10 Infamous Video Nasties

Although passed with cuts for a 1982 cinema release this slasher-thriller would later suffer from an 18 year ban.

Nightmare tells the story of George Tatum, a man with childhood trauma. We follow George's bloody exploits as he escapes his doctors and flees cross-country. Although not a particularly well made piece, the exploration of childhood instability and inherited violent tendencies is intriguing.

Nightmare features some very significant and rather impressive gore, so it is little wonder why it was pre-cut for its UK cinema release. This film's infamy started when it hit the home video market under the more provocative title Nightmares in a Damaged Brain.

This, coupled with the film's still relatively gory and genuinely grimy nature, was enough to secure prosecution under the 1984 Video Recording Act. The movie also ran into similar trouble in Australia and Germany when uncut video copies emerged.

The property remained illegal until 2002 when Anchor Bay released a slightly more censored version in their Box of the Banned.

Seeming relatively tame in the wake of more modern releases, Nightmare becomes the first entry on this list to have attained a fully uncut release by the BBFC. The film is now widely available through 88 Films Blu-Ray and DVD releases, still proudly displaying the "previously banned sticker."