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They were illegal to sell or rent.
ANY film, no matter what it was, after 1984/5 had to have a BBFC Video Certificate and any that did not had to be withdrawn and not sold or rented.
Which put many video firms in financial trouble (as well as video shop owners) as they now had to pay for the BBFC to certicy their films.
Even a 'Disney' film that would obviously get a 'U' HAD to go through the process to get that 'U'.
But it meant that many of the smaller video labels could never afford to pay for their films to be certified, or knew they had no chance of getting a certificate (at least without massive cuts at best) so they simply folded.
Some of the 'Nasties' were taken to Court as 'Obscene'. And if they were found guilty you could find yourself receiving more extreme fines or even a prison term.
The distributer of "Nightmares in a Damaged Brain" (despite it being a cut print) was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
You could own them. But you could not sell or rent them.
Shame my site is down, as I have all the info (and titles) on there.
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