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video nasty

British  

noun

  1. a film, usually specially made for video, that is explicitly horrific, brutal, and pornographic

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He skews toward modern horror filmmaking but has the references and deep film knowledge to make “Immaculate” feel more like a long-lost video nasty dredged up out of an obscure VHS archive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

But his 62-minute video nasty on Berry played to fewer laughs.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2021

Filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond poses this question in her first feature film Censor, set in the so-called "video nasty" era of the 80s.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2021

The only video nasty to rip off Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010

But for a couple of years The Evil Dead, despite endorsements from the likes of Stephen King, was considered a "video nasty" and dragged through the courts.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2010

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