Although the Board does not regard these images as likely to contravene the Protection of Children Act 1978, the Guidelines state that intervention is most likely with, amongst other things, ' portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context'. These include cuts to the juxtaposition of images of children with sexual and sexually violent material. The Board has therefore required 49 individual cuts to the work amounting to approximately three minutes 48 seconds. The filmmakers have stated that A Serbian Film is intended as an allegory about Serbia itself.Â The Board recognises that the images are intended to shock, but the sexual and sexualised violence goes beyond what is acceptable under current BBFC Guidelines at '18'. When he is forced to participate in abusive activities he tries to pull out but is drugged and is forced to continue with the filming. This Serbian language film with subtitles is about a former Serbian porn star, who is lured out of early retirement by an offer of money to participate in an 'artistic' porn film for the 'foreign market'. The BBFC has also required cuts to the DVD submission of A Serbian Film for an '18' rating. (The original remains cut, also for breaches to this policy.) The Board has required a total of 17 cuts (amounting to 43 seconds of changes) to the rape sequence for breaches of the Board's sexual violence policy. The modern version also has higher production values. While the rape sequence in the modern version places slightly less emphasis on the nudity of the victim than the original, there is more emphasis on threat and humiliation. This remake, which has been submitted for cinema classification, broadly follows the plot of the original, telling the story of a young woman who is gang raped and who subsequently takes her revenge on the perpetrators. The original version of I Spit on Your Grave was at the centre of the concerns about children accessing violent and sexually violent videos and the unregulated availability of potentially obscene videos that led to the passing of the Video Recordings Act in 1984.

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