History Main / VideoNasties

* ''[[NightOfThe1980 Night of the Demon]]''

* ''{{Night of the Demon}}''

->''"Catch catch the horror taxi!\\

Freeze frame gonna drive you insane!"''\\

* ''[=~Gestapo's Last Orgy~=]'' aka LastOrgyOfTheThirdReich

* ''[=~Gestapo's Last Orgy~=]''

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!!Misidentified as Nasties

!!Misidentified for Nasties

!!Mistaken for Nasties

!!Commonly Mistaken for Nasties

[[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse and the religious right]] were not pleased.

So in 1984, the Video Recordings Act was passed, which made it illegal to distribute any film that had not been classified. The BBFC decided that some films, however, were so violent that they would not be classified at all and instead be banned outright. Hence was formed the infamous list of the '''"Video Nasties"'''. This ultimately comprised 72 films, of which [[http://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/slasher_nasties_4.html 39]] were successfully prosecuted. Video stores renting them were subject to police raids.

So in 1984, the Video Recordings Act was passed, which made it illegal to distribute any film that had not been classified. The BBFC decided that some films, however, were so violent that they would not be classified at all and instead be banned outright. Hence was formed the infamous list of the '''"Video Nasties"'''. This ultimately comprised 72 films, of which 39 were successfully prosecuted. Video stores renting them were subject to police raids.

* ''[[{{Axe}} Axe!]]''

* ''[[{{ptitlejlvkepks}} Axe!]]''

* ''{{Snuff}}''* ''{{SS Experiment Camp}}''

* ''{{Snuff}}''
* ''SpitOnYourGrave''
* ''{{SS Experiment Camp}}''

* ''{{Flesh for Frakenstein}}''

->''Catch catch the horror taxi!\\

Freeze frame gonna drive you insane!''\\

In the 1980s, newly arisen video distribution companies in Britain got the idea to [[StepThreeProfit make a fast buck]] by adapting for VHS cheesy, low-budget and, for the time, [[{{Understatement}} rather violent]] Italian and American horror films of the [[{{Grindhouse}} ilk that would later inspire Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez]]. Unfortunately, at the time there was no law that required videocassettes to be classified before being rented and anyone of any age could legally rent any video; so films such as ''{{Cannibal Holocaust}}'' and ''{{I Spit on Your Grave}}'' could be (and were) [[HarmfulToMinors rented by children as young as 10]].

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* ''ShogunAssassin''

* ''{{Xtro}}''

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[[caption-width:356:Well, with a poster like this you can't exactly blame people for having been concerned...]]

-->''Catch catch the horror taxi!\\

Freeze frame gonna drive you insane!''
-->--'''TheDamned'''

So in 1984, the Video Recordings Act was passed, which made it illegal to distribute any film that had not been classified. The BBFC decided that some films, however, were so violent that they would not be classified at all and instead be banned outright. Hence was formed the infamous list of the '''"Video Nasties"'''. This ultimately comprised 72 films, of which 39 were succesfully prosecuted. Video stores renting them were subject to police raids.

As time has gone by, films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC wherein the ban on them has been lifted albeit with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again wherein they are released completely uncut in the present day. Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned; on account of the fact that nobody has bothered to resubmit them more than anything else. If you are able to find and view these films (most used to be incredibly rare and obscure; what were once considered holy-grails amongst collectors are now widely avalible in this age of DVD) you will probably be shocked at how tame ''some'' of them are compared to today's standards what with films the likes of ''{{Saw}}'' and ''{{Hostel}}''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often the BBFC would stick films on the list [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch based on the cover art or the title alone]]. The featuring of the word "Cannibal", "Zombie" or anything associated with [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] in the title of a film almost guaranteed inclusion on the list. Other films though, such as ''Cannibal Holocaust'', retain the power to shock and horrify.

In the 1980s, newly arisen video distribution companies in Britain got the idea to [[StepThreeProfit make a fast buck]] by adapting for VHS cheesy, low-budget and, for the time, [[{{Understatement}} Rather Violent]] Italian and American horror films of the [[{{Grindhouse}} ilk that would later inspire Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez]]. Unfortunately, at the time there was no law that required videocassettes to be classified before being rented and anyone of any age could legally rent any video; so films such as ''{{Cannibal Holocaust}}'' and ''{{I Spit on Your Grave}}'' could be (and were) [[HarmfulToMinors rented by children as young as 10]].

So in 1984, the Video Recordings Act was passed, which made it illegal to distribute any film that had not been classified. The BBFC (Britain's equivalent of the MPAA) decided that some films, however, were so violent that they would not be classified at all and instead be banned outright. Hence was formed the infamous list of the '''"Video Nasties"'''. This ultimately comprised 72 films, of which 39 were succesfully prosecuted. Video stores renting them were subject to police raids.

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