Censorship-

Banned FilmsSOME OF THE CLIPS MAY BE FOUND OFFENSIVE OR

INTIMIDATING, SUITABLE FOR VIEWERS 16 YEARS OR OLDER, VIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK

Violence For nearly the entire history of film production, certain films

have been banned by film censorship or review organizations for political or moral reasons. Typically, a banned film goes through editing to remove explicit scenes, and is then re-released.

Cannibal Holocaust- As well as being labelled as a 'Video Nasty', it was originally believed to be a snuff film and the filmmaker was forced to prove that nobody had died during its production.

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III was banned due to graphic violence, which particularly focused against women

Though 18 films and DVDs may cover difficult and strong subjects and themes, harm is still a consideration. Very dangerous or criminal behaviour (for example, behaviour which if copied poses a credible harm risk to viewers) will be cut.

Clips of Violence in movies

Sex/Nudity If a submitted work raises issues or concerns that cannot be

addressed by rating at a particular category, cuts or other changes may be required as a condition of rating, this can include portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context or sexual violence or sexualised violence which endorses or eroticises the behaviour.

The Bunny Game was banned due to a high level of sexual violence. The kidnapper takes pleasure from humiliating and making his female victim suffer, which is shown to significantly endorses sexual violence.

A Serbian Film is arguably one of the most controversial films of all time. Contributing factors of the ban were scenes of child rape, incest and murder.

Grotesque was banned due to a high level of sexual torture. Unlike other torture films like Hostel and Saw, the film lacked context or any purpose behind its content.

Language

The amount of abusive language in banned

films are usually over used but they usually don’t

contribute to the banning of the film. This is

because an 18 rated movie is allowed to have a

lot of strong language and not get banned.

Imitable Behaviour

Portrayals of potentially dangerous behaviour

(especially relating to hanging, suicide and self-

harm) which children and young people are

likely to copy, will be cut if a more restrictive age

rating is not appropriate.

Themes

The theme of banned films are varied a lot but they usually

take it too far and cross the line completely, therefore

breaking the viewers comfort area.

Upon release in 1992, Mikey was banned in many countries

and is still banned today in the UK. Many graphic scenes of

torture and murder contributed to the ban however it

wasn’t banned in the UK just for its violence but the timing

of which the movie was released was close to the James

Bulger murder, where two young children tortured and

murdered a toddler.

Examples of banned films

Rambo – banded in Burma due to poor portrayal of Burmese

soldiers (2008)

Saw 3D – banned in Germany because it broke the violence act

(2010)

A Serbian Film – banned in New Zealand due to objectionable

content (2012)

The Human Centipede 2 – banned in Australia for extremely

horrific, violent, disturbing and sexually-explicit content (2011)

I Spit On Your Grave – this film was banned because it showed lengthy scenes of of gang rape and scenes of very graphic material

(2010)