1982- introduction of PG, 15 and 18 certificates
1984- introduction of the VRA (video recordings act), BBFC becomes designed authority to rate certificates to films.
1989- Batman becomes first film to be certified as a 12 in the UK
Drugs:
1981- German film Christiane f, involving a teen girl with an heroin addiction was certified as an X with the initial 18 version being cut to reduce scenes of drug taking
1986- Comic references from Crocodile Dundee about cocaine are cut for the PG rated film
Sexual Violence:
1983- Director of public prosecutions instructs police to seize video nasties, examples of seized titles include I Spit on Your Grave, The Last House on the Left and Cannibal Holocaust.
1988- BBFC classifies The Accused an 18 uncut as long as it doesn't exploit or eroticise sexual violence but it can intend to make a serious point
Violence and Weapons:
1984- Streets of Fire becomes one of the last films to use butterfly knifes before they are listed to the banned section.
1986- A poster of Bruce Lee holding nunchaku is cut from No Retreat, No Surrender
1987- Outright bans on nunchaku, shuriken and bailsong in non-action or non-martial arts where the sight is incidental, comic or brief. Rambo 3 was cut to reduce violence and knife glamourisation.
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