"Most controversial" horror movie banned in 40 countries
'A Serbian Film' has been deemed one of the most controversial films in recent times after being banned in over 40 countries.
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Many people love good old horror movies, but only a few have been deemed so controversial that they are banned in numerous countries.
One of these films is the 2010 movie, 'A Serbian Film'.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, 'A Serbian Film' follows a retired Serbian porn star, Milos, who is approached to make one last film.
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After being offered an excessive amount of money to make the film, he accepts, only to realise that he has signed up for a brutal snuff film filled with sexual content, murder, and other things that some reports won’t even mention.
The film was met with widespread controversy, with even some of the world’s biggest horror fans not being able to complete the film.
More than 46 countries have banned the film, including major film markets like Spain, Australia, and Malaysia.
In the USA, the movie had to be cut by a minute to receive an NC-17 rating, and in the UK, it had to be cut by three minutes and 48 seconds across 11 scenes in order for it to be released.
The film has been deemed "disgusting" and "unwatchable" by critics.
In his review, film critic Mark Kermode said: “The director says it’s allegorical… if it so, then the allegory just gets lost in the increasingly stupid splatter.
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"The most annoying thing about it is – torture porn is one thing, but pompous, pretentious torture porn is something else."
The top review on IMDB also stated that: "I heard about this movie on YouTube it was someone saying don't watch it it's made to disturb you but I didn't listen and I feel like vomiting now please do not watch this just don't I'm literally crying right now."
When asked how they came up with the movie, the director said: "We just wanted to express our deepest and honest feelings towards our region and also the world in general — a world that is sugar-coated in political correctness, but also very rotten under that façade."
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