Studio S

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Studio S was a Swedish tv-show on SVT that dealt with various social issues.

The show is now mainly known (and infamous) for an episode broadcasted in late 1980 where they raised concerns over violent movies on VHS and the notion that they were being viewed by children. The episode spawned the buzzword videovåld (lit Video-violence) and an major moral panic. It also helped to make The Texas Chain Saw Massacre very famous in Sweden.

Controversy

In 2002 Filmkrönikan ran a feature on the episode where two of the kids(now 33 years-old) featured in the original broadcast claimed that they had been bribed, and were forced to say that they had seen violent movies.

A reporter who worked on Studio S wrote an angry open letter where he denounced the feature as bad journalism, denying that the kids were forced and that the harsh criticism of violent movies was valid.

see also Video Nasties

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