12. A Serbian Film (2010)
Banned: Brazil, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Finland, Norway, Newborn Porn. That says it all. A Serbian Film is a movie that packs so much violence and depravity into its running time, it actually becomes quite comical. Apparently an allegory on how corrupt and awful successive Serbian governments have been and how they have screwed over the people in Serbia, if Serbia is as awful as this film is, then no one would never ever want to go there. The film is just as if the director was having a p*ssing contest to see how much transgressive material he could fit into it. Milos is a down at heel ex hardcore porn star who is desperate to move his young son and beautiful wife out of Serbia. Unfortunately, the coffers are nearly empty and Milos is cajoled into taking part in an independent hard core porn movie by the promise of big bucks. He soon finds out that this is no straight forward porn production. There is baby rape, child sexual and physical abuse, adult rape, sodomy, incest, hallucinogenic drugs, murder, suicide and necrophilia and probably even more perversions than those listed. Obvious Censor baiting fare, the director probably got a thrill at upsetting the film censors of the world. There is just so much gratuitous nonsense for example, to kill a guy, Milos cant just shoot or stab him. Oh no. He has to stick his wang in the guys eyeball socket. Milos and his family cant just kill themselves at the end of the movie. Their corpses have to be sexually violated. The whole thing is so over the top, it actually dilutes the movie. A couple of well chosen slices of depravity would have been more effective than the unrelenting sadism in the movie. A film that would be hard for censors in many countries to cut because of the volume of violence, the UK managed to pass the film with cuts, but for many countries the mayhem was decidedly outré and the film remains banned.