VIDEO NASTIES: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010); DVD
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VIDEO NASTIES: The Definitive Guide (2010); DVD
Sleaze/Banned/Exploitation/Horror/Video Nasties DVD; Used
Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (2010) is a terrific three-disk set devoted to the uproar in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain over the availability of violent movies in the new home-video market, “The Video Nasties”. Set includes all the original trailers for the ‘Video Nasties’ listed films, as well as a very well made documentary (directed by Jake West) called Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape, featuring interviews with filmmakers, critics, academics and also two of the major players in stirring up the controversy and prompting the government to pass the law to ban the “nasties” — Graham Bright, at the time a neophyte Conservative back-bencher whose private member’s censorship bill eventually became law, and Peter Kruger, a senior police officer.
