In the early 1980s, Britain was gripped by a moral panic over the rise of home video (for an entertaining depiction of the time, check out the movie Censor). Horror and exploitation films, once confined to grindhouse theaters, suddenly found themselves in living rooms, accessible to anyone with a VHS player. The resulting tabloid hysteria over these so-called "video nasties," followed in some cases by government intervention, turned many obscure B-movies into cultural lightning rods.
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