In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment.
The videocassette - a handy-sized cartridge of magnetic tape inside a plastic shell - domesticated cinema as families across Britain began to consume films in an entirely new way.
Demand was high and the result was a video gold rush, with video rental outlets appearing on every high street almost overnight. Without moderation their shelves filled with all manner of films depicting unbridled sex and violence. A backlash was inevitable. Video was soon perceived as a threat to society, a view neatly summed up in the term 'video nasties'. Cannibal Error chronicles the phenomenal rise of video culture through a tumultuous decade, its impact and its aftermath.