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Director/Writer: Kôji Shiraishi

Starring: Hiroaki Kawatsure, Tsugumi Nagasawa, Shigeo Ôsako

Released:N/A

The Telegraph today reported that the Japanese horror movie, Grotesque would not receive a certificate from the BBFC and would be banned from distribution in the UK:

"Distributors of Japanese movie Grotesque had hoped to be given an 18 certificate for the film, which involves torture such as amputation and eye-gouging.

But the British Board of Film Classification said the film featured sexual sadism for its own sake. It said that giving the film a rating would involve a ''risk of harm'' to those viewing it.
Selling or supplying the film would now be illegal.
The BBFC rejects films only rarely, preferring to give advice about how appropriate cuts would achieve the preferred certificate.
The decision was taken by BBFC director, David Cooke and senior colleagues.

The board said the majority of the film focused on the assault, humiliation and torture of two victims. The main character takes them prisoner abducts, restrains, strips and sexually assaults them before inflicting horrific injuries until they die.

Mr Cooke said: ''Unlike other recent 'torture'-themed horror works, such as the Saw and Hostel series, Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting and escalating scenario of humiliation, brutality and sadism. The chief pleasure on offer seems to be in the spectacle of sadism (including sexual sadism) for its own sake."

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Check out the trailer below to get a taste of what made the British censors decide that this film would be harmful for consumption by the general public.

Though we here at Nefarious Films are of the opinion that it does seem like fairly derivative torture porn of the most unpleasant variety we would still like to think that we are able to make that decision for ourselves. A decision which of course has now been taken away from us by the BBFC who apparently are immune to the dangerous moral corruption that merely viewing this film will bring.

We're all for the legitimate classification and control of films due to their shocking and violent content but this level of control smacks of the sort of arrogant, elitist attitudes towards censorship that we had hoped were relics of the past.