Nasty, Nasty - very, very Nasty ...

For a few short years in the early 1980s, you could bring uncensored horror and mayhem into your home for a nightly fee on video cassette. Bypassing the traditional British censors and coinciding with the vogue for explicit gore, video stores offered a cornucopia of dark delights—and admittedly many duds. However, this Wild West’esque free-for-all was short-lived after a moral panic gripped the country.

Quickly becoming public enemy number one, horror on video became an obsession for the tabloids, moral crusaders and politicians. Prosecuted and with many banned from shelves, the unintended effect was to give many of these titles an allure that some of them arguably didn’t deserve. Delve into the murky world of the infamous ‘video nasties’ ....