Skinflicker
strong language, threat, bloody images
Director(s)Tony Bicat
Production year1972
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes41m
CastHilary Charlton, Will Knightley, Henry Woolf
Skinflicker
strong language, threat, bloody images
SKINFLICKER is a British found-footage short thriller, from 1973, in which a group of radicals plan to abduct and murder ...
SKINFLICKER is a British found-footage short thriller, from 1973, in which a group of radicals plan to abduct and murder a public figure.
threat and horror
With sustained threat throughout, a group of people are shown plotting and carrying out an abduction, with the stated intention of killing their victim. A scene shows one of the kidnappers aggressively threatening the frightened victim with a knife and a lit blowtorch. However, the actual murder occurs off screen. Another scene shows a person preparing to take their own life by placing a shotgun barrel in their mouth.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘cock’, ‘arse-lick’, ‘balls’, ‘sod’ and ‘piss’, in addition to use of the ‘V-sign’ gesture.
injury detail
We see bloodied dead bodies slumped against a blood-spattered wall in the aftermath of gunfire. There are also brief images of an undetailed dead body swinging from a noose.
additional issues
There are non-graphic references to sexual violence, including child sexual abuse. Scenes of moderate violence include a brief sequence in which the kidnappers wrestle with a young boy when he tries to stop them from abducting his father; the boy is then shown lying unconscious on the ground, his nose moderately bloodied. There are infrequent undetailed verbal references to pornography.
Classified Date:
06/02/1973
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute Ltd
strong language, threat, bloody images
Classified Date:
23/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
threat and horror
With sustained threat throughout, a group of people are shown plotting and carrying out an abduction, with the stated intention of killing their victim. A scene shows one of the kidnappers aggressively threatening the frightened victim with a knife and a lit blowtorch. However, the actual murder occurs off screen. Another scene shows a person preparing to take their own life by placing a shotgun barrel in their mouth.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘cock’, ‘arse-lick’, ‘balls’, ‘sod’ and ‘piss’, in addition to use of the ‘V-sign’ gesture.
injury detail
We see bloodied dead bodies slumped against a blood-spattered wall in the aftermath of gunfire. There are also brief images of an undetailed dead body swinging from a noose.
additional issues
There are non-graphic references to sexual violence, including child sexual abuse. Scenes of moderate violence include a brief sequence in which the kidnappers wrestle with a young boy when he tries to stop them from abducting his father; the boy is then shown lying unconscious on the ground, his nose moderately bloodied. There are infrequent undetailed verbal references to pornography.
threat and horror
With sustained threat throughout, a group of people are shown plotting and carrying out an abduction, with the stated intention of killing their victim. A scene shows one of the kidnappers aggressively threatening the frightened victim with a knife and a lit blowtorch. However, the actual murder occurs off screen. Another scene shows a person preparing to take their own life by placing a shotgun barrel in their mouth.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘cock’, ‘arse-lick’, ‘balls’, ‘sod’ and ‘piss’, in addition to use of the ‘V-sign’ gesture.
injury detail
We see bloodied dead bodies slumped against a blood-spattered wall in the aftermath of gunfire. There are also brief images of an undetailed dead body swinging from a noose.
additional issues
There are non-graphic references to sexual violence, including child sexual abuse. Scenes of moderate violence include a brief sequence in which the kidnappers wrestle with a young boy when he tries to stop them from abducting his father; the boy is then shown lying unconscious on the ground, his nose moderately bloodied. There are infrequent undetailed verbal references to pornography.
Director(s)Tony Bicat
Production year1972
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes41m
CastHilary Charlton, Will Knightley, Henry Woolf
Classified Date:
06/02/1973
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute Ltd
strong language, threat, bloody images
Classified Date:
23/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
threat and horror
With sustained threat throughout, a group of people are shown plotting and carrying out an abduction, with the stated intention of killing their victim. A scene shows one of the kidnappers aggressively threatening the frightened victim with a knife and a lit blowtorch. However, the actual murder occurs off screen. Another scene shows a person preparing to take their own life by placing a shotgun barrel in their mouth.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘cock’, ‘arse-lick’, ‘balls’, ‘sod’ and ‘piss’, in addition to use of the ‘V-sign’ gesture.
injury detail
We see bloodied dead bodies slumped against a blood-spattered wall in the aftermath of gunfire. There are also brief images of an undetailed dead body swinging from a noose.
additional issues
There are non-graphic references to sexual violence, including child sexual abuse. Scenes of moderate violence include a brief sequence in which the kidnappers wrestle with a young boy when he tries to stop them from abducting his father; the boy is then shown lying unconscious on the ground, his nose moderately bloodied. There are infrequent undetailed verbal references to pornography.
