Nasty business: an alternative history of 1980s ‘videos nasties’
Myths surrounding the 'video nasties' which sparked a nationwide moral panic in 1980s Britain are being debunked by a Staffordshire University film expertThe rise of home video in the early 1980s saw a wave of extreme horror films released by independent distributors which were branded ‘video nasties’ by tabloid newspapers and vilified by campaigners such as Mary Whitehouse. Dr Mark McKenna delves into this period dubbed ‘the golden age’ of exploitation films before the introduction of the 1984 Video Recordings Act in his new book Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the