Published: 26 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.
BBFC Threat and Horror Guide
Although threat and horror are frequently interlinked, audiences see them as having distinct individual properties. Threat is when someone is in a potentially dangerous or harmful situation, including being threatened by another; while horror typically features sustained suspense and terror, supernatural forces or creatures, gory or disturbing images, or regular ‘jump scares’ and frightening moments.
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