Which movies did Britain call video nasties, and how did bans change them?

"A lot of those histories paint Britain as this pastoral land facing the creeping threat of unregulated video nasties and ignore the fact that thirty-one of the seventy-two films targeted as video nasties had already been released in cinemas."

"The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) saw video as a threat to theatrical revenue and Mark looks at how they joined forces with the British Videogram Association, the British Board of Film Classification and the government to take on the video distributors."

"However, it also presented an opportunity for the American major distributors to reshape the industry in their own image and take control of the video market themselves."

"El término (traducible como " repugnancia videográfica ") surgió en 1982 durante el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher con la intención de condenar al ostracismo cintas que mostraban temáticas, escenas, secuencias o tramas poco convencionales incluyendo canibalismo , violación , asesinato , tortura o sexo desenfrenado."

"La aprobación de la Video Recordings Act (1984) obligó a pasar por el escrutinio de la BBFC a los títulos comercializados en formato VHS en los videoclubs si querían obtener el permiso de distribución doméstica en el Reino Unido."

"Como resultado decenas de películas fueron censuradas , tuvieron que realizar remontajes o eliminación de escenas o, en algún caso, se prohibió directamente su comercialización."

"Inicialmente la lista incluía un total de 72 películas que, a lo largo de la década, se redujo a 39."

"El grupo musical de punk gótico The Damned (1984) publicaron la canción «Nasty» criticando la condena genérica hacia las video nasties con letras como "I fell in love with a video nasty" ( Me enamoré con una video nasty )."

"In 1984, a disparate group of horror films imported from the USA and Europe were banned in the United Kingdom."

"It is popularly believed that these so-called ‘video nasties’ were the product of Britain’s immoral and disreputable independent video industry and that – following a series of public complaints about the advertising being used to promote these films – a moral panic spontaneously erupted that resulted in the introduction of the Video Recordings Act in 1984."

"Many horror and slasher movies were, at some time or other, declared 'video-nasties' in the UK in the early 1980s"

"Neither of these statements is entirely true, but both have allowed a popular history to persist that continues to hold the independent distributor directly accountable"

"both have contributed to a discursively constructed history that holds the independent video distributors entirely responsible for the events that followed, with the ushering-in of a scheme of government- sanctioned censorship that continues in Britain to this day."

"Prior to the 'Video Recordings Act of 1984 (VRA), the onus was on the courts to prosecute a film if it was likely to "deprave or corrupt" the viewer. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) drew up a list of videos that were liable for prosecution."

"tracing a lineage to the ballyhoo of William Castle and the early promotions of P.T Barnum"

"Below are the 72 films that were cleared from video store shelves."

"And it tracks the development of the category and reveals other possible motives and benefits in the introduction of the Video Recordings Act."

"For many years, most of these films were unavailable in the UK outside of grey market bootlegs, or in highly truncated versions. Times have changed and today many have been released uncut on Bluray and even 4K."

"Released uncut to British cinema screens in 1983 and banned the same year on video. Pretty dull slasher with three leads who sure weren't chosen for their acting abilities. Attempts a little TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE intensity at the end but mostly fails. It gained notoriety in the UK after being featured on BBC News during a report on the availability of uncertified video films."