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The new horror movie on release this weekend in the UK is set at a difficult time for British film fans – the height of the video nasty controversy

For someone who grew up in the middle of the hysteria that led to the Video Recordings Act 1984, and rented said movies before they became illegal, there’s much to enjoy in seeing this recreation of the period, from the seedy video shop with VHS cassettes in brown paper packaging, to the droning sound bites of arguments by politicians on TV.

Click here to read Nick Joy’s review