror...
Aug 22, 2021 · An informal “long list” of video nasties was drawn up by the director of public prosecutions, as cine-illiterate police rounded up random tapes including Apocalypse Now and Midnight Express....
Aug 9, 2018 · Numerous major studio films were banned on video. Films that had been passed for cinema release were often cut for home video. The supply of unclassified videos, as well as selling rated 15 and 18 certificate videos to under-age people, became a criminal offense.
