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video nasty

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noun

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

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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 low-budget, distinctly lo-fi first Evil Dead film was branded a "video nasty" upon its initial UK debut.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2011

"I have never seen a video nasty … I actually don't need to see visually what I know is in that film," she proudly proclaimed to Nick Owen on TV-am.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

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