The BBFC rate films using classifications they have created.
These classifications have set guidelines. Here they are:
I feel these guidelines are reasonable and that they are suitable for the group specified in each category.
In terms of relating these guidelines to the genre of our film, because it's the content, I think it should be rated 15. The violence and gore may be upsetting or disturbing to younger viewers and strong language used in the film would be inappropriate for viewers younger than 15.
There aren't many horror films that have been rated U, 'The Last Man on Earth' been one of the few, because the whole nature of a horror film is to be scary and if part of your target audience is 4 year olds, you are pretty restricted as to what you can do.
The same applies to PG films mostly, however the films are not greatly aimed at young children, so films, such as 'Coraline', can afford to be more jumpy and have more moments where characters are in danger but they can't be too intense.
Films rated 12 can afford to have more scary moments and build more tension to make the film scarier, for example 'Women in Black', so there are many more 12 rated horror films compared to the previous categories. However, because our film is quite gory and may contain strong language and an easily accessible choice of weapon, it would not fall into this category.
I think that our film falls into the rated 15 category because it follows similar themes to 'Scream', which is also rated 15.
The ratings 18 and R18 are for films with very visual and abusive violence and graphic sex scenes. Our film will most likely not contain any sexual references or sex scenes and the violence isn't too graphic so I do not believe that it would need to be placed in either of these categories. 'My Bloody Valentine' from 9181 is an R-rated film and 'The Human Centipede' is rated 18.
I feel these guidelines are reasonable and that they are suitable for the group specified in each category.
In terms of relating these guidelines to the genre of our film, because it's the content, I think it should be rated 15. The violence and gore may be upsetting or disturbing to younger viewers and strong language used in the film would be inappropriate for viewers younger than 15.
There aren't many horror films that have been rated U, 'The Last Man on Earth' been one of the few, because the whole nature of a horror film is to be scary and if part of your target audience is 4 year olds, you are pretty restricted as to what you can do.
The same applies to PG films mostly, however the films are not greatly aimed at young children, so films, such as 'Coraline', can afford to be more jumpy and have more moments where characters are in danger but they can't be too intense. Films rated 12 can afford to have more scary moments and build more tension to make the film scarier, for example 'Women in Black', so there are many more 12 rated horror films compared to the previous categories. However, because our film is quite gory and may contain strong language and an easily accessible choice of weapon, it would not fall into this category.
I think that our film falls into the rated 15 category because it follows similar themes to 'Scream', which is also rated 15.
The ratings 18 and R18 are for films with very visual and abusive violence and graphic sex scenes. Our film will most likely not contain any sexual references or sex scenes and the violence isn't too graphic so I do not believe that it would need to be placed in either of these categories. 'My Bloody Valentine' from 9181 is an R-rated film and 'The Human Centipede' is rated 18.
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