10 Films More Controversial Than Charlie Sheen's 9/11 Movie

Briefly, the plot of A Serbian Film – to save you from watching it – involves an aging, struggling porn star who agrees to participate in an “art film” without realizing that his director’s brand of pornography involves new born children. The premise is supposedly a dark joke, but it’s difficult to say whether it’s being made at the expense of the film’s characters, the Serbian film industry or the viewer.

Director Srdan Spasojevic claimed his film was a parody of the kind of politically correct features being made in Serbia, but the rest of the world begged to differ and the picture was promptly banned in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore, among other countries. In the UK, the film was trimmed by 4 minutes, excising some of the sexual violence.

Mark Kermode, reviewing the film for the BBC, called it a “nasty piece of exploitation trash” redolent of the excesses of Ruggero Deodato. “If it is somehow an allegory of Serbian family and Serbian politics,” he said, “then the allegory gets lost amidst the increasingly stupid splatter.”