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| rdfs:comment | - Much of the awareness for the Video Nasties originally occurred in 1982 when UK distributors released a film on VHS called The Driller Killer. While the film had violence, it actually wasn't the film itself that started a ruckus. The VHS cover was an explicit photo of a man being drilled in the forehead with blood coming out. Later when Ruggero Deodatdo's controversial classic Cannibal Holocaust (say that five times fast), a woman by the name of Mary Whitehouse coined the term "Video Nasty" because of both films violent content, though by the sounds of it, it sounds like Mary had not actually seen The Driller Killer as the film is violent but compared to something like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Friday the 13th, the film is rather tame with its murders. The news began to spread of this
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| abstract | - Much of the awareness for the Video Nasties originally occurred in 1982 when UK distributors released a film on VHS called The Driller Killer. While the film had violence, it actually wasn't the film itself that started a ruckus. The VHS cover was an explicit photo of a man being drilled in the forehead with blood coming out. Later when Ruggero Deodatdo's controversial classic Cannibal Holocaust (say that five times fast), a woman by the name of Mary Whitehouse coined the term "Video Nasty" because of both films violent content, though by the sounds of it, it sounds like Mary had not actually seen The Driller Killer as the film is violent but compared to something like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Friday the 13th, the film is rather tame with its murders. The news began to spread of this "Video Nasty" and public outcry came from the masses.
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