Editing Video nasty (section)

== Public concern ==
Public awareness of the availability of these videos began in early 1982, when Vipco (Video Instant Picture Company), the UK distributors of ''[[The Driller Killer]]'', a 1979 [[splatter film]], took out full-page advertisements in a number of specialist video magazines, depicting the video's explicit cover; an action which resulted in a large number of complaints to the [[Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom)|Advertising Standards Agency]].<ref name="Nick Johnstone 1999">Nick Johnstone (1999). ''Abel Ferrara: The King of New York''. Omnibus Press: 13</ref> A few months later Go Video, the distributors of the already-controversial 1980 Italian film ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'', in an effort to boost publicity and generate sales that ultimately backfired, wrote anonymously to [[Mary Whitehouse]] of the [[Mediawatch-uk|National Viewers' and Listeners' Association]] complaining about their own film. Whitehouse sparked off a public campaign and coined the term "video nasty". Amid the growing concern, ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' brought the issue to a wider audience in May 1982 with an article entitled "How High Street Horror is Invading the Home". Soon the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' began their own campaign against the distribution of these films. The exposure of "nasties" to children began to be blamed for the increase in violent crime amongst youths. The growing media frenzy only served to increase the demand for such material among adolescents. At the suggestion of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, the Conservative MP [[Graham Bright]] introduced a [[Member of parliament's legislative motion|Private Member's Bill]] to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] in 1983. This was passed as the [[Video Recordings Act 1984]] which came into effect on 1 September 1985.