

Video Nasties: Draconian Days
2014-03-01 · 97 min · ★ 7.4
The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.
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- Jake West
- Production companies
- Nucleus Films
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- United Kingdom
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- Released
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Kim NewmanSelf
Neil MarshallSelf
Christopher SmithSelf
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