I aim to research a variety of sources for this report, primary and secondary.

Primary sources will include talking to people and e-mailing official bodies relating to the hypothesis.

Secondary sources will include books and the internet.

When the research is complete this will form the main body of the text, which will discuss the hypothesis. This will then give a better understanding of why these films have gone through such a lengthy process to get where they are today. There will also be arguments formed in the main body of the text.

Lastly a conclusion will be formed with my own thoughts on the hypothesis also included.

The British Board of Film Classification is a censorship body that regulates films, video and digital media. They then give them different classifications depending on the content of the film. The BBFC produce certificates on behalf of local authorities responsible for cinema licensing. They way in which the BBFC classifies a film has to be fair. It has to comply with the current guidelines in place

At the end of the film the examiners will get together and discuss what they thought about the film and then try to come to a final decision on what they think the classification should be.

The way in which they find out if the film is in line with public opinion and which certificate rating it should receive is by showing the different films to the examiners. The examiners job is to watch the film and comment on the following issues in the movie:

“The debates concerning the issue centered upon the lack of parental control in monitering children’s viewing and the dangers posed by certain programmes and films to young people”(Lusted, 1991, P.14).

In order to get a film classified there is a fee. The fee all depends on how long the running time of the film is, for example, if a film last’s ninety minutes then the fee would be £742.50. Although this amount seems rather steep, the BBFC is not funded in any way and relies solely on the fee’s they receive, which is why they are able to charge so much. For the bigger film companies this is okay, but for the smaller companies, they would probably struggle to pay this sort of money. This, I think, is one of the reason’s why the some films on the ‘video nasties’ list haven’t been able to make it on to VHS or DVD.

What are the so called ‘Video Nasties’?

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