video nasty

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

From BBC

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

In exploring Britain’s “video nasty” era, which launched intense public debate around the notion that slasher films would poison minds, Bailey-Bond wondered: If a movie could be considered so terrible that it drives society to commit crime, what effect would it have had on the censors in the room?

From New York Times

José Mourinho says that he has banned his Tottenham players from watching the video nasty of their 7-2 Champions League home loss to Bayern Munich in October, which represented one of the final cuts for his managerial predecessor, Mauricio Pochettino.

From The Guardian