Effects of the Video Recordings Act 1984 Video nasty

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under 1984 act, british board of film censors renamed british board of film classification , became responsible certification of both cinema , video releases. video releases after 1 september 1985 had comply act , submitted classification bbfc. films released on video before date had re-submitted classification within following 3 years. increased possibility of videos falling hands of children required film classification video separate process cinema classification. films had passed uncut cinema release cut video. supply of unclassified videos became criminal offence, did supplying 15 , 18 certificate videos under-aged people. low-budget horror films act intended curb, number of high-profile films had passed cinema certification fell foul of act. in particular, exorcist, made available warner home video in december 1981, not submitted video certification bbfc , withdrawn shelves in 1986. straw dogs denied video certification , removed video stores. popular culture backlash against video recordings act included may 1984 release of nasty punk-goth outfit damned, celebrated condemned genre lyrics fell in love video nasty .


the tv show young ones included entire episode entitled nasty , in characters rent video recorder watch video nasty (with fictitious name sex headless corpse of virgin astronaut), , featured lip synched performance of nasty damned. in episode, bambi , eponymous character had apparently done disney nasty entitled bambi goes crazy-ape bonkers drill , sex.


the television programme spitting image parodied video nasties sketch of sickeningly nice, low-budget film entitled video nicie .


neil innes song new school (1984) contains video nasty reference s got charm of video nasty/i ve never been anywhere ghastly, new school .








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