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Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

Aug 30, 2010 | IMDB 6.8

72 min Watch Now

Documentary

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

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Andy Nyman, Christopher Smith, Neil Marshall, Julian Petley, Marc Morris, Xavier Mendik, Stephen Thrower, Kim Newman, John Hayward, Martin Barker

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