video nasty

video nasty
  a British term from the 1980s that refers to a select group of ultra-violent videos (low-budget films produced in Italy and the US) that were considered highly objectionable and to be regulated
  Examples: 72 separate films appeared on the classified list of "video nasties," 39 of which were successfully prosecuted. Films included Blood Feast (1963), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Evil Dead (1981), Faces of Death (1980), I Spit On Your Grave (1978), The Last House on the Left (1972), and Tenebrae (1982).

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