Video Nasties and Moral Panic
CW: Mentions of Sexual Violence, Gore, Lot to infer from the Title The Video Nasties are something that I've had such an interest in for such a long time, and I think they're just a weird example of the sort of moral panic that gets spun around horror films, where people just can't imagine how extreme they get, then they see what's available and they're like "Holy shit." and I guess it's just a very quintessentially British moral panic. Sure it's known internationally but like you look at the origins of it and even just the term "Video Nasty" and you think like "This object [not a film]. This nasty!" sort of thing and it's just yeah. Naturally, you have outraged people and then this entirely other group of people who exclusively seek out so-called 'Nasties' just because of the notoriety surrounding the films and the fact that they've been banned or censored in some capacity. "These are films that are inspiri...