• Director(s)

    Danny Boyle

  • Production Year

    1994

  • Release date

    10/05/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor

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Shallow Grave

strong violence, threat, bloody images, language

Three friends find a suitcase of money in their dead flatmate's room in this often darkly comic 1994 UK thriller. Brutal violence and bloodletting ensues after they try to keep it from criminals on the trail of the cash.…

Three friends find a suitcase of money in their dead flatmate's room in this often darkly comic 1994 UK thriller. Brutal violence and bloodletting ensues after they try to keep it from criminals on the trail of the cash.

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violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

  • Director(s)

    Danny Boyle

  • Production Year

    1994

  • Release date

    10/05/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor

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strong violence, threat, bloody images, language
Classified Date:
04/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Park Circus Limited
violence
People are stabbed and beaten, and there is some use of improvised weapons (for example, a crowbar, a toaster). A plastic bag is pulled over a person's head, followed by scenes in which he struggles to breathe. A character pushes and then hammers a knife deep into a person's body. In one scene, a person is drowned in a bath, and in another scene a character is repeatedly shut inside a freezer before he is left to freeze to death. There is associated wound detail and blood in the aftermath of violence.
threat and horror
In one scene, a character threatens a man with a power drill which briefly cuts into skin. There are also scenes in which characters are stalked.
language
Strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as milder terms ('bastard', 'crap', 'bloody', 'shit', 'God', 'Jesus', 'Christ').
sex
There are verbal references to pornography, sex phone lines and to sexual arousal.
discrimination
A person makes brief mildly discriminatory verbal references while proposing a toast.
drugs
There is brief comic verbal reference to freebasing, and in one scene a person discovers packages of unidentified drugs.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A person spies on a woman while she lies in bed.
injury detail
In one scene, there is brief close-up sight of bloodstained dismembered limbs wrapped in newspaper. There is also close-up sight of corpses and wound detail.
nudity
There is brief non-sexual frontal and rear nudity.
rude humour
A person briefly urinates in masked fashion.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified Date:
08/09/1994
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Rank Film Dists Ltd
Classified Date:
02/06/2009
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Channel 4 DVD
Classified Date:
03/07/2001
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) Ltd
Classified Date:
06/07/1998
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
R.N.I.B.
Contains strong language, violence and horror
Classified Date:
30/11/1995
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Polygram Video Ltd
Classified Date:
22/06/1995
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Polygram Video Ltd
Classified Date:
12/12/1994
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Polygram Video Ltd
Classified Date:
02/11/1994
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Rank Film Dists Ltd
Classified Date:
12/03/2009
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Channel 4 DVD
Paperwork Remarks:
Additional material
Classified Date:
23/05/2008
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Channel 4 DVD
Paperwork Remarks:
Additional material Director's audio commentary

  • Classified date

    04/04/2024

  • Language

    English