With the moral outrage of campaigners like the infamous Mary Whitehouse making national headlines, questions were asked in parliament, and the infamous DDP, or ‘video nasty’ list, was published, seeing 72 titles banned from the British isles for several years (unless you wanted to rent them from your local Ice Cream Man of course).įortunately, we now live in more enlightened times, and the results of this new, heightened sensibility? Well, you can now watch teenage virgins getting chainsawed up on your lunch hour. I have fond memories of sitting in my (17 year-old) uncle’s living room while a variety of jungle cannibal movies warped my prepubescent brain.
This meant that for a brief, glorious period, you could rent just about anything from your local newsagent. The early 80s were both a blessing and a curse for UK gore-hounds.Īs VHS players first began to appear across this small island, rental libraries sprung up to meet demand, but the various film-rating bodies lagged behind the technology. But you can still watch them all on YouTube right now… 10 horror films so horrific they’ve were banned by the UK government.
