![]() ![]() Many cheap, lurid, gory, exploitative horror movies were among the titles flooding video stores, and it was these that caught the attention of the tabloid media, concerned parents, moral activists, and eventually, the government. The problem was there were no rules on what could or could not be released on video, and distributers keen to capitalize on the trend put out pretty much anything they could license. ![]() ![]() In the early 1980s in the U.K., a burgeoning new technology kickstarted an outrage-driven witch hunt for certain horror films, collectively referred to as “ video nasties.” The technology in question was the video player, which had the power to bring cinema into everyone’s home. ![]()
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