stackyFACTSIn the 1980s, moral panic swept Britain regarding unregulated VHS tapes. A famous 1973 film about a possessed girl vomiting pea soup was dragged into the 'video nasties' scandal, leading to it being yanked from shelves to protect the fragile minds of the British public.
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