The ‘80s; a decade of shoulder pads, bad haircuts, NWOBHM, Rubik’s Cubes and the video nasty. The latter – for many, one of the more endearing relicts of the era – was spawned by the advent of affordable home video machines. With no censorship to control this new medium, other than the loosely worded Obscene Publications Act of 1959, a number of distribution companies started releasing low budget horror and exploitation movies straight to video to make easy profit. In an attempt to distract the public from high unemployment and crime, race riots, economic recession, and the Falklands War, The Daily Mail picked up on this, and whipped up controversy...

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