Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties

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.While neither of these st...