Video Nasty

"Video nasty" was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticised for their violent content by elements in the press and commentators such as Mary Whitehouse. While violence in cinema had been a concern for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the possibility of any film falling into children’s hands led to new levels of concern. Many of these "video nasties" were low-budget horror films produced in Italy and the United States. The furor created by the moral crusade against video nasties led to the introduction of the UK’s Video Recordings Act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release. Several major studio productions ended up being banned on video, falling afoul of legislation that was designed to control the distribution of video nasties.
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Send to Printer Video Nasty "Video nasty" was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticised for their violent content by elements in the press and commentators such as Mary Whitehouse. While violence in cinema had been a concern for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the possibility of any film falling into children’s hands led to new levels of concern. Many of these "video nasties" were low-budget horror films produced in Italy and the United States. The furor created by the moral crusade against video nasties led to the introduction of the UK’s Video Recordings Act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release. Several major studio productions ended up being banned on video, falling afoul of legislation that was designed to control the distribution of video nasties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasties
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	2.	Anthropophagus - The Grim Reaper
	3.	Axe
	4.	SS Hell Camp by Luigi Batzella
	5.	The Beyond
	6.	Blood Feast
	7.	The Ghastly Ones / Seeds of Sin (Something Weird) by Andy Milligan
	8.	Bloody Moon [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Netherlands ] by Jesus Franco
	9.	The Boogeyman by Ulli Lommel
	10.	The Burning by Tony Maylam
	11.	Cannibal Apocalypse by Antonio Margheriti
	12.	Cannibal Ferox (A.K.A. Make Them Die Slowly) by Umberto Lenzi
	13.	Cannibal Holocaust
	14.	Cannibal Man by Eloy de la Iglesia
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