If you like Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, you might also like British Documentary Films, Films Directed By Jake West, 2010 Films, and Film Censorship In The United Kingdom. The two documentaries have contributed to a greater understanding of the Video Nasties phenomenon, and the box sets include archive material, trailers, and analysis from a range of academics, actors and journalists, including CP Lee, Stephen Thrower, Brad Stevens, Julian Petley, Xavier Mendik, Patricia MacCormack. He describes a video recorder as a potential weapon that may be used to attack the emotions of our children and young persons (quoted in the Telegraph, 16 December 1982), and condemns certain (unnamed) videos as a distasteful fricassee of pornography, rape and murder and a slur on British life (quoted in the same day’s Guardian ). In 2014 the documentary was followed by Video Nasties: Draconian Days, which covered the period from 1984 to 1989 after the introduction of the Video Recordings Act 1984. After a sustained press onslaught of what Martin Barker aptly calls ‘pure adjectival horror’, there now exists a pervasive ‘video nasty’ stereotype consisting, in Barker's words, of: ‘Bad acting, bad filming no real story line endless successions of scenes of sex and violence, with no reason for showing them everything cheap and.
It was premiered at London FrightFest in August 2010 and followed by a panel discussion which included producer Marc Morris and director Jake West of Nucleus Films, professor Martin Barker and film director Tobe Hooper.
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape is a 2010 documentary about the Video Nasties controversy of the early 1980s.
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