BBFC

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is an independent, non governmental body funded through the fees it charges to those who submit films and video works for classification. Video works are taken to include video games, films, and programmes released on DVD and Blu-ray.


Things they take into consideration are discrimination, drugs, horror, imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, theme, titles and photo or pattern sensitivity, motion sickness and reactions to low frequency sound.


The last house on the left was banned until 2002, and then was released cut, it was then later released uncut in 2008.
The human centipede II was originally banned due to sexual violence and potential obscenity. This film was given an official Age Certificate of 18 by the BBFC on 6th October 2011 while the distributors agreed to make 32 cuts before its release.


The certificate our film would get is a 15

It would get this certificate because it does not contain any discrimination, drugs, nudity or sex. It also does not contain much language, if it did contain any of these things then the certificate would have to be an 18. The reason we made it 15 is because it contains violence which may not be suitable for under 15's. 

Other films from our genre:

The Omen (2006) - 15

The Exorcism of Emily Rose - 15

Wolf Creek - 18

The Ring Two (2005) - 15

We also based the certificate of our film on film certificates for films like ours in our genre. This way we would know what the general age range for our film should be. By knowing our film certificate we will know if we have to leave certain parts of the film out because they are from a higher certificate. We will also know what were allowed to put in, so we are able to get the best effects in within reason.