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A couple of nights ago with a few friends we were talking about horror films and how some are going beyond what should be allowed. Normally i love horror films but one was mentioned called "A Serbian Film". This film was shown in cinemas and shows graphically the rape of a new born baby and the graphic anal rape of a 6 year old boy.
AIBU to think that some things should just not be allowed to be shown?

I'm disgusted after reading reviews and seeing many call the film "art".

I think this film is banned but people can still find it online. It isn't something I would want to see and I don't even know how it was made as I wouldnt want to be the mother of the child and baby actors.

I know that the baby wasn't real but the young boy was. I thought it hadn't been banned here. Sorry about not realising that!

Was it shown in cinemas? As far as I recall it didn't get a rating which means it can't legally shown at all.

I'm not totally sure if banned here but it should be. I just don't know how someone would allow their child to have to act through that. The child must have asked questions. This shouldnt even be called a film

I know it was shown in cinemas in different parts of the world usually film festivals. And i know that it sounds silly to hope for but when i said banned, i meant worldwide!

Pringle I completely agree, no idea what kind of parent would want their child in that enviornment.
A quick google is telling me that it was heavily censored here.

I despair sometimes i really do, this is one of those despairing moments FFS. Disgusting needless filth for the sake of 'entertainment'. <huge depressive sigh>

Anyone who thinks that the scenes in this film are entertainment needs locked up imo! I mean, I can take watching gore films and have seen some of the worst but children should be kept well out of it.

I have been told about this.

It made me feel sick.

I seriously question the makers behind this "film"

IRLC - They are claiming this is art! Apparently the disgusting baby scene represents "how society screws us over from birth". Horrible.

I agree, that "entertainment" seems to want to push boundaries for shock factors. I haven't heard of this film before. Why dress up paedophilia like this? total sickness

When it was first shown the director and others were charged with distributing child porn.

What is circulating in some countries is an edited version. That is still making money for those involved in its making.

I agree it should never have been made in the way that it was, for entertainment.

Different matter if it was about the snuff movie business, but it wasn't.

Ive seen movies about snuff films, 8mm for example and they were able to do it with minimal shock scenes although still making reference to children.
It makes me feel sick knowing these people are making money from this!

I would never have even heard of this film if it wasn't for MN - it was mentioned on most horrible horror films thread - I will never ever watch it now.

I agree with OP - hateful. Once watched you can never un-watch it. You can't bleach your brain no matter how much you'd like to.

I think yabu, if adults want to watch something in which no kids have been harmed (I'm presuming that all scenes involved are fictional and nobody was harmed) then they should be free to do so.

I don't want to ever see this as I don't think it should ever have been made. It is child porn basically and i thought that is illegal but apparently you can get away with it if you call it art?!

So you think it's okay to act out rape on children for entertainment? No decent person would want to watch that.

Normally i would agree with you and even afer watching Human Centipede 2 I thought, well it's only a movie, freedom of expression, blah blah but this just seems wrong on far too many levels. Even if a child wasn't harmed in that film there was still a little boy in the movie who must have picked up on something while filming.

I'm not sure graphic child porn, even fictional, is allowed though Mayor.

I'd never heard of this before seeing this thread

But YANBU it sounds sick!

I've seen it. It's a shitty, pointless film, IMO.

8mm was more disturbing.

Mayor Just so you know how graphic we are talking, the baby scene shows the child being born and the man who delivered the baby instantly raping it and killing it.
The child rape scene was the characters Son and it shows him anally raping the child and while he is pouring blood continuing while his wife is being raped beside him.

tbh it's debatable that anyone would publicise it/add fuel to the fire as you have svhrodingers...

nobody could justify the existence of such a film, and as such this thread is, IMO, a bit

meh it's not something we're likely to agree on.
I just think that if you start censoring the portrayal of fictional events in which nobody was actually harmed then where do you go?
I mean what is shown in it and what is implied in this movie (haven't seen it, not something I'd be interested in seeing tbh)? I'm assuming that as someone said a real child was used for one of the scenes you don't see penetration or oral sex directly.
There's many horrific things portrayed in movies and tv, if nobody is harmed then I wouldn't be in favour of censoring it.

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