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Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide. Okay, short version first: if you're a horror fan, you absolutely need this release. Long version: Back in the early '80s, a moral panic erupted in the United Kingdom under the iron fist of Margaret Thatcher and her cohorts in media censorship who found it handy to blame all of society's ills (and ...
Anton Bitel Little White Lies Hilariously opening with a rapid, context-free montage of the nastiest scenes from each and every banned title, West's film defies its viewers to be corrupted and ...
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Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more with the sequel to the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon – the most extraordinary and scandalous era in the history of film and the rise of the underground VHS trade.
Jun 3, 2014 · Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more with this definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon - one of the most extraordinary and scandalous eras in the history of British film.
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Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more with this definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon - one of the most extraordinary and scandalous eras in the history of British film.
This thoroughly researched and well-made featurette traces how the unprecedented freedoms in film viewing brought about by the home video revolution of the early Eighties soon led to an irrational and ill-informed backlash by the press, religious campaigning groups and politicians, until eventually the long list of video nasties was banned and ...
Disc one contains the main documentary directed by Jake West and produced by Marc Morris, Video Nasties: Draconian Days, which clocks in at 97 minutes and goes into more depth about the climate of the era as well as some of the baffling non-horror casualties of the craze.
