Moral panic, myth, and the macabre: Video nasties in the 1980s and beyond. When the widespread introduction of the VHS cassette changed the face of home entertainment in the early 1980s, it wasn’t long before video rental store shelves were filled with lurid tapes promising orgies of sex, violence, and terror. In this talk, authors … Continue reading Cannibal Error: A Social History of the ‘Video Nasty’.