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Video Nasties

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

5.6

5.3

Absurd

110

6.2

5.3

Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper (1980)

4.6

4.8

Lisa, Lisa

361

7.4

6.8

The Beyond (1981)

145

5.3

5.1

Blood Feast (1963)

4.4

3.8

The Ghastly Ones (1968) (1968)

5.8

5.2

Bloody Moon (La lune de sang)

4.4

4.6

The Boogey Man (1980)

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2.1

Revenge of the Boogeyman (1983)

209

6.7

6.4

The Burning (1981)

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6.8

6.3

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

6.1

5.5

Cannibal Apocalypse

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145

5.3

5.2

Cannibal Ferox (1981)

813

6.1

5.8

Cannibal Holocaust

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6.4

6.3

Cannibal Man (1972)

2.9

2.5

Cannibal Terror (1980)

5.1

Alien Contamination (1980)

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179

6.6

Dead & Buried (1981)

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5.5

5.7

Delirium (1972)

4.2

3.5

The Devil Hunter

5.5

5.6

Don't Go in the House (1979)

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3.8

Don't Go in the Woods (1981)

4.2

3.5

Don't Go Near the Park (1979)

5.1

Don't Look in the Basement (1973)

5.5

The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)

142

5.7

5.2

The Driller Killer (1979)

3.7

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978)

142

5.3

5.5

Eaten Alive

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2138

7.3

7.4

The Evil Dead (1981)

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6.2

5.7

Evilspeak (1981)

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156

4.9

4.2

Faces of Death (1978)

5.7

6.3

Fight for Your Life (2019)

154

6.4

5.8

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

2.8

Frozen Scream (1975)

213

5.9

The Funhouse (1981)

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5.2

4.4

The Gestapo's Last Orgy

207

6.6

6.1

House by the Cemetery (1981)

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118

6.3

5.7

House on the Edge of the Park

5.3

4.3

Human Experiments

508

5.8

5.7

I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

364

6.5

Inferno (1980)

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5.4

Island of Death

5.7

The Killer Nun (1991)

690

6.4

5.8

The Last House on the Left (1972)

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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue)

160

7.5

6.8

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue)... (1974)

5.5

3.9

Love Camp 7 (1969)

5.4

5.6

Madhouse (1981)

5.9

5.4

Man from Deep River (1972)

3.7

Mardi Gras Massacre

5.6

5.2

Slave Of The Cannibal God (1978) (1978)

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A list of all the films deemed "video nasties".

Seems like a pretty arbitrary selection of films to me. There are certainly more violent/sleazy films out there. Why choose these ones? Who knows... but here is the list.

What is a "video nasty"?

From Wikipedia:

"Video nasty" was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by various religious organizations, in the press and by commentators such as Mary Whitehouse. While violence in cinema had been subject of censorship for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the possibility of any film falling into children's hands led to new levels of concern. Many of these "video nasties" were low-budget horror films produced in Italy and the United States. The furore created by the moral crusade against video nasties led to the introduction of the UK's Video Recordings Act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release. Several major studio productions ended up being banned on video, falling afoul of legislation that was designed to control the distribution of video nasties."