15
This film is not suitable for any under the age of 15. People under the age of 15 can buy or rent a 15 rated film.
Discrimination
The media text can’t encourage discriminatory language or behaviour.
Drugs
Drugs can be shown as a whole but you cannot promote or encourage the use of drugs,this includes alcohol abuse. If it is in the film it is never unlikely to pass as a 15
Horror
Horrors can be “threat” and “menace” but sexualised and sadistic is unacceptable.
Imitable behaviour
self harming should be shown in detail as it could be influential on this age group. Easily accessible weapons can’t be glamorised.
Language
Strong language can be used if in the right context.
Nudity
Nudity is allowed in educational sense and in a non sexual sense.
Sex
Sexual activity is allowed but aslong as it is not in detail.
Violence
violence can we strong but not in infliction. Sexual violence is allowed but mildy. The strongest “gorey” violence is unlikely to be acceptable.
18:www.bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202009.pdf
“• where the material is in breach of the criminal law,
or has been created through the commission of a
criminal offence
• where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to
risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour,
to society – for example, any detailed portrayal of
violent or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use,
which may cause harm to public health or morals.
This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised
violence which might, for example, eroticise or
endorse sexual assault
• where there are more explicit images of sexual
activity which cannot be justified by context. Such
images may be appropriate in ‘R18’ works, and in
‘sex works’ (see below) would normally be confined
to that category.
In the case of video works (including video games),
which may be more accessible to younger viewers,
intervention may be more frequent than for cinema films.
Sex education at ‘18’
Where sex material genuinely seeks to inform and
educate in matters such as human sexuality, safer
sex and health, explicit images of sexual activity may
be permitted.
Sex works at ‘18’
Sex works are works whose primary purpose is sexual
arousal or stimulation. Sex works containing only material
which may be simulated are generally passed ‘18’. Sex
works containing clear images of real sex, strong fetish
material, sexually explicit animated images, or other
very strong sexual images will be confined to the ‘R18’
category. Material which is unacceptable in a sex work
at ‘R18’ is also unacceptable in a sex work at ‘18’.”