“Reaching its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s and then lingering in the late 1980s in the form of ‘video nasties’, this kind of film often relished its marginal, derided position in the cultural field. Through its flaunting of ‘bad taste’, its low-level, gross-out special effects and lurid coloration, its gratuitous and exaggerated acts of violence and dismemberment and its willing embrace of exploitation and ‘sexploitation’ tags, modern low-budget, low brow horror cinema made sure it remained at the bottom end of the market and on fringes of cultural analysis.”-The Horror Reader (page 311)
What convinced me about putting this up (apart from it summing up the video nasties perfectly) is how they mention the act of violence being over the top, which it is. Look at The Evil Dead for example, no one would take it seriously so why did the BBFC? Also I liked this paragraph because they mentioned that ‘video nasties’ where “willing to embrace… video nasties” which I totally agree with, To be honest there’s not a difference between ‘video nasties’ and exploitation films.
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