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Why don't people talk about this any more?

posted 4 years ago by hurricane (1908)
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Watching this documentary made me realise just how shocking a lot of this was.

I live in the UK, and this panic happened within my lifetime. I was only a child in the 1980s, so don't really remember anything about it. But seeing news footage of police going into people's homes, sometimes by force, and confiscating video cassettes just because they contain a horror movie that some old biddy decided we weren't allowed to watch. That's pretty appalling, when you think about it.

Has there ever been any other genre of movie, where people have essentially been criminalised because they own specific movies on videos/DVDs/whatever?

And yet nowadays, you hardly ever hear people mention it. Most people if I referred to the video nasty craze of the 1980s wouldn't know what I was talking about.

I wonder why it's not remembered or discussed more.

[–] AP (5258) 4 years ago

If I had to guess, it would be embarrassment. Strict censorship of entertainment is nothing to be proud of.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20448) 4 years ago

If your interested this channel has reviewed every video nasty and section 3.

https://m.youtube.com/user/lampyman101

[–] hurricane (1908) 4 years ago

I have seen reviews of Video Nasties on You Tube previously, so may have already watched these. :)

I'll have a look though, thanks man.