Published: 25 Mar 2025
Our BBFC Guides are designed to help parents facilitate important conversations and understand BBFC classification issues in an easy-to-read format.
Each bite-sized guide provides an overview of how we classify different issues in accordance with our Classification Guidelines and what it means at each age rating, alongside a collection of film case studies.
Violence
From animated slapstick adventures to brutal torture scenes, scenes of violence can thrill, amuse or distress depending on their presentation. When classifying violence we take into account a range of factors, including the level of detail; whether it is stylised, comic, fantastical or realistic; its frequency within the content as a whole; and the context in which it occurs.
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