Shock Horror!

Publisher: FAB PRESS

Year Published: 2005

Author(s): Francis Brewster, Harvey Fenton, Marc Morris

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What if the police broke down the door of every “mom ‘n pop” video store in your town and arrested and fined the owner for selling and/or renting out horror DVDs? What if they marched into YOUR home, confiscated your exploitation movie collection and put you in jail? It would be unthinkable, like something out of a… well, movie. But it did happen. The place and time was England in the ’80s during Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s reign of censorship and oppression. It was a time that spawned anger, political and social upheaval, punk music, and the video nasties. The violent and sexual nature in these “nasty” films were said to be harmful to the children and was blamed for the rise in violent crimes perpetrated by young people.

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