![]() While violence in cinema had been subject of censorship for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the claim that any film could fall into children's hands led to new levels of concern. "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 criticized for their violent content by various religious organizations, in the press and by commentators such as Mary Whitehouse. Here is the briefest of descriptions, courtesy of Wikipedia: I'll assume that most of you, my fair readers, are at least aware of the Video Nasty. ![]() ![]() In the UK, something happened in those early years that went on to define the tastes of a generation of horror fans, the advent of the Video Nasty. Thousands upon thousands of films that you'd never had a chance to see either in a theater or at home on television were suddenly at one's fingertips. Everyone was scooping up $700 VCRs like their lives depended on it. ![]() The early 1980's was a magical time for movie lovers. ![]()
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