Video Nasties
"Video Nasty" was a term that came from the tabloid press during the 1970s. It was a term they used for very violent horror films that were released onto video; videos that were noticed to have been in possession of a few notorious murderers, and it was in this reaction that the BBFC had decided to make a mandatory classification towards this, to prevent innocent people from watching them. It was, however, unclear whether or not the numbers were statistically significant, as it was not known if a similar proportion of men who were not murderers, owned video nasties. Theref…
