History Main / VideoNasties

** "Bambi" features Bamber "Bambi" Gascoigne (played by Griff Rhys-Jones) who, in this universe is apparently identical with [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} Bambi the deer]]. Vyvyan recognizes him from ''Bambi Goes Crazy-Ape Bonkers With His Power-Drill And Sex", causing Neil to disapprovingly ask if Bambi did a video nasty. Bambi just shrugs and says that he had a hard time finding work after his contract with Disney collapsed.

** "Bambi" features Bamber "Bambi" Gascoigne (played by Griff Rhys-Jones) who, in this universe is apparently identical with [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} Bambi the deer]]. Vyvyan recognizes him from ''Bambi Goes Crazy-Ape Bonkers With His Drill And Sex", causing Neil to disapprovingly ask if Bambi did a video nasty. Bambi just shrugs and says that he had a hard time finding work after his contract with Disney collapsed.

* ''Series/SpittingImage'' parodied the trend in a sketch advertising a low-budget, TastesLikeDiabetes [[SpiritualAntithesis "video nicie"]].

* ''Film/TheWerewolfAndTheYeti''

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 ''Film/TheDrillerKiller'' showing a man being drilled to death[[/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.

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

* ''Film/{{Inferno}}''

'''The following films were not included on the list, but are sometimes mistakenly thrown in because they were controversial in earlier or later eras. Not all of them were ever actually banned in Britain.'''

* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' (predates the "nasty" controversy, withdrawn voluntarily by its director, Creator/StanleyKubrick, due to claims of copycat crimes and threats against him)

* ''[[Film/ReazioneACatena Twitch of the Death Nerve]]''

* ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseinTexas'' (Seized in a police raid in Manchester because the infamous Chief Constable James Anderton believed the film was pornographic. The incident was used as proof an official list was needed because police didn’t know the content of the movies they were seizing.)

* ''Film/BestLittleWhorehouseinTexas'' (Seized in a police raid in Manchester because the infamous Chief Constable James Anderton believes the film was pornographic and used as a need for an official list as police didn’t know the content of the movies they were seizing.)

* ''Film/StrawDogs1971'' (never on the "nasty" list, but banned from home release by the BBFC until 2002)

* ''Film/LoveCamp7''

* The trend was also referenced in a Radio Rentals commercial featuring actor Matt Frewer in character as Series/MaxHeadroom, wherein Max at first appears to warn the viewer to beware of video nasties, but then [[BaitAndSwitch turns out to be talking about malfunctioning VHS tapes]]. After all, as Max puts it, "what could be nastier than your video going on the blink?"

* ''Film/{{Unhinged}}''

* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' (predates the "nasty" controversy, withdrawn voluntarily by its director, Creator/StanleyKubrick, due to claims of copycat crimes and threats against him)

* ''Series/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/{{Maniac}}''

'''The following are works which mention VideoNasties InUniverse or had other connections to the crusade:'''

* In ''TabletopGame/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/TheBeyond''

* ''Film/TheBoogeyman''

* ''Film/CannibalTerror''
* ''Film/{{Contamination}}''
* ''Film/DeadAndBuried''
* ''[[Film/EatenAlive Death Trap]]''
* ''Film/DeepRiverSavages''
* ''Film/{{Delirium|1979}}''

* ''Film/DontGoInTheHouse''

* ''Film/DontGoNearThePark''
* ''Film/DontLookInTheBasement''
* ''Film/TheDormThatDrippedBlood''

* ''Film/DropDeadDearest''
* ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''

* ''Film/FrozenScream''
* ''Film/TheFunhouse''

* ''Film/HumanExperiments''

* ''Film/{{Inferno}}''

* ''Film/KillerNun''

* ''Film/LateNightTrains''
* ''Film/TheLivingDeadAtManchesterMorgue''

* ''Film/TheMountainOfTheCannibalGod''

* ''[[Film/ButcherBakerNightmareMaker Nightmare Maker]]''

* ''Film/{{Possession}}''
* ''[[Film/TheBoogeyman Revenge of the Boogeyman]]''

* ''[[Film/NightSChool1981 Terror Eyes]]''
* ''Film/TheToolboxMurders''

* ''Film/{{Unhinged}}''
* ''Film/VisitingHours''

* ''Film/TheWitchWhoCameFromTheSea''
* ''Film/WomenBehindBars''
* ''[[Film/HellOfTheLivingDead Zombie Creeping Flesh]]''

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.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "Vengeance on Varos" was intended as [[RippedFromTheHeadlines a satire of the Nasty craze]]. Due to its unusually dark tone (it was originally written with lots of comedy sequences, but they were all cut, and one scene originally PlayedForLaughs was rewritten to play it straight), relatively explicit sequences of torture and violence, and elements of {{Gorn}}, it was accused of [[ParodyRetcon being what it claimed to parody]]. The controversy over the level of violence in the story (and of several other stories from Seasons 21-22, especially "Resurrection of the Daleks", "Attack of the Cybermen" and "The Two Doctors") was among the reasons given for the cancellation of the original Season 23, and contributed to the general decline in popularity of the show in the mid-to-late 80s.

* ''Film/TerrorEyes''