History Main / VideoNasties

* In WerewolfTheApocalypse, [[EvilInc Pentex]] owns a movie subsidiary, Slaughterhouse Videos, that it infests with evil spirits to infect viewers. Relatively little is said about the movies directly, but what is said always seems to be a reflection of the "worst" horror movies of the era in which the book was written, with the original BookOfTheWyrm implying they make VideoNasties, and later books describing movies which span VideoNasties, low budget gore fest slasher films, and "true events" videos of things like hostage situations, mass killings, car crashes, etc.

* ''Film/NightmareMaker''

It really doesn't take a genius to know what the result of Mary's hissy-fits and the bans were; people wanted to see these films. [[BileFascination Naughty little boys, spurred by the media's allegations that these were reprehensible, disgusting, Gorntastic shlockfests that were corrupting the youth]] [[ForbiddenFruit and which had been banned for the good of the nation]], flocked to video stores in hopes of getting their grubby hands on a copy before the police buried them in landfills. [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity Their infamy instead took on a nearly legendary status]]; many would have faded into obscurity as generic money-sucking horror drivel and nowadays nobody would know they had ever existed (however, several of them were already wildly successful in their countries of origin and beyond, such as the legendary ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' and the Creator/DarioArgento films included on the list).

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You can see how [[Creator/RogerEbert Siskel and Ebert]] reacted to this trend in [[http://siskelandebert.org/video/2MW8BASYDOAM/The-Untouchables--The-Witches-of-Eastwick--Video-Nasties-1987 this video]], starting at about 12:20. In addition, a review series of every film on the list can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvwJA-p_h1w&list=PLBZXkOVkOn1mZzO96Rg3VqoX6a1IreCk_ here]].

* ''[[Film/NightOfTheDemon1980 Night of the Demon]]'' (very definitely '''not''' the [[Film/NightOfTheDemon classic 1957 Jacques Tourneur film]])

* ''Film/{{Delirium|1987}}''

* ''Film/{{Delirium}}''

* ''TheYoungOnes'' had an episode called "Nasty" where the boys try to watch a video nasty only to be interrupted by a South African driving instructor/vampire [[spoiler: really Harry the Bastard who works down the video shop]], played by Alexei Sayle. The episode also features the Damned singing the song that provides the title quote on this article. The Nasty in question is the hopefully fictional, and certainly not on the list, ''Sex With The Headless Corpse Of The Virgin Astronaut''.

* ''Film/NightmareInADamagedBrain''

* TheYoungOnes had an episode called "Nasty" where the boys try to watch a video nasty only to be interrupted by a South African driving instructor/vampire [[spoiler: really Harry the Bastard who works down the video shop]], played by Alexei Sayle. The episode also features the Damned singing the song that provides the title quote on this article. The Nasty in question is the hopefully fictional, and certainly not on the list, ''Sex With The Headless Corpse Of The Virgin Astronaut''.

You can see how [[Creator/RogerEbert Siskel and Ebert]] reacted to this trend in [[http://siskelandebert.org/video/2MW8BASYDOAM/The-Untouchables--The-Witches-of-Eastwick--Video-Nasties-1987 this video]], starting at about 12:20.

As time has gone by and society become more liberal about horror movies, many films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC. In some cases they were passed with no difficulties, but a few of the more extreme cases were passed only with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again a few years later and released completely uncut in the present day (the most notorious and high-profile case of this being ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''). Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned, but usually because they remain so obscure that nobody has bothered to resubmit them. 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 available 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 ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity based on the ContemptibleCover[[note:eg. the notorious cover of ''SS Experiment Camp'' showing a topless woman crucified head-down[[/note]] or the GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath alone. The featuring of the words "[[CannibalFilm Cannibal]]", "[[ZombieApocalypse Zombie]]" or anything associated with [[{{Nazisploitation}} 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.

As time has gone by and society become more liberal about horror movies, many films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC. In some cases they were passed with no difficulties, but a few of the more extreme cases were passed only with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again a few years later and released completely uncut in the present day (the most notorious and high-profile case of this being ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''). Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned, but usually because they remain so obscure that nobody has bothered to resubmit them. 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 available 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 ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity based on the cover art or the title alone. The featuring of the words "[[CannibalFilm Cannibal]]", "[[ZombieApocalypse Zombie]]" or anything associated with [[{{Nazisploitation}} 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.

* ''Film/GuineaPig 2: Flowers of Flesh and Blood''

* TheYoungOnes had an episode called "Nasty" where the boys try to watch a video nasty only to be interrupted by a vampire.

[[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]], notorious morality campaigner who had recently gotten a powerful ally in the Conservative government of the time, was not pleased.

[[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]] was not pleased.

* [[/index]]''SS Experiment Camp''[[note]]Like ''Last Orgy of the Third Reich'', former trope page deleted following Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident.[[/note]][[index]]

* [[/index]]''SSExperimentCamp''[[note]]Like ''Last Orgy of the Third Reich'', former trope page deleted following Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident.[[/note]][[index]]

* ''Film/SSExperimentCamp''

As time has gone by and society become more liberal about horror movies, many films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC. In some cases they were passed with no difficulties, but a few of the more extreme cases were passed only with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again a few years later and released completely uncut in the present day (the most notorious and high-profile case of this being ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''). Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned, but usually because they remain so obscure that nobody has bothered to resubmit them. 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 available 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 ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity based on the cover art or the title alone. The featuring of the words "[[ImAHumanitarian Cannibal]]", "[[ZombieApocalypse 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.

* ''Film/StrawDogs'' (never on the "nasty" list, but banned from home release by the BBFC until 2002)

As time has gone by and society become more liberal about horror movies, many films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC. In some cases they were passed with no difficulties, but a few of the more extreme cases were passed only with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again a few years later and released completely uncut in the present day (the most notorious and high-profile case of this being ''TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''). Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned, but usually because they remain so obscure that nobody has bothered to resubmit them. 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 available 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 ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity based on the cover art or the title alone. The featuring of the words "[[ImAHumanitarian Cannibal]]", "[[ZombieApocalypse 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.

As time has gone by and society become more liberal about horror movies, many films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC. In some cases they were passed with no difficulties, but a few of the more extreme cases were passed only with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again a few years later and released completely uncut in the present day (the most notorious and high-profile case of this being ''TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''). Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned, but usually because they remain so obscure that nobody has bothered to resubmit them. 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 available 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 ''Film/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity based on the cover art or the title alone. The featuring of the words "[[ImAHumanitarian Cannibal]]", "[[ZombieApocalypse 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.