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[[File:VideoNasties_4258.jpg|frame|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331182543/https://www.nucleusfilms.com/index.php<small>Notice the [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Last House on the Left]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[media:LastHousePoster.jpg|poster]]: "To avoid moral panic, keep repeating, [[MST3K Mantra|they're only movies... Only movies... Only movies...]]"</small>]]
{{quote|''Catch catch the horror taxi!
''I fell in love with a video nasty!
''Catch catch the horror train!
''Freeze frame gonna drive you insane!''
|'''[[The Damned]]'''}}
In the 1980s, newly arisen video distribution companies in Britain got the idea to [[Step Three: Profit|make a fast buck]] by adapting for VHS cheesy, low-budget and, for the time, rather violent Italian and American horror films of the [[Grindhouse|ilk that would later inspire]] [[Quentin Tarantino]] and [[Robert Rodriguez]]. Unfortunately, at the time there was no law that required videocassettes to be classified before being rented and anyone of any age could legally rent any video; so films such as ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' and ''[[I Spit
[[Moral Guardians|Mary Whitehouse]] was not pleased.
So in 1984, the Video Recordings Act was passed, which made it illegal to distribute any film that had not been classified. The [[Censorship Bureau|British Board of Film Classification]]
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 ''The Last House on the Left''). 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 ''[[Saw]]'' and ''[[Hostel]]''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|based on the cover art or the title alone]]. The featuring of the words "[[I'm a Humanitarian|Cannibal]]", "[[Zombie Apocalypse|Zombie]]" or anything associated with [[Those Wacky Nazis|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.
It really doesn't take a genius to know what the result of Mary's hissy-fits and the bans were; people wanted to see these films. [[Bile Fascination|Naughty little boys, spurred by the media's allegations that these were reprehensible, disgusting, Gorntastic shlockfests that were corrupting the youth]] [[Forbidden Fruit|and which had been banned for the good of the nation]], flocked to video stores in hopes of getting their grubby hands on a copy before the police buried them in landfills. [[No Such Thing
You can see how [[Roger Ebert|Siskel and Ebert]] reacted to this trend in [http://siskelandebert.org/video/2MW8BASYDOAM/The-Untouchables--The-Witches-of-Eastwick--Video-Nasties-1987 this video], starting at about 12:20.
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